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2.
- Creator:
- Higden, Ranulf, -1364
- Call Number:
- Osborn a20
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on paper, in cursive bookscript, produced in England in the sixteenth century. Translated by John Trevisa
- Description:
- In English. and Binding: the spine was covered with a brown paper backing by R. N. Green-Armytage, January 26, 1934, and the volume is kept unbound in paper boards.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Higden, Ranulf, -1364. and Trevisa, John, -1402.
- Subject (Topic):
- Geography and Description and travel
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Polychronicon, [15--].
3.
- Call Number:
- Osborn fa24
- Image Count:
- 7
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in cursive script, produced in England during the sixteenth century
- Description:
- In English. and Frequent illustrations of the text.
- Subject (Name):
- Jesus Christ
- Subject (Topic):
- Passion and Religious poetry, English (Middle).
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Arma Christi rolls, [15--].
4.
- Creator:
- Langland, William, 1330?-1400?
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1550]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 23
- Image Count:
- 212
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on paper, in a single hand, of the text of the B version of Piers Plowman
- Description:
- Autograph of Bolton? Wansell on last leaf., Laid in: Dr. Thompsons and Mr. Bassets Letters to Mr. Dodwell concerning the Essay for Catholick Peace. Manuscript on paper, 8 l., circa 1709., In Middle English., Layout: single columns of roughly 40 lines., Script: English secretary hand., and Binding: parchment over pasteboards.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Langland, William, 1330?-1400?
- Subject (Topic):
- English literature, English poetry, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Narrative poetry, English (Middle)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Piers the Plowman
5.
- Creator:
- Bradmore, John, -1412
- Published / Created:
- approximately 1530 - approximately 1535.
- Call Number:
- Osborn a85
- Image Count:
- 490
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript (incomplete) on paper and parchment of Philomena, a treatise on surgery written by John Bradmore, here in Middle English translation. Text discusses anatomy, apostumes (abscesses), wounds and ulcers, fractures and dislocations, other diseases treatable by surgery, and includes an antidotary and a summary of contents. Book I on anatomy and the opening of book II on surgery are wanting; another leaf wanting between fols. 59 and 60. Present manuscript begins in book II, chapter 4. Includes an account of how Bradmore saved the life of the young Prince of Wales (Prince Hal, the future King Henry V) after the Battle of Shrewsbury in 1403 and Also includes a short text on bloodletting, fols. 85r-87v; an unidentified "tretys of mynd," about mind and memory, fols. 234r-239r; and recipes for ointments, plasters, etc., ending imperfectly, fols. 239v-241v
- Description:
- John Bradmore (d. 1412) was a surgeon based in London from at least 1377. He was appointed an overseer of surgery in the City of London by the mayor in 1390. From at least 1399 he was associated with the royal household. Bradmore married twice, first to Margaret, with whom he had a daughter named Agnes, and second to Katherine. John Bradmore died on 27 January 1412 and was buried in the church of St. Botolph without Aldersgate., In Middle English., Title assigned by cataloger., Layout: single columns of 14-28 lines., Script: several secretary hands., Binding: modern blind-tooled morocco., Secundo folio: Plaster., Leaves are foliated in a modern hand starting with the first leaf as fol. 3, the second as fol. 4, and so on. This modern foliation is followed here., and Bibliographical file available.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and England
- Subject (Name):
- Bradmore, John. and Henry V, King of England, 1387-1422.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval, Medicine, Medicine, Medieval, and Surgery
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Philomena
6.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1475-1525]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 116
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, of a collection of prayers, principally in Middle English
- Description:
- In Middle English; a few passages in Latin., Layout: single column., and Script: secretary script.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Devotional literature, English, Devotional literature, English (Middle), Manuscripts, Medieval, Prayers, Medieval, and Prayers
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Prayer roll in Middle English with passages in Latin
7.
- Creator:
- Berners, Juliana, b. 1388?
Worde, Wynkyn de, ca. 1456-1535 - Published / Created:
- [1515?]]
- Call Number:
- Uzk23 515B
- Image Count:
- 48
- Resource Type:
- Books, Journals & Pamphlets
- Description:
- Collation of original: [92] p.; signatures; A-F8.4G6H4. and Positive photostat from the only known (Huth-Schwerdt) copy, printed some time between 1500 and 1530.
- Publisher:
- Inprỹted in Flete strete at ÿ sygne of ÿ Sonne, by Wỹkyn de Worde,
- Subject (Topic):
- Falconry--Early works to 1800, Fishing--Early works to 1800, and Hunting --Early works to 1800
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The boke of hawkynge, and huntynge, and fysshynge
8.
- Creator:
- Idle, Peter, d. 1474?.
- Call Number:
- Osborn fa50
- Image Count:
- 45
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, of Peter Idley's Instructions to his son, an adaptation (ca. 1445-50) of Albertano of Brescia's treatises addressed to his own sons. The manuscript was produced in England at the end of the fifteenth century and is written in anglicana and secretary script
- Description:
- In Middle English and Latin., Idley's Liber Secundus, a separate poem, follows the Instructions on f. 31v., Fragments of late thirteenth-century graded calendar used as pastedowns., Numerous sixteenth-century ownership inscriptions of Thomas Dowse on flyleaves., Verses from William Warner, Erasmus, and Shakespeare copied on flyleaves in sixteenth-century hands., and Binding: contemporary white leather over wooden boards; spine sewn on five double tawed leather thongs; remnants of clasp (three foliate metal pins) on upper cover.
- Subject (Name):
- Idley, Peter, d. 1474?
- Subject (Topic):
- Conduct of life, Didactic poetry, English, English poetry, and Youth
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Instructions to his son
9.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 317
- Image Count:
- 147
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper. Includes passages from the Lay Folks' Catechism; The Virtues of the Mass; and Symon Wynter's Amplification of the Life of St. Jerome, drawn from the Legenda aurea and from the apocryphal correspondence between Sts. Cyril and Augustine, and supplemented with revelations of St. Birgitta. Also contains excerpts concerning the Virgin Mary and confession
- Description:
- In English and Latin., Watermarks: unidentified bull's head, small in size, buried in gutter., Script: Written primarily by a single scribe in Secretary script, with additions and corrections added in the 16th century., Edges frayed and upper portion of most leaves stained, with loss of text., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Brown calf, blind-tooled. Title, in gold, on spine: "Life of St. Jerome. M. S.". Remains of early place mark on f. 22.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420.
- Subject (Topic):
- Catechisms, Confession, Devotional literature, English (Middle), Exempla, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Devotional writings
10.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450-1500]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 140
- Container / Volume:
- file
- Image Count:
- 8
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment, on parchment, containing portions of chapters 214 and 221 of the Middle English prose Brut
- Description:
- In Middle English., Marginal note indicates that these two leaves served as a wrapper for a copy of Gabriel Harvey's The trimming of Thomas Nashe., Layout: single-column, 29-32 lines., Script: secretary., and Decoration: initials in blue with red penwork.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Brutus the Trojan (Legendary character), English literature, English prose literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Brut chronicle (fragment)
