- Creator:
- Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1465-1475]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 40
- Image Count:
- 524
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of a complete version of this long narrative poem.
- Description:
- Binding: early nineteenth-century vellum; leather spine labels, gilt., Decoration: decorated borders at the beginnings of Books II-IX; numerous gold initials., Ex libris Lords Mostyn of Gloddaeth; Arthur A. Houghton. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: double columns of 35 lines., and Script: English bookhand.
- Subject (Name):
- Houghton, Arthur Amory,--1906-1990--Bookplate., Lydgate, John,--1370?-1451?, Lydgate, John,--1370?-1451?--Fall of princes., and Mostyn, Llewelyn Nevill Vaughan Lloyd-Mostyn,--Baron,--1856- 1929--Bookplate.
- Subject (Topic):
- English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Narrative poetry, English (Middle)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The Fall of princes.
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- Creator:
- Edward, of Norwich, 1373?-1415.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1400-1425]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 19
- Image Count:
- 94
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of chapters 5-20 of the treatise on hunting by Edward Plantagenet, Duke of York.
- Description:
- Binding: modern full polished calf; red morocco case., Decoration: some initials in blue ink with red penwork., Ex libris Sir John Cope; C. F. G. R. Schwerdt; Boies Penrose. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single columns of 26 lines., Modern pencil foliation employed. Ff. 1 mutilated with some loss of text., Notes on the contents and provenance of the manuscript on front pastedown and flyleaf in a modern hand., and Script: English bookhand.
- Subject (Name):
- Cope, John,--Sir,---1760--Bookplate., Edward,--of Norwich,--1373?-1415., Penrose, Boies,--1902-1976--Bookplate., and Schwerdt, C. F. G. R.--(Charles Francis George Richard),--1862-1939--Bookplate.
- Subject (Topic):
- English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., English prose literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., Hunting--Early works to 1800., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The master of game.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450-1475]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 94
- Image Count:
- 449
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on vellum and paper, in several hands, containing a collection of texts in Latin and Middle English. Almost two-thirds of the volume consists of a collection of Latin sermons, followed by a Latin verse text, Stimulus compassionis. Middle English texts include The three kings of Cologne, a devotional work in prose; Prester John, a travel narrative; John Lydgate's Middle English poem Stans puer ad mensam; and the Middle English verses The myrour of mankind and The treatise of a gallant.
- Description:
- Binding: early eighteenth-century sheep over pasteboards. Nineteenth-century green morocco case with spine title: Ancient English Poetry M. S., Bookseller's description tipped in at front of volume., Decoration: numerous initials in blue with red penwork., Formerly owned by Gregory Lewis Way; William Waldorf Astor. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single columns of 26-31 lines., Most of the volume is parchment; 15 leaves toward the end of the volume are paper., Script: several English cursive bookhands., and Spine title in gilt: M. S. Vellum.
- Subject (Name):
- Lydgate, John,--1370?-1451? and Prester John--(Legendary character)
- Subject (Topic):
- Conduct of life--Early works to 1800., Devotional literature, English (Middle), English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500., English prose literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Verse and prose in Latin and Middle English.