Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of a portion of Bracton's treatise on English law.
Description:
A fuller description of the contents is found in Baker and Taussig, Catalogue (London: 2007), pp. 13-14., Annotated on f. 1 in the hand of Sir Thomas Phillipps: H. Bracton De Legibus Angliæ. From Sir G. P. Turner's Library. Phillipps MS 3097., Binding: nineteenth-century full russia, blind-stamped. Gilt title on spine: Bracton De Legibus Angliæ., Decoration: headings, paragraph marks, and running titles in red or blue; two-line initials throughout in red and blue; two large initials in red and blue., In Latin; one lengthy marginal annotation in Law French., Layout: double columns, 32 lines., Part of the Anthony Taussig Collection of English Legal Manuscripts (OSB MSS 184). Taussig catalog number: MS 82.12.7 (number 19 in main catalog numbering)., Previously owned by Sir Gregory Osborne Page Turner; Phillipps MS 3097; William Carr; W. J. Carr. Purchased from Anthony Taussig on the Hazel M. Osborn and the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Funds, 2012., Script: Gothic Textura., Some early marginalia. Lengthy annotation in Law French (ff. 182v-183) concerning a dictum by "Denam" (probably John or William de Denum)., and Title from incipit.
Subject (Name):
Bracton, Henry de,---1268. and Taussig, Anthony.
Subject (Topic):
Law--England--Early works to 1800., Law--Great Britain--Early works to 1800., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375), Decamerone, 7.8, 30-50 and Decamerone, 7.9, 1-5.
Description:
Binding: The leaf has been used as a cover for an archival register (?), the upper part of f. 1r being the front cover. It carries the inscriptions "A", "Gioan Giacomo Saba***". and Script: Copied by one hand in Southern Gothica Semitextualis Libraria.
Subject (Name):
Boccaccio, Giovanni,--1313-1375.
Subject (Topic):
Italian literature--To 1400., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Bernardo of Parma's gloss on the Decretals of Gregory IX, including sections over liber III.
Description:
Decoration: running heads, initials, and rubrics in red; some contemporary marginal commentary., Script: written in a heavily abbreviated gothic script., and These fragments, which appear to be from the same manuscript, are contained in Zi +156 (Bernhard von Breydenbach, Prefatio in opus transmarine...), in which the fragments are used as front and back endpapers.
Subject (Topic):
Canon law--Commentaries., Decretals., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript volume, in a single hand, containing the text of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica, followed by the text of the Historia brittoum of Nennius; a brief biography of Merlin; and Sybilline prophecies.
Description:
Binding: original oak boards covered in pink doeskin; remains of clasps., Bound with: parchment leaf of accounts kept by Robert de Staynford, steward of Lady Idoyne Percy, wife of Henry, Lord Percy (d. 1365)., Decoration: Rubricated. Numerous penwork initials and line fillers in red and blue ink. Ten larger illuminated initials, gilt and red and blue ink., Ex libris H. L. Bradfer-Lawrence. On deposit from the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Laid in: manuscript fragment, on paper, of a contract, in English (ca. 1574), formerly the back pastedown., Layout: single columns of 42 lines., Numerous marginal notes in contemporary and later hands., and Script: gothic text hand.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--History--To 1066.
Subject (Name):
Bede,--the Venerable, Saint,--673-735.--Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum., Bradfer-Lawrence, H. L.--(Harry Lawrence)--Bookplate., and Nennius, active 796.
Subject (Topic):
Great Britain--Church history--449-1066., Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript, on parchment, in multiple scribal hands, of sections A and B of Part I of the Lancelot series of Arthurian romances. These sections cover Lancelot's birth, upbringing, adventures as a Knight of the Round Table, and passion for Queen Guenevere.
Description:
Binding: early nineteenth-century? red silk velvet binding; gilt decoration on spine. Gilt leather spine tag: Lancelot du Lac. M S., Decoration: large historiated initial at the opening of each section; smaller initials in red and blue penwork., In Middle French., Layout: double columns of 50-53 lines., Previously owned by the Duc de la Vallière; John Louis Goldsmid; Edward Vernon Utterson; Richard Heber. Phillipps MS 8230. On deposit from the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., and Script: gothic (multiple scribes).
Subject (Name):
Goldsmid, John Louis--Ownership., Heber, Richard,--1773-1833., La Vallière, Louis César de la Baume Le Blanc,--duc de,--1708-1780--Ownership., Lancelot--(Legendary character), Phillipps, Thomas,--Sir,--1792-1872--Ownership., and Utterson, Edward Vernon,--1775 or 1776-1856.
Subject (Topic):
Arthurian romances--Early works to 1800., French literature--To 1500., Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval., Lancelot (Prose romance), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medie
Manuscript binding fragment, on parchment, of part of the text of Lancelot du Lac.
Description:
Accompanied by three unidentified manuscript fragments that were part of the 2002 sale lot., Decoration: illuminated initial with brown penwork., Script: gothic script., and Sotheby's 2002 June 18 sale, lot 4. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-.
Subject (Name):
Lancelot--(Legendary character)
Subject (Topic):
Arthurian romances--Early works to 1800., Lancelot (Prose romance), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript bifolium, in a single hand, containing text from chapters 34, 35, and 39 of this prose romance.
Description:
Decoration: Rubricated. Three-line initials in gold against blue and rose grounds., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: double columns of 52 lines., and Script: gothic script.
Subject (Topic):
Arthurian romances--Early works to 1800., French prose literature--To 1500., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Méliadus de Léonnoys.
Manuscript leaves, on parchment, in a single hand, containing lines 8198-8405 and 9612-9811 of this fourteenth-century religious poem.
Description:
Decoration: initials in red and blue., Ex libris Hermann Suchier. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: double columns of varying lengths., and Script: bâtarde script.
Subject (Name):
Guillaume,--de Deguileville,--active 14th century. and Suchier, Hermann,--1848-1914--Bookplate.
Subject (Topic):
French poetry--To 1500., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript, on vellum, of the text of the "short version" of the Polychronicon (final entry is for 1327).
Description:
Binding: contemporary calf over wooden boards, rebacked. Upper cover plain; lower cover contains central panel with the letters POLICRONICON created by stamping background with seven-pointed star stamp. Background pattern of diagonal fillets with five-petalled flower in circle stamped at each intersection. Remains of leather clasps and one brass catch. Sewn on six raised bands., Byname: Takamiya Polychronicon., Decoration: Rubricated. Approximately 404 marginal drawings in pen and ink, many with yellow wash: mostly portrait roundels, but also including two diagrams of Noah's Ark; views of London, Canterbury, Rome and other places; an image of the Annunciation; and a small T-map. Margins ruled to accomodate the roundels. One illuminated initial and others covered in matte gold., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: double columns of between 44 and 51 lines., Script: cursive book hand., and Some leaves damaged with loss of text.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--History--Earily works to 1800.
Subject (Name):
Higden, Ranulf,---1364.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and World history--Early works to 1800.