Manuscript on parchment of a collection of laws governing hunting and forestry
Description:
In Latin, with passages in English and French., Script: Arts. 4-14 written in a neat chancery script with Anglicana influence; arts. 1 and 15 in similar, but less elegant hands; arts. 2-3 are in gothic textura., Plain initial, in red, with crude ink penwork flourishes on f. 1v; KL monograms and portions of calendar also on red., Some stains on ff. 2r-7v render text illegible., and Binding: 19th-20th centuries. Rebinding in quarter pigskin, tanned, not tawed, with a strap and pin fastening. The oak boards, cambered on all four outer edges and with rectangular pegs, are probably contemporary with the manuscript. Front pastedown composed of a small fragment of prayers in Latin (15th century).
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Forests and forestry, Hunting, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Politics and government
Manuscript, on parchment, containing copies of several treatises: 1) Tractatus de Sacramento Corpus Christi, by Baldwin, Archbishop of Canterbury (ff. 1-26); 2) De Vero Sapientia, Dialogus I and II, attributed here to Petrarch (now believed to be by Nicholas of Cusa) (ff. 27-50v); 3) De Invidia, Niccolò Perotti's translation of a sermon by Basil the Great, with a preface addressed to Pope Nicholas V (ff. 51-63); 4) De invidia et odio, Niccolò Perotti's translation of a work by Petrarch, with a preface addressed to Pope Nicholas V (ff. 63v-68v); 5) De fortuna virtute ve nominum: ad Nicolaum quintum pontificem maximum, by Niccolò Perotti (69-73v); 6) Epistle LXVII to Simplician, by St. Ambrose (ff. 74-79v); 7) Ex sermonibus quadragesimalibus: Sermone de correctione fraterna, by Leonardo di Utino, O.P. (80-86v); 8) Speculum regis Edwardii tercii, attributed here to Simon Islip, Archbishop of Canterbury (now recognized as the work of William Pagula) (ff. 87-148, with skip from 89 to 100); 9) De tenenda obedientia et evitanda superbia, by St. Augustine (ff. 148-152).
Description:
Peter Meghen (d. 1537), of 's-Hertogenbosch in Brabant; scribe who copied works for several English clients, including Christopher Urswick and John Colet, and served as a courier for Erasmus and Sir Thomas More. Meghen's other patrons included Cardinal Wolsey, and he became Writer of the King's Books in the 1520s and served until his death in 1537. His nickname, "Cyclops," referred to his having only one eye., In Latin., In a humanistic script., Original foliation in red, from i to clii, skips from lxxix to c., Rubrics and foliation in red. Historiated initial and full-page border on ff 1v.; seven large and twenty-two small illuminated initials, all in a Northern Netherlandish style ("Masters of the Dark Eyes")., Colophon (ff. 142v) in red states that the manuscript was written for Christopher Urswick by "Petrus Meghen monoculus.", Spine label: Vrsyke de sacra: euch:. Spine date at foot: MCCCCCII., and Binding: 19 century full paneled brown calf, blind-stamped. Five-compartmented spine.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., England, and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Meghen, Peter,, Nicholas V, Pope, 1397-1455., and Urswick, Christopher, 1448?-1522.
Subject (Topic):
Conduct of life, Envy, Kings and rulers, Duties, Lord's Supper, Sermons, Wisdom, Manuscripts, Medieval, Economic conditions, Intellectual life, and Politics and government
Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, containing a brief box-level inventory of muniments stored at Thornbury Castle by the third Duke of Buckingham. Items listed include a box "with my lordys pedygrese;" two boxes "with evidence concerynynge a Chauntrie in Newport;" a box of indulgences, pardons and licences; a box of writings concerning a voyage to France made by the first Duke of Buckingham in 1437; boxes of documents relating to the marriages of the Duke's son and daughter; and a variety of boxes of land grants, charters, and deeds and Title added to document in another contemporary hand (possibly after the execution of the Duke in 1521?).
Description:
In English., Annotations on verso in a 17th century hand; 6p. of annotations concerning the genealogy of English noble families in the same hand attached to the inventory., and Accompanied by typed transcript.
Subject (Geographic):
England. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Buckingham, Edward Stafford, Duke of, 1478-1521
Subject (Topic):
Archives, Family archives, Nobility, and Politics and government
Manuscript on paper containing 1) Anthony Jenkinson (1529-1610/11), Relation of a travel to Russia and Persia. 2) Anonymous sonnet in praise of Queen Elizabeth I. Probably an autograph. 3) Anonymous treatise in four parts attacking the apology which Cardinal William Allen (1532-1594) published in 1587 for Sir William Stanley's action in the Netherlands in the preceding year. 4) Accounts regarding tenements; one is headed "Lambeth". 5) Account of a journey through the Middle East, made in 1578 and attributed by another hand to an unrecorded Sir Anthony Standen. 6) Definition of terms related to the Turkish empire encountered in art. 5. 7) Description of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany under Francesco Maria de' Medici (1541-1587). 8) Ferdinand Alvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva (1508-1582), Proposal addressed to King Philip II of Spain regarding the conquest of Portugal, made 25 May 1579, in English translation. 9) Description of the Benedictine convent of Camaldoli near Arezzo. 10) Short description of England and Scotland. 11) Accounts signed William Garnett; the last one is dated from the 33d year of Queen Elizabeth (1591/1592). The upper outer corner of the page is missing, with loss of text. 12) Collection of state letters. 13) Estate accounts partly dating from 1586/1587 and addressed to unknown person
Description:
In English., Script: Part I (between 1550 and 1600): Art. 1, 3 and the group 5-10 are each written by a different scribe, all writing Gothica Cursiva Libraria (Secretary). The quotations and headings in art. 3 are in Humanistica Cursiva. Art. 2 is also written in Humanistica Cursiva. Art. 4 is in Gothica Cursiva Currens (Secretary)., Script: Part II (between 1600 and 1625): Written by one hand in Gothica Cursiva Currens (Secretary), some quotations and headings in Humanistica Cursiva., Script: Part III (between 1575 and 1600): Written by one hand in Gothica Cursiva Formata (Secretary)., and Binding: Seventeenth century (?). Brown (?) sheepskin over pasteboard, rebacked. On the spine the gold-tooled titles (s. XIX-XX) "JENKINSON RELATION 1561" and "STATE PAPERS?? MS.".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., England, Middle East, Russia, and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Allen, William, 1532-1594., Jenkinson, Anthony., and Standen, Anthony, Sir.
Subject (Topic):
English poetry, English prose literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, Description and travel, History, and Politics and government
47 letters and documents, on paper (one document on parchment) in various cursive scripts, produced in England between 1554 and 1706. Mostly from the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, they consist of claims for expenses, wages, and other benefits. They include an account of a banquet (15 November 1561), signed by the Marquis of Winchester and Sir Walter Mildmay; a Claim for Allowances (1563) by Sir Thomas Chaloner, Ambassador to Spain; L. S. (1578) by Lord Burgley about money to be sent to Ireland and mentioning Sir Philip Sidney; A. L. S. (1597) by George, Lord Hunsdon; A. K. S. (Chester, 11 Aug. 1601) by the antiquary and mathematician Edward Brerewood to the Privy Council. The documents also include signatures of other government officials and nobles and The documents derive from the papers of Robert Petre, Auditor for the Exchequer, and his colleague Vincent Skinner
Description:
In English. and Binding: Middle Hill boards, spine missing.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603., James I, King of England, 1566-1625., and Great Britain. Exchequer.
Manuscript on paper of Carta de foresta, a collection of hunting and forestry laws. With a collection of extracts, in Latin, all concerning laws of forestry
Description:
In English., Watermarks: unidentified pot., Script: Written in a well formed chancery hand by a single scribe., and Binding: Sixteenth century. Endleaves reinforced with vellum, two leaves originally pasted to each board. Sewn on five single, tawed skin thongs laced into paste boards rounded on the outside of the spine edge. Beaded endbands sewn on leather or cane cores but not laced to boards. The spine is square, with traces of adhesive. Covered in dark brown calf, blind-tooled with a triple line border and a small central ornament. Two ribbon fastenings, now wanting. Leather broken at joint, sewing reinforced.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Forests and forestry, Hunting, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Politics and government
Manuscript on paper. The documents in this archival register cover the period from King Henry VIII (1509-1547) through Queen Elizabeth (1558-1603).
Description:
In English., Script: Copied by a single hand in Gothica Cursiva Libraria (Secretary)., and Binding: Limp vellum with remains of leather ties. Preserved in a modern cardboard folder covered with paper decorated with vertical red and purple stripes. On the brown leather spine the gold-tooled inscription: "KING HENRY VIII'S OWN MS. BOUCH OF COURT".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Courts and courtiers, Manuscripts, Medieval, Court and courtiers, and Politics and government
Manuscript on parchment (one leaf and one interior tagged leaf) of the record of proceedings confirming the claim of Robert Bogas to a property in Brantham, Suffolk, against Queen Elizabeth I's assumption of the rights in wardship for Henry Moptyde
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in English chancery script., and Wax seal.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Court records, Land titles, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Politics and government
Manuscript on paper containing a collection of hunting and forestry laws
Description:
In English., Watermark: similar to Briquet 12781., The text includes: 1) Table of Contents of art. 2, referring to the early foliation. 2) A collection of hunting and forestry laws similar to those published by John Manwood, A Brefe Collection of the Lawes of the Forest (London, 1592) and A Treatise and Discourse of the Lawes of the Forrest ... (London, 1598). 3) Two extracts. (1) De placito forestarum. B. Thorpe, ed., Ancient Laws and Institutions of England ( London, 1840), p. 228; (2) Dialogus de Scaccario, W. Stubbs, ed., Select Charters and other Illustrations of English Constitutional History (Oxford, 1913), pp. 221-222. 4) Consuetudines et assisa de foresta. 5) Ordinatio forestae., Script: written in Gothica Cursiva Currens (Secretary), often difficult to read. Gothica Cursiva Antiquior is used as display script., and Binding: grey paper over pasteboard; on the spine a leather label with gold-tooled inscription: "FOREST / LAWS / MS. / CIRCA /1580".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Forestry law and legislation, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Politics and government
