Manuscript on parchment, composed of 2 parts, both of uneven quality. Part I of the codex written in the 15th century. The final quire, written probably in the 14th century, was bound in with the first 186 ff. in the 16th or 17th century. Contains exc...
Description:
In English and Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Charms, English literature, Hunting, Manuscripts, Medieval, Medicine, and Medicine, Medieval
Three manuscript documents concerning grants of rights and rents by and between Maystoke Convent; Thomas de Beauchamp, Count of Warwick; and William de Clinton, Earl of Huntingdon
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain., Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Beauchamp, Thomas de, Count of Warwick., Clinton, William de, Earl of Huntingdon., and Maystoke Convent.
Subject (Topic):
Land tenure, Landlord and tenant, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper. The compiler of this unidentified world chronicle cites as sources Sallust, Suetonius, Josephus, Orosius, Macrobius, Eusebius, Origen, Eutropius, Sigebertus, Hugh of Fleury, and many others. The chronicle concludes at the end of t...
Description:
Written in the middle of the 15th century, perhaps ca. 1456 when the codex was given to John Capgrave by Jacobus de Oppenheim. Capgrave was elected in August of 1455 to another 2-year term as head of the English Augustinian Province. In 1457 he resume...
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and World history
Manuscript on parchment (thick, furry) of the Wycliffite New Testament. Begins imperfectly in Matthew 3.4 and breaks off at 1 Timothy 1.15; also missing Romans 9.22 to 1 Corinthians 1.23 (2 bifolios lost after f. 73). Contains the Gospels without prol...
Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of Matthew's gospel and the Book of Acts from the "Early Version" of the Wycliffe Bible by Nicholas Hereford and his collaborators. The final page of the manuscript is added in a sixteenth-century secretary scr...
Description:
In Middle English.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Wycliffe, John, -1384.
Subject (Topic):
Versions, Wycliffe, English prose literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of a copy of the text of the "Late Version" of the Wycliffite New Testament, commonly attributed to John Purvey. The text begins at Matthew 4:14 but is otherwise complete. The volume concludes with a 12 page in...
Description:
In Middle English, with a few pages in Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Wycliffe, John, -1384.
Subject (Topic):
Versions, Wycliffe, Manuscripts, Medieval, and English prose literature
Manuscript fragment, on parchment, in a single hand: a leaf from the table of readings at the beginning or end of a Wycliffite New Testament. The text is from the Sanctoral, from the feast of the Purifcation to the feast of St. Mark
Description:
In Middle English.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Versions, Wycliffe, English prose literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval