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11.
Acquittance for Edward Greville

Creator:
Lumley, John Lumley, Baron, 1534?-1609
Published / Created:
1594 November 10.
Call Number:
Takamiya MS 126
Container / Volume:
Box
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Legal document, in a professional hand, signed by the first Baron Lumley, containing an acquittance for 2500 pounds received from Edward Greville for the manor of Mickleton in Gloucestershire
Description:
In English., Docketed in later hands., and Attached seal (worn).
Subject (Geographic):
England, Connecticut, New Haven., and Gloucestershire (England)
Subject (Name):
Greville, Edward, Sir, 1542-1616. and Lumley, John Lumley, Baron, 1534?-1609.
Subject (Topic):
Land tenure and Manuscripts, Renaissance
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Acquittance for Edward Greville

12.
Mirrour of the blessed lyf of Jesu Christ

Creator:
Love, Nicholas, active 1410
Published / Created:
[ca. 1450]
Call Number:
Takamiya MS 4
Image Count:
210
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of the complete text of Love's translation of the Meditationes vitae Christi, a text often attributed to Pseudo-Bonaventure or Johannes de Caulibus. The manuscript also contains John Lydgate's Fifteen joys of Our Lady and the anonymous poems, The fifteen ooes of Christ and The charter of Our Lord Jesus Christ
Description:
In Middle English., Layout: single columns of 45 lines., Script: English bookhand., Decoration: illuminated initial and three-quarter border on first page of text; three other illuminated initials with gold., Verse ownership inscriptions of Erkynwald Gyttyns on three back flyleaves, accompanied by pen trials and sketches., Ownership inscription of Francis Layton on verso of third front flyleaf., and Binding: eighteenth-century half calf over marbled boards.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Love, Nicholas, active 1410. and Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, English (Middle), English literature, English poetry, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Mirrour of the blessed lyf of Jesu Christ

13.
Epistolae : no. 106, sec. 59-67.

Creator:
Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420
Published / Created:
[before 830]
Call Number:
Takamiya MS 58
Image Count:
16
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript fragments, recovered from a binding, of this text from Saint Jerome's Epistolae
Description:
In Latin and Greek., Front flyleaf contains provenance annotation in pencil in the hand of Sir Thomas Phillipps., Layout: double columns, originally of 30 lines (now 28)., Script: Caroline minuscule (Turonian script)., Binding: Middle Hill boards., and Bound with: 5 leaves of a 13th-century manuscript of Averroes' commentary on Aristotle's Ethics.
Subject (Geographic):
France, Tours., Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420.
Subject (Topic):
Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Epistolae : no. 106, sec. 59-67.

14.
Logos prōtos peri geneseōs trichōn kai alōpekias

Creator:
Ibn al-Jazzār.
Published / Created:
between 1542 and 1599.
Call Number:
Manuscript 36 vault
Image Count:
306
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Manuscript, in five unidentified hands, on paper, containing books I, II (incomplete), V (incomplete), VI (incomplete), and VII of Ibn al-Jazzār's Viaticum peregrinantium, a translation from Arabic into Greek supposedly done by Constantinus Rheginos. Ends with an incomplete table of contents
Alternative Title:
[Viaticum peregrinantium / written in Greek, with incomplete translation attributed to Constantinos Rheginos].
Description:
In Ancient Greek., Title from heading., Script: five different Italian 16th-century hands., Decoration: rubrication throughout., Layout: single column of 35-36 lines., Binding: bound in 19th-century brown polished calf. Spinal labels: Liber de morbis curandis / Codex MS. Chartaceus, saeculi XV., Of the 148 leaves in the manuscript, 72 are blank (interleaved)., Watermarks identified as Chapeau 51 (Hilfinger vol.1) from Venice in 1542; suggests that the manuscript was copied in Venice later than 1542., and Also available on microfilm.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Greek, Medicine, Arab, Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, and Manuscripts
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Logos prōtos peri geneseōs trichōn kai alōpekias, Λόγος πρῶτος περὶ γενέσεως τριχῶν καὶ ἀλωπεκίας

15.
De decem praeceptis

Creator:
Grosseteste, Robert, 1175?-1253
Published / Created:
[approximately 1250]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 1197
Container / Volume:
Box
Image Count:
76
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript, on parchment, in a single book hand, of a complete text of this commentary on the Ten Commandments
Description:
In Latin., Tipped in: printed catalog description of manuscript from Henry Young & Sons., Stencilled crest of Sir Thomas Phillipps stamped on recto of first flyleaf., Bookplate: George Dunn of Woolley Hall, pasted on front pastedown., Bookplate: Allan Heywood Bright, pasted on front pastedown., Layout: double columns of 47 lines each., Script: gothic textura., Decoration: marginal notes in red ink with blue penwork. One historiated initial, in full color, depicting a horned Moses holding the tablets of the Law., and Binding: nineteenth-century brown leather; marbled endpapers.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Grosseteste, Robert, 1175?-1253.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval and Ten commandments
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De decem praeceptis

16.
[King Arthur and the knights of the round table].

Creator:
Grinken, John
Published / Created:
[between 1553 and 1603]
Call Number:
Takamiya MS 34
Image Count:
124
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Autograph manuscript, signed, on paper, of a list of many of the Knights of the Round Table and summaries of their histories as given in Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur. Some entries are accompanied by pen-and-ink drawings of coats of arms. The work may have been modeled on Les devise des armes de chevaliers de la table ronde, published by Antoine Verard. Grinken's preface notes that he has not included "many faned and vaine taylles" and connects his interest in the Round Table with Prince Arthur's Knights, the archery fellowship founded by "Kynge Henry of fames memory." The preface concludes with "vivat Regina."
Description:
In English., Title devised by cataloger., Book stamp of a lion rampant with autograph annotation by Sir Thomas Phillipps., Layout: single columns of 26 lines each., Script: secretary., Decoration: 33 armorial devices in ink; many blank shields in pencil., and Binding: eighteenth-century full calf; arms of John Lewis Goldsmid on front cover in gilt.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Arthur, King and Grinken, John.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Renaissance, Arthurian romances, and English prose literature
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [King Arthur and the knights of the round table].

17.
Collection of texts by Jean Gerson

Creator:
Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429
Published / Created:
1456.
Call Number:
Manuscript 38 vault
Image Count:
294
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Manuscript, in the hand of Theodoricus de Harlem, on paper and parchment, containing a collection of works by Jean Gerson: De spirituali mendicitate, De viciis ministrorum ecclesie, Sermo de tribulationibus ecclesie, De pollutione diurnis, Expositio clausule dominice, Oratio anxii peccatoris, Considerationes XII, De monte contemplationis (originally written in French), and Alphabetum divini amoris (written by Johannes Nider, commonly attribued to Jean Gerson).
Alternative Title:
Nine tracts
Description:
In Latin., Title devised by cataloger., Script: gothic textualis., Decoration: three-line initials in red ink. Rubrication., Layout: single column of 32 lines., Binding: 15th-century brown leather over wooden boards; rebacked in 1986 by J. Macdonald., Manuscript note on front pastedown: Liber domus sancte Barbare in Colonia ordinis Carthusiensis in quo continentur subscripta ..., and Colophon (f. 48): Scriptum per manus fratris Theoderici de Harlem monachi domus sancte Barbare in Colonia carthusiensis ordinis. Anno domini 1456. Anno etatis sue 65.
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Manuscripts, and Medicine, Medieval
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Collection of texts by Jean Gerson

18.
[Will], 1539 Oct 23.

Creator:
Fitzjames, John, Sir, 1470?-1542?.
Call Number:
Osborn a35
Image Count:
8
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript, on parchment, in a single secretary hand, of a copy of the will of Sir John Fitzjames. The will opens with an appeal to "the most blessed Mother and virgyn Marie St. Anthony and St. Chr[ist]ofer" for their intercession for his soul; arrangements for funeral and intercessory Masses and for a Month's Mind service and The extremely detailed lists of personal and estate bequests that follow comprise a virtual household inventory of the manor house at Redlynch in Somerset. His widow, Eleanor Draycott, receives liferent of Redlynch and Knoll as well as use of the household furnishings, including the beds, hangings, "carpettes, cusshyons, dysshes, potts, and pannes," as well as tablecloths, jewelry, and various articles of plate. Fitzjames also leaves "my greate book of Statutes in vellum or parchment" to his cousin Nicholas Fitzjames, the nearest male heir and successor to Redlynch; silver cups to various other relatives; and ten shillings for "every mayden of good and honest conversation" in his household
Description:
In English and Latin., With: 3 documents on parchment concerning James Fitzjames. (1) Indenture transferring revenues and fees inherited from Sir John Fitzjames in the county of Somerset, signed and dated 26 June 1568. (2) Indenture concerning the same, signed and dated 26 June 1570. (3) Attestation of probate of a will for a member of the Fitzjames family in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, signed by the Clerk Thomas Argall and issued in the name of Archbishop Cranmer, n.d. (damaged)., and With: volume of manuscript transcripts of three of the documents made for Sir Thomas Phillipps, with genealogical notes on the Fitzjames family.
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Draycott, Eleanor., Fitzjames, John, Sir, 1470?-1542?., and Fitzjames family.
Subject (Topic):
Catholics, Decedents' estates, Inheritance and succession, Manors, Material culture, Prayers for the dead, Saints, Cult, and Wills
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Will], 1539 Oct 23.

19.
Extractions from Dioscorides' De materia medica

Creator:
Dioscorides Pedanius, of Anazarbos
Published / Created:
between 1539 and 1542.
Call Number:
Manuscript 31 vault
Image Count:
230
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on paper, containing an extract of Dioscorides' De materia medica, a medico-botanical dictionary arranged alphabetically
Alternative Title:
Medico-botanical dictionary / extracted from Dioscorides ; manuscript written in Greek during the 15th Century
Description:
In Greek., Title devised by cataloger., Script: Italian 16th-century hand., Layout: single column of 30 lines., Binding: vellum, over paper boards. Spinal title: Dioscorides De plantis Graece Manuscrip., and Volume was likely produced in Venice between 1539 and 1542 or Guillaume Pellicier, bishop of Montpellier and ambassador to Venice.
Subject (Topic):
Botany, Medical, Manuscripts, Greek, Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, and Manuscripts
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Extractions from Dioscorides' De materia medica

20.
Collection of pedigrees

Creator:
Dale, Robert, -1722
Published / Created:
[circa 1700-1715]
Call Number:
Takamiya MS 49
Image Count:
128
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Autograph manuscript of a collection of pedigrees and genealogical charts, accompanied by many small illustrations of "arms in trick." Some of the pedigrees are taken from the Lincolnshire and Gloucestershire visitations of the early 1680s. An alphabetical index of the coats of arms represented preceeds the pedigrees
Description:
In English., Attributed to Robert Dale by Sir Thomas Phillipps in a pencil note on recto of front flyleaf. Several additional pages at the end of the Dale collection are attributed by Phillipps to Samuel Stebbing., Spine title: Stemmata. List of Crests., Bound with: An Alphabetical List of Crest's copied from a list in the handwriting of Mr. Ra: Thoresby, late of Leeds, Antiquarian, which Manuscript was bought at the sale of his Library in London on 7th May 1763. Manuscript on paper in copperplate script, corrections in a different hand in red ink, 36 p., undated. Phillipps MS 13396., and Binding: nineteenth-century quarter calf over marbled boards.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Dale, Robert, -1722. and Thoresby, Ralph, 1658-1725.
Subject (Topic):
Antiquarians, Gentry, Heraldry, and Nobility
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Collection of pedigrees

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