Secretum secretorum

Description

Title: Secretum secretorum
Contributor: Burgh, Benedict.
Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
Published / Created: [ca. 1475-1499]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Manuscript, on vellum, incomplete, in a single hand, of John Lydgate's and Benedict Burgh's Middle English verse translation of the twelfth-century Latin treatise Secretum Secretorum, itself a translation of the Kitab sirr al-asrar. In addition to this text, the volume also contains several prose pieces in Middle English and Latin, including one with illustrated diagrams and a Latin tract on the interpretation of dreams
Description: In Middle English and Latin.
Several medical recipes added on blank leaves and portions of leaves in a sixteenth-century? cursive hand.
Signature of John Bowen? in a seventeenth-century hand. Signature of Thomas Bowen in a seventeenth-century hand.
Layout: various single-column.
Script: English bookhand.
Decoration: 15 illuminated borders; other decorated initials, some gilt.
Binding: disbound, but with some original sewing intact; modern case.
Provenance: Purchased from Toshiyuki Takamiya on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2017.
Extent: 63 leaves : 250 mm x 159 mm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English, Middle (1100-1500)
Latin

Genre: Early works to 1800
Formulae, receipts, prescriptions
Manuscripts, Medieval England 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Topic): Astrology
Astronomy
Astronomy, Medieval
Education of princes
English prose literature
Manuscripts, Medieval
Medicine
Medicine, Medieval
Subjects: Astrology > Early works to 1800
Astronomy > Early works to 1800
Astronomy, Medieval
Education of princes > Early works to 1800
English prose literature > Middle English, 1100-1500
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Medicine > Early works to 1800
Medicine > Formulae, receipts, prescriptions > Early works to 1800
Medicine, Medieval
England > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Bonen, John > Autograph
Bowen, Thomas > Autograph
Takamiya, Toshiyuki > Ownership

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Citation: Secretum Secretorum (Takamiya MS 33). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.