Privite of privyteis

Description

Title: Privite of privyteis
Alternative Title: Secretum secretorum
Creator: Johannes, de Caritate
Published / Created: [ca. 1461-1490]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of this unique English prose version 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 includes a short astrological text in Middle English, headed "secreta." The opening leaf is not present; the introduction by the translator praises Sir Miles Stapleton as his patron
Description: In Middle English and Latin.
Several verses and aphorisms in a sixteenth?-century cursive hand on blank leaves and in margins.
Layout: single columns of 21-23 lines.
Script: English bookhand.
Decoration: numerous initials in gold or in blue with contrasting penwork.
Binding: fifteenth-century blind-stamped calf over wooden boards; remains of clasps.
Provenance: Formerly owned by Richard Elde. Formerly owned by John Harcourt. Formerly owned by A. A. Judo?. Johannes de Caritate, Privite of Privyteis. Purchased from Toshiyuki Takamiya on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2017.
Extent: 118 leaves : 212 mm x153 mm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English, Middle (1100-1500)

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 (Name): Johannes, de Caritate.
Subject (Topic): Astrology
Astronomy
Astronomy, Medieval
Education of princes
English prose literature
Manuscripts, Medieval
Medicine
Medicine, Medieval
Subjects: Johannes, de Caritate
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
Elde, Richard > Ownership
Harcourt, John > Ownership
Takamiya, Toshiyuki > Ownership

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Citation: Johannes de Caritate, Privite of Privyteis (Takamiya MS 38). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.