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1. Agreement between Bromehill priory and the town of Thetford
- Published / Created:
- 1331 July 7.
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 77
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript indenture, on parchment, detailing an agreement between the Prior and canons of the Augustinian priory of Bromehill on the one part and the Mayor, burgesses, merchants and residents of the town of Thetford on the other part. The indenture concerns the rights to income from the annual Prior's fair at Bromehill, including rights to the toll, stallage and pickage fees
- Description:
- In Latin., Docketed in a sixteenth-century? hand: the indentur of Bromehyll ffeyes., Annotated in a later hand, possibly that of the Norfolk antiquary Thomas Martin., Layout: single column of 26 lines. Head of document indented., Script: secretary script., and With: Seal of the Prior and Canons of Bromehill Priory, in green wax, containing a pyramid between a star, below, and a crescent moon, above.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England., England, Connecticut, New Haven., Norfolk (England), and Thetford (England)
- Subject (Name):
- Augustinians and Bromehill Priory (Norfolk, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Fairs, Manuscripts, Medieval, Markets, and Monasteries and state
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Agreement between Bromehill priory and the town of Thetford
2. Anglo-Norman poetry
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1300]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 395
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 460
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (poor quality) of 1) Herman de Valenciennes, Bible. 2) Herman de Valenciennes, L'Assomption de Notre Dame. Often found, as here, following the poem on the Bible by the same author. 3) Petrus Alphonsus, Disciplina clericalis, followed by three moral precepts. 4) Poem in Anglo-Norman on Genesis. 5) Robert de Ho, Les Enseignements de Robert de Ho. 6) Extract from the romance Partenopeus de Blois. 7) Vie de saint Eustache. 8) Letter of Prester John to Emperor Manuel Comnenus, tr. into Anglo-Norman verse by Raoul d'Arundel; this is the earliest translation of the letter (ante A.D. 1200), and the only one known in French verse. 9) Guillaume le Clerc, Bestiaire. 10) Notes on the influence of the moon. 11) Le voyage du Chevalier Owen au purgatoire de saint Patrice. 12) Wace, Roman de Brut. Some 15th-century glosses, in Middle English and Latin, occur in the text
- Description:
- In Anglo-Norman and Latin., Script: Written by 6 scribes in large gothic bookhand. Scribe 1: ff. 1r-75r, 111r-130v, 153r-183v (characterized by decorative descenders in final line of text); Scribe 2: ff. 75r-97v (z with small horizontal crossbar); Scribe 3: ff. 98r-110r, 131r-152v, 189r-201v, 212v-216v (exaggerated ascenders in top line of text); Scribe 4: ff. 184r-188v; Scribe 5: second column of f. 201v (crude script); Scribe 6: ff. 202r-212r, 216v-224v (poorly formed)., 4-line initials, divided blue and red (ff. 111r, 153r, 189r), with penwork in red and blue or red only. 3- and 2-line initials, red with blue penwork or vice versa (quire VI lacks flourishes on initials). Paragraph marks in red or blue; some rubrics at beginning of articles. 1-line initials stroked with yellow or red. Ink drawings in margins include King Arthur (f. 189r)., Early repairs with parchment throughout; no loss of text. Waterstains, ff. 221v-224r. Rubbing on f. 224v has caused some loss of text in col. a., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Diced red/brown calf, gold-tooled.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Anglo-Norman poetry, Bestiaries, Christian poetry, French, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Romances, Anglo-Norman
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Anglo-Norman poetry
3. Book of Hours
- Published / Created:
- [between 1367 and 1399]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1013
- Image Count:
- 178
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of a Book of Hours, containing 1) Computistical table including liturgical feasts. 2) Calendar. 3) Office of the Virgin. 4) Hours of Compassion of the Virgin. 5) Hours of Holy Wisdom. 6) Mass. 7) Penitential Psalms and Litanies. 8) Office of the Dead. Produced in Norwich, England, after 1367
- Description:
- Script: Copied by two hands: A) the main scribe, writes Northern Gothica Textualis Formata with some English features; B) copied quire VI (artt. 5-6) in a smaller and simpler form of the same script. Musical notation in nota quadrata., Decoration: Red stroking of majuscules. Alternately red and blue 1-line versals. 2-line flourished initials with penwork; 4-line red and blue litterae duplices with blue and red penwork; in art. 8, the musical sections open with large cadels with some red decoration and fancy forms, often featuring grotesque human faces or animals. In ff. 39-42 red rubrics, yellow highlighting of majuscules, red 1-line versals and red 1- and 2-line plain initials., Binding: 17th century plain brown calfskin over pasteboard; spine (rebacked) with 4 raised bands and gold-tooled title; red edges., and In Latin.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Liturgy and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Book of Hours
4. Book of Hours (fragment)
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1330]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 143
- Container / Volume:
- File
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript leaf, on parchment, containing prayers from before Matins. From the "Hungerford Hours."
- Description:
- In Anglo-Norman French., Layout: single-column; 17 lines., Script: Gothic., Decoration: 5 illuminated initials with decorative extensions and decorative line fillers, with gilt., and Byname: Hungerford Hours.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Books of Hours and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Book of Hours (fragment)
5. Breviary (fragment).
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1300]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 102
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript leaf, on parchment, in a single hand, probably from an Anglo-Norman breviary
- Description:
- In Latin., Layout: double columns of 25 lines., Script: gothic., and Decoration: Rubricated. Two illuminated initials with long marginal extensions; two smaller initials.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval and Breviaries
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Breviary (fragment).
6. Brut chronicle, etc
- Published / Created:
- [between 1300 and 1400]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 86
- Image Count:
- 52
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Fragments of a Brut Chronicle. Begins imperfectly in chapter 36 (Constantine) and has several lacunae. The work ends in chapter 86 (beginning on f. 11r) with the thirty-first year of Edward III. With art. 3) A note (in Latin) stating that King Henry IV was consecrated in 1399 and documenting his descent from Adam. 4) A list (in Latin) of 86 kings (each numbered) from Brutus to Edward III. 5) Names of prisoners captured and killed at the battle of Poitiers (19 Sept. 1356). 6) Terms of the treaty of Bretigny (8 May 1360). 7) Parliamentary text
- Description:
- In Anglo-Norman., Script: Written in Anglicana bookhand by one scribe., Decorative initials, blue with red penwork, appear only on ff. 1-12; initial strokes and headings, in red, throughout., and Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Stab sewn to a vellum folder made up of a legal document (trimmed with some loss of text) dated 1766 and involving the manors of Whitechurch and Milbourne in Wiltshire. The outside has an inscription, 19th century, "Some leaves of early English History in Norman French supposed to have come from Malmesbury Abbey." A similar inscription occurs on f. i verso.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- England.
- Subject (Topic):
- Anglo-Norman literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Brut chronicle, etc
7. Brut chronicle, etc
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1350]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 405
- Image Count:
- 3
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of the Brut Chronicle, up to 1333
- Description:
- In Anglo-Norman., Script: The codex is composed of two distinct parts that were early on bound together. Part I (ff. 1-16): Written in delicate Anglicana bookhand. Running titles, trimmed. Part II (ff. 17-74): Written in bold Anglicana bookhand., In Part II, Crude initials, 2-line, alternate red with purple penwork designs and blue with red, many with three-leaf clover design in body of letter., Worn, stained, and repaired throughout., and Binding: 18th century. Brown, mottled calf with a gold-tooled spine and a red label.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Anglo-Norman literature and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Brut chronicle, etc
8. Charter from John le Carpenter to Henry Williams (fragment).
- Published / Created:
- 1343 November 24.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 712.11
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript charter, on parchment, by John le Carpenter, granting power of attorney to Henry Williams to grant seisin to Geoffrey, brother of John, of some lands in Stoke Waleys
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: anglicana., Decoration: with remains of red seal attached., and Docketed on verso in a 19th-century hand.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Charter from John le Carpenter to Henry Williams (fragment).
9. Chronicon de regibus angliae
- Creator:
- Peter, of Ickham, active 1290
- Published / Created:
- [between 1305 and 1330]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 5
- Image Count:
- 168
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, of a version of Peter of Ickham's chronicle of English history. The narrative in this copy ends with 1301; this is followed by several brief entries in the same hand for events dated between 1287 and 1305
- Description:
- In Latin., Scribal explicit: "hic pennam fixi penitet me si male dixi.", Ownership inscription on front paper flyleaf: "Brudenell de Deen d[omi]nusque de Stonton.", Some marginal annotations, particularly in lower margins. Some of these have been trimmed; three leaves containing lower margin annotations have been left untrimmed and folded back, apparently in an effort to preserve the annotations (13r; 22r; 59r)., Two leaves bound in at the end of the volume contain passages from the Doctrinale of Alexander de Villa Dei. Ownership inscription on 1r in a later, (early seventeenth-century?) hand: "Mistresse Leucey Brudenell.", Layout: single columns of 34 lines., Script: rounded gothic script., Decoration: Rubricated., and Binding: seventeenth-century full calf, with the arms of the Brudenell family in gilt on the covers.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Peter, of Ickham, active 1290.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval, Latin prose literature, Medieval and modern, Great Britain, History, and Kings and rulers
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Chronicon de regibus angliae
