Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, containing an herbal in prose and verse. The volume opens with two Middle English poems, showing traces of East Anglian dialect, describing a variety of herbs and their medicinal properties, as well as accepted cures and prescriptions for a number of ailments. These are followed by Middle English and Latin prose texts also concerning herbal medicine
Description:
In Middle English and Latin., Laid in: parchment fragment probably recovered from earlier binding., Layout: single columns of 33 lines., Script: English bookhand., Decoration: some initials, headings and words in red ink., and Binding: modern vellum boards.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
English poetry, English prose literature, Herbals, Herbs, Therapeutic use, Manuscripts, Medieval, Medicine, and Medicine, Medieval
Manuscript, on parchment, containing the complete text of Richard Rolle's De emendatione vitae. This is followed by a complitation of extracts from texts mainly by Rolle, including portions of the Incendium amoris and the Melum and a passage from the Speculum peccatoris of Pseudo-Augustine. Followed by Thomas Fishlake's Latin translation of both books of Walter Hilton's The Scale of Perfection. William Jordaen's Latin translation of Willem Ruusbroec's van den blinckenden Steen appears between Books 1 and 2 of the Hilton
Alternative Title:
De Emendatione vitae and other works
Description:
In Latin., With: multiple entries on front and back flyleaves in Latin and English containing notes on the family history of various members of the Heneage family, 1528-1820 and undated. Also 6 pages of similar notes, laid in., With: two horoscopes on back flyleaves for Michael Heneage, 1532 March 28., Layout: single columns of 34 lines., Script: anglicana., Decoration: two full-page borders accompanied by three-line foliate initials on a gold ground (ff.1, 40); three three-sided borders (ff.32, 35, 92v), four- and five-line initials in gold on a ground of blue and red with white ornament and leafy sprays extending into the margin (ff.20v, 90v, 92v), one three-line foliate initial on a gold ground with extensions forming a two-sided border (f.81), two-line and three-line initials alternately in gold with blue penwork, or blue with red penwork, usually forming reserved leafy designs within the body of the initial and extending up and down the left margin, one- to six-line paraphs in the text and margins alternately gold with blue penwork or blue with red penwork,, and Binding: contemporary white doeskin over cushioned boards, sewn on six double bands; remains of two clasps including nails. Lower edge of leaves inscribed "hylton" in a contemporary hand. Center of upper board inscribed with a capital E and W-B in a nineteenth century hand.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Heneage family. and Rolle, Richard, 1290?-1349.
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, English (Middle), Translations into Latin, Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Translations from English (Middle)., Manuscripts, Medieval, Mysticism, Catholic Church, and Spiritual life
Manuscript on parchment (coarse) of a Book of Hours containing only the Office of the Dead and Penitential Psalms and Litany
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in liturgical gothic script of two sizes, by one person. Prayer on f. 87v is added in a very similar script, but by a less firm hand., A pencilled note on f. 55r refers to a miniature cut out between ff. 54 and 55. 2-line initials in blue, with red penwork often extending along left border. 1-line initials in blue or red. Rubrication to mark headings within sections in crimson or orange ink., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Brown calf, blind-tooled. Rebacked; back cover detached.
Manuscript on paper of Seventeen hunting calls with hunting codes for the horn. Instructions in English: "To call the Company in the Morninge...The Mount is from partie to partie every Note repeated thrice."
Description:
In English., Watermarks: unidentified pot similar in design to Heawood 3637-38., Script: Written in well formed English secretary script., and Removed from a copy of The Booke of hawking, huntyng and fysshyng attributed to Dame Juliana Berners (London, [1561]).
Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, of Richard de Caistre's popular hymn
Description:
In Middle English., Bound with Fifteen Joys of Our Lady., Layout: single columns of 20 lines., Script: gothic liturgical script., Decoration: red and blue penwork., and Binding: modern full red morocco.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Richard, of Caistre.
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, English (Middle), English literature, English poetry, Hymns, English, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Indenture, on parchment, containing an agreement by Sir John Fastolf to purchase lands in Norwich from Richard Sellyng, who owned them through the inheritance of his wife Alice Heilsdon
Description:
In Middle English., Indented at head of document with chirographic letters., Signed: document signed by the scribe, "Burdon.", Endorsed on the verso in the hand and with the ownership mark of Sir Edward Dering., and Layout: single column of 13 lines.
Subject (Geographic):
England, Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Fastolf, John, 1378?-1459. and Sellyng, Richard, -1467.
Indenture, on parchment, containing an agreement by Thomas Tuddenham to sell his lands at Alestaneswyck (possibly Stanwick St. John, North Yorkshire) to Edward Grimston for 400 marks, to be paid over 3 years. The contract also specifies that a manor in Suffolk will be surety for the purchase of these entailed lands
Description:
In Middle English., Indented at head of document with chirographic letters., Signed: sign manual of Edward Grimston at end of text., Signed: document signed by the scribe, "Brampton.", Docketed in a later hand., Seal: red wax seal with the crest of Edward Grimston (damaged)., Layout: Single column of fifteen lines., and Script: anglicana.
Subject (Geographic):
England., England, Connecticut, New Haven., and Yorkshire (England)
Subject (Name):
Grimston, Edward, -1478. and Tuddenham, Thomas, 1401-1462.
Manuscript on parchment roll, unevenly trimmed at top and bottom, composed of three membranes segments glued together, the third an addition of the late 15th century. Includes Prayers to be said for a pardon of 32,055 years; and Prayer based on the measurement of the length of the body of Christ. The texts are written on one side of a roll (dorse is blank).
Description:
In Latin and English., Script: Written in gothic liturgical script in brown and red ink., Membrane I: Two miniatures of the Emblems of the Passion, the one above the written space in a gothic architectural setting, with a Saint on either side and instruments of the Passion included around the full-figure of Christ standing with the cross. The miniature below with three exceptionally large nails and a heart enclosed by a crown of thorns and supported by two angels; surrounded by instruments of the Passion. The patron in clerical costume of white gown and blue robe [Austin friar?] in prayer with a scroll. A curling acanthus and floral border, containing birds holding snakes in their beaks; red, blue, pink and orange, framed in blue, with a gentle ogee arch at the top., Membrane II: A large empty cross (17 mm.) drawn in black ink and colored brown, in the center of the written space. One 6-line initial, pink and blue acanthus on a gold ground infilled with an aroid. Three 2-line initials, one blue filled with a pink flower on gold, one pink with white filigree on gold, one gold, filled with blue with white filigree on a pink ground. Floral border, including columbines, roses, in red, blue, pink and green, with insects, against a tan ground with brown dots, framed in red and blue., Membrane III: A miniature of the Christ Child as Salvator Mundi: seated on a red cushion beside the cross, holding the orb and blessing. This iconography, rare and perhaps unknown in English manuscript illustration, is probably of foreign origin. One 3-line initial, pink and blue with white highlights, filled with a blue and pink flower on a gold ground. Border with large blue, pink, green and orange flowers joined by an undulating green stem, with brown hair-spray and gold dots. Framed in blue and pink., and Holes and tears in the margins of the upper two segments; considerably rubbed, with some loss of text.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, English (Middle), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Indulgences, and Manuscripts, Medieval
