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1. Petition by Joan, widow of William Rykyll to Baron Bergavenny
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1500]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 75
- Container / Volume:
- File
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript document, on parchment, in a single hand, containing the petition of Joan, widow of William Rykyll to Baron Bergavenny for the restoration of her rights in land held of Robert Lindsey, in Kent, from which she has been disseized by Edward Lindsey and Rose, his wife and the daughter of William Rykyll
- Description:
- In Middle English., Docketed in a contemporary hand., Layout: single column of 14 lines., and Script: Anglicana.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., England., England, and Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- Bergavenny, George Neville, Baron.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval, Feudal law, Land tenure, and Women
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Petition by Joan, widow of William Rykyll to Baron Bergavenny
2. Philomena
- Creator:
- Bradmore, John, -1412
- Published / Created:
- approximately 1530 - approximately 1535.
- Call Number:
- Osborn a85
- Image Count:
- 490
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript (incomplete) on paper and parchment of Philomena, a treatise on surgery written by John Bradmore, here in Middle English translation. Text discusses anatomy, apostumes (abscesses), wounds and ulcers, fractures and dislocations, other diseases treatable by surgery, and includes an antidotary and a summary of contents. Book I on anatomy and the opening of book II on surgery are wanting; another leaf wanting between fols. 59 and 60. Present manuscript begins in book II, chapter 4. Includes an account of how Bradmore saved the life of the young Prince of Wales (Prince Hal, the future King Henry V) after the Battle of Shrewsbury in 1403 and Also includes a short text on bloodletting, fols. 85r-87v; an unidentified "tretys of mynd," about mind and memory, fols. 234r-239r; and recipes for ointments, plasters, etc., ending imperfectly, fols. 239v-241v
- Description:
- John Bradmore (d. 1412) was a surgeon based in London from at least 1377. He was appointed an overseer of surgery in the City of London by the mayor in 1390. From at least 1399 he was associated with the royal household. Bradmore married twice, first to Margaret, with whom he had a daughter named Agnes, and second to Katherine. John Bradmore died on 27 January 1412 and was buried in the church of St. Botolph without Aldersgate., In Middle English., Title assigned by cataloger., Layout: single columns of 14-28 lines., Script: several secretary hands., Binding: modern blind-tooled morocco., Secundo folio: Plaster., Leaves are foliated in a modern hand starting with the first leaf as fol. 3, the second as fol. 4, and so on. This modern foliation is followed here., and Bibliographical file available.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and England
- Subject (Name):
- Bradmore, John. and Henry V, King of England, 1387-1422.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval, Medicine, Medicine, Medieval, and Surgery
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Philomena
3. Piers the Plowman
- Creator:
- Langland, William, 1330?-1400?
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1550]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 23
- Image Count:
- 212
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on paper, in a single hand, of the text of the B version of Piers Plowman
- Description:
- Autograph of Bolton? Wansell on last leaf., Laid in: Dr. Thompsons and Mr. Bassets Letters to Mr. Dodwell concerning the Essay for Catholick Peace. Manuscript on paper, 8 l., circa 1709., In Middle English., Layout: single columns of roughly 40 lines., Script: English secretary hand., and Binding: parchment over pasteboards.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Langland, William, 1330?-1400?
- Subject (Topic):
- English literature, English poetry, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Narrative poetry, English (Middle)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Piers the Plowman
