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- 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
3.
- Creator:
- Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1375-1400]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 62
- Image Count:
- 189
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript volume, in a single hand, containing the text of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica, followed by the text of the Historia brittoum of Nennius; a brief biography of Merlin; and Sybilline prophecies
- Description:
- In Latin., Numerous marginal notes in contemporary and later hands., Bound with: parchment leaf of accounts kept by Robert de Staynford, steward of Lady Idoyne Percy, wife of Henry, Lord Percy (d. 1365)., Laid in: manuscript fragment, on paper, of a contract, in English (ca. 1574), formerly the back pastedown., Layout: single columns of 42 lines., Script: gothic text hand., Decoration: Rubricated. Numerous penwork initials and line fillers in red and blue ink. Ten larger illuminated initials, gilt and red and blue ink., and Binding: original oak boards covered in pink doeskin; remains of clasps.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Great Britain, Church history, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum
4.
- Creator:
- Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?.
- Call Number:
- Osborn a14
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 9
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- The text, a later redaction of Lydgate's "The Kings of England Sithen William the Conqueror," is a poem chronicling the reigns of the kings of England beginning with William, Duke of Normandy and continuing to the reign of Henry VI (1422-61, 1470-71). Manuscript parchment roll, in Anglicana script with secretary influence, produced in England during the last quarter of the 15th century and At the end of the text is the "Title of France," which concerns King Philip of France and King Edward
- Description:
- In English.
- Subject (Name):
- Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
- Subject (Topic):
- Great Britain and Kings and rulers
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The kings of England sithen William the Conqueror, [circa 1475-1499].
