Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, containing a brief box-level inventory of muniments stored at Thornbury Castle by the third Duke of Buckingham. Items listed include a box "with my lordys pedygrese;" two boxes "with evidence concerynynge a Chauntrie in Newport;" a box of indulgences, pardons and licences; a box of writings concerning a voyage to France made by the first Duke of Buckingham in 1437; boxes of documents relating to the marriages of the Duke's son and daughter; and a variety of boxes of land grants, charters, and deeds and Title added to document in another contemporary hand (possibly after the execution of the Duke in 1521?).
Description:
In English., Annotations on verso in a 17th century hand; 6p. of annotations concerning the genealogy of English noble families in the same hand attached to the inventory., and Accompanied by typed transcript.
Subject (Geographic):
England. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Buckingham, Edward Stafford, Duke of, 1478-1521
Subject (Topic):
Archives, Family archives, Nobility, and Politics and government
Manuscript on parchment (thick, furry) of the Wycliffite New Testament. Begins imperfectly in Matthew 3.4 and breaks off at 1 Timothy 1.15; also missing Romans 9.22 to 1 Corinthians 1.23 (2 bifolios lost after f. 73). Contains the Gospels without prologues, and the Epistles with prologues. The text has been altered in places by a near contemporary hand that has written over erasures. Since the alterations correspond to those adopted in the later edition of John Purvey, MS 125 may reflect an intermediate stage between the Wycliffite Bible and Purvey's version
Description:
In Middle English., Script: Written in a neat gothic bookhand by a single scribe who carefully corrected his errors; changes by at least one nearly contemporary and one later writer., Blue initials, 10- to 4-line, with extensive penwork designs in red, introduce each chapter. Headings, running titles, and underlining in red; paragraph marks in red or blue., Bookblock chewed by rodent in upper right corner; margins of many leaves trimmed resulting in some loss of text, marginalia, and catchwords., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Red spattered edges. Brown leather, flesh side out, blind-tooled. A black calf spine, gold-tooled, added.
Manuscript fragment, on parchment, in a single hand: a leaf from the table of readings at the beginning or end of a Wycliffite New Testament. The text is from the Sanctoral, from the feast of the Purifcation to the feast of St. Mark
Description:
In Middle English., Layout: single columns of 36 lines., Script: small gothic bookhand., Decoration: headings in red, capitals in red and blue., and Binding: Inlaid into a large paper leaf.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Versions, Wycliffe, English prose literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of Matthew's gospel and the Book of Acts from the "Early Version" of the Wycliffe Bible by Nicholas Hereford and his collaborators. The final page of the manuscript is added in a sixteenth-century secretary script
Description:
In Middle English., Ownership inscription of James West, 1732, on recto initial blank parchment leaf., Detailed provenance history of manuscript in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries on verso of initial blank parchment leaf., Layout: single columns of 19-23 lines., Script: rounded English gothic bookhand., Decoration: large initials in blue with red penwork., and Binding: early eighteenth-century full red morocco, gilt.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Wycliffe, John, -1384.
Subject (Topic):
Versions, Wycliffe, English prose literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of a copy of the text of the "Late Version" of the Wycliffite New Testament, commonly attributed to John Purvey. The text begins at Matthew 4:14 but is otherwise complete. The volume concludes with a 12 page index of readings according to the liturgical calendar and the opening stanzas of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke in Latin
Description:
In Middle English, with a few pages in Latin., Layout: double columns of 57-60 lines., Script: English bookhand., Decoration: initials in red and blue penwork., and Binding: contemporary white doeskin over wooden boards.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Wycliffe, John, -1384.
Subject (Topic):
Versions, Wycliffe, Manuscripts, Medieval, and English prose literature
Manuscript on parchment of Michael of Hungary, XIII Sermones, bound with several other texts
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by several scribes in a gothic cursive script., Initials in red. Rubricated. Flyleaves contain an early 14th-century English canon law manuscript., and Binding: Fifteenth century. Blind stamped leather over wooden boards.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Michael, of Hungary.
Subject (Topic):
Canon law, Education (Christian theology), Manuscripts, Medieval, Sermons, and Sermons, Latin
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of descriptions of residences of English nobility. The author focuses on descriptions of the views from each seat and the landscape in which the house is situated; occasionally he also describes the architecture and furnishings of the houses and provides anecdotes about the owners. He calls Winander Meer in Westmoreland "the largest water of the kind in England," and notes its picturesque promontories and shrub-decorated shores. At Raby Castle in North Riding, Yorkshire, the seat of the Earl of Darlington, he praises the Gothic taste of the windows; provides the dimensions of the "rendezvous apartment"; and explains how the dog-kennel, "rising out of a wood," beautifies the scene. He also speaks approvingly of Sir James Lowther's project in Cumberland of "building a town to consist of 300 houses, for the use of such of his Domesticks, and other people as are married," which he calls "a most incomparable method of promoting population."
Description:
In English., Alphabetical table of contents at beginning of manuscript., At end of manuscript: "The following table of Rooms in the Noblemen & Gentlemen's Seats mentioned in this Vol[u]me do not give the exact proportion of any whole house ... .", Title from title page., Bookplate of Philip Shirley., Bookplate of Ettington Manuscript Library. Written in ink in center: No. 62., Steel engraving pasted on preliminary leaf, opposite clipping with description: Ickworth House near Bury St. Edmunds : the seat of the most noble the Marquess of Bristol / engd. on steel by Alfred Adlard. 50 Dorset Street, Salisbury Square., and Binding: quarter calf over marbled boards. Printed on spine: Noblemens Seats.
Subject (Geographic):
England., England, and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Young, Arthur, 1741-1820.
Subject (Topic):
Architecture, Domestic, Gentry, Homes and haunts, Nobility, Social life and customs, Travelers' writings, English, and Description and travel
Islamic history; volume X(?), covering the years A.H. 628-693 (A.D. 1230-1294). and Copied in A.H. 1270 (A.D. 1854).
Description:
Available on microfilm, For the identification of the work see note on last page; the author's name appears on leaf 47 verso. , Good naskhī, in red and black., and Islamic binding, in red, with flap.
Manuscript of a Latin Bible with Prologues attributed to St. Jerome, pages1-823, lacking most of the prologue to the whole Bible but including the Prologue to the Pentateuch, lacking Numbers XXXIV:26 to Deuteronomy I:35, Deuteronomy XXXIII:21 to Joshua II:1, Ruth IV:15 to I Kings I:4, I Kings XXX:3 to II Kings II:3, Proverbs XIX:11 to XXIII:11; Ecclesiasticus X:16 to XIV:3, Jeremiah XLIX:16 to LI:3; Interpretation of Hebrew Names, pages 825-896, lacking end (from Uphir). The Psalms are omitted, although the final three Psalms (148:4-150) appear in two parallel versions on page 389 following Job
Description:
In Latin., Layout: contemporary pagination. 52 lines in two columns; columns of each book numbered in the lower margins; with the columns themselves divided into sections using letters of the alphabet and Arabic numerals., Script: very small Gothic bookhand., Decoration: each Biblical book and some prologues open with a large puzzle initial in red and blue, often with the other letters of the initial word in red and blue capitals with penwork flourishing; chapter initials rubricated and with penwork flourishing., Annotations: contemporary and later annotations in several hands. One mentions the book of Brother Richard of London (page 186)., and Binding: contemporary tawed skin over wooden boards; remains of leather straps and brass clasps.
Contents include: "Orders by the Judges for the Better Regulatinge of his Majesties Courte of Kings Bench," "Ordinances made by the right Honoble. Thomas Lord Coventry ... wth the advise and assistance of ... Sr. Julius Caesar ... for the redresse of sundrie errors defaults and abuses in the high Court of Chauncerie" (1635), list of Chancery fees confirmed by King and Council, 1635 Jul 9, and rules and charges for the Court of Wards and Liveries
Subject (Name):
Coventry, Thomas Coventry, 1st baron, 1578-1640., Caesar, Julius, Sir, 1558-1636., Great Britain. Court of King's Bench., Great Britain. Court of Chancery., and Great Britain. Court of Wards and Liveries.
