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1. All the workes of Iohn Taylor the water-poet : beeing sixty and three in number
- Creator:
- Taylor, John, 1580-1653
- Published / Created:
- 1630.
- Call Number:
- Osborn fpb62
- Image Count:
- 650
- Alternative Title:
- Selections. 1630
- Description:
- BEIN Ih T215 +C630: Imperfect: A1 (blank? wanting); engraved t.p. slightly mutilated. Armorial bookplate: Aldenham House, Herts. Autograph: Henry H. Gibbs, St. Dunstans, 1860, bought of Libby., BEIN Osborn fpb42: 30 cm. Bookplate: A[rthur] L[ytton] S[ells]. Autograph: Charles Cotton. Autograph: Ber[esford] Cotton. Autograph: Jane [Cotton]. Ms. annotations on endpapers and in text. From the library of Henry Huth. Printed waste used in binding., BEIN Osborn fpb62: Imperfect: 2Q4 torn at fore-edge with some loss of text. Bookplate: Robert S. Pirie. Manuscript corrections, underlining, and notes throughout., Signatures: A-N⁶ O² 2A-2Q⁶ 2R⁴ 2S² 3A-3K⁶, ²3A-3L⁶ ²3M⁸., First leaf (A1) is blank, the engraved title page is a singleton and inserted following it., Added title page, engraved by T. Cockson with portrait of author in lower center., Not in fact a complete edition of the author's works; a number of which had been previously published are omitted., With woodcut illustrations and portraits., Numerous errors in pagination., Printers' names from STC: "Beale printed quires A, 2A-2S, and 3A-3K; Allde printed B-O; Alsop and Fawcett printed ²3A-3M"., and Partly in verse.
- Publisher:
- Printed by J.B. [i.e. John Beale, Elizabeth Allde, Bernard Alsop and Thomas Fawcett] for Iames Boler, at the signe of the Marigold in Pauls Churchyard
- Subject (Topic):
- English literature and English poetry
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > All the workes of Iohn Taylor the water-poet : beeing sixty and three in number
2. Canterbury tales
- Creator:
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1425-1450]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 32
- Image Count:
- 366
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, containing the text of Chaucer's Canterbury tales; selections from the Confessio amantis of John Gower; and the anonymous poems Speculum misericordis, The adulterous Falmouth squire, Partenope of Blois, The vision of Tundale, and The gast of Guy
- Alternative Title:
- Delamere Chaucer
- Description:
- In Middle English., Layout: double columns of 39-44 lines., Script: English bookhand., Decoration: blue and red penwork initials., and Binding: nineteenth-century full red morocco.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. and Gower, John, 1325?-1408.
- Subject (Topic):
- English literature, English poetry, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Narrative poetry, English (Middle)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Canterbury tales
3. Canterbury tales
- Creator:
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1460-1490]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 22
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1
- Image Count:
- 170
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, containing four of the Canterbury tales: the Clerk's tale; the Wife of Bath's tale; the Friar's tale; and the Summoner's tale
- Alternative Title:
- Sion College Chaucer
- Description:
- In Middle English., Annotated on f. 78 with the names "William Cooke" and "Morris Barckley.", Layout: single columns of 24 lines., Script: English bookhand., Decoration: six initials in red., Library stamp: Sion College., Binding: twenty-first-century conservation binding., and Earlier binding: eighteenth-century full paneled calf, gilt (stored in box 2)
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and English poetry
- Subject (Name):
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval and English literature
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Canterbury tales
4. Canterbury tales
- Creator:
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1440-1460]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 24
- Image Count:
- 588
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. John Lydgate's Life of St. Margaret follows the Chaucer text
- Alternative Title:
- Devonshire Chaucer
- Description:
- In Middle English., Layout: single columns of 39-42 lines., Script: English bookhand., Decoration: full illuminated border on first page of text, including large portrait initial of author; other illuminated initials with decorated borders and elaborate penwork initials., Bookplate: Chatsworth., and Binding: nineteenth-century full brown morocco.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. and Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
- Subject (Topic):
- English literature, English poetry, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Canterbury tales
5. Chronicle of the kings of England
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450-1500]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 52
- Image Count:
- 12
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment, in a single hand, of the complete text of this anonymous verse chronicle. This version includes a brief chronicle in Latin prose
- Description:
- In Middle English, with a small addition in Latin., Layout: single column., Script: English cursive bookhand., Decoration: numerous roundels containing crowns., and Binding: modern case.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
- Subject (Topic):
- English literature, English poetry, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Kings and rulers
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Chronicle of the kings of England
6. Chronicle of the kings of England
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1275, ca. 1435]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 35
- Image Count:
- 14
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript chronicle roll, on parchment, in two hands. The first three membranes contain a late thirteenth-century chronicle in Latin prose on the kings of England from Atheldred to Henry III. The last two membranes contain John Lydgate's Middle English Verses on the kings of England
- Description:
- In Latin and Middle English., Layout: single column., Script: two gothic bookhands., Decoration: decorative frames around names of kings and families., and Binding: modern case.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
- Subject (Topic):
- English literature, English poetry, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Kings and rulers
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Chronicle of the kings of England
7. Chronicles of England
- Creator:
- Hardyng, John, 1378-1465?
- Published / Created:
- [after 1464]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 6
- Image Count:
- 261
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment, in a single hand, of the "second version" of John Hardyng's Chronicle. While the manuscript has lost perhaps 36 leaves from the beginning of the work, it is textually complete from the reign of Vortigern on. There is a final entry referring to Elizabeth Woodville as the queen of Edward IV. The final leaves of the volume contain an anonymous sixteenth-century poem, A lamentable complaint of our saviour Christ; an eighteen-line carol in Middle English which begins "By resone of ii and power of one;" and a page of notes in a single sixteenth-century hand on executions at Smithfield in London between 1531 and 1534
- Description:
- In Middle English., Ownership inscription of "John Ravell" at the end of the Chronicles text, along with other notes., Layout: single columns of approximately 42 lines., Script: English bookhand., Binding: seventeenth-century full calf. Red leather spine tag, gilt: "M. S. Hist: of England / From Vortvmrk to Edw. 4.", and Previous shelfmark: MS. L. J. I. 10.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Hardyng, John, 1378-1465?
- Subject (Topic):
- English literature, English poetry, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Narrative poetry, English (Middle)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Chronicles of England
8. Commonplace book containing poetry, 1780-1794
- Call Number:
- Osborn fc205
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 86
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript commonplace book in an unidentified hand containing copies of many English poems, including works by Pope, Goldsmith, Johnson, and Courtney Melmoth. Other works include the anonymous Roselin Castle and Verses on Ben Lomond
- Description:
- In English. and Binding: contemporary full green-stained parchment.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Topic):
- Books and reading, English literature, English poetry, and Romanticism
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commonplace book containing poetry, 1780-1794
9. Confessio amantis
- Creator:
- Gower, John, 1325?-1408
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1393]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 98
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment, on vellum, in a single hand, of text from Book IV of Gower's Confessio Amantis
- Description:
- In Middle English., Taken from the Stafford Gower (Huntington Library MS EL 26 A 17) and used as binding waste., Layout: double columns of 36 lines (complete columns are of 46 lines), Script: formal bastard anglicana., Decoration: initials in gold, red, blue and purple., and Byname: Stafford Gower (fragment)
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Gower, John, 1325?-1408.
- Subject (Topic):
- English literature, English poetry, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Confessio amantis