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
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)
Manuscript in a single hand containing copies of more than 60 poems, both secular and religious. Poets include Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Joseph Addison, and George Lyttelton. Among the religious poems are five poems by Mehetabel Wesley Wright, the sister of John and Charles Wesley; these include "To an Infant at the Point of Death" and "A Farewell to the World." The volume also contains copies of Thomas Gibbons' "On the Death of Mordecai Andrews" and "On the Deity, by a dissenting Clergyman at Bristol."
Description:
In English., Annotated in pencil on recto of front flyleaf: found amongst Miss Martyns things. Mary [Marshall] Amphlett., and Binding: contemporary marbled paper wrappers.
Subject (Name):
Wesley family. and Wesley, Mehetabel, 1697-1750.
Subject (Topic):
English poetry, Methodism, Religious poetry, English, and Women poets
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
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of eleven English poems on such subjects as happiness, ambition, nature, and friendship. Titles include A pastoral tale; On happiness; Ode in praise of friendship; Meditations and reflections on a storm of thunder and lightning; and To a lady with some of the author's verses. The collection also contains sonnets on ambition and on the death of a child; and, pasted in, a poem in Latin titled On Holbein's picture of Lord Cromwell
Description:
In English and Latin., Inside front cover: bookplate of Philip Yorke, 2nd earl of Hardwick., Marbled endpapers., and Binding: full red morocco; gilt decoration.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Elegiac poetry, English, English poetry, Friendship, Nature, Occasional verse, English, Sonnets, English, and Social life and customs
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
Manuscript on parchment in Anglicana (Scribes 1 and 2) and Secretary script (Scribe 3). The text is the third recension of the Confessio Amantis, written in 1392-1393.The manuscript was produced around 1400 or the beginning of the fifteenth century in the same manner as the other surviving manuscripts from this time, presumably under the author's supervision and Also contained are the Latin and French poems "Explicit iste liber," "Epistola super huius," "Quam cinxere," "Traitie," "Carmen de variis in amore passionibus," and "Carmen super multiplici viciorum pestilencia."
Description:
In Middle English, Latin and French., There are red and blue 1-3 line initials at small and large paragraph breaks. Books II (f. 13r), V (76r), VI (125r), VII (140r), and VIII (175v) contain initials with full page demi-vignette borders in gold, red, blue, green, orange, and brown., Rubrications at running titles, initials, Latin commentary., Binding: yellow morocco on wooden boards, by Douglas Cockerell and Son, 1962., and Sir George Meyrick, Bart., who sold the manuscript after his father's death in 1960, said that the manuscript had been in his family's possession for over 100 years and that in 1775 the house was almost destroyed by fire. Many family papers were lost and perhaps it was then that the manuscript became damp and mildewed.
Manuscript on paper of Joannes de Sacro Bosco, Sphaera, translated into English and supplemented by Anthony Ascham. With calendar for the years 1529-35; "The Complaynt Off Sanct Cipriane, The Grett Nigromancer," a poem by Anthony Ascham. Includes individual zodiac volvelles with descriptions in Latin (several volvelles attached to the incorrect month).
Description:
In English and Latin., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Lettres et Monogrammes 9890 and Pot 12863., Script: Text written in English secretary script., Numerous explanatory drawings and tables appear throughout the manuscript, including 40 drawings of constellations; nineteen maps, accompanied by tables of longitude and latitude; nine devices that explain the movement of the heavenly bodies. All drawings are carefully drawn in brown ink, tinted with washes of green, yellow, black, brown, pink, and labelled in red or brown ink., Many leaves pasted together, some of which have become unglued. Cropped, resulting in loss of some marginalia., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Brown sheepskin, blind-tooled with central panel and outer border colored dark brown. Pink spattered edges.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, fl. 1230.
Subject (Topic):
Astrology, Astronomy, Medieval, Calendars, English poetry, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Early maps
In Middle English., Watermarks: unidentified flower similar in design to Briquet Fleur 6654-56., Script: Text written in sprawling English secretary by two scribes, who added notes to mark sections in the margins., Several crude initials and line-fillers in red and brown. References to and quotations from the Bible, as well as running headings and marginalia, underlined in red., Water stains on many folios at front and back, not affecting text., and Binding: Seventeenth century. Red spattered edges. Brown spattered calf, blind-tooled.
Manuscript on paper, in a single Italic hand, of a 38-page elegiacal poem praising Lady Mary Cholmondley's Holford ancestors and herself. The poem is heavily annotated in the same hand. Prefaced by a dedication to Lady Cholmondeley's son Thomas, a dedication in Latin to Sir Richard Grosvenor, 1st bart., and ten verses in Latin and English addressed to various members of the Cholmondeley family, including an anagram and a chronogram. The main poem is followed by several short Latin poems, including one concerning the Holford motto
Description:
Available on microfilm, In English and Latin., On flyleaf: list of accounts, as well as pen trials and the signature "R. Cholmondeley.", Signature in back of John Grosvenor., Marbled endpapers., and Binding: full morocco; gilt decoration.
Subject (Name):
Cholmondeley, Mary Holford, Lady, 1563-1625., Cholmondeley, Hugh, Sir, 1513-1596., Grosvenor, Richard, Sir, 1585-1645., and Lytler (Littler), Thomas.
Subject (Topic):
Anagrams, Elegiac poetry, Latin poetry, English literature, English poetry, and Genealogy
