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1. A collection of witt and learning : (miscellaneously digested wherein the substance, as well as froth of the times, may be seen) consisting of verses, poems, songs, sonnetts, ballads, lampoons, libells, letters, discourses; remarques, speeches, orations, declamations, dialogues in all languages and of all nations throughout the universe, with other curiousityes, phancyes, and invention, 1666-1681
- Call Number:
- Osborn b54
- Image Count:
- 16
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- MS in unknown hand(s). Contains political verse and humour
- Description:
- Mostly in English with some French and Latin., Perhaps the third volume in a collection as pagination begins with p.858., and Film: 4x5 negatives of p. 1012 and 1013.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Satire, English, Ballads, English, Proverbs, English, and English poetry
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A collection of witt and learning : (miscellaneously digested wherein the substance, as well as froth of the times, may be seen) consisting of verses, poems, songs, sonnetts, ballads, lampoons, libells, letters, discourses; remarques, speeches, orations, declamations, dialogues in all languages and of all nations throughout the universe, with other curiousityes, phancyes, and invention, 1666-1681
2. A paradice of ye delights of Italy, [late 17th century].
- Creator:
- Bell, Henry, Captain
- Call Number:
- Osborn fb139
- Image Count:
- 78
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, in a single secretary hand, of a tour guide of Italy, including descriptions of notable sights as well as directions from "London to Rome as also from one Citie to another in all Ittaly." The text is organized by city, and "translated out of the high Germane into the English tongue by Captayne Henry Bell." Includes some verses in Latin and English
- Description:
- Phillipps MS 16427. and Binding: cloth covered boards.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Italy
- Subject (Name):
- Bell, Henry, Captain.
- Subject (Topic):
- English poetry, Latin poetry, Travel, Description and travel, and Religious life and customs
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A paradice of ye delights of Italy, [late 17th century].
3. Alchemical miscellany
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1575]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 43
- Image Count:
- 28
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on paper of extracts from Laudabile sanctum. There follows on ff. 1r-7v an extended series of longer and shorter alchemical recipes and procedures, probably including excerpts from standard sources, a passage on transmutation, a brief account of the planets, etc., often with marginal captions. With a poem in English
- Description:
- In Latin and English., Watermark: an extended hand with a five-pointed star extending on a stem from the middle finger, a quatrefoil (?) at the wrist, which is sharply cut off, the fingers partly articulated, of the type of Briquet 11341 and following, but more refined., Script: Written by a single hand, very small (sometimes minute) and mostly very neat, using a good cursive italic for the Latin passages, and a secretary hand for the English, both sloping somewhat to the right., and Binding: Parchment wrapper made from a bifolium of a late 13th-century French (or possibly English?) canon law manuscript written by two hands, one of them using a classical Littera parisiensis, the other slightly more rounded, the writing partly scraped away on what is now the front cover of the wrapper, the outer side of the lower cover with an inscription in a very large hand which has not been read.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy, English poetry, Formulas, recipes, etc, Latin poetry, Medieval and modern, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Alchemical miscellany
4. 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
5. Blue eyed Mary
- Published / Created:
- 1799.
- Call Number:
- Folio 74 OL1 v. 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Description:
- Caption title., Verse begins: "In a cottage embosom'd within a deep shade,", In one column with title and engraved plate above; no rules or decorations present., Imprint below column. Printer statement following imprint: M'Creery, printer., Artist's signature in plate: Matthew Haughton del. et sculp., Mounted on leaf 13. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
- Publisher:
- Published by E. Rushton, Liverpool, August, 1799, and sold by S.W. Fores, No. 50, Piccadilly, London
- Subject (Topic):
- English poetry, Shame, Death, and Moon
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Blue eyed Mary
6. Book of Brome
- Published / Created:
- [between 1475 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 365
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 167
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of a common-place book. The main texts of the manuscript, which are primarily devotional in nature, were written in East Anglia by an unidentified scribe toward the end of the 15th century; a second individual, identified as Robert Melton of Stuston in Suffolk, added numerous accounts and notes at the end of the 15th and beginning of the 16th century
- Description:
- Robert Melton was the co-executor of the estate of John Cornwallis (d. 1506), Lord of the Manors of Brome, Stuston, Okley, and Thranston, whose family possessed Brome Hall from early in the 15th to the 19th century., In Middle English., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Armoiries 1038 for part of quire I and all of II; similar to Briquet Main 11399 for remainder of quire I, all of quires III and IV, part of V; similar to Briquet Navire 11971 on ff. 68, 79 only; similar to Briquet Lettre P 8586 on ff. 72, 75; similar to Briquet Main 11152 on ff. 73, 74; unidentified watermark on f. 81., Script: Written primarily by two persons: Scribe 1) ff. 1r-26v, 28r-44r, 68r-77r, 79v, 80v-81r. Written in small, well formed Anglicana script with first line of each text in formal bookhand. Scribe 2: ff. 27r-v, 45r-60r, 62v-67v, 77v-78v, 80r, 81v. Written in a large sprawling script; no ornamentation. A third person added art. 17 at a later time., Only scribe 1 included decoration. Initials in red, 4- to 2-line, with penwork flourishes in brown; initial strokes in red. Portions of text underlined in red; rhyming verses often bracketed, in red, at end of lines. On f. 14v, a fine half-page drawing in red and brown of the monogram IHS which incorporates both a heart pierced by a lance and vine patterns and tendrils. Art. 4 is illustrated with drawings of dice, in red, in outer margins., First leaves heavily stained; lower right corner waterstained ff. 1-43., and Binding: Between 1490 and 1500. Original sewing with long stitches through a thick rectangular piece of leather on the outside of a vellum wrapper. Contemporary scroll design added to upper cover with unidentified inscription, in red, mostly illegible.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Melton, Robert.
- Subject (Topic):
- Devotional literature, English (Middle)., English poetry, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Book of Brome
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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
