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1. 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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
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. 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
9. Confessio amantis, [circa 1400].
- Creator:
- Gower, John, 1325?-1408
- Call Number:
- Osborn fa1
- Image Count:
- 402
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- 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.
- Subject (Name):
- Gower, John, 1325?-1408.
- Subject (Topic):
- English poetry, Latin poetry, and French poetry
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Confessio amantis, [circa 1400].
