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1. Collection of pedigrees
- Creator:
- Dale, Robert, -1722
- Published / Created:
- [circa 1700-1715]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 49
- Image Count:
- 128
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Autograph manuscript of a collection of pedigrees and genealogical charts, accompanied by many small illustrations of "arms in trick." Some of the pedigrees are taken from the Lincolnshire and Gloucestershire visitations of the early 1680s. An alphabetical index of the coats of arms represented preceeds the pedigrees
- Description:
- In English., Attributed to Robert Dale by Sir Thomas Phillipps in a pencil note on recto of front flyleaf. Several additional pages at the end of the Dale collection are attributed by Phillipps to Samuel Stebbing., Spine title: Stemmata. List of Crests., Bound with: An Alphabetical List of Crest's copied from a list in the handwriting of Mr. Ra: Thoresby, late of Leeds, Antiquarian, which Manuscript was bought at the sale of his Library in London on 7th May 1763. Manuscript on paper in copperplate script, corrections in a different hand in red ink, 36 p., undated. Phillipps MS 13396., and Binding: nineteenth-century quarter calf over marbled boards.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain. and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Dale, Robert, -1722. and Thoresby, Ralph, 1658-1725.
- Subject (Topic):
- Antiquarians, Gentry, Heraldry, and Nobility
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Collection of pedigrees
2. Extractions from Dioscorides' De materia medica
- Creator:
- Dioscorides Pedanius, of Anazarbos
- Published / Created:
- between 1539 and 1542.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 31 vault
- Image Count:
- 230
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on paper, containing an extract of Dioscorides' De materia medica, a medico-botanical dictionary arranged alphabetically
- Alternative Title:
- Medico-botanical dictionary / extracted from Dioscorides ; manuscript written in Greek during the 15th Century
- Description:
- In Greek., Title devised by cataloger., Script: Italian 16th-century hand., Layout: single column of 30 lines., Binding: vellum, over paper boards. Spinal title: Dioscorides De plantis Graece Manuscrip., and Volume was likely produced in Venice between 1539 and 1542 or Guillaume Pellicier, bishop of Montpellier and ambassador to Venice.
- Subject (Topic):
- Botany, Medical, Manuscripts, Greek, Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, and Manuscripts
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Extractions from Dioscorides' De materia medica
3. [Will], 1539 Oct 23.
- Creator:
- Fitzjames, John, Sir, 1470?-1542?.
- Call Number:
- Osborn a35
- Image Count:
- 8
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in a single secretary hand, of a copy of the will of Sir John Fitzjames. The will opens with an appeal to "the most blessed Mother and virgyn Marie St. Anthony and St. Chr[ist]ofer" for their intercession for his soul; arrangements for funeral and intercessory Masses and for a Month's Mind service and The extremely detailed lists of personal and estate bequests that follow comprise a virtual household inventory of the manor house at Redlynch in Somerset. His widow, Eleanor Draycott, receives liferent of Redlynch and Knoll as well as use of the household furnishings, including the beds, hangings, "carpettes, cusshyons, dysshes, potts, and pannes," as well as tablecloths, jewelry, and various articles of plate. Fitzjames also leaves "my greate book of Statutes in vellum or parchment" to his cousin Nicholas Fitzjames, the nearest male heir and successor to Redlynch; silver cups to various other relatives; and ten shillings for "every mayden of good and honest conversation" in his household
- Description:
- In English and Latin., With: 3 documents on parchment concerning James Fitzjames. (1) Indenture transferring revenues and fees inherited from Sir John Fitzjames in the county of Somerset, signed and dated 26 June 1568. (2) Indenture concerning the same, signed and dated 26 June 1570. (3) Attestation of probate of a will for a member of the Fitzjames family in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, signed by the Clerk Thomas Argall and issued in the name of Archbishop Cranmer, n.d. (damaged)., and With: volume of manuscript transcripts of three of the documents made for Sir Thomas Phillipps, with genealogical notes on the Fitzjames family.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Name):
- Draycott, Eleanor., Fitzjames, John, Sir, 1470?-1542?., and Fitzjames family.
- Subject (Topic):
- Catholics, Decedents' estates, Inheritance and succession, Manors, Material culture, Prayers for the dead, Saints, Cult, and Wills
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Will], 1539 Oct 23.
4. [King Arthur and the knights of the round table].
- Creator:
- Grinken, John
- Published / Created:
- [between 1553 and 1603]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 34
- Image Count:
- 124
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Autograph manuscript, signed, on paper, of a list of many of the Knights of the Round Table and summaries of their histories as given in Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur. Some entries are accompanied by pen-and-ink drawings of coats of arms. The work may have been modeled on Les devise des armes de chevaliers de la table ronde, published by Antoine Verard. Grinken's preface notes that he has not included "many faned and vaine taylles" and connects his interest in the Round Table with Prince Arthur's Knights, the archery fellowship founded by "Kynge Henry of fames memory." The preface concludes with "vivat Regina."
- Description:
- In English., Title devised by cataloger., Book stamp of a lion rampant with autograph annotation by Sir Thomas Phillipps., Layout: single columns of 26 lines each., Script: secretary., Decoration: 33 armorial devices in ink; many blank shields in pencil., and Binding: eighteenth-century full calf; arms of John Lewis Goldsmid on front cover in gilt.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Arthur, King and Grinken, John.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Renaissance, Arthurian romances, and English prose literature
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [King Arthur and the knights of the round table].
5. De decem praeceptis
- Creator:
- Grosseteste, Robert, 1175?-1253
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1250]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1197
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 76
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in a single book hand, of a complete text of this commentary on the Ten Commandments
- Description:
- In Latin., Tipped in: printed catalog description of manuscript from Henry Young & Sons., Stencilled crest of Sir Thomas Phillipps stamped on recto of first flyleaf., Bookplate: George Dunn of Woolley Hall, pasted on front pastedown., Bookplate: Allan Heywood Bright, pasted on front pastedown., Layout: double columns of 47 lines each., Script: gothic textura., Decoration: marginal notes in red ink with blue penwork. One historiated initial, in full color, depicting a horned Moses holding the tablets of the Law., and Binding: nineteenth-century brown leather; marbled endpapers.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Grosseteste, Robert, 1175?-1253.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval and Ten commandments
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De decem praeceptis
6. Logos prōtos peri geneseōs trichōn kai alōpekias and Λόγος πρῶτος περὶ γενέσεως τριχῶν καὶ ἀλωπεκίας
- Creator:
- Ibn al-Jazzār.
- Published / Created:
- between 1542 and 1599.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 36 vault
- Image Count:
- 306
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in five unidentified hands, on paper, containing books I, II (incomplete), V (incomplete), VI (incomplete), and VII of Ibn al-Jazzār's Viaticum peregrinantium, a translation from Arabic into Greek supposedly done by Constantinus Rheginos. Ends with an incomplete table of contents
- Alternative Title:
- [Viaticum peregrinantium / written in Greek, with incomplete translation attributed to Constantinos Rheginos].
- Description:
- In Ancient Greek., Title from heading., Script: five different Italian 16th-century hands., Decoration: rubrication throughout., Layout: single column of 35-36 lines., Binding: bound in 19th-century brown polished calf. Spinal labels: Liber de morbis curandis / Codex MS. Chartaceus, saeculi XV., Of the 148 leaves in the manuscript, 72 are blank (interleaved)., Watermarks identified as Chapeau 51 (Hilfinger vol.1) from Venice in 1542; suggests that the manuscript was copied in Venice later than 1542., and Also available on microfilm.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Greek, Medicine, Arab, Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, and Manuscripts
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Logos prōtos peri geneseōs trichōn kai alōpekias, Λόγος πρῶτος περὶ γενέσεως τριχῶν καὶ ἀλωπεκίας
7. Epistolae : no. 106, sec. 59-67.
- Creator:
- Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420
- Published / Created:
- [before 830]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 58
- Image Count:
- 16
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragments, recovered from a binding, of this text from Saint Jerome's Epistolae
- Description:
- In Latin and Greek., Front flyleaf contains provenance annotation in pencil in the hand of Sir Thomas Phillipps., Layout: double columns, originally of 30 lines (now 28)., Script: Caroline minuscule (Turonian script)., Binding: Middle Hill boards., and Bound with: 5 leaves of a 13th-century manuscript of Averroes' commentary on Aristotle's Ethics.
- Subject (Geographic):
- France, Tours., Connecticut, and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420.
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Epistolae : no. 106, sec. 59-67.
8. Mirrour of the blessed lyf of Jesu Christ
- Creator:
- Love, Nicholas, active 1410
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 4
- Image Count:
- 210
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of the complete text of Love's translation of the Meditationes vitae Christi, a text often attributed to Pseudo-Bonaventure or Johannes de Caulibus. The manuscript also contains John Lydgate's Fifteen joys of Our Lady and the anonymous poems, The fifteen ooes of Christ and The charter of Our Lord Jesus Christ
- Description:
- In Middle English., Layout: single columns of 45 lines., Script: English bookhand., Decoration: illuminated initial and three-quarter border on first page of text; three other illuminated initials with gold., Verse ownership inscriptions of Erkynwald Gyttyns on three back flyleaves, accompanied by pen trials and sketches., Ownership inscription of Francis Layton on verso of third front flyleaf., and Binding: eighteenth-century half calf over marbled boards.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Love, Nicholas, active 1410. and Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
- Subject (Topic):
- Devotional literature, English (Middle), English literature, English poetry, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Mirrour of the blessed lyf of Jesu Christ
9. Acquittance for Edward Greville
- Creator:
- Lumley, John Lumley, Baron, 1534?-1609
- Published / Created:
- 1594 November 10.
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 126
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Legal document, in a professional hand, signed by the first Baron Lumley, containing an acquittance for 2500 pounds received from Edward Greville for the manor of Mickleton in Gloucestershire
- Description:
- In English., Docketed in later hands., and Attached seal (worn).
- Subject (Geographic):
- England, Connecticut, New Haven., and Gloucestershire (England)
- Subject (Name):
- Greville, Edward, Sir, 1542-1616. and Lumley, John Lumley, Baron, 1534?-1609.
- Subject (Topic):
- Land tenure and Manuscripts, Renaissance
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Acquittance for Edward Greville