- None1
You Searched For
« Previous
| 1 - 9 of 29 |
Next »
Search Results
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. 47 letters and papers from the Office of the Exchequer, 1554-1706
- Call Number:
- Osborn fa18
- Image Count:
- 160
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- 47 letters and documents, on paper (one document on parchment) in various cursive scripts, produced in England between 1554 and 1706. Mostly from the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, they consist of claims for expenses, wages, and other benefits. They include an account of a banquet (15 November 1561), signed by the Marquis of Winchester and Sir Walter Mildmay; a Claim for Allowances (1563) by Sir Thomas Chaloner, Ambassador to Spain; L. S. (1578) by Lord Burgley about money to be sent to Ireland and mentioning Sir Philip Sidney; A. L. S. (1597) by George, Lord Hunsdon; A. K. S. (Chester, 11 Aug. 1601) by the antiquary and mathematician Edward Brerewood to the Privy Council. The documents also include signatures of other government officials and nobles and The documents derive from the papers of Robert Petre, Auditor for the Exchequer, and his colleague Vincent Skinner
- Description:
- In English. and Binding: Middle Hill boards, spine missing.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain. and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603., James I, King of England, 1566-1625., and Great Britain. Exchequer.
- Subject (Topic):
- Finance, Public and Politics and government
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > 47 letters and papers from the Office of the Exchequer, 1554-1706
3. Precedents and several other things contained in this booke : some pattents, funeralls, some coates
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1600-1649]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 48
- Image Count:
- 410
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in several different hands, of a compilation of grants of arms, pedigrees registered by the College of Arms, rules of precedence and orders of ceremonies, and related documents. Thought to have been largely compiled by John Philipot, Somerset Herald of Arms (1589?-1645), the volume contains copies of documents originally created between 1563 and 1688
- Description:
- In English, with a small amount of Latin., Contents preceded by "A Table of the Graunts of Armes contained in this booke" and "A Callender of what is contained in this Booke.", Title transcribed from front cover., Printed bookseller's description pasted on inside front cover., and Binding: contemporary limp parchment; remains of ties.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain, Connecticut, and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Philipot, John, 1589?-1645. and College of Arms (Great Britain)
- Subject (Topic):
- Gentry, Heraldry, Manuscripts, Renaissance, Nobility, Precedence, and Kings and rulers
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Precedents and several other things contained in this booke : some pattents, funeralls, some coates
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. 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
6. A viewe of the present estate of Ireland discoursed by way of a dialogue betweene Eudorus and Irenis, 1597
- Creator:
- Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599
- Call Number:
- Osborn fa12
- Image Count:
- 76
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on paper, in cursive scripts by six scribes, produced in England in 1597. A contemporary scribal copy of the work, not included among the fifteen recorded in the Variorum Edition of Spenser's Prose Works
- Description:
- In English.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Ireland
- Subject (Name):
- Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599.
- Subject (Topic):
- Politics and government
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A viewe of the present estate of Ireland discoursed by way of a dialogue betweene Eudorus and Irenis, 1597
7. 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
8. Sir Philip Sidney correspondence, 1573-1581
- Creator:
- Sidney, Philip, Sir, 1554-1586
- Call Number:
- Osborn fa14
- Image Count:
- 241
- Abstract:
- A collection of 65 letters written on paper during the last two of Sidney's three years on the Continent and the first year after his return to England (June 1573-June 1576), plus another dated 10 October 1581. Authors include Johannes Lobbetius (19 letters), Wolfgang Zündelin (12 letters), Andreas Paullus, Jean de Vulcob, Matthew Wacker, Francis Perrot, Theophilus Banosius, Zacharius Ursinus, Otto Count Solms, Fabian Burgrave of Dohna, Dr. Purkircher, Baron Vilém Slavata, and others. Letters are largely concerned with European diplomatic affairs, sending news of political and military events, including the progress of the struggles between Catholic and Protestant factions and the Polish monarchy. One letter written by Pietro Bizzarri to Jean Vulcob (dated 15 October 1573) was gifted to Sidney by Hubert Languet to demonstrate Pietro Bizzarri's eloquence
- Description:
- In Latin, French, and Italian., Script: in various humanist, sixteenth-century Continental cursive and italic scripts., and Binding: bound for Sir Phillipps in 1848 by George Bretherton in red morocco. Gold-tooled title on spine: Letters to Sir Philips Sydney. Paper label with Sir Phillipps' manuscript call number 11762.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Poland, France, and Italy
- Subject (Name):
- Sidney, Philip, Sir, 1554-1586., Languet, Hubert, 1518-1581., Lobbetius, Johannes., Zündelin, Wolfgang., Paullus, Andreas., Vulcob, Jean de, -1607., Wacker, Matthew, active 16th century., Perrot, Francis., Banosius, Theophilus., Ursinus, Zacharias, 1534-1583., Solms, Otto, Graf zu., Dohna, Fabian, Burggraf und Graf zu, 1550-1621., Peurbach, Georg von, 1423-1461., Slavata, Vilém, hrabě, 1572-1652., and Bizzarri, Pietro, 1525?-1586?
- Subject (Topic):
- Monarchy, Protestantism, History, Protestants, Catholics, Kings and rulers, Church history, and Foreign relations
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sir Philip Sidney correspondence, 1573-1581
9. John Stow copy of the opening section of John Leslie's History of Scotland
- Creator:
- Stow, John, 1525?-1605
- Published / Created:
- [between 1570 and 1579]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 37
- Image Count:
- 48
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on paper, in the hand of John Stow, of the opening section of John Leslie's Historie of Scotland. This copy ends in the middle of the account of the year 1512
- Description:
- In English., Layout: single column of 46-48 lines., and Script: mixed cursive.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain., Connecticut, New Haven., and Scotland
- Subject (Name):
- Stow, John, 1525?-1605.
- Subject (Topic):
- Antiquarians, Manuscripts, Renaissance, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > John Stow copy of the opening section of John Leslie's History of Scotland
