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.
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
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.
Manuscript fragment, on vellum, in a single hand, containing the conclusion of the blessing for Easter Day; the entire blessing for the following Monday and Tuesday; and the beginning of the blessing for the Wednesday after Easter
Description:
In Latin., Layout: single column of 18 lines., Script: Anglo-Saxon minuscule., and Decoration: Rubricated. Initials in red ink.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Benedictionals, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript compendium of astronomical and astrological texts, including a version of the Kalendarium of Regiomontanus, with lunar eclipse tables for the years 1475-1530 and a solar calendar for 1475-1513. Other contents include a number of astronomical and astrological tables and texts. including a poem on auspicious and inauspicious days (first line: "Fortunata dies operum disponere causas"); the Canon de aspectibus planetarum; the Cognitiones naturarum secundum nativtates; and a variety of prognostic texts based on zodiac signs and the day of the week on which January 1 falls in a given year. The volume also contains several quadrant diagrams and a working volvelle
Description:
In Latin., Bookseller description available., Inscribed at the head of 2r: S[an]c[t]i Cristofori Taurini Ad usu[m] fr[atr]is Anto[ni]i de lanteo., Signature of Joseff Gregri da Bologna? on back cover., Bookplate of Samuel Verplanck Hoffman on front pastedown., Tipped in before f1: printed catalog description of this volume, undated., Layout: main text in single columns of approximately 35 lines; wide margins., Script: gothica textualis italiana., Decoration: rubricated. Initials in red and blue ink, some with penwork flourishing; many blank spaces for initials. Illustrations of lunar eclipses. Charts, diagrams, and volvelles in red, blue and brown ink., and Binding: contemporary boards, rebacked.
Subject (Geographic):
Italy, Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Regiomontanus, Joannes, 1436-1476.
Subject (Topic):
Astrology, Astrology, Italian, Astronomy, Calendars, Lunar eclipses, Quadrants (Astronomical instruments), Solar eclipses, Manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Renaissance, and Zodiac
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.
Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on paper, containing a collection of works by Rufus of Ephesus: Περὶ πάντων φανερῶν τε καὶ ἀφανερῶν μορίων τοῦ ἀνθρώπου (De corporis humani partium appellationibus; ff. 3-7), Περὶ ὀνομασιῶν (De partibus corporis hominis; ff. 7-16), Περὶ ὀστῶν (De ossibus; ff. 17-18). Also includes extracts from Julius Pollux's Onomasticon Liber II (ff. 20-47). Contains a table of contents (f. 2).
Alternative Title:
Opera : in Greek
Description:
In Greek., Title devised by cataloger., Script: Italian 16th-century hand., Decoration: titles and one-line initials in red., Layout: single column of 17 lines., Binding: blind-tooled green sheepskin over paper boards., and Leaf 19 is blank.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Greek, Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, and Manuscripts
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
Manuscript inventory, on parchment, in a secretary hand, of ceremonial plate and jewels collected from religious houses in Hampshire, Wiltshire, Glocestershire, Wiltshire, and Hertfordshire by several of the King's Commissioners for the suppression of the monasteries and turned over to the Master of the King's Jewels. The commissioners named include Robert Southwell, Edward Carne, John Ap Rice, and William Barnes. The sources of the plate were some of the larger houses targeted in the 1539 Act for the Dissolution of the Greater Monasteries and include St. Swithun's Winchester, Amesbury, Malmesbury, Cirencester, Hailes, Pershore, and Tewksbury. The plate listed comprises chalices; crosses; monstrances; cups; a pyx; gold mitres, and "thirteen other Myters garnisshd with perles." and Composed of one sheet of parchment; head indented
Description:
In English., Signed, "by me John Williams" (Master of the King's Jewels)., Binding: modern quarter morocco case., and Bookplate: Mark Lansburgh Collection.
Subject (Geographic):
England. and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547.
Subject (Topic):
Church plate, Convents, Church and state, Monasteries, Monasticism and religious orders, and Secularization
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
