Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on paper, containing pseudo-Meletius' De natura hominis eiusque compositione, also known as Constitution of man's body
Alternative Title:
Meletii monachii de natura et hominia structura, Meletiou monachou peri fyseōs kai tēs tou anthrōpou kataskeuēs, Meletii monachi de natura hominis eiusque compositione, Constitution of man's body : in Greek, and Μελετίου μοναχοῦ περὶ φύσεως καὶ τῆς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου κατασκευῆς
Description:
In Ancient Greek., Title from titlepage., Script: Italian 16th-century hand., Decoration: rubrication throughout., Layout: single column of 21 lines., Binding: vellum, over paper boards. Spinal title: Meletius, De natura et structura hominis, Graece manuscripta., Author also known as Meletius the monk or Meletius of Tiberopolis (Tiberiopoli, Phrygia)., Volume was likely produced in Venice between 1539 and 1542 or Guillaume Pellicier, bishop of Montpellier and ambassador to Venice., and Also available on microfilm.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Greek, Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, and Manuscripts
Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on paper, containing Stephanus of Athens' On urines or Expositio in librum magni Sophistae de urinis (ff. 1-27) and Olymnios of Alexandria's Critical days or De diebus criticis liber (ff. 29-41).
Alternative Title:
On urines / Stephanus of Athens ; and Critical days / Olymnios of Alexandria : manuscripts written in Greek around 1540
Description:
In Ancient Greek., Title from heading., Script: Italian 16th-century hand., Decoration: rubrication throughout., Layout: single column of 21 lines., Binding: vellum, over paper boards. Spinal title: Stephani et Olymnii Varia medica, Graece manuscript., Volume was likely produced in Venice between 1539 and 1542 or Guillaume Pellicier, bishop of Montpellier and ambassador to Venice., and Also available on microfilm.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Greek, Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, Manuscripts, and Urine
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
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
Manuscript, on parchment, in Anglicana formata script, produced in southern England around 1450
Description:
In English., Decorations include initials with gold, blue, and red at chapter beginnings., The text begins at line 32, "And no quyk creature bot thay." Lines 3672-3742 are missing at blank f. 55. Lines 9479-9614 are missing between ff. 138 and 139., and Binding: leather over boards, seventeenth century.
Manuscript fragment of a bifolium, containing part of the text the Summa theologica, II. ii, Quaestiones 20-21 and 24, v-ix.
Description:
In Latin., Fragment recovered from a binding; damaged and incomplete., Layout: double columns of 54 lines each., Script: gothic bookhand., and Decoration: initials in red or blue with contrasting penwork.
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
Manuscript document, on parchment, in a single hand, containing the petition of Joan, widow of William Rykyll to Baron Bergavenny for the restoration of her rights in land held of Robert Lindsey, in Kent, from which she has been disseized by Edward Lindsey and Rose, his wife and the daughter of William Rykyll
Description:
In Middle English., Docketed in a contemporary hand., Layout: single column of 14 lines., and Script: Anglicana.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., England., England, and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Bergavenny, George Neville, Baron.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Feudal law, Land tenure, and Women
Manuscript scroll, on parchment, in a single hand, containing the Greek Orthodox Office of Holy Communion, a series of prayers, hymns and verses intended for private recitation before, during and after taking communion. Text includes prayers attributed to Saint John Chrysostom and Saint Basil the Great
Description:
In Greek., Script: archaizing scribal hand., Scroll composed of seven vellum sheets, written on both sides in single columns., Titles are written in gold. Each prayer begins with an illuminated initial, also outlined in gold. There is a gilded ornamented tailpiece., Note, in Greek, in a sixteenth-century hand, at the end of the text, attributing the manuscript to the Royal Monastery of Docheiariou., and Schøyen MS 662.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Monē Docheiariou (Athos, Greece) and Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados.
Subject (Topic):
Orthodox Eastern monasticism and religious orders, Lord's Supper (Liturgy), and Manuscripts, Medieval
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
