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1. 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. Benedictional (fragment)
- Published / Created:
- [between 920 and 940]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 89
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Benedictional (fragment)
5. Collection of astronomical texts
- Published / Created:
- approximately 1470-1530.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1274
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 131
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Collection of astronomical texts
6. 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
7. Collection of works by Rufus of Ephesus
- Creator:
- Rufus, of Ephesus
- Published / Created:
- between 1500 and 1550.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 32 vault
- Image Count:
- 144
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Collection of works by Rufus of Ephesus
8. Complaintes de la Foy
- Creator:
- Nachier
- Published / Created:
- between 1500 and 1550.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1346
- Container / Volume:
- box
- Image Count:
- 64
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Illuminated manuscript, in an unidentified hand, on parchment, of La Foy se complaignant and Complaincte de la Foy aux vertus, two poems by a certain Nachier summoning Catholics to embark on a crusade. Rubricated
- Alternative Title:
- Foy se complaignant, Complaincte de la Foy aux vertus, Complaincte de la Foy, Complainctes de la Foy, and Complaintes de la Foi
- Description:
- In Middle French., Layout: single columns of 22 lines., Script: lettre bâtarde., Decoration: single large miniature (f.1r) shows Faith dressed in black, kneeling before a vision of God in heaven, accompanied by a white dog. The King of France (decorated with golden fleurs-de-lys) and other mounted courtiers advance from the right. The miniature is attributed to the Master of the Entry of François I. Initials in gold on a red or blue background. Rubricated., Binding: 18th-century brown calf, blind stamped with marbled paper flyleaves. Contained in brown box., Secundo Folio: A qui., Bookseller description available., Title assigned by cataloger., Both poems are unedited as of April 2023., and Title on spine: La foy se complaignant ms. sur velin.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Nachier.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval, Church History, Crusades, and Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Complaintes de la Foy
9. 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
