Indenture, on parchment, in a single hand, containing a sale and quitclaim deed by Thomas Hatfield of Steeple Morden, Cambridgeshire, "Squyer" of all rights, title, rents and service from lands in Reddreth in Guilden Morden to George Nicholl, "cytezen and Scryvaner of London."
Description:
In Middle English., Indented at head of document with chirographic letters., Signed: document signed by the scribe, Gardyner., Layout: single column of 25 lines., and Script: secretary script.
Subject (Geographic):
England, Connecticut, New Haven., and Cambridgeshire (England)
Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, of the complete text of Hilton's Scale of Perfection. Volume also contains the complete text of Hilton's brief tract, Of angels' song
Description:
In Middle English., Ownership inscription of John Price on recto of front flyleaf., Ownership inscription of Samuel Courthope Bosanquet on recto of second front flyleaf., Layout: single columns of approximately 30 lines., Script: English bookhand., Decoration: blue initials with red penwork., and Binding: contemporary white tawed leather over wooden boards; remains of hardware. Modern case.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Hilton, Walter, -1396.
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, English (Middle), English literature, English prose literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Mysticism
Manuscript, probably in a single hand, containing seven discontinuous lines of text in different gothic display scripts in black and red inks, probably produced as a sample sheet of a scribe's work
Description:
In Latin., Script: each line in a different gothic display script., and Decoration: in red and black ink.
Manuscript, on vellum, incomplete, in a single hand, of John Lydgate's and Benedict Burgh's Middle English verse translation of the twelfth-century Latin treatise Secretum Secretorum, itself a translation of the Kitab sirr al-asrar. In addition to this text, the volume also contains several prose pieces in Middle English and Latin, including one with illustrated diagrams and a Latin tract on the interpretation of dreams
Description:
In Middle English and Latin., Several medical recipes added on blank leaves and portions of leaves in a sixteenth-century? cursive hand., Signature of John Bowen? in a seventeenth-century hand. Signature of Thomas Bowen in a seventeenth-century hand., Layout: various single-column., Script: English bookhand., Decoration: 15 illuminated borders; other decorated initials, some gilt., and Binding: disbound, but with some original sewing intact; modern case.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Astrology, Astronomy, Astronomy, Medieval, Education of princes, English prose literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, Medicine, and Medicine, Medieval
Illuminated manuscript, on vellum, of the Sextus liber decretalium, with the commentary of a Johannes Andreae
Description:
In Latin., L1r contains a pecia copyist's notation: "F xviii.", Bifolium formerly used as an archival wrapper., Layout: Principal text in double columns of up to 30 lines; surrounding commentary in 89 lines., Script: rounded gothic (two sizes)., Decoration: two historiated initials against burnished gold., and Binding: modern boards.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Boniface VIII, Pope, -1303.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval and Manuscripts, Renaissance
Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, of a Middle English copy of the "Defective Version" of the Book of Sir John Mandeville
Alternative Title:
Itinerarium. English
Description:
In Middle English., Four leaves preceding the Mandeville text contain numerous pen trials, a Latin prayer, medical advice organized by month, and a list of the archbishops of York. Two leaves following the text contain pen trials and Latin notes on the life of St. Wilfrid?., Layout: single columns of 20-23 lines., Script: English bookhand., Decoration: decorated border on opening leaf of text incorporating coat of arms of the Norton family of Yorkshire; a few initials in blue ink with red penwork., and Binding: contemporary light brown doeskin over wooden boards.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Mandeville, John, Sir.
Subject (Topic):
English prose literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Voyages and travels
Manuscript, on vellum, in two scribes' hands, of this collection of verse saints' lives
Description:
In Middle English., Text is substantially complete, lacking two leaves at the beginning, one in the middle, and probably several at the end., Layout: single columns of 42 and 39 lines, respectively., Script: English cursive bookhand (two scribes)., Decoration: numerous initials in blue with red penwork., and Binding: eighteenth-century full calf.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
English literature, English poetry, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript leaf, on parchment, containing portions of the life of Saint Mary of Egypt and the opening of the life of Saint Alphage
Description:
In Middle English., Leaf has been trimmed for use in a binding., Layout: single-column. Now 28 lines., Script: early Anglicana., and Decoration: rubricated.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
English literature, English poetry, and Manuscripts, Medieval
