Manuscript bifolium, in a single hand, containing text from chapters 34, 35, and 39 of this prose romance
Description:
In Middle French., Layout: double columns of 52 lines., Script: gothic script., and Decoration: Rubricated. Three-line initials in gold against blue and rose grounds.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Arthurian romances, French prose literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval
In Middle English., Layout: single columns of 17 lines., Script: gothic bookhand., Decoration: some initials, line fillers, underlining, in red ink., and Binding: nineteenth-century full brown morocco, gilt.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Christian life, Devotional literature, English (Middle), English literature, English poetry, Manuscripts, Medieval, Salvation, and Typology (Theology)
Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, of the text of Love's translation of the Meditationes vitae Christi. Interpolated is an anonymous Middle English translation of the Meditationes de passione Christi
Description:
In Middle English., Ownership inscription of Sir John Gage on f. 126., Layout: single columns of 24 lines., Script: English bookhand., Decoration: initials in blue with red penwork; six initials in red., and Binding: nineteenth-century vellum.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Love, Nicholas, active 1410.
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, English (Middle), English literature, English prose literature, 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. This version concludes with the "additional" chapter on the sacrament
Description:
In Middle English., Presentation inscription at end of text, in red ink: This booke is gyffyne to Allyse Belacyse. Be the gyfte of Johane Countesse of kente., Presentation inscription following the previous, in black ink: I Allyse Belacyse, gyfe this booke to Elysabeth my serua[n]t wt. my handys., Layout: single columns of 34 lines., Script: English bookhand., Decoration: illuminated initial and a full illuminated bar border on the first page of text; other illuminated initials., and Binding: eighteenth-century full paneled calf, gilt. Six-compartmented spine, decorated, gilt. Spine tag in red leather: Lyffe of Jesu Criste.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and England.
Subject (Name):
Love, Nicholas, active 1410.
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, English (Middle), English literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, Women, and Books and reading
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
Manuscript leaves from a Sarum missal, containing text from Masses for the third and eighth Sundays after Pentecost and for the dedication of a church
Description:
In Latin., Layout: double columns of 39 lines., Script: gothic liturgical script., and Decoration: numerous initials in burnished gold or blue; extensive penwork.
Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, containing the first section of an Old Testament chronicle and genealogy of Christ in Middle English prose
Description:
In Middle English., Originally formed a single roll with Takamiya MS 53., Annotation at top of roll in late 18th century hand attributing ownership in 1485 to Richard Kidderminster, Abbot of Winchecombe., Layout: double column., Script: English gothic bookhand., Decoration: names in colored cartouches of green or brown squares., and Binding: modern case.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Jesus Christ
Subject (Topic):
English literature, English prose literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, containing the second section of an Old Testament chronicle and genealogy of Christ in Middle English
Description:
In Middle English., Originally formed a single roll with Takamiya MS 36., Layout: double columns., Script: English gothic bookhand., Decoration: names in colored cartouches of green or brown squares; circular diagram of the temple of Jerusalem., and Binding: modern case.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Jesus Christ
Subject (Topic):
English literature, English prose literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript copy, on parchment, in several scribal hands, of this English ordinary of arms, containing approximately 1600 coats of arms in full color, with descriptive annotations. The manuscript also contains approximately 300 shields outlined but left blank. This manuscript is the oldest recorded copy of the Queen Margaret version of this text
Description:
In French., Autograph and notes by Sir Syndey Cockerell on front flyleaf; autograph of Brian S. Cron on front flyleaf., Layout: coats of arms arranged in three rows of four on each page, with descriptive notes above each., Script: cursive bookhand., Decoration: coats of arms in full color; some initials in red or blue., and Binding: contemporary binding of reversed white leather over wooden boards.
Subject (Geographic):
England., England, Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Heraldry, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Renaissance
