Manuscript on paper, in a single Italic hand, of a 38-page elegiacal poem praising Lady Mary Cholmondley's Holford ancestors and herself. The poem is heavily annotated in the same hand. Prefaced by a dedication to Lady Cholmondeley's son Thomas, a dedication in Latin to Sir Richard Grosvenor, 1st bart., and ten verses in Latin and English addressed to various members of the Cholmondeley family, including an anagram and a chronogram. The main poem is followed by several short Latin poems, including one concerning the Holford motto
Description:
Available on microfilm, In English and Latin., On flyleaf: list of accounts, as well as pen trials and the signature "R. Cholmondeley.", Signature in back of John Grosvenor., Marbled endpapers., and Binding: full morocco; gilt decoration.
Subject (Name):
Cholmondeley, Mary Holford, Lady, 1563-1625., Cholmondeley, Hugh, Sir, 1513-1596., Grosvenor, Richard, Sir, 1585-1645., and Lytler (Littler), Thomas.
Subject (Topic):
Anagrams, Elegiac poetry, Latin poetry, English literature, English poetry, and Genealogy
Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, containing Middle English versions of several works by Rolle, including Emendatio vitae; Ego dormio; The Commandment; and Form of Living. Also contains a Middle English version of Walter Hilton's Mixed Life and The volume also contains Johannes de Rupescissa, Tractatus de Quinta Essentia (ca. 1470). 84 l. Manuscript on paper, in a single gothic bookhand. In Latin. Preceded by a title page dated 1650
Description:
In Middle English., Layout: single columns of 25-31 lines., Script: English bookhand., Decoration: some rubrication., and Binding: seventeenth-century limp vellum.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Rolle, Richard, 1290?-1349.
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, English (Middle), English literature, English prose literature, Alchemy, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript, on parchment, in at least two scribal hands, of this narrative poem by John Lydgate. The text was almost certainly originally complete but now lacks the Prologue and the opening stanzas of Book I, opening at the line "For to be crowned in that regeous" and lacking the final few leaves of text as well. There is also a textual lacuna between f92v and f93r, Contemporary textual corrections and insertions marked by red crosses. Occasional pen trials and names in contemporary hands, and Autograph letter signed from Frederic Madden to Lord Braybrooke, 1840 March 9, tipped in at front of volume. The letter contains a description of the manuscript and advises that it be rebound while preserving the initials of Mary Sidney
Description:
In Middle English., Script: anglicana and secretary; in the hands of at least two scribes., Decoration: initials in red and blue, some with marginal scroll decoration., Layout: 56 lines in two columns, 15 stanzas per page. Catchwords., and Binding: 19th-century calf over wood, covers inlaid with fragment of 16th-century binding preseving the initials "M.S." (Mary Sidney).
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
Subject (Topic):
English literature, English poetry, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Narrative poetry, English (Middle)
Autograph manuscript essay in an unidentified hand, written during the late nineteenth century. Written on the blank leaves of the "Protocol Book of Alexander Wood, Writer to the Signet, Notary public and Son of Alexr. Wood Surgeon ... " (inscription on f
Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, of Richard de Caistre's popular hymn
Description:
In Middle English., Bound with Fifteen Joys of Our Lady., Layout: single columns of 20 lines., Script: gothic liturgical script., Decoration: red and blue penwork., and Binding: modern full red morocco.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Richard, of Caistre.
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, English (Middle), English literature, English poetry, Hymns, English, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment of Edward, the second Duke of York, Master of Game
Description:
In English., Script: Written by a single scribe in a careful English secretary script., Gold initials, 3-line, on blue and dark pink grounds with white highlights mark text divisions. Headings and marginal chapter references, in red, throughout., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Brown skin, flesh side out, blind-tooled, over paper boards. Front cover detached.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and York (England)
Subject (Name):
Edward, of Norwich, 1373?-1415.
Subject (Topic):
English literature, Hunting, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript, on paper, in several cursive hands, containing a variety of alchemical, medical, and other "scientific" texts in Latin, Middle English, and Anglo-Norman French. Contents include two Middle English poems, one on the four temperments, and the other the alchemical Secrets of the philosophers, attributed to George Ripley. Other contents include a dialogue between Dives and Lazarus; a copy of the Computus manualis; verious medical and alchemical recipes and formulae; and a treatise on snakeskin
Description:
In Latin, Middle English, and Anglo-Norman French. and Binding: contemporary limp vellum.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy, English literature, English poetry, English prose literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, Medicine, and Science
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 parchment, in a single hand, of Love's translation of the Meditationes vitae Christi
Description:
In Middle English., All corners repaired, not affecting main text block. Approximately 34 missing leaves; replaced by manuscript copies of the missing text in a modern cursive., Layout: single columns of 32 lines., Script: English bookhand., Decoration: rubricated. Some marginal note initials in blue with red penwork., and Binding: nineteenth-century blind-tooled brown morocco.
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