Collection on paper and parchment of manuscript leaves, documents and printed leaves. Including paper leaves from a Latin Psalter, a parchment leaf from the Beauvais Missal (formerly owned by Otto Ege), and a parchment leaf from a Latin Bible concorda...
Description:
In Latin, French and English.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, Missals, and Psalters
Manuscript on parchment (thick, but good quality) of a Collection of Texts on St. Barbara. With a miscellany of texts including patristic works, moralistic poems, and prophecies
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Barbara, Saint.
Subject (Topic):
Christian martyrs, Christian poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern), Fathers of the church, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Prophecies
Manuscript volume on paper, in several hands, two-thirds of which contains numerous brief commonplace book entries in Latin and English arranged under alphabetical Latin headings. The most frequently quoted author is Seneca, but there are also passage...
Description:
Binding: contemporary full parchment; extensive later 17th century annotations on covers, containing excerpts from Robert Wild's Iter Borealis and verses on the Popish Plot.
Subject (Topic):
Aphorisms and apothegms, Classical literature--Quotations, Conduct of life--Quotations, maxims, etc, English prose literature--17th century, and Fathers of the church--Quotations
Acolastus, hoc est, historia de filio prodigo / Gnaphaeus -- Historia Ioseph / Crocus -- De Samaritano Euangelico historia / Papeus -- Ouis perdita. Comoedia / Zovitius -- Susanna Comoedia tragica / Betulius -- Pammachius Tragoedia / Naogeorgus -- Chr...
Ill. are woodcuts, comprising 22 half-page cuts of demons in books 1-2 (7 repeated once and 2 twice: 33 total); 2 half-page and 8 smaller cuts of sacraments, etc., within type-flower borders in book 3; publisher's device on t. p. and dedicatee's coat-...
Publisher:
Apud haredes August. Tradati,
Subject (Topic):
Demonology--Early works to 1800., Exorcism--Early works to 1800., Occultism--Early works to 1800., and Wood-engraving, Italian--Specimens--17th century.
Manuscript on paper, composed of two distinct parts, of Leopold of Austria, Compilatio de astrorum scientia. Part II was copied to finish the incomplete text of Part I.
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Leopold, of Austria.
Subject (Topic):
Astronomy, Astronomy, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
