Manuscript on paper of Johannes Herolt, Sermones de tempore.
Description:
Binding: Fifteenth century, Germany. Sewn on four supports attached to wooden boards. Covers lined with parchment documents; text side pasted down and illegible. Covered in white tawed skin with two fastenings, the catches on the upper board. Remains of label with title on spine; traces of inscription on upper board. Rebacked., Only selected leaves scanned., Plain red initials, 3- to 2-line. Paragraph marks, initial strokes and underlining in red; rubrics added sporadically., Purchased in 1956 from Bernard Quaritch of London by L. C. Witten, who sold it in 1958 to Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written in hybrida script, perhaps by a single scribe., The bookplate of Hilprand Brandenberg (hand-colored woodcut of an angel holding a shield representing his arms: an ox passant with a ring in its nose) is pasted below the ownership inscription, to which the shelf-mark "CXXXI" was added by a later hand., and Watermarks: several bull's heads including Piccard Ochsenkopf V.636 and similar in design to V.305-13.
Subject (Name):
Brandenburg, Hilprand, 1442-1514, bookplate, Catholic Church --Sermons, Herolt, Johann, and Marston, Thomas E., bookplate
Subject (Topic):
Church year sermons, Church year sermons--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Sermons, Latin, and Sermons--Early works to 1800
Baker, Smith & Andrew Bauer, Eug. (Eugene), illustrator Billings, Hammatt, 1818-1874 Sampson Low, Son & Co Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896
Published / Created:
1853
Call Number:
2009 1819
Image Count:
160
Alternative Title:
Life among the lowly and Uncle Tom’s cabin
Description:
Pen and ink, watercolor and woodcut illustrations throughout, some extending into margins and text. and Watercolors by Eugene Bauer.
Publisher:
Sampson Low, Son and Company
Subject (Topic):
African Americans --Southern States --Fiction, Plantation life --Southern States --Fiction, Slavery --Southern States --Fiction, Slavery --United States --Fiction, and Slaves --Southern States --Fiction