Manuscript fragment on parchment of Priscian's Institutio Grammatica including portions of Books VII and VIII
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Carolina minuscule., and Decoration: 2-line initials "S" in brown; 1-line initials are in brown rustic capitals; one "L" has a hollow shaft that is filled with brown cross strokes; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus versus.
Manuscript fragment on parchment, probably from a Bible. The recto contains the end of "the Interpretation of Hebrew Names" in a gothic bookhand; rubricated. The verso contains two unidentified texts in a slightly later anglicana script, one medical and one mathematical
Manuscript on paper (unidentified watermarks) of Georg Rollenhagen (1542-1606), Isagoge in astrologiam. This manuscript is apparently the autograph of the Astrologia iudiciaria sive genethliacum reported to have been composed by this German evangelical minister, rector of the Gymnasium at Magdeburg and poet
Description:
In Latin and German., Script: Apparently copied by one hand writing a small Humanistica Cursiva Currens in many different forms, often difficult to decipher. Headings in the same script or in fancy capitals. The passages in German are in Gothica Cursiva Currens., Astrological diagrams, tables and calculations, all like the text of a rapid execution., and Binding: Original half binding of blind-tooled white pigskin decorated with rolls, the covers in an unorthodox way covered with green-blue blind-tooled parchment (?). On the front cover the gold-tooled initials "IMD" and the date "1599". Spine with three raised bands, with the number "10" painted in red in the second compartment. At the top illegible title label.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Rollenhagen, Georg, 1542-1609.
Subject (Topic):
Astrology, German literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript fragment on parchment containing parts of Isidore's Differentiae; Gregory's Dialogorum libri IV; an unidentified commentary on Exodus 28; Letter Fallen from Heaven
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In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: the initials and the rubrics for the chapters have not been added; the first word following the initial is written in brown rustic capitals; other 1-line initials written in brown rustic capitals; punctuated with the punctus; the Letter from Heaven was added to fol. 4r by a different hand later in the twelfth century.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636. and Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604.
Manuscript copy on paper of the "Antonine Itinerary," a 3rd century guide to roads and routes in the late Roman empire. This version of the Itinerarium includes additions for maritime travel and lists of ports
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Title from title page., In Latin., Manuscript paginated in the 17th century in a Spanish hand. First leaf trimmed and mounted to a framing leaf., Script: late humanist script; in ornamental capitals throughout., Decoration: rubricated., Layout: single large columns of 26 lines., and Binding: seventeenth?-century limp parchment over boards, made from leaves of a seventeenth-century text. Title on spine in ink.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a judicial decision emanating from the podesta of Trento, Riprandus Otonis Rici, by order of Bishop Aldricus of Trento concerning easement of a stable
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in notarial script by Rolandinus., and Decoration: at the opening of the document there is a design in brown ink resembling a chalice; a cross stands above the entire document; the initial "E" of the notary's signature is a 2-line square-shaped capital in black ink decorated with dots; punctuated with the punctus and, at the end of the document, the punctus versus.
Manuscript on paper of Johannes Baers, Lamentationes Ieremiae carmine elegiaco redditae. With a Dedicatory epistle to Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury (c. 1563-1612), secretary of state of Queen Elizabeth
Description:
Iohannes Baers (Baersius), born in Ghent 1580, d. 1653, studied theology in Leiden, was minister in various places in the Northern Netherlands, was 1629 in Pernambuco (Brasil) and in 1632 back in the Netherlands minister in Soest. He is the author of two books in Dutch, published in 1648 and 1653 respectively, but his poetic paraphrase of Lamentations seems to be unrecorded. Whether this work was finished in 1601 or 1605 is not clear. This Carmelite monk in Ghent, named Paschasius Baers, became after his conversion minister in Zele (East Flanders) and from 1580 onwards in various places in the Netherlands; from 1590 to 1603 he was active in Leeuwarden., In Latin., Script: Written by a single scribe in careful Humanistica Cursiva. Titles and running titles are in a larger size of the same script., and Binding: Original limp vellum, both covers decorated with a simple blind-tooled frame and four small gilt fleurons in the corners. Remains of two green silk ties. Gold-tooled inscriptions in capitals, on front cover: ".SERO.SED.SERIO."; on rear cover "ANNO.1601." Inscription in ink on the spine: "Lamentationes ***********". Edges gilt.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Baers, Johannes, d. 1653. and Salisbury, Robert Cecil, Earl of, 1563-1612.
Subject (Topic):
Latin poetry, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Religious poetry, Latin
Manuscript on paper, copied from an exemplar with the final part in disorder
Description:
In Latin., Script: Copied by one hand writing an imperfect Humanistica Textualis with a relatively large number of abbreviations, incomplete word separations, hesitations, errors and corrections making reading sometimes difficult in spite of the formal character of the writing., Spaces and guide-letters for initials (3-line on ff.1r and 2r, the others 2-line); the initials are not executed., and Binding: Of undetermined age. Half light brown leather over original (?) unbevelled wooden boards, the leather decorated with fillets in a geometrical checkered pattern. Spine with four raised bands. Modern parchment pastedowns covering the inner half of the boards.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Marrasio, Giovanni.
Subject (Topic):
Latin poetry, Medieval and modern and Manuscripts, Medieval