Manuscript fragment on parchment of the Ars Laureshamensis, Expositio in Donatum maiorem, an anonymous commentary on Donatus's Ars maior; the portion here is on part II of Donatus's grammar
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In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 1-line initials are brown rustic capitals; punctuated with the punctus and punctus interrogativus; double quotation marks are within the text.
Manuscript on paper of Astrological tables for solar and lunar locations, probably for use in compiling calendars; tables of latitudes of cities; chronological tables for 1508-18. Most tables are accompanied by prose descriptions
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In Italian., Watermarks: trimmed, in upper margins; unidentified eagle enclosed by a circle similar in design to Briquet Aigle 204., Script: Written in Italian notarial script by a single scribe., Yellow added to initials and to astrological signs, and some numbers., Stained throughout; final folio repaired., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Blind-tooled brown sheepskin.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of the Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Ḥullin, which covers a discussion of mutual exclusion, the father's responsibility for his minor daughter, levirate marriage obligations, when the ram's horn (shofar) is blown, and when the separation (havdalah) prayer is said at the end of a festival
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In Aramaic and Hebrew., Script: written in semi-cursive script., and 1 column. 26 lines. Dry-point ruling.
Benedictus XIV de Lambertinis Bononiensis : Pontifex Maximus creatus die XVII Augusti 1740
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Title engraved in image., Place of publication based on printmaker's country of residence; date of publication based on printmaker's death date., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 59 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of the biblical book of 1 Kings
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In Latin., Script: written in progothic minuscule., and Decoration: 2-line initials alternate in red and blue; 1-line initials are in brown and a mixture of uncials and rustic capitals; running titles are written in black; punctuated with the punctus; hyphenation, accents, and diacritical marks over double "i" and double "a" were added in lighter ink.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of the biblical book Acts of the Apostles, including portions of chapters 21-23.
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In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule; hand very similar to that in Beinecke MS 482.12., and Decoration: two plain 2-line initials in red; 1-line initials are in brown uncials; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus interrogativus.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of excerpts from the Latin Vulgate of Luke chapters 12 and 13.
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In Latin., Script: written in uncial script and occasionally punctuated with a punctus. A later hand has added a punctus in Luke 13.5., and Decoration: the initials are slightly enlarged and are written on the inner vertical bounding line; and one initial "E" is filled with orange.