"Amsteledami, Io. Blaeu exc.", Hand col. Sheet measures 50.5 x 58.5 cm. Stamp on verso: Horace Brown 1900S., Plate 2 in French editions of Blaeu's Atlas major, vol. 12, published 1663 and 1667 (Burden 474)., Relief shown pictorially., S, and Signature on verso: A.
From the Collection: Hanbury-Williams, Charles, 1708-1759
Published / Created:
1584 1717
Call Number:
LWL MSS 7
Container / Volume:
box 48, folder 11
Image Count:
37
Description:
The volume consists of five separate documents bound together; they are unrelated in hand, format, date, and topic though four of the five concern Ireland. Further content description and analysis was supplied at the item level by David Brown, Department of History, Trinity College Dublin, in December 2023.
The volume is in a stiff-board binding covered in brown paper with a blue cloth spine, with printed CH-W and Phillipps number labels on the spine. The Hanbury-Williams volume number is 42; the Phillipps number is 11409.
Bar scales in "Miliaria Germanica communia" and "Miliaria Gallica communia.", From Blaeu's Le theatre du monde ... Amsterdami : Apud Guiljelmum et Iohannem Blaeu, 1635., In French on verso, with caption title "Le Destroict de Magellanes, & celuy de la Maire" and signature 7L., and Relief shown pictorially.
Publisher:
Guiljelmus Blaeuw excudit,
Subject (Geographic):
Magellan, Strait of (Chile and Argentina)--Maps--Early works to 1800
Subject (Name):
Blaeu, Joan, 1596-1673. Theatrum orbis terrarum. French, Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638. Theatrum orbis terrarum. French, and Gryp, Dirck, engraver
From the author's Gerardi Mercatoris atlas. 1628., Inset: I. S. Thomae., Map text in Latin. Text on verso in French., Relief shown pictorially., and Text on verso titled "Guinee, avec les isles de S. Thomas, du Prince, et d'Anobon," p. 637 and 640.
Publisher:
Sumptibus & typis aeneis Henrici Hondij,
Subject (Geographic):
Africa, West--Maps--Early works to 1800
Subject (Name):
Hondius, Hendrik, 1597-1651 and Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594. Gerardi Mercatoris Atlas
Guinea propria, nec non Nigritiæ vel Terræ Nigrovrm maxima pars, Guinee de meme que la plus grande partie du Pais des Negres, and Gvinee de meme que la plus grande partie du Pais des Negres
Description:
Covers West Africa from Gabon in the south to Niger, Mali, and Mauritania in the north., Has watermark., Includes indexed ill. depicting the dress, dwellings, and work of native Africans., Prime meridian: Ferro., and Relief shown pictorially.
Publisher:
Homannianorum Heredum,
Subject (Geographic):
Africa, West--Maps--Early works to 1800
Subject (Name):
Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d', 1697-1782 and Marchais, R. de
Manuscript on parchment of Ovid, Heroides 16 (Paris to Helen) 1-38, 145-378, with an unidentified French translation. Latin text, which is written only on the verso of each leaf, faces the French translation, which is written on the recto of each leaf.
Description:
Binding: Seventeenth century, France (?). Bound in red goatskin, gold-tooled. Gilt edges. Title, much worn, on spine., Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1956 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Latin text written in a round humanistic script much influenced by printing; Scribe 1) ff. 1v-21v and Scribe 2) ff. 22r-36r. French text written in upright batarde; Scribe 1) ff. 2r-22r and Scribe 2) ff. 22r-36r (a more flamboyant style of script)., and Two initials, one at beginning of Latin text (2-line), the other at the beginning of French text (3-line), respectively gold on blue square ground with gold filigree and gold on dark red square ground with gold filigree. Most stanzas introduced by paragraph marks in gold on blue or red alternating grounds, with gold filigree. First letter of each verse stroked with yellow, as are usually majuscules in text. Headings on ff. 1v and 2r in red.
Subject (Name):
Ovid,--43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Narrative poetry, Latin