Manuscript on paper of Seventeen hunting calls with hunting codes for the horn. Instructions in English: "To call the Company in the Morninge...The Mount is from partie to partie every Note repeated thrice."
Description:
In English., Watermarks: unidentified pot similar in design to Heawood 3637-38., Script: Written in well formed English secretary script., and Removed from a copy of The Booke of hawking, huntyng and fysshyng attributed to Dame Juliana Berners (London, [1561]).
Manuscript on paper composed of two parts. Part I: The Mirrour of the Blessed Lyf of Jesu Christ (Meditationes vitae Christi), tr. Nicholas Love. Includes Adam of Dryburgh (Adam Scotus) O. Praem, later O. Carth. (d. 1212), De instructione animae; ends incomplete in I.4. Part II: The Thirty-Nine Articles (doctrinal formulas accepted by the Church of England), articles 1-19 only, in diagram form, all pages being organized in three sections titled "the truth", "the creed", and "errors".
Alternative Title:
Meditationes vitae Christi. English
Description:
In English and Latin., Script: Part I: Written by two scribes in Gothica Cursiva Libraria (Secretary very close to Anglicana). Part II: Written in careful Gothica Cursiva (Secretary)., Majuscules are heightened in red (?) up to f. 8v. Red paragraph marks (?). Plain red 2- to 4-line initials. A 4-line red (?) flourished initial with rather coarse penwork in (?), including a human head and a fish, on f. 1r., and Two parchment fly-leaves of the original binding are inserted after f. 100: they have been taken from a 13th-century manuscript and contain fragments of Codex Iustiniani, VI.3.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Church of England.
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, English (Middle), Manuscripts, Medieval, and Theology, Doctrinal