Album containing 296 printed reply forms, completed in manuscript by individuals subscribing various sums of money for the expenses of a forthcoming meeting in Dublin of the Protestant Friends of Civil and Religious Freedom, known as the Great Protestant Meeting for Catholic Emancipation. and There were 25 signatories from the nobility, including Viscount Bangor and Viscount Clifden; the Earls of Gosford, Llandaff, Rossmere, and Wicklow; and barons Clanmorris and Dunalley. Other contributors include Sir Henry Parnell; the Hon. George Cholmondeley; Thomas Fitzgerald of Athy; Sir Aubrey de Vere; Sir John Newport; and Sir Thomas Wyse.
Alternative Title:
Autographs of subscribers who contributed towards the expenses of procuring signatures to the Protestant Declaration and to the public meeting of the Friends of Civil and Religious Liberty, held in Dublin on the 20th Jan.y 1829 and Manuscript alphabetical ind
Description:
Binding: 19th-century green morocco gilt; marbled endpapers., Front cover title: "Autographs for Civil and Religious Liberty.", Tipped in at front of volume: Manuscript alphabetical index of signatories., and Tipped in at front of volume: printed description by William B. Kelly, Bookseller, ca. 1873.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Politics and government--1820-1830, Ireland--History--1800-1837, and Ireland--Politics and government--1800-1837
Subject (Name):
De Vere, Aburey,--Sir,--1788-1846--Autographs, Parnell, Henry,--Sir,--1776-1842--Autographs, Protestant Friends of Civil and Religious Freedom, and Wyse, Thomas,--Sir,--1791-1862--Autographs
Collection of autograph letters of various English literary figures.
Description:
Binding: blue Middle Hill boards, with title as above., Finding aid available., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., and Phillipps MS 21659.
Manuscript on parchment of 1) Jacobus Palladinus de Teramo, Belial (also known as Consolatio peccatorum seu Processus Luciferi contra Iesum Christum). 2) Athanasian Creed, added in a different hand.
Description:
According to a note in library files, the manuscript was purchased from B. M. Rosenthal via L. C. Witten in 1958 by Thomas E. Marston., Binding: Nineteenth century. Dark brown, hard-grained goatskin, blind- and gold-tooled. Gilt edges. On spine: "Liber Bellial" and "Codex Ms. Saec. XV"., Divided initial, 15-line, in red in f. 1r. Plain initials, 10- to 4-line, initial strokes, and paragraph marks (in outer margin) in red throughout., and Script: Written in a cramped gothic cursive by a single scribe, above top line; art. 2 added in an awkwardly formed gothic bookhand.
Subject (Name):
Palladinus, Jacobus
Subject (Topic):
Athanasian Creed, Christian literature, Latin, Consolation--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on parchment of Caesar, Bellum Gallicum, translated into Italian by Pier Candido Decembrio in 1438. With Dedication of the translation to Filippo Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan.
Description:
Binding: Date? Italy. Vellum case with title in ink on spine: "Cesare Comment". Gilt, gauffered edges and gold and cream silk endbands. Fragments of a printed service book with musical notation partially visible under pastedowns., Elegant illuminated title page (f. 2v) with the title, written in blue over an erasure, in a circular wreath, green with gold flowers, and framed by narrow gold bands with fillets and inkspray issuing from the top and bottom with blue and deep red flowers, green leaves and gold balls. Full border, f. 1r, white vine-stem ornament on blue, green, deep red and gold ground between thin gold frames. In lower border, medallion, blank, framed by wreath, green with yellow highlights and narrow deep red frame. Partial border, f. 3r, white vine-stem ornament on blue, green and deep red ground between narrow gold frames, enlarged to elongated dots at terminals; white vine-stem ornament extends into upper (trimmed) and lower margins, with single gold balls with hair-line strokes. 8 large initials, 11- to 3-line, gold on blue, green, gold and deep red ground with white vine-stem ornament shaded with pale pink. First few words of each book in gold; incipits, explicits and marginalia in red., and Script: Written below top line in a bold round humanistic hand by a single scribe who added extra rulings in outer margins for headings, annotations, etc., in red. Additional annotations in humanistic cursive, in a brighter shade of red.
Subject (Geographic):
Rome--History, Military--265-30 B.C
Subject (Name):
Caesar, Julius
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on parchment of Lucan, Bellum civile, with scholia. Preceded by Epitaphium Lucani, 4 lines only.
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century. Light brown pigskin, blind-tooled, with brass fastenings., Decorative initials, red or blue, 12- to 4-line, with simple designs in opposite color, for each book. Rubrics added sporadically. Plan of Brindisi appears in the margin of f. 15v (II.610) to illustrate Caesar's siege of the city; on f. 47v is a schematic circular drawing of Paulus in the center, surrounded by Pelion, Ossa, Otrix, Pindus and Olympus., Rubbing, staining, trimming of leaves, and worm holes result in some loss of text and scholia., and Script: Main text written above and below top line in a small early gothic bookhand by two scribes. Scribe 1) ff. 1r-37r; Scribe 2) ff. 37v-91v. First letter of each verse written to left of text between double rulings or on middle of three rulings; right-hand margin justified. Scholia, primarily at beginning of codex, written in a contemporary hand.
Subject (Geographic):
Rome--History
Subject (Name):
Lucan,--39-65
Subject (Topic):
Historical poetry, Latin, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Scholia
Manuscript on parchment (trimmed). and On fol. 260v: historiated initial of King David and a carillon of three bells and clappers.
Description:
Evidence of heavy use in the 14th through 16th centuries includes marginal notes of an early corrector (e. g. "hunc prologum non correxi quia non inueni correctum" on f. 182r and "Quidam non hunc istum uersum" on f. 539v).
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--Latin--Versions, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on parchment of text of Ezra and Nehemiah. With Glossa ordinaria, both in margins and between lines of text.
Description:
Binding: 19th-20th centuries. Plain vellum wrapper., Lower half of f. 62 repaired with contemporary (?) parchment., and Script: Written in two sizes of neat French minuscule by a single scribe; text written either above or below top line and gloss below top line.
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--Latin--Versions--Vulgate, Bible.--O.T.--Ezra, Bible.--O.T.--Nehemiah, Glossa ordinaria, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Matthew 20.14-22.10; 25.11-28.20, with glossa ordinaria ending: qui diuina mansione sint. Crayon notes throughout in an unskilled hand, now mostly erased.
Description:
Modern pagination. and Only selected leaves scanned.
Subject (Name):
Bible. N.T. Matthew XX, 14-22, Bible. N.T. Matthew XXV, 11-28, Bible. N.T. Matthew--Commentaries--Early works to 1800, Bible. N.T. Matthew--Manuscripts, Latin, and Glossa ordinaria
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--Latin--Versions, Bible.--N.T.--Matthew, Glossa ordinaria, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Book of Numbers (begins imperfectly at 5.14) with glossa ordinaria.
Description:
On parchment. and Written by a single scribe in two sizes of Carolingian minuscule.
Subject (Name):
Bible. O.T. Numbers and Glossa ordinaria
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--Latin--Versions, Bible.--O.T.--Numbers, Glossa ordinaria, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library