Blank pages not digitized. and Imperfect: some pages mutilated with loss of text.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy--Early works to 1800, Formulas, recipes, etc, Herbs--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
[Atlas factice of 32 maps and 1 distance table, produced by the Homann Erben firm]
Image Count:
2
Alternative Title:
Carte des XVII. provinces ou de l’Allemagne inferievre, dressee suivant la projection stereographique, et appueyee par les mesures faites de Mess. Cassini, Snellius et Mouschenbrok, par Mr. Tob. Majer de la Societe geographique, et publiee par les Heritiers de Homann, l’An 1748
Publisher:
Cura et Studio Homannianorum Heredum
Subject (Geographic):
Belgium --Maps --Early works to 1800, Benelux countries --Maps --Early works to 1800, Luxembourg --Maps --Early works to 1800, and Netherlands --Maps --Early works to 1800
[Atlas factice of 32 maps and 1 distance table, produced by the Homann Erben firm]
Image Count:
2
Alternative Title:
Belgium Catholicum seu decem provinciae Germaniae inferioris and Carte des Pais Bas catholiques ou des X provinces de l’Allegmagne inferieure, etc. dessinee au juste selon les exactes observations astronomiques et operations geometriques des Messur. Cassini, Snellius, Muschenbrok, etc. dressee par Sr. Tobias Maier, mathematicien; aux depens des Heritiers de Homann
Subject (Geographic):
Belgium --Maps --Early works to 1800 and Luxembourg --Maps --Early works to 1800
Also contained are the Latin and French poems "Explicit iste liber," "Epistola super huius," "Quam cinxere," "Traitie," "Carmen de variis in amore passionibus," and "Carmen super multiplici viciorum pestilencia.", Manuscript on parchment in Anglicana (Scribes 1 and 2) and Secretary script (Scribe 3). The text is the third recension of the Confessio Amantis, written in 1392-1393.The manuscript was produced around 1400 or the beginning of the fifteenth century in the same manner as the other surviving manuscripts from this time, presumably under the author's supervision., and The text of the manuscript is the third recension of the Confessio Amantis, written in 1392-93. Also contained are the Latin and French poems "Explicit iste liber," "Epistola super huius," "Quam cinxere," "Traitie," "Carmen de variis in amore passionibus," and "Carmen super multiplici viciorum pestilencia.
Description:
Binding: yellow morocco on wooden boards, by Douglas Cockerell and Son, 1962., Ex libris Sir George Meyrick. Gift of James M. Osborn, 1961., First and third quires wanting., Imperfect: stained by mildew throughout; rubbing; multiple repairs with some loss of text., Rubrications at running titles, initials, Latin commentary., Sir George Meyrick, Bart., who sold the manuscript after his father's death in 1960, said that the manuscript had been in his family's possession for over 100 years and that in 1775 the house was almost destroyed by fire. Many family papers were lost and perhaps it was then that the manuscript became damp and mildewed., and There are red and blue 1-3 line initials at small and large paragraph breaks. Books II (f. 13r), V (76r), VI (125r), VII (140r), and VIII (175v) contain initials with full page demi-vignette borders in gold, red, blue, green, orange, and brown.
Subject (Name):
Gower, John,--1325?-1408 and Meyrick, George,--Sir--Ownership
Subject (Topic):
English poetry--14th century, English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500, French poetry--14th century, Latin poetry--14th century, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Dorn, Sebastian Hase, Johann Matthias, 1684-1742 Homann Erben (Firm)
Published / Created:
1744
Call Number:
1973 Folio 30
Collection Title:
[Atlas factice of 32 maps and 1 distance table, produced by the Homann Erben firm]
Image Count:
2
Alternative Title:
Carte d’Hongrie en general, contenant selon la division ancienne & methodique, la Hongrie, en particulier, la Croatie, la Dalmatie, la Bosnie, la Servie, la Boulgarie, la Principaute de Transylvanie, les Despotats de Walachie & de Moldav and Hungariae ampliori significatu et veteris vel methodicae, complexae regna: Hungariae Propriae, Crotiae, Dalmatiae, Bosniae, Serviae, Cumaniae, principatum: Transylvaniae, despotus: Walachiae, Moldaviae (exclusis ab eadem alienatis Galitia et Ludmomiria) in suas provincias ac partes divisae et quoad Imperantes ex Austriacis, Turcis et Venetis distinctae (juncta tamen propter commidatem Romania vel Romelia Turcica) tabula
Publisher:
Curantibus Homannianis Heredibus
Subject (Geographic):
Balkan Peninsula --Maps --Early works to 1800 and Hungary --Maps --Early works to 1800