Manuscript fragment on parchment, of a leaf from the Dialogi of Septimus Severus
Description:
In Latin., Script: Caroline minuscule. One chapter heading in uncial capitals., Decoration: rubricated heading initial. Small initials in brown ink., and Three lines of interlinear commentary in a gothic cursive hand.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of text from the Digesta
Alternative Title:
Digesta
Description:
In Latin., Script: gothica textualis italiana., and Decoration: rubricated. Small initials in red and blue ink. Four large painted initials showing clothed groteques.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Justinian I, Emperor of the East, 483?-565.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Law, Medieval, and Law, Roman
Manuscript fragment, on parchment, from a manuscript of the Digestum vetus, text and commentary, with an illumination representing the jurist Ulpian. Used as a binding for a seventeenth-century account book pertaining to the Brotherhood of Saint Martin, the dyer's guild
Description:
In Latin., Layout: double columns., Script: gothica textualis., and Decoration: Large rectangular historiated initial in blue and orange containing a three-quarter figure representing the jurist Ulpain. Rubricated. Two and three-line initials in blue and red; paraph marks in red.
Dividend receipt addressed "To Mr. Lockyer accomptant at the South Sea house" and annotated in the lower right by "Rich. Sarum". The body of the document reads: "Pray pay to the bearer Mr. Daniel Gell my share of the midsumer [sic] dividend due on two thousand four hundred forty four pounds eight shillings 10d.1/2 capital stock in the South Sea Company, and this shall be a sufficient warrant. Westmr. Octr. 25 1722".
Description:
The South Sea Company was granted a monopoly to supply African slaves to the islands in the South Seas and South America. The stock rose quickly until around 1720 when it collapsed (known as the South Sea Bubble)., In English., Title from auction description., In brown ink, tipped along upper margin into a folder., and For further information, consult library staff.
Caption title., Dated from the address; see David Stoker, "Another look at the Dicey-Marshall publications: 1736-1806", The Library, ser. 7, v. 15:2 (June 2014), 111-157., Verse begins: "There was a rich man, who had treasures great,"., In three columns with the title centered above all three and the imprint below the third column; the columns are not separated by rules., Mounted on leaf 18. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 3.
Illuminated manuscript, on paper, of Dīvān-ı Bāḳī Efendi, a poetry collection beginning with a ḳasīde (eulogy) for Sultan Süleymān II. Includes additional ḳaṣīdes (eulogies) and ġazels (lyric poems), as well as maṭla' verses, ḳıṭ'as (strophes), and mu'ammā (verse riddles).
Alternative Title:
Poems
Description:
In Ottoman Turkish., Title from text heading (f. 1b)., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Colophon indicates manuscript was copied by Ḥasan el-Dā'ī (حسن الداعي) in H. 991/1583-1584., Layout: Double columns of 15 lines. Catchword on each verso., Script: Nasta'liq., Binding: Flap binding, gold-tooled central medallion with floral designs; gold-tooled mandorla on flap; blind-tooled and gold-painted frames and decoration., Decoration: Illuminated headpiece and title strip; rubrication, including text frames., and Later contemporary manuscript annotations in several hands: doodles including test headpiece (verso front flyleaf); death dates of prominent scholars (f. 1a); short poetic excerpts (verso front flyleaf). Sparse marginal annotations in two hands, including poems in contemporary black ink and other reader notes in modern pencil.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Baki, 1526-1600. and Süleyman I, Sultan of the Turks, 1494 or 1495-1566.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Turkish, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Turkish, Diwan, Turkish, and Turkish poetry
Manuscript fragment on parchment, containing verses 719-781 and 1024-1083 of Alexander de Villa Dei's Doctrinale
Description:
In Latin., Layout: single columns of 30 lines each., Script: gothica textualis rotunda., and Decoration: rubricated. Paraph marks in alternating red and blue ink; two-line initials in contrasting red and blue ink.