Volume 1, page 23. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Bilson Bishop Winton and Bilson Bishop Winchester
Description:
Title inscribed in upper right corner., Date supplied by cataloger., Laid down on an ink line mount., and Mounted on page 23 in a volume of ca. 50 drawings that was assembled from works purchased by Horace Walpole at the Vertue sale of 1757. Now bound in red morocco, this volume has Walpole's manuscript title-page: Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others.
Page 121.5. Description of the villa of Horace Walpole ...
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1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title of top drawing from note in Horace Walpole's hand written beside it; title of bottom drawing supplied by curator., Unsigned; attributed to Horace Walpole by curator., Date of production based on Horace Walpole's death date., Two small drawings on one sheet, positioned above and below twelve lines of manuscript in Horace Walpole's hand beginning: Sir Jeffery Burwell's mother was daughter & heiress of Jeffery Pitman ..., and Mounted on page 121.5 in Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXIV [1774-1786]. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 22, copy 3.
Manuscript on paper of a common-place book. The main texts of the manuscript, which are primarily devotional in nature, were written in East Anglia by an unidentified scribe toward the end of the 15th century; a second individual, identified as Robert Melton of Stuston in Suffolk, added numerous accounts and notes at the end of the 15th and beginning of the 16th century
Description:
Robert Melton was the co-executor of the estate of John Cornwallis (d. 1506), Lord of the Manors of Brome, Stuston, Okley, and Thranston, whose family possessed Brome Hall from early in the 15th to the 19th century., In Middle English., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Armoiries 1038 for part of quire I and all of II; similar to Briquet Main 11399 for remainder of quire I, all of quires III and IV, part of V; similar to Briquet Navire 11971 on ff. 68, 79 only; similar to Briquet Lettre P 8586 on ff. 72, 75; similar to Briquet Main 11152 on ff. 73, 74; unidentified watermark on f. 81., Script: Written primarily by two persons: Scribe 1) ff. 1r-26v, 28r-44r, 68r-77r, 79v, 80v-81r. Written in small, well formed Anglicana script with first line of each text in formal bookhand. Scribe 2: ff. 27r-v, 45r-60r, 62v-67v, 77v-78v, 80r, 81v. Written in a large sprawling script; no ornamentation. A third person added art. 17 at a later time., Only scribe 1 included decoration. Initials in red, 4- to 2-line, with penwork flourishes in brown; initial strokes in red. Portions of text underlined in red; rhyming verses often bracketed, in red, at end of lines. On f. 14v, a fine half-page drawing in red and brown of the monogram IHS which incorporates both a heart pierced by a lance and vine patterns and tendrils. Art. 4 is illustrated with drawings of dice, in red, in outer margins., First leaves heavily stained; lower right corner waterstained ff. 1-43., and Binding: Between 1490 and 1500. Original sewing with long stitches through a thick rectangular piece of leather on the outside of a vellum wrapper. Contemporary scroll design added to upper cover with unidentified inscription, in red, mostly illegible.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Melton, Robert.
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, English (Middle)., English poetry, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript leaf, on parchment, containing prayers from before Matins. From the "Hungerford Hours."
Description:
In Anglo-Norman French., Layout: single-column; 17 lines., Script: Gothic., Decoration: 5 illuminated initials with decorative extensions and decorative line fillers, with gilt., and Byname: Hungerford Hours.
The Osborn collection of 12 fragments of illuminated manuscripts from the 14th to the 16th century
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2
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Description:
Abundant decoration consisting of line-fillers in gold and paint containing animal and hybrid bodies and ending in human or animal heads; 1- and 2-line initials, the latter ending on f. 1r in borders consisting of a horizontal bar in the upper and lower margin on which grotesques are painted: in the upper margin an animal (its head partly cropped) shooting a bird and in the lower margin a monkey looking at a hybrid., f. 1r-v //Nam et testimonia tua meditacio mea est ... Et ne auferas de ore meo verbum veritatis usque//[quaque].
Ps. 118 :24-43, On parchment., Ruled with lead for one column of 19 lines below top line (type 31, 170 x 105 mm). The horizontal ruling is double, lines being traced for the headlines as well as for the baselines., and Written in a narrow Northern Gothica Textualis Formata (Textus Rotundus).
Manuscript on parchment (thick and furry) of Sir Gilbert Dethick, Book of Arms. Illustrations of coats of arms, in color, one per folio recto or verso; above each except the first, the name of the bearer, as given below. No mottoes given. Dedicated to Queen Elizabeth I of England (1558-1603).
Description:
In English., Script: Introduction and labels of illustrations in cursive with loops, by one scribe., Each shield enclosed in shaded pink border designed to look like worked metal, and surmounted by a jousting helm in profile, mantling gules doubled argent with gold tassels; wreath in colors from shield. Only shields (in up to 17 quarters) and crests vary. Slight variations from this scheme on f. 2r (royal arms) and f. 3r (mantling sable doubled argent). Fair quality of workmanship., Bookblock detached from the binding. Illustration badly smeared on f. 11r, slightly smeared f. 28r., and Binding: ca. 1873. Gold-stamped red goatskin case.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain., Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Dethick, Gilbert, Sir. and Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603.
Subject (Topic):
Devices (Heraldry), Heraldry, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
The manuscript contains a book of hours, use of Sarum (ff. 1-138v), and a Missal (ff. 139r-236v). It was produced in England, in liturgical Gothic bookhand on vellum, in two phases. The first section, consisting of quires 1 and 3-18 (ff. 1-6, 17-83, and 86-137), was produced around 1390, perhaps in London. Around 1420 the manuscript was augmented with a second section, consisting of quires 2 and 19-31 (ff. 7-16, 84-85, and 138-236).
Alternative Title:
Book of Hours
Description:
Binding: early nineteenth-century English calf over carved wooden boards, blind-stamped and gilt, rebacked with spine laid on; gilt edges with traces of painted landscape., Decoration includes thirty-two historiated initials and three half-page miniatures (f.11v, the martyrdom of St. Elmo (St. Erasmus); 109v, Christ at the Tomb, surrounded by the instruments of His passion; f. 118r, the Crucifixion, with the Virgin and St. John)., Modern paper binder's blanks (2 l.) at end not digitized., Peyton coat of arms gilt on covers., and Seventeenth-century coat of arms on flyleaf and on f. 139r (quarterly, 1 and 4, azure a castle or, 2 and 3, gules 2 foxes or).
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Liturgy and ritual--Hours, Catholic Church--Liturgy and ritual--Missal, and Peyton family--Coat of arms
Subject (Topic):
Books of hours, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Sarum Rite
Manuscript on paper. The documents in this archival register cover the period from King Henry VIII (1509-1547) through Queen Elizabeth (1558-1603).
Description:
In English., Script: Copied by a single hand in Gothica Cursiva Libraria (Secretary)., and Binding: Limp vellum with remains of leather ties. Preserved in a modern cardboard folder covered with paper decorated with vertical red and purple stripes. On the brown leather spine the gold-tooled inscription: "KING HENRY VIII'S OWN MS. BOUCH OF COURT".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Courts and courtiers, Manuscripts, Medieval, Court and courtiers, and Politics and government
Volume 1, page 9. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Bishop Wainfleet and Bishop Waynflete
Description:
Title written in pencil below image., Date supplied by cataloger., Laid down on an ink line mount., and Mounted on page 9 in a volume of ca. 50 drawings that was assembled from works purchased by Horace Walpole at the Vertue sale of 1757. Now bound in red morocco, this volume has Walpole's manuscript title-page: Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others.