Illuminated manuscript on vellum, in a Gothic liturgical hand, of a Psalter, prefaced by a liturgical calendar and followed by the Office of the Dead.
Description:
Binding: modern full blue velvet., Ex libris John Ruskin. Ex libris Laurence Hilliard. Ex libris Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica (J. R. Ritman Library). Purchased from Sam Fogg on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2007., Presentation inscription on front flyleaf: Laurence Hilliard with John Ruskin's love, Brantwood, 25th January 1881., Tipped in at front of manuscript: parchment leaf containing copy of a letter from Joseph Mallord William Turner to John Ruskin, Midsummer Day [June 24] 1848, in the hand of John Ruskin., and Tipped in to front of manuscript: parchment leaf containing a description of the illuminations in the hand of John Ruskin.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church, Hilliard, Laurence--Ownership, Ruskin, John--1819-1900.--Autograph, and Turner, Joseph Mallord William--1775-1851.--Association
Subject (Topic):
Catholic Church--Liturgy--Texts, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Psalters
The serio-jocular medley in verse and prose : some very good, some pretty tolerable, and other
Image Count:
8
Alternative Title:
A discourse against purgatory, A French gentleman, dining with some company on a fast day ..., An appendix to the Discourse on purgatory, Hom. Il. I, It having been asserted by Misokuon in this our Medley..., Mr. Brice, Your allowing vacancy ..., The lover's auction, and Verses wrote extempore in a lady's prayer-book
Collection Created:
Exon : Printed by Andrew Brice, in the years 1734 and 1735
The Publick register: or, The weekly magazine, &c.
Container / Volume:
Copy 2
Image Count:
2
Alternative Title:
A letter from a wife, who was sick at Bath, to her husband, A riddle, A song, Epigramma, Records of literature, To Chloe, To the author of Leonidas, and Upon seeing some verses wrote in circles, by Doctor Sheridan
Collection Created:
London, Printed for R. Dodsley, at Tully’s Head in Pall-Mall: and sold by T. Cooper [etc., 1741]