Manuscript, on paper with a table of contents on a single parchment leaf, in a single hand, containing the "Summer" portion of this Dominican-compiled German legendary
Description:
In Middle High German., Bookseller description available., Layout: Double columns of mostly 35 lines., Script: German cursive., Decoration: some rubrication. Three-line and one-line capitals in red., and Binding: tooled and stamped brown leather over wooden boards; four-compartmented spine. Remains of metal clasps with leather straps.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Christian saints, Manuscripts, Medieval, Saints, and Lives and legends
Manuscript on paper of Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer, Descriptio Orae Maritimae Frisiae. With 2 maps on vellum: the first, with Dutch place names and Latin legend, shows the coast of the Netherlands. The other, also in Dutch, shows the southern coast of England
Description:
In Dutch and Latin., Script: copied by one hand in calligraphic Humanistic cursive script. The scribe's knowledge of Latin was defective., The illustration consists of two maps and numerous profiles of coastal landmarks, all in coloured pen and ink drawings. The profiles are copied from the woodcuts in the printed edition., and Binding: contemporary Dutch parchment binding, gold-tooled. On the flat spine the handwritten inscription in Southern Gothica Textualis: “Carta del navigare del mare Oceano”.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., Great Britain, and Netherlands
Subject (Name):
Waghenaer, Lucas Janszoon, 1534 or 5-1606.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscript maps, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Description and travel
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.
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.