Binding: Eighteenth century. Rebound in brown cowhide (?), blind-tooled, with numerous metal bosses. Pastedowns from the same 17th-century antiphonary used as flyleaves., Script: Written in two sizes of round liturgical gothic script by several scribes: Scribe 1, ff. 1r-235r; Scribe 2, f. 235r-v, and Scribe 3, ff. 236r-245v., and Three fine historiated initials, 4- to 2-line, shaded pink and/or green, with blue, yellow, green and orange foliage and knots, with gold dots and orange frame; figures against blue ground. 3- to 2-line calligraphic initials, divided, red and blue with red penwork, with blue and red penwork flourishes. 1-line initials red or blue with blue or red penwork, sometimes with black and green; some initials with guide-letters in outer margin. 1-line initials with yellow. Square notes on 4-line red staves. Rubrics throughout, with notes to rubricator in margins. One very crude 4-line initial (s. xvii) on f. 1r, in red, yellow, blue, green and purple.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Liturgy
Subject (Topic):
Antiphonaries, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Baradère, H. abbé 1792-1839 Dupaix, Guillermo Lenoir, Alexandre, 1761-1839 Warden, David Bailie, 1772-1845
Published / Created:
1834-1844.
Call Number:
1995 Folio 14
Image Count:
4
Alternative Title:
Antiquités Mexicaines : relation des trois expéditions du colonel Dupaix, ordonnées en 1805, 1806 et 1807, par le roi Charles IV, pour la recherche les antiquites du pays, notamment celles de Mitla et de Palenque : avec les dessins de Castañeda ... : suivie d'un parallèle de ces monuments avec ceux de l'Égypte et de l'Inde par m. Alexandre Lenoir ... : d'une dissertation sur l'origine et sur la linguistique des populations primitives des deux amériques, d'un historique des diverses antiquités et des fossiles du double continent, par m. Warden ... : avec un discours préliminaire des travaux et documents divers de mm. de Chateaubriand, Farcy, Galindo, de Humboldt et de St. Priest ... .
Description:
Volume 2 has separate title page and date 1834.
Publisher:
Au Bureau des Antiquités Mexicaines,
Subject (Geographic):
Mexico--Antiquities, Palenque (Chiapas, Mexico)--Antiquities, and San Pablo Villa de Mitla (Mexico)--Antiquities
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