Giovanni d'Andrea, approximately 1270-1348, author
Published / Created:
[22 June 1500]
Call Number:
Zi 9477.5
Image Count:
27
Resource Type:
text
Alternative Title:
Super arboribus consanguinitatis et affinitatis, Arbor consanguinitatis, etc, Tractatus Magistri Iohanhis Andree Super arboribus consanguinitatis afeinitatis [sic] nec non spiritualis cognationis, and Super arboribus consanguinitatis afeinitatis [sic] nec non spiritualis cognationis
Description:
BEIN Zi 9477.5: Imperfect: a2 wanting., BEIN Zi 9477.5: Provenance: one of the woodcuts has coats of arms filled by hand, likely from the owner (otherwise unidentified). Dealer's description pasted on the first flyleaf. Stamp on pastedown: Bundesdenkalamamt, Wien. Gift of Louis M. Rabinowitz., BEIN Zi 9477.5: Binding: three-quarter vellum binding over marbled paper., Signatures: a⁶ b⁴., Decorated initial at beginning of text; gothic typeface., and Imprint from colophon: Finit Tractatus Magistri Iohanhis Andree Super arboribus consanguinitatis afeinitatis [sic] nec non spiritualis cognationis anno domini millesimoquingentesimo impressum Vienne per Iohannem Winterburg die vicesima secunda iuni I.
Publisher:
Johann Winterburg
Subject (Topic):
Consanguinity (Canon law), Affinity (Canon law), Symbolism in law, and Impediments to marriage (Canon law)
Moon, Francis Graham, Sir, 1796-1871, playing card maker
Published / Created:
1829.
Call Number:
ENG64
Image Count:
70
Resource Type:
text and still image
Description:
BEIN ENG64: From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards. Hand colloration., Title from Keller., Suit system: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter., Type: Game., Composition of deck: 52 [4 seasons, each with a zodical sign, a luminary, and the planets], instruction booklet, 1831 edition., Slip case: ASTRONOMIA / [woman with scientific instruments looks at the moon] / LONDON / PUBLISHED BY F.G. MOON, 20, THREADNEEDLE STREET / 1829 / [zodiacal signs]; outer slip case, black., The zodiacal sign cards are of greater value than the other cards. The composition of the suits as as follows: Spring (blue): Aries, Luna, Jupiter, Saturn, Herschel, Tellus, Venus, Mars, Mercury, Pallas, Juno, Ceres, Vesta. The remaining suits are composed in the same way, except for the first two cards: Summer (red): Cancer, The Sun; Autumn (yellow): Libra, The Comet; Winter (white); Capicorn, The Orbits., and Instruction book accompanying the Astronomia card deck: Explanation of the celestial cards, and of two of the games in which they are used; viz. Conjunction and Combination: to which is prefixed a brief introduction of astronomy. Second edition. London: F.G. Moon, 1831.
BEIN ENG140: From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards., Title from Keller., French suit system., Type: Original design., Composition of deck: 52 [A, K, Q, J, 10-2]., Aces indicated by "I"; Ace of Spades: Draco; Ace of Hearts: Perseus; Ace of Diamonds: Cepheus; Ace of Clubs: Great Bear., King of Spades: Crown; Queen of Spades: LIBRA; Jack of Spades: Little Bear; King of Hearts: LEO; Queen of Hearts: Peacock; Jack of Hearts: CAPRICORNUS; King Diamonds: ARIES / Triangle; Queen of Diamonds: Cassiopea; Jack of Diamonds: Cornus; King of Clubs: Lyra; Queen of Clubs: Crater; Jack of Club: Auriga / Hircus, Pip cards numbered X-II; Spades: Triangle / Altar, Flying Fish, Engonasi, Cetus, Orion, VIRGO, Cor Caroli / Coma Beremces, Hercules, Bootes; Hearts: Indian, Crane, Pisces Austrinus, Argo, AQUARIUS, Great Dog, TAURUS, Lepus, CANCER; Diamonds: Dorado / [magnitude key], Phoenix / Toucan / Snake, Fluvius, Camelion, Lupus, The Crosiers, SCORPIO, Centaur, PISCES, Little Dog, Aquila / Antinous, Andromeda., and Stamp on Ace of Spades, red: [filigree, crown] VI Pence.
Publisher:
John Lenthall, at the Talbot against St. Dunstan's Church, Fleet Street
Manuscript on paper made by an unknown Venetian mathematician, astronomer and cartographer. This manuscript is highly interesting for the excellent drawings of contemporary Mediterranean sailing-ships
Description:
In Italian., Script: Written by one hand in Gothico-Humanistic Cursive, which in the maps alternates with Capitalis. Headings in Capitalis inscribed on scrolls or tablets., Maps, borders and decorations in colours. Clumsily drawn human and animal figures., and Binding: Original limp vellum. On the spine is written "G***ctrica MSS". On the rear cover are a pen-drawing, upside-down, of the same decorative device as on f. 2r, and a sketch of city gates.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Islands of the Mediterranean.
Subject (Topic):
Atlases, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscript maps, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sailing ships
Manuscript, on parchment, in unidentified hand of pseudo(?)-Eustachi' Tabulae Anatomicae. Includes 307 pen and ink anatomical drawings, many hand colored, with commentary. Consisting of three parts written by the same hand and bound together: part 1 (107 leaves) on bones, muscles, veins, arteries and nerves (water mark anchor in circle with star); part 2 (13 leaves) on veins (thinner paper without water marks showing); part 3 (40 leaves) on muscles (thinner paper without water marks showing).
Alternative Title:
Bartholomaei Eustachii Tabulae quaedam anatomicae cum explicatione autographa, quae diu apud haeredes Matthaei Pini Urbinatis delituerunt; tandemque anno MDCCXV inventae sunt and Tabulae quaedam anatomicae : cum explicatione autographa
Description:
In Latin., Title from title page, added in 18th-century hand., Script: humanist minuscule., Layout: 1 column of 30 lines., Binding: 19th-century red leather half-binding over cardboard. Gold-tooling and spine title on spine: Eustachii / Tabulae anatomicae / M.S., Pagination added in modern pencil., and Available also on microfilm.
Subject (Topic):
Human anatomy, Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, and Manuscripts
Manuscript, on parchment, of the Bible, including prologues. The Old Testament omits 1 and 2 Chronicles and Psalms; Esther and Judith follow Nehemiah. New Testament is incomplete: Acts folllows the Pauline and Catholic epistles but ends in chapter 13; Revelations not present. Chapter divisions throughout often deviate from Langton arrangement. Numerous brief marginal annoations in several hands
Description:
In Latin., Numerous brief marginal annotations, in Latin, in several thirteenth and fourteenth century hands, apparently English. Ecclesiastes annotated in at least four different hands., Layout: double columns of 55 lines., Script: gothica textualis., Decoration: each prologue and book opens with a large initial in red and blue with red and blue penwork, often with bar extensions in red and blue., and Binding: seventeenth-century full dark blue English polished calf. with extensive gold tooling in cottage style. Six-compartmented spine; all compartments gold-tooled except for the second, which contains a handwritten paper label: "Latin Bible. Manuscript." Marbled endpapers.
Manuscript, on parchment, incomplete, containing the remains of a book of hours, probably Use of Rome. All illuminations have been excised and there are few complete sections except for the Penitential Psalms (63r-75v) and the Office of the Dead (82r-112v). These texts are followed by two prayers to Saint Lazarus in Latin (113v- 115r ). Folios 115v-116v contain a personal narrative in French by Sister Collette d'Oisellet of the Hospice of Beaune, the owner of the volume. She describes being miraculously healed from paralysis in 1497 at Autun cathedral through the relics of Saint Lazarus; an annotation records her decision to remain at the Hospice of Beaune to care for the poor. Her account is followed by two additional prayers, also in French
Description:
In Latin and Middle French., Ownership inscription of Sister Alix de Besançon on 116v., Nineteenth-century printed bookseller description, annotated in pen, affixed to 116r., Bookseller description available., Script: gothica textura (Book of Hours); bâtarde (personal narrative and final prayers)., Layout: single column, 14-16 lines (Book of Hours)., Decoration: rubricated. Many small decorated initials, gilt; some two-line initials, also gilt. Some line-filler decorated bars. Many ivy leaf borders with gold leaves and colored blossoms. All leaves that might have contained illuminations appear to have been excised from the volume., and Binding: modern amateur binding of reddish velvet over pasteboard. Needlepoint flowers and leaves on both covers; the embroidered word "Heures" on the front cover.
Subject (Geographic):
France., France, Connecticut, New Haven., and Autun (France)
Subject (Name):
Oisellet, Collette d'., Lazarus, Saint (Poor man from the Gospel of Luke), Cathedral of Saint-Lazare (Autun, France), Hospices civils de Beaune., and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Relics, Books of hours, Manuscripts, Medieval, Miracles, Nuns, Women, Religious aspects, Catholic Church, and Religious life and customs
Manuscript fragment, on parchment, decorated, from a book of hours, containing text possibly from the Hours of the Virgin Mary
Alternative Title:
Book of hours
Description:
In Latin., Script: gothica textura., Decoration: rubricated. Recto contains two two-line decorated initials and a spiky floral border. Verso contains one small decorated initial., and Contemporary annotation (textural addition?) in margin of verso, partially effaced.
Illuminated manuscript on parchment of a book of hours, Franciscan Use, created for a clergyman. Contains 1) Calendar, ff. 1r-12v; 2) Mass of the Virgin, ff. 13r-15v; 3) Gospel extracts, ff. 15v-19v; 4) "Obsecro te," "O intemerata," and other prayers, ff.19v-28v; 5) Office of the Dead, use of Rome, ff. 29r-61v; 6) Fifteen Gradual Psalms, ff. 61v-70r; 7) Hours of the Virgin, ff. 70r-121v; 8) Hours of the Cross, ff. 121v-127v; 9) Hours of the Spirit, ff. 127v-132v; 10) Office of the Dead, ff. 132v-134r; 11) Seven Penitential Psalms and Litany, ff. 134r-153r; 12) Preparation for the Mass, ff. 153r-164v. Items 5-6 belong after f. 132v; text on f. 29r continues from f.133v and Bound with contemporary illuminated manuscript on parchment containing 13) Benedictions, ff. 165r-173v; 14) Pontifical ordos, ff. 173v-180. Benedictions open with 3-line historiated initial. Rubrication. 2-line initials excised at f. 166 and f. 179
Description:
In Latin., Title devised by cataloger., Layout: single columns of 17-19 lines., Script: gothica textualis., Decoration: Forty historiated initials of approximately 6 lines. Inhabited full borders. Rubrication., Binding: nineteenth-century full brown calf. Covers framed with gilt and blind ornament; spine gilt and lettered. Spine title: Missale., and Bookseller description available.
Subject (Geographic):
France., Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Books of hours, Devotional literature, Latin, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Illuminated manuscript on parchment of a book of hours, use of Sarum, incomplete. May have been produced for a Scottish patron. Contains 1) Prayers in Latin and Middle Scots, f1r-5v; 2) Hours of the Virgin, use of Sarum, with Hours of the Cross and of the Holy Spirit intermixed, f6r-30r; 3) Prayers, including Seven Joys of the Virgin, O intemerata, and Obsecro te, f30v-42v; 4) Seven Penitential Psalms and Litany, f43r-55v
Description:
In Latin; rubrics in Middle Scots., Script: gothic bookhand., Decoration: 5 column-width miniatures, some illuminated; 4-6 line initials with illuminated full borders; 2-line blue initials with red penwork; 1-line initials in alternating red and blue. Rubricated., Layout: single columns of 22 lines., Secundo folio: tuo., Binding: modern limp vellum. Spine title: "Horae ad Usum Sarum" and "MS.", Some annotations in Middle Scots in 15th-century hand., Some full and partial leaves removed throughout., and Bookseller description available.