The Osborn collection of 12 fragments of illuminated manuscripts from the 14th to the 16th century
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Description:
f. 1r-v Antiphona. Cruci, corone spinee, clavisque dire, lancee ... per que corone gaudia perpetua speramus. Versus. Adoramus te Christe ... Oremus. Quesumus omnipotens Deus, ut qui sacratissima nostre redemptionis insignia temporaliter veneramur, per hec indesinenter muniti eternitatis gloriam consequamur. Per. De sancto Eustachio antiphona., On parchment., This small luxurious book of devotion seems to be organized according to the liturgical year, the Exaltation of the Cross being celebrated on 14 September, the martyr Eustace on 20 September., and Yellow heightening of the majuscules. One 2-line flourished initial, gold with blue flourishes, and on f. 1r one square miniature (5 lines) in a golden frame representing the Instruments of the Passion, accompanied by a full rinceaux border with a gold and pink bar in the inner margin. In the upper right and the two lower corners flowers and plants grow on a circular grassy patch of earth. The spiralling tendrils between them carry gold balls and vine leaves and flowers.
The Osborn collection of 12 fragments of illuminated manuscripts from the 14th to the 16th century
Image Count:
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).
A shield with the heads and necks of three human figures against an argent field. Each neck has a snake wrapped around it. At the helm is a knight's helmet backed by long leafing. At the crest, atop a torse, is an additional head, almost two-faced, with each side featuring a beard and with 2 snakes around the double neck. Below, upon a long banner, is the motto Pretio Prudentia Præstat.
Subject (Name):
Morison, C.
Subject (Topic):
Armorial, Armorial bookplates,, Helmet, Physicians, Portraits, Shield, and Shields
Manuscript on parchment (scraps, endpieces) of the Canticum canticorum, with glossa ordinaria.
Description:
Text written in large round late caroline minuscule; commentary in a similar, but smaller script with many abbreviations.
Subject (Name):
Bible. O.T. Song of Solomon and Glossa ordinaria
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Americae pars decima ... Omnia nunc primum in lucem edita, atque in aes incisis inconibus
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1
Subject (Geographic):
America --Discovery and exploration, New England --Description and travel --Early works to 1800, and Virginia --History --Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Subject (Name):
Hamor, Ralph, d. 1626. True discourse of the present estate of Virginia. Latin. 1618, Smith, John, 1580-1631. Description of the New England. Latin. 1618, and Vespucci, Amerigo, 1451-1512
A coat of arms, divided by a chevron featuring three crescents. In the upper portion are two eagles; in the lower portion, a caduceus. A knight's helmet is at the helm, and the head and upper half of a stallion rearing over a torse and presenting a second caduceus, is at the crest. The shield itself is surrounded by a border with the motto Tria Juncta in Uno featured upon it. Below this is a cross-shaped medal, behind which is a second motto, Nihil Sine Labore. A leafy mantle surrounds the entire coat of arms.
A coat of arms, divided by a chevron featuring three crescents. In the upper portion are two eagles; in the lower portion, a caduceus. A knight's helmet is at the helm, and the head and upper half of a stallion rearing over a torse and presenting a second caduceus, is at the crest. The shield itself is surrounded by a border with the motto Tria Juncta in Uno featured upon it. Below this is a cross-shaped medal, behind which is a second motto, Nihil Sine Labore. A leafy mantle surrounds the entire coat of arms.