Added illustrated title page., Imperfect: large stain of ink along top; small tears with no loss of text., and In ink after author's name: not then 20 years old.
Subject (Geographic):
Italy --Description and travel --Early works to 1800, Rome --Antiquities --Early works to 1800, and Venice (Italy)
Zacharias writes the name of his son John on a tablet
Description:
Title from item., Alternate title supplied by curator., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., Place of publication based on printmaker's place of residence., From: The Life of John the Baptist., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
John, the Baptist, Saint., Zacharias (Father of John the Baptist)., and Elizabeth (Mother of John the Baptist), Saint.
Subject (Topic):
Childbirth, Medicine in the Bible, Postnatal care, Mothers, Saints, Infants, Midwifes, Bathing, Writing, and Cooking
Illuminated manuscript leaf from a Gradual, on parchment, containing the opening of the Office of St. Felicitas. The large historiated initial contains an illumination of St. Felicitas enthroned and surrounded by the Seven Martyred Brothers. Two kneeling women at the bottom of the image may represent the donors
Description:
In Latin., The leaf was originally part of a Gradual that is now Beinecke MS 42. The evidence is that it followed folio 52., This leaf has been attributed to Attavante degli Attavanti., and Decoration: in addition to the large historiated initial, the wide border contains numerous putti and eight figurative rondels.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Graduals (Liturgical books), and Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Honorius, of Autun, approximately 1080-approximately 1156
Published / Created:
[between 1140 and 1160].
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 482.54
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Honorius of Autun's Imago Mundi
Alternative Title:
De imagine mundi
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 1-line initials in brown rustic capitals; the initials that begin new chapters are dotted with orange; punctuated with the punctus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text; the marginal chapter headings are written by a contemporary hand in brown minuscule and are encircled in orange, with an orange line connecting each circle; the same orange is used to adorn the chapter initials and to mark roman numerals in the text.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Honorius, of Autun, approximately 1080-approximately 1156.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval and Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Appeared in Peter Schenk's Atlas contractus., Backed with paper. Ms. no. "90" in upper right-hand corner. Sheet measures 53.6 x 62.7 cm. No. 82 of 87 maps bound together., Bar scale given in "milliaria Germanica.", Prime meridian: Ferro., Relief shown pictorially., Watermark., and With dedication to
Publisher:
Ex formis [Pe]tri Schenk,
Subject (Geographic):
Iran--Maps--Early works to 1800. and Middle East--Maps--Early works to 1800.
Subject (Name):
Schenk, Peter, 1660-1718 or 1719. Atlas contractus. and Witsen, Nicolaas, 1641-1717.
Homann Erben (Firm) Homann, Johann Baptist, 1663-1724
Published / Created:
[1741?]
Call Number:
1983 Folio 23
Collection Title:
[Atlas factice of 50 maps, primarily by Johann Baptist Homann and/or issued by the Homann Erben
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Allemagne distingue?e en ses cercles & subdivise?e en ses e?tats, contenant son e?tendue pre?sente rectifie?e & me?thodiquement enlumine?e suivant les e?le?ments de ge?ographie de Mr. Schatz a 1741 avec privilege imperial and Imperii Romano Germanici in suos status et circulos divisi tabula generalis
Publisher:
[Homann Erben?]
Subject (Geographic):
Austria --Maps --Early works to 1800, Czechoslovakia --Maps --Early works to 1800, Germany --Maps --Early works to 1800, Hungary --Maps --Early works to 1800, and Poland --Maps --Early works to 1800