Album containing 73 pressed botanical specimens compiled by an unidentified collector in Norfolk, England, 1793. Each specimen has notes indicating its Latin name, common name, and Linnaean classification. Some notes also include the date of collection, the location of collection, and medicinal uses of the plant
Description:
In English and Latin., The album was created in a blank accounts book, and the pages have printed red rules., and Binding: contemporary vellum over boards, with blind tooled ruling; the arms of King George III stamped in gilt on the front and back covers.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, England, and Norfolk
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820.
Subject (Topic):
Botanical specimens, Collection and preservation, Flowers, Herbs, and Plants
Manuscript fragment, on parchment, from an antiphonal, containing parts of the offices for the first Tuesday and the second Sunday in Lent
Description:
In Latin., Script: late caroline minuscule with protogothic features., Decoration: rubricated. Large initials in red., and Musical notation (neumes) above the lines of text; no staves.
Manuscript fragment on parchment from a breviary or antiphonary, with musical notation above the texts without staves. The recto text is in late Caroline minuscule and the music is notated in Hufnagel neumes. The verso text is in transitional protogothic and music is in letter notation in the style of Saint Gall. Neither text has been identified
Description:
In Latin., Script: recto: late Caroline minuscule. Verso: transitional protogothic., and Decoration: recto: small capitals in red ink. Verso: Small capitals and letter musical notation in red ink.
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.
Bible. Latin. Vulgate. 1454, Gutenberg Bible, and 42-line Bible
Description:
BAC Folio A B 9: Imperfect: Consists of 8 pages containing Pastoral Epistles; Thessalonians, 2nd, 8-18; Philemon 1-10. Issued as part of A Noble Fragment (New York: Gabriel Wells, 1921)., BAC Folio A B 9: Provenance: Parent volume formerly owned by Carl Theodor von Pfalz-Sulzbach. Purchased from Frank M. Sabin by Gabriel Wells, 1921, and broken into leaves by him., BAC Leaf Collection no. 0001: Imperfect: a single leaf with the end of the book of Jeremiah and the beginning of the book of Baruch. Rubricated, with two large initials, one illuminated with gold. From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink., BEIN ZZi 56 Copy 1: Rubricated throughout, including large initials in color, with floral marginal decoration, at the beginning of each book., BEIN ZZi 56 Copy 1: Imperfect: Leaves [318]-[319] of v.2, blank, wanting. Some leaves are damp stained. Leaf [317] of v.2 mutilated and repaired. All edges trimmed, resulting in loss of some illumination., BEIN ZZi 56 Copy 1: Provenance: Bookplate, stamp, inscription and library label: Bibliotheca Monasterii Mellicencis. Call no. of library label: P.884a and P.884b. Sold by Melk to Edward Goldstone, 1925. Purchased at Anderson Galleries, New York, by Abraham S. Wolf Rosenbach, 15 February 1926. Purchased from Rosenbach by Mrs. Edward S. Harkness. Gift of Mrs. Harkness in memory of Mrs. Stephen V. Harkness., BEIN ZZi 56 Copy 1: Binding: 18th-century calf., BEIN ZZi 56 Copy 2: Imperfect: Consists of a single rubricated paper leaf of Ezekiel XXX,11-XXXII,13. Issued as part of A Noble Fragment (New York: Gabriel Wells, 1921)., BEIN ZZi 56 Copy 2: Provenance: Parent volume formerly owned by Carl Theodor von Pfalz-Sulzbach. Purchased from Frank M. Sabin by Gabriel Wells, 1921. Gift of Dr. Fred Murphy., BEIN ZZi 56 Copy 3: Imperfect: Consists of a single rubricated vellum bifolium with leaves from Ecclesiastes and Wisdom., DIV 939095: Imperfect: Consists of a single leaf of Nehemiah X,31-XII,28. Issued as part of A Noble Fragment (New York: Gabriel Wells, 1921)., DIV 939095: Provenance: Parent volume formerly owned by Carl Theodor von Pfalz-Sulzbach. Purchased from Frank M. Sabin by Gabriel Wells, 1921., ELIZ +39: Imperfect: Consists of a single leaf of Micah VII (incomplete); Nahum I-III; Habakkuk I (incomplete). Issued as part of A Noble Fragment (New York: Gabriel Wells, 1921)., ELIZ +39: Provenance: Parent volume formerly owned by Carl Theodor von Pfalz-Sulzbach. Purchased from Frank M. Sabin by Gabriel Wells, 1921. Gift of R.B. Adam, January 1922., MEDHIST Incunabula ++B526 (Goff): Imperfect: Consists of a single leaf of 4 Kings XIII,12-XV,6. Issued as part of A Noble Fragment (New York: Gabriel Wells, 1921)., and MEDHIST Incunabula ++B526 (Goff): Provenance: Parent volume formerly owned by Carl Theodor von Pfalz-Sulzbach. Purchased from Frank M. Sabin by Gabriel Wells, 1921.