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
Image Count:
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.