Bequest of George P. and Mary P. Milmine, Dec. 1986., Binding: contemporay Dülmen binding of the blind-stamped leather over wooden boards; original upper clasps (clasp-hooks wanting)., Bound in Beinecke copy are four leaves from a twelfth-century ms. on parchment (probably a breviary) with musical notation in neumes., Differs from description of BM 15th cent., II, p. 423 in that quire g has 10 ff. (not 8), and quire G has 8 ff. (not 10)., Provenance: "Liber p[ri]m[u]s decretalis D[omini] H[er]bordi Wernyngh de Borchorst pastoris in Vreden atq[ue] Rectoris p[ri]mi altar[is] eccl[es]is ... [unidentified proper name"]. "In a different hand: Quem idem donauit post morte[m] domui Castrimarie p[ro]pe Dulmania[m] Ord[inis] Carthusien[sis] cum multis aliis quare merito ... fideliter pro eodem etc." (ms. on 1 a); "W.S. Thorpe 1871" (ms. on 1a); "R.B. Anderson, Madison, Wis." (stamp on 1a); "I have had the pleasure of being the happy possessor ... and am glad to know that it passes from me into Mr. John E. Burton's appreciative hands ... May 8, 1882. R.B. Anderson" (ms. on 1a); owned by George P. Milmine., and Rubricated throughout; capital spaces with guide-letters, capitals supplied in red or blue; book numbers in red in upper center margin of each page; headings in ms. in upper right corner of each recto.
Subject (Name):
Anderson, Rasmus Björn,--1846-1936--Stamp and presentation inscription to J.E. Burton., Burton, John E.--Presentation inscription from R.B. Anderson., Catholic Church. Breviary (Ms. 12th cent.) 797 % sp3, Gregory IX, Pope, ca. 1170-1241., Kartause Marienburg (Weddern, Germany) Inscription., Milmine, George--Ownership., and Wernyngh de Borchorst, Herbordus--Inscription.
Dictonarium quinque nobilissimarum Europae linguarum.
Description:
Imperfect: title-border slightly bled., Signatures: *4A-Q4., and The author's name appears in the title of the complimentary poem on recto of 4th prelim. leaf.
Blank versos not digitized., Preface by Adrianus Damman and Abraham de Bruyn, followed by a list of plates (to plate 52 only), and preceded by three poems (two by Damman, and one by George Buchanan)., Signatures: [a]1(engraved t.-p.)*-**4., The plates are numbered as follows: 1-8 (1 dated 1575), 8A-8D, 9-10, 1-E-10F, 11-16, 16G-16K, 17-18, 18L-180, 19-22, 22P-22R, 23-27, 27S-27K, 28-29, 29Y, 30, 30Z, 31-54., and The t.-p. is followed by 9 unnumbered plates, apparently inserted, viz.: (1) Neptune and Earth, with two equine heads; (2) full-page coat of arms; (3-9) armorial shields, without arms, (5) lettered "Excudebat Abraham D. Bruyn 1578".
Engraved t.-p., Map (16 x 24 cm, on sheet 27 x 27 cm, folded to 27 x 18 cm), bound in following leaf 26, with initials "F. P." in lower right-hand corner., Map: Orbis terrae compendiosa descriptio, ex ea, qùam ex Magna Vniuersali Mercatoris Rumoldus Mercator fieri curabat inhác cómodioré formá a Hieron: Porro redact. n.d. Scale not given., and World map engraved by Girolamo Porro after Gerhard Mercator.
Publisher:
s.n.,
Subject (Name):
Porro, Girolamo, 1520-1604 engraver and Quad, Matthias, 1557-1613
Subject (Topic):
Explorers--Portraits and Kings and rulers--Portraits