Bible. English. Coverdale. 1535 and Byble : that is, the Holy Scrypture of the Olde and New Testament, faythfully translated in to Englyshe, M.D.XXXV ...
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BEIN 1971 +159: Imperfect: t.p. and 8th prelim. leaf wanting and supplied in facsimile; sig. 2T₂₋₆ (pt. 6) wanting and replaced with p. 945-951 from the Bible published in London, 1629 by Bonham Norton and John Bill; in pt. 6, sig. 2Q₃ bound before 2Q₂ and 2Q₅ before 2Q₄; a few leaves stained. Autograph: John Dryston. With: Bible. English. O.T. Psalms. Paraphrases. ed. Sternhold. 1632. The whole booke of Psalmes. London, 1632., BEIN MLm110 +535: Imperfect: Two fragments only, as follows: From pt. 4: leaves Iiiij-lxxvi (signed 3I6-3N4); the last page of Baruch, the whole of Ezekiel, and the first column of Daniel. From pt. 5: leaves xxxij-lvi (signed F2-K2); Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus, and the first column of the Prayer of Azarias. Autograph: Thos. Sanders Junor. Octor. 1737; Mary Colbeck; Ed Harford; Margeret Leigh; Christopher Cooke; James Clayton., The "English" issue, with the preliminary leaves printed by James Nycholson of Southwark. -- cf. British and Foreign Bible Society's Historical catalogue, no. 7; Brit. Museum Cat., Translator's dedication signed: Myles Couerdale., Place of publication and printers' names conjectured by STC., Colophon reads: Prynted in the yeare of oure Lorde M.D.XXXV. and fynished the fourth daye of October., The seconde parte of the olde Testament", "The boke of Iob", "All the prophetes in Englishe", "Apocripha", and "The new testament" each have separate foliation. The Apocrypha begins new register, the rest recommence with multiple A's. Job has caption title, the rest have divisional title pages., The last leaf is blank., and In this state the eight preliminary leaves are printed in a different type as the text; title has "Byble"; all letterpress quotations in the border are in English, with "Mathe. 28." at upper right. Facsimiles may have either "Math. 28" at upper right or some letterpress quotations in Latin.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a book of hours with an office for the dead
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In Latin., Script: Copied by one hand writing in Gothica Cursiva Formata (Bastarda)., and Decoration: Purplish red rubrics. Yellow highlighting of the majuscules. 1-line versals and 2- or 3-line initials, all in liquid gold on purplish red or blue square background decorated with foliage or flowers in liquid gold. Initials in red, blue, and gold. On f. 1v, there is a rectangular picture, framed in black and gold and treated as an initial 11 lines high, of God the Father with tiara, sitting, one hand on the globe, the other hand blessing rows of Seraphim and Cherubim before him. Elsewhere yellow-colored fleur-de-lys, animals, archers and a giant insects.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Books of hours, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
In Latin with some Dutch headings., Script: Copied by one Northern scribe writing Southern Textualis Formata (Rotunda) with some Humanistic features (Capital A, straight d alternating with Gothic d)., Headings in red. Lavish decoration in Ghent-Bruges style. Rectangular line-fillers in red, blue, green and gold. Trompe-l'oeil initials (1 line, 2 lines, 3 lines (rarely), 5 lines) consist of twisted branches in mat gold projecting shadow on a square background in red, blue or green. Full-page miniatures are painted on the verso of inserted singletons and are framed by four-margin borders which have their counterpart on the facing text page. Text miniatures (height: 7-8 lines) are painted in regular quires and are accompanied by four-margins, mostly floral borders., and Binding: Partly original binding in blind-tooled brown calf by the Bruges binder Ludovicus Bloc (1484-1529). The original binding is inset in brown morocco by F. Bedford (?) On each cover a panel with eight animals in tendrils, surrounded by the inscription in Roman Capitals "Ob laudem Christi librum hunc recte ligavi Ludovicus Bloc", is stamped four times; between the upper and the lower panel imprints is a five-compartment frieze containing animals. On the modern blind-tooled spine gold-tooled modern inscriptions "HORAE / B.V.M. / TORNACENSIS" and "MS./ BRUGES / C. 1520". Gilt and gauffered edges. White parchment endleaves.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Books of hours, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript, on parchment, incomplete, of a book of hours, probably Use of Châlons. It contains a calendar (1r-12v); the Hours of the Virgin in the Use of Châlons (13r-70v); Hours of the Cross and Hours of the Holy Spirit (71r-78v); Seven Penetential Psalms (79r-98v); and the Office of the Dead (99r-138v).
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In Latin., Bookseller description available., Script: gothica textualis semi-quadrata., Layout: single column, 14 lines., Decoration: Many small decorated initials, gilt, or with contrasting red and blue penwork; some two-line decorated initials, also gilt. Nearly all pages have one margin filled with an ivyleaf border with gold leaves and colored blossoms. Nine large miniatures accompanied by large gold initials and full gold borders: Annunciation (13r); Nativity (40v); the angel and the shepherds (47r); Presentation in the temple (55v); Coronation of Mary (66r); Crucifixion (71r); Pentecost (76r); David repenting (79r); Mass for the dead with mourners and clerics (99r)., and Binding: eighteenth-century full blind-tooled brown leather, rebacked: spine title "HORAE" on modern spine. Marbled endpapers.
Binding: Original, yellowish pigskin over bevelled wooden boards; both covers blind-tooled with frames of fillets and rolls. Spine blind-tooled with three raised bands. Remnants of two clasps attached to the rear board, with engraved brass catches (one partly preserved) on the front board. Yellow spine., Red rubrics and red stroking of majuscules. Red initials: 1-line versals, 2-line plain initials; art. 1 opens with a 4-line initial and features several 3-line initials, all of the same type as the other ones in the manuscript., Script: Copied by two hands, both writing Gothica Textualis Formata. Hand A copied ff. 1r-8v (art. 1) in bold script with little angulariy and long ascenders and descenders; hand B copied all the other pages in Textus Semiquadratus in two sizes, with conspicable forking at the top of the ascenders, spurs, hairlines, a very short d and Southern German or Central European features such as the shape of the -orum and -arum abbreviations, the use of y for ii, etc. The texts on the inserted leaflets in art. 2 and some corrections are in Gothica Hybrida (Fractura)., and Slips of parchment with additional texts have been inserted between ff. 18-19, 33-34, 35-36.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Liturgy
Subject (Topic):
Breviaries, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library