Proof with Gibbs's head before shading and lettering; a half-length portrait of the architect James Gibbs, looking to the right, in an oval, decorated frame
Description:
Title, artist, printmaker, state and date from later states and Paulson., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On page 143 in volume 2. Sheet trimmed within plate mark to: 26.6 x 18.5 cm.
Manuscript, on parchment, containing copies of several treatises: 1) Tractatus de Sacramento Corpus Christi, by Baldwin, Archbishop of Canterbury (ff. 1-26); 2) De Vero Sapientia, Dialogus I and II, attributed here to Petrarch (now believed to be by Nicholas of Cusa) (ff. 27-50v); 3) De Invidia, Niccolò Perotti's translation of a sermon by Basil the Great, with a preface addressed to Pope Nicholas V (ff. 51-63); 4) De invidia et odio, Niccolò Perotti's translation of a work by Petrarch, with a preface addressed to Pope Nicholas V (ff. 63v-68v); 5) De fortuna virtute ve nominum: ad Nicolaum quintum pontificem maximum, by Niccolò Perotti (69-73v); 6) Epistle LXVII to Simplician, by St. Ambrose (ff. 74-79v); 7) Ex sermonibus quadragesimalibus: Sermone de correctione fraterna, by Leonardo di Utino, O.P. (80-86v); 8) Speculum regis Edwardii tercii, attributed here to Simon Islip, Archbishop of Canterbury (now recognized as the work of William Pagula) (ff. 87-148, with skip from 89 to 100); 9) De tenenda obedientia et evitanda superbia, by St. Augustine (ff. 148-152).
Description:
Peter Meghen (d. 1537), of 's-Hertogenbosch in Brabant; scribe who copied works for several English clients, including Christopher Urswick and John Colet, and served as a courier for Erasmus and Sir Thomas More. Meghen's other patrons included Cardinal Wolsey, and he became Writer of the King's Books in the 1520s and served until his death in 1537. His nickname, "Cyclops," referred to his having only one eye., In Latin., In a humanistic script., Original foliation in red, from i to clii, skips from lxxix to c., Rubrics and foliation in red. Historiated initial and full-page border on ff 1v.; seven large and twenty-two small illuminated initials, all in a Northern Netherlandish style ("Masters of the Dark Eyes")., Colophon (ff. 142v) in red states that the manuscript was written for Christopher Urswick by "Petrus Meghen monoculus.", Spine label: Vrsyke de sacra: euch:. Spine date at foot: MCCCCCII., and Binding: 19 century full paneled brown calf, blind-stamped. Five-compartmented spine.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., England, and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Meghen, Peter,, Nicholas V, Pope, 1397-1455., and Urswick, Christopher, 1448?-1522.
Subject (Topic):
Conduct of life, Envy, Kings and rulers, Duties, Lord's Supper, Sermons, Wisdom, Manuscripts, Medieval, Economic conditions, Intellectual life, and Politics and government
Title supplied by curator., From: Bernhard Siegfried Albinus, Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani, London: J. & P. Knapton, 1749. The Knapton edition is unauthorized., Date derived from publication date of Tabulae sceleti ..., In margin upper left: Tab. V., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Anatomical illustration.
Title supplied by curator., From: Bernhard Siegfried Albinus, Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani, London: J. & P. Knapton, 1749., Date derived from publication date of Tabulae sceleti ..., Place of publication from item., Original plates were designed and engraved by Jan Wandelaar, Dutch (1690-1759). The Knapton edition was unauthorized., In margin upper left: Tab. VI., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Anatomical illustration.
Title supplied by curator., From: Bernhard Siegfried Albinus, Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani, London: J. & P. Knapton, 1749., Date derived from publication date of Tabulae sceleti ..., Place of publication from item., Original plates were designed and engraved by Jan Wandelaar, Dutch (1690-1759). The Knapton edition was unauthorized., In margin upper left: Tab. VI., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Anatomical illustration.
Title supplied by curator., From: Bernhard Siegfried Albinus, Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani, London: J. & P. Knapton, 1749., Date derived from publication date of Tabulae sceleti ..., Place of publication from item., In margin upper right: Tab. IV., Original plates were designed and engraved by Jan Wandelaar, Dutch (1690-1759). The Knapton edition was unauthorized., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Anatomical illustration; Musculo-skeletal system.
Publisher:
Impensis J.&P. Knapton, Londini, 1747
Subject (Topic):
Human anatomy, Anatomy, Artistic, Skeletons, and Rhinoceroses
Title supplied by curator., From: Bernhard Siegfried Albinus, Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani, London: J. & P. Knapton, 1749., Date derived from publication date of Tabulae sceleti ..., Place of publication from item., In margin upper left: Tab. III., Original plates were designed and engraved by Jan Wandelaar, Dutch (1690-1759). The Knapton edition was unauthorized., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Anatomical illustration.
Publisher:
Impensis J. & P. Knapton, Londini, 1747
Subject (Topic):
Human anatomy, Anatomy, Artistic, Skeletons, and Muscles
Scotin, Gérard Jean Baptiste, 1698-approximately 1755, printmaker
Published / Created:
1749.
Call Number:
Print30043
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title supplied by curator., In upper margin right: Tab. I., From: Bernhard Siegfried Albinus, Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani, London: J. & P. Knapton, 1749., The Knapton edition is unauthorized., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[ca. 1781?]
Call Number:
Portraits H252 no. 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Engraving of Thomas Orde's portrait of the British philanthropist Jonas Hanway, three-quarters length in profile looking left and seated at a table writing; with a quotation from Horace etched below the oval portrait, "En fides et pax et honor ... virtus audet. Hor. Cax. Soc."
Description:
Title devised by cataloger. and Quotation etched below image: "En fides et pax et honor pudory, prisous, et neglects redire virtus audet. Hor. Car. Sec."
After page 50. Anecdotes of painters, who have resided or been born in England.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Illustration from Don Quixote
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Plate from: Cervantes S. The life and exploits of the ingenious gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha. Translated ... by Charles Jarvis ... London : Printed for J. and R. Tonson [etc.], 1756., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of plate number from lower right and complete loss of volume and page numbers from lower left., Plate numbered "65" in lower right corner., Folded to 21.6 x 15.5 cm., and Tipped in after page 50 in Thomas Kirgate's extra-illustrated copy of: Edwards, E. Anecdotes of painters, who have resided or been born in England. London : Printed by L. Hansard & Sons, for Leigh and Sotheby [etc.], 1808.
Publisher:
J. and R. Tonson etc.
Subject (Name):
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616., Quixote, Don (Fictitious character),, and Panza, Sancho (Fictitious character),