Added title page inserted: Of the lawes and customes of a common-wealth ... London, Printed by A.I., Imperfect: Leaf A2 mutilated with loss of text., and Title within ornamental border.
[Parts 2-3] have special title pages., Collation: [pt. 1]: 16 p.l., 69 p. : fold. front., illus.; [pt. 2]: 4 p.l., 72 p.; [pt.3]: 4 p.l., 12 p., Frontispiece wanting. Portions of the imprint of [pt. 1] indistinct. 2nd-4th p.l. of [pt. 3] (sig. second A3) misbound before p. [1] of [pt. 1]. No. 1-3 of 5 items bound together. Pt. 2-3 also separately cataloged., Part 1 bound with parts 2-3 (also separately cataloged) and two other titles. To view other titles search by call no.: Bi25 18., Signatures: [pt. 1]:*⁸ **⁸ B-E⁸ F⁴(F4 blank); [pt. 2]: A⁴ B-E⁸ F⁴; [pt. 3]:A1 A³ A2-7., and The Huntington check-list gives the collation of [pt. 3] as follows: A1,A(repeated)⁴(last, prob. blank, lacking)A(cont’d)⁷(last, prob. blank, lacking).
Publisher:
Printed by I.N. for John Rothvvell, and are to be sold at the Sunne in Pauls Church-yard, and by Henry Overton in Popes-head Alley
Sermon preached at the buriall of William Rogers apothecary and Yovng-mans warning-peece
Description:
Bound with: Bacon, Nathaniel. A relation of the feare-full estate of Francis Spira, in the yeare, 1548. London: Printed by I.L. for Phil. Stephens, and Christoph. Meredith, 1638., P. 72-73 omitted from pagination., Signatures: A-E¹²., and The post-script on p. [85] has its own title page, pagination and register are continuous.
Publisher:
Printed by J.L. for P. Stevens, and C. Meredith, and are to be sold at their shop at the signe of the Golden Lion in Pauls Church-yard
Subject (Name):
Bible. O.T. Proverbs IV, 19 --Sermons and Rogers, William, d. 1636?
Manuscript on parchment (bad quality) and paper containing 1) Guillelmus Peraldus (Guillaume Peyraud, s. XIII), De professione monachorum. 2) Requirements for the priest who is proceeding to the consecration of the Eucharist. 3) Iohannes Gerson (1363-1429), Opus tripartitum de praeceptis Decalogi, de confessione et de arte moriendi. 4) Anonymous treatise on the seven sacraments. 5) A short treatise on the Canonical Hours, being an annex to art. 5. 6) Henricus de Coesvelt OCarth. (d. 1410), De sacramento eucharistiae. 7) Anonymous treatise on the preparation to mass. 8) Alphonsus Bonihominis OP (d. c. 1353), Historia Ioseph. 9) Thomas de Cantimprato (Thomas of Cantimpré, d. before 1266?), Vita sanctae Christinae Mirabilis (d. c. 1224). 10) Guido Vicentinus OP (d. 1332), Margarita Bibliae (Biblia metrica), without the prologues. 11) Table of contents.
Description:
Binding: ca. 1900. Tan morocco binding over heavy bevelled wooden boards; the covers decorated with a blind-tooled roll, and gold-tooled frames. Five decorated brass bosses with cornerpieces, of an undetermined age (16th century?), on each cover, and two brass clasps, equally much older than the binding, attached to the rear cover. Spine with four raised bands. Six leather tabs., Modern (paper) binder's blanks not digitized., Script: Copied by various scribes in Gothica Semihybrida or Hybrida Libraria; the last section only (art. 11) is copied in a more rapid Gothica Cursiva Libraria/Currens, by Henricus de Benthem., and The decoration differs from section to section. Red heightening of majuscules, red paragraph marks and red underlining. Headings in red or black, sometimes in Textualis. 2-line (rarely 3- or 4-line) plain initials in red. 4-, 5- or 6-line flourished initials in red with black penwork on ff. 2r (art. 2), 50v (littera duplex, art. 4), 72r (littera duplex, art. 5), 146r (littera duplex, art. 8), 178r (art. 9).
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Liturgy
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Monasticism and religious orders, and Theology--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500
Manuscript on paper of Iohannes de Sacrobosco (1000-1210), Tractatus de sphaera.
Description:
2-line plain initials alternately in red and blue at the beginning of the subdivisions of the text. They are placed almost entirely in the margin and are missing ff. 17v, 28r and 33r. Guide letters, written in the space reserved for the initials, are equally often missing. On f. 1r the Prologue opens with a 4-line foliate initial in red, green and blue with two flowers on a gold background and floral extensions in the inner margin, in Lombard style; in the lower margin of the same page a painted double-headed imperial eagle in black, its two heads with a golden crown and on its chest an oval shield with the coat of arms or, three bends azure., Binding: Original Italian, undecorated blue-stained leather over beech boards. Sewn on three double leather thongs. Remnants of three clasps attached to the front board (one at the upper, one at the lower and one at the right-hand side); thin brass engraved catches on the rear cover, decorated with a floweret and the Gothic majuscule “S”. The parchment pastedowns are now detached from the boards., Collection of Bernard M. Rosenthal, Berkeley (MS 149). Purchased from Rosenthal on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund., Parchment end leaves., Script: Copied by one hand in Humanistica Cursiva Libraria/Currens, widely spaced. The first letter after an initial is in Capitalis., and Watermark: two crossed arrows, similar to Briquet 6269-6275, especially to Briquet 6271 (attested 1462). The whole group and its variants are attested in Northeastern Italy 1448-1495.
Subject (Name):
Sacro Bosco, Joannes de,--fl. 1230
Subject (Topic):
Astronomy, Medieval, Geometry, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Christian literature, English (Middle), Humility--Religious aspects--Christianity, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library