Letter discussing their shared interest in books and reading, including Dickens, Stephens's Incidents of Travel in Central America and Campbell's life of Frederick the Great. Also refers to their efforts to persuade booksellers to stock "Julia Maitland's Book" (probably Letters from Madras during the Years 1836-1839, published as "By a Lady" in 1843). Note reading "Miss S. H. Burney" in another hand. ACC.: 01.2.5
Manuscript on paper of the Acts of the Apostles and Revelation
Description:
In Greek., Mutilated watermarks consisting of column (?) flanked by fleur-de-lis., Script: Written by a single person in a small neat minuscule script., Initial on f. 1r painted in blue and outlined in red. Illuminated initial on f. 65r in gold, on blue square serving as background; partial border at bottom of page: pink flowers in gold rectangle outlined in black. Running titles throughout., and Binding: Probably ca. 1530. Bruges (?). Sewn on four single, tawed thongs laced twice in and out of pasteboards. The tawed cores of the beaded endbands are also laced twice. Half bands divide the end sections of the spine. The book-block is remarkably clean and the leaves flat. Covered in brown calf with panel stamps of Saint John the Baptist and Saint Michael in arches with a line of dancing figures and a piper in between. Heavily repaired.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval and Manuscripts, Medieval
Adagia and Adagiorum chiliades Des. Erasmi Roterodami
Description:
Colophon: Basileae in Officina Frobeniana per Hieronymum Frobenium, & Nicolaum Episcopium, mense Martio, anno M.D.LIX., Errata: p. 1071., Imperfect: wormed, with no loss of text. Front paste-down endpaper heavily annotated, with original contemporary drawing. Armorial bookplate and inscription of J. Henryson. Some annotations in text. Bookplate: Teodorg Becu. Bound in blind-tooled pigskin, stamped and dated "C.C.I., 1565.," with metal clasps., Includes index., Page 1056 incorrectly numbered 1065., Printer's mark on t.p. and p. [1072]; initials., Signatures: 2a-2h⁶ 2i⁴ a-z⁶ A-3T⁶ 3V⁸., and Text in Latin with examples in Greek.
Publisher:
In officina Frobenium per Hieronymum Frobenium, & Nicolaum Episcopium,
Subject (Name):
Henryson, J.--Autograph and Henryson, J.--Bookplate
German title and text, Latin place names., Includes text and ill., Relief shown pictorially., Sheet measures 34 x 42 cm., and Text in ornamental frame on verso: Des gantzen Landts Africe, ein gemeine beschreibung. xxv.