Also contained are the Latin and French poems "Explicit iste liber," "Epistola super huius," "Quam cinxere," "Traitie," "Carmen de variis in amore passionibus," and "Carmen super multiplici viciorum pestilencia.", Manuscript on parchment in Anglicana (Scribes 1 and 2) and Secretary script (Scribe 3). The text is the third recension of the Confessio Amantis, written in 1392-1393.The manuscript was produced around 1400 or the beginning of the fifteenth century in the same manner as the other surviving manuscripts from this time, presumably under the author's supervision., and The text of the manuscript is the third recension of the Confessio Amantis, written in 1392-93. Also contained are the Latin and French poems "Explicit iste liber," "Epistola super huius," "Quam cinxere," "Traitie," "Carmen de variis in amore passionibus," and "Carmen super multiplici viciorum pestilencia.
Description:
Binding: yellow morocco on wooden boards, by Douglas Cockerell and Son, 1962., Ex libris Sir George Meyrick. Gift of James M. Osborn, 1961., First and third quires wanting., Imperfect: stained by mildew throughout; rubbing; multiple repairs with some loss of text., Rubrications at running titles, initials, Latin commentary., Sir George Meyrick, Bart., who sold the manuscript after his father's death in 1960, said that the manuscript had been in his family's possession for over 100 years and that in 1775 the house was almost destroyed by fire. Many family papers were lost and perhaps it was then that the manuscript became damp and mildewed., and There are red and blue 1-3 line initials at small and large paragraph breaks. Books II (f. 13r), V (76r), VI (125r), VII (140r), and VIII (175v) contain initials with full page demi-vignette borders in gold, red, blue, green, orange, and brown.
Subject (Name):
Gower, John,--1325?-1408 and Meyrick, George,--Sir--Ownership
Subject (Topic):
English poetry--14th century, English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500, French poetry--14th century, Latin poetry--14th century, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Volume 1, page 14.1. Inquiries into the origin and progress of the science of heraldry in England.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Banner on a pole with the arms of Maurice de Berkeley, 2nd Baron Berkeley: a chevron between ten crosses pattée, six in chief and four in base argent. Below the banner are six lines of verse in French with the attribution "Roll of Karlaveroc, St. 22".
Alternative Title:
Square banner of Sir Maurice Berkeley
Description:
Title written in ink above image., Artist identified as Tovey in the Sotheby's catalogue description of the volume in which this drawing is bound., Date based on publication date of the work in which this drawing is bound., and Mounted on page 14.1 in volume 1 of James Dallaway's interleaved, extra-illustrated copy of his: Inquiries into the origin and progress of the science of heraldry in England. Gloucester : Printed by R. Raikes, for T. Cadell, London, 1793.
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Possibly from: Paris and Dover, or, to and fro, a picturesque excursion : being a bird's-eye notion of a few 'Men and things' / by Roger Book'em., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Second sheet with letterpress text attached to print: A marchand-of a liquor equally thin, sweet, and cheap ..., and Second sheet attached to print 8 x 12 cm.
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Possibly from: Paris and Dover, or, to and fro, a picturesque excursion : being a bird's-eye notion of a few 'Men and things' / by Roger Book'em., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Second sheet with letterpress text attached to print: Garde du corps. The King's body guard, -composed of gentlemen of, in general, small fortune, whose chief post is at the Palace of Tuileries (seen in the background) and contiguous ..., and Second sheet attached to print 7 x 17 cm.
Title from caption below image., Possibly from: Paris and Dover / by Roger Book'em., Print numbered '2[?]' in upper right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Second sheet attached to print 6 x 17 cm., and Second sheet with letterpress text attached to print: Gens d'armes. Armed police ...
Title from caption below image., Letterpress text below: Mounted armed police, whose duty is, of course, of a nature similar to the preceding, both being called into action on most occasions, and are the means of preserving admirable order. These seem fraught with instructionsof urgent, and no ordinary, importance. Of about 3000 fiacres, or hackney coaches, which are under good regulation ..., Possibly from: Paris and Dover, or, to and fro, a picturesque excursion / by Roger Book'em., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Second sheet attached to print 7 x 17 cm., and Second sheet with letterpress text attached to print: Gens d'armes a cheval ...
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Possibly from: Paris and Dover, or, to and fro, a picturesque excursion : being a bird's-eye notion of a few 'Men and things' / by Roger Book'em., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Second sheet with letterpress text attached to print: Ménagerie (jardin des plantes.) Besides which forming parts of the same establishment are the Museum of Natural History and the Botanical Garden ..., and Second sheet attached to print 10 x 17 cm.
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[ca. 1800]
Call Number:
335 T
Collection Title:
Frontispiece to A letter from the Honorable Thomas Walpole ... Miscellanies - Strawberry-Hill
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Titled and signed by the artist below image, in gray wash., Date supplied by cataloger., and Bound in as frontispiece to A letter from the Honorable Thomas Walpole ..., in a volume with the binder's title: Miscellanies - Strawberry-Hill - 1772 1785.
Title etched below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Possibly from: Paris and Dover, or, to and fro, a picturesque excursion : being a bird's-eye notion of a few 'Men and things' / by Roger Book'em., Plate numbered '23' in upper right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Second sheet with letterpress text attached to print: La morgue, or, bone-house. Where the bodies of those who are found dead, from accident, their own hands, or, others' ..., and Second sheet attached to print 10 x 17 cm. Watermark.
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1800]
Call Number:
335 T
Collection Title:
Frontispiece to Essai sur l'art des jardins modernes. Miscellanies - Strawberry-Hill - 1772 1785.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Titled by the artist below image, in gray wash., Signed by the artist in lower right using his monogram: The letters "G" and "P" below with an "H" centered above., Date supplied by cataloger., and Bound in as frontispiece to Essai sur l'art des jardins modernes, in a volume with the binder's title: Miscellanies - Strawberry-Hill - 1772 1785.
Subject (Name):
Nivernais, Louis Jules Barbon Mancini-Mazarini, duc de, 1716-1798,