Printed in black letter; title within architectural border, woodcut initials., Signatures: A-F8 (F8 probably blank, wanting). Upper and lower margins closely trimmed, a few headlines, signature marks and catchwords bled., and The Huth copy; no. 6533 in the sales cat.
Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, of Chaucer's Treatise on the astrolabe
Description:
In Middle English., Layout: single columns, mostly of 28 lines., Script: English bookhand., Decoration: initials in blue with red penwork., Presentation inscription on verso of front flyleaf: Augustus W. Franks, the gift of Sir David Dundas., Ownership inscription on verso of front flyleaf: C. H. Read., Tipped in: autograph letter signed from D. D. to A. W. Franks, 1877 February 11., and Binding: nineteenth-century full calf; in case.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.
Subject (Topic):
Astrolabes, English literature, English prose literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval
This manuscript, a contemporary scribal copy of the work, is not included among the fifteen recorded in the Variorum Edition of Spenser's Prose Works. Textually, it stands between D2 (Cambridge University Library) and F (Folger Shakespeare Library), and most probably was the manuscript from which F was copied.
Description:
Belonged to Sir Henry St. George (1581-1644), Garter King of Arms, and was acquired with the St. George Manuscripts in 1852 by Sir Thomas Phillipps. and Dibound copy in hands of six scribes, all with similar cursive scripts.
From the Collection: Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
Published / Created:
1542-1967
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 6
Container / Volume:
Box 9, folder 266
Image Count:
1
Description:
1 p. ; 22 x 18 cm. Signed: G. In Goethe's handwriting, with note in upper left hand corner in another hand: "Von Göthen, als er wollte, dass ich den Artikel über die Aufführung des Hamlets[?] unterdrücken sollte." In upper right hand corner: "79" -- i.e. 1779?
Describing her treatment at the hands of Napoleon's Police Minister, Savary, following the suppression of her book De L'Allemagne; also comments on the political situation in Europe following her visit to Russia, where she witnessed the French advance, and mentions the czar and Bernadotte.
ACC: 97.10.6 (44.352)
