Manuscript fragment on parchment of an illuminated leaf from an Antiphonary.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Liturgy
Subject (Topic):
Antiphonaries, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Regnum Congo hoc est vera descriptio regni Africani : quod tam ab incolis quam Lusitanis Congus
Image Count:
1
Subject (Geographic):
Africa --Description and travel --Early works to 1800, Africa --Discovery and exploration --Early works to 1800, Kongo Kingdom --Description and travel --Early works to 1800, and Kongo Kingdom --Discovery and exploration --Early works to 1800
Regnum Congo hoc est vera descriptio regni Africani : quod tam ab incolis quam Lusitanis Congus
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Subject (Geographic):
Africa --Description and travel --Early works to 1800, Africa --Discovery and exploration --Early works to 1800, Kongo Kingdom --Description and travel --Early works to 1800, and Kongo Kingdom --Discovery and exploration --Early works to 1800
Fifteen pages of largely diagrammatic drawings, approximately thirty-six in all, depending on how their relationships are interpreted (the text calls for thirty-two), are found from f. 10v to f. 17v, most of them accompanied by labels and the texts of prayers consisting of long series of invented names with exotic sounds written in a minute hand in brown ink, while the designs themselves are throughout in red. The text of the manuscript also includes numerous prayers, some of them consisting of exotic names. and Manuscript on parchment of Apollonius, Ars notoria, sive Flores aurei. A text in which a direct approach to knowledge is sought by means of incantation. The text of the manuscript also includes numerous prayers, some of them consisting of exotic names.
Description:
Binding: Wrapper, probably modern, consisting of a piece of old parchment, perhaps cut from the blank portion of a large document with a fold and some slits, the modern sewing penetrating the back., Capitals in red, blue, or green at paragraph beginnings, mostly plain, but some with slight extensions; a large capital in red and blue with green tracery at beginning. Diagrams and drawings in red ink, mostly accompanied by text in brown, often with the text forming a part of the design, on parts or all of ff. 10v-17v., and Script: Neatly written in Gothica Textualis, mostly very regular and small, sometimes minute, with various additions by similar and later hands.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy, Incantations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Collection of short texts including a manual on the astrolabe, treatises on the zodiac, several horoscopes, and a map of England.
Description:
1 map; parchment, some col.; 20.5 x 31 cm. and The manuscript is a composite of many separate treatises, some on paper,others on vellum, of varying sizes bound together. Bound in brown calf, gilt.
Added title-pages, engraved., Title vignette, with motto: Sapiens dominabitur astris., and Vol. II has special t.-p., engraved, only: Athanasii Kircheri e Soc. Iesu Mundi subterranei tomus II.us In V. libros digestus quibus mundi subterranei fructus exponuntur, et quidquid tandem rarum, insolitum, et portentosum in foecundo naturæ utero continetur, ante oculos ponitur curiosi lectoris.
Publisher:
apud Joannem Janssonium à Waesberge & filios,
Subject (Topic):
Geology--Early works to 1800, Natural history--Pre-Linnean works, and Science--Early works to 1800