Manuscript of a Latin Bible with Prologues attributed to St. Jerome, pages1-823, lacking most of the prologue to the whole Bible but including the Prologue to the Pentateuch, lacking Numbers XXXIV:26 to Deuteronomy I:35, Deuteronomy XXXIII:21 to Joshua II:1, Ruth IV:15 to I Kings I:4, I Kings XXX:3 to II Kings II:3, Proverbs XIX:11 to XXIII:11; Ecclesiasticus X:16 to XIV:3, Jeremiah XLIX:16 to LI:3; Interpretation of Hebrew Names, pages 825-896, lacking end (from Uphir). The Psalms are omitted, although the final three Psalms (148:4-150) appear in two parallel versions on page 389 following Job.
Description:
Annotations: contemporary and later annotations in several hands. One mentions the book of Brother Richard of London (page 186)., Binding: contemporary tawed skin over wooden boards; remains of leather straps and brass clasps., Decoration: each Biblical book and some prologues open with a large puzzle initial in red and blue, often with the other letters of the initial word in red and blue capitals with penwork flourishing; chapter initials rubricated and with penwork flourishing., Layout: contemporary pagination. 52 lines in two columns; columns of each book numbered in the lower margins; with the columns themselves divided into sections using letters of the alphabet and Arabic numerals., Script: very small Gothic bookhand., Tra[m]ays, notarial sign and inscription, 15th century. Edward Turner, ownership inscription, 16th century. William Collins, ownership inscription and note, 1614. Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd. (Christie's London sale, 2012 June 13, lot 6) on the Herman W. Liebert Fund, 2012., and Wanting pp. 1-4, 125-126, 151-152, 191-192, 217-218, 399-400, 429-430, 511, 524-526.
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--Latin, Bible.--Latin.--Vulgate, Bible--Commentaries, Bible--Prefaces, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of a collection of 226 primarily secular verses and songs. Entries include William Strode’s Uppon An Infant Unborne Whose mother Dyed in Travell; Walton Poole’s On A Gentlewoman with Black Eyes; and An Epitaph Uppon One, Drowned in the Snowe. The volume also contains satirical epigrams such as On A Creditor; An Epitaph on a Lascivious Woman; and An Epitaph on a Bastard; a series of prologues and epilogues taken from plays by William Cartwright; and several political entries, including A Declaration of the Commons Howse of Parliament in Ireland, 1640; The Copy of A Lettre Sent From the Rebells in Scotland to the King of France, Desiring his Protection; and A Dialogue Betweene Two Zelotts Concerning the New Oath. and P. [173] digitized at high resolution.
Description:
Binding: full morocco; gilt decoration. On spine: "Common place book.", Marbled endpapers., On back flyleaf: pen trials., and Table of contents at beginning of manuscript.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain --Politics and government --1603-1649 and Great Britain --Religious life and customs --17th century
Subject (Name):
Corbet, Richard, 1582-1635, Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637, and Strode, William, d 1600 or 1601-1645
Subject (Topic):
Elegiac poetry, English, English poetry --17th century, English wit and humor, Epigrams, Epitaphs, Occasional verse, English, Religious poetry, English, and Satirical verse, English
The diaries describe an 1849 expedition by way of St. Joseph, Fort Kearney, Fort Laramie, South Pass, Sublette's Cut-off, Bear River, Cantonment Loring, Raft River, the Humboldt, Lassen's Route to Deer Creek, and Bruff's camp. They contain maps and sketches from the journey and notes on life in California. The journals were written from the diaries. The notebooks contain more sketches from the trip and of equipment. There are memoranda of supplies and equipment, routes, and remedies.
Subject (Geographic):
California --Description and travel, West (U.S.) --Description and travel, West (U.S.) --Maps, and West (U.S.) --Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Bruff, Joseph Goldsborough, 1804-1889 and Washington City and California Mining Association
Subject (Topic):
Gold mines and mining --California --History --19th century --Personal narratives, Gold mines and mining --North America --History --19th century, Gold mines and mining --Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.), Gold mines and mining --United States --History, and Gold mines and mining --West (U.S.) --History --19th century
Manuscript on parchment of Valerius Maximus, Factorum et dictorum memorabilium ad Tiberium cesarem.
Description:
Binding: 15th-16th centuries. Resewn on four tawed, slit straps laced through the edge of wooden boards and nailed in channels which are filled in with plaster. There is a piece of leather at the exit from one tunnel and what may be the tips of nails just inside the channel so earlier supports may have been of leather, nailed twice. The endbands, sewn on twisted leather cores laid in grooves, were tied down through a leather spine lining, the embroidery with three beads. The edges are gilt with a design scratched on them, the spine square. Covered in dark brown goatskin with corner tongues, blind-tooled with a star in a circle with wide rope interlace panels above and below, inside concentric outer borders. Small diamonds and dots on the spine. Four brass catches on the lower board and stubs of velvet straps nailed to the upper. One joint cracked and repaired and one endband added., On f. 3r, a good historiated initial, 7-line: the author in armor, holding his book; thick, curling foliage forms, pink, orange, blue, and green, on an irregular gold ground, edged in black. Nine illuminated initials (ff. 16r, 29v, 43r, 57r, 72r, 85v, 98r, 111v, and 126r) to open Books 2-10, composed of foliage, as above, and striated color strips, in vibrant blue, orange, crimson, mauve, green, and occasionally yellow, highlighted in white and variations of the same basic hues. 4-, 2-line initials, blue with red penwork or vice versa. Book numbers at top of page, red and blue; rubrics throughout. Remains of guides for rubricator., and Script: Written by a single scribe in fere-humanistic script. Marginal and interlinear notes in several contemporary and later hands.
Subject (Geographic):
Rome--History--Tiberius, 14-37
Subject (Name):
Valerius Maximus
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Copied about 1736., Followed by other traditions., and Two traditions related by Abū Ḥanīfah on the authority of Mālik ibn Anas.
Description:
Entire volume preceded by 1 leaf of notes. Leaf incorrectly included in foliation of volume, making counts for all eleven titles off by one leaf., Fair naskhī, in red and black., In Islamic binding, in brown., and With: 10 other titles.
Subject (Topic):
Islamic binding. and Theology--Tradition--Corpuses
Ibn Mammātī, Asʻad ibn al-Muhadhdhab, 1149-1209 Suyūṭī, 1445-1505
Published / Created:
[1736]
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 258
Image Count:
19
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Copied about 1736., Followed by 2 leaves of notes., and Satyrical essay on Bahāʾ al-Dīn Qarāqūsh.
Description:
Entire volume preceded by 1 leaf of notes. Leaf incorrectly included in foliation of volume, making counts for all eleven titles off by one leaf., Fair naskhī, in red and black., In Islamic binding, in brown., With: 10 other titles., and Wrongly ascribed in the title to Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī.