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.
Tröstlich Gsang von der auff Ersteung des Fleisch und ewigen Leben
Description:
Attributed to Leonhard Paminger in Wackernagel. VD 16 suggests Martin Luther as a contributor., Date of publication suggested by VD 16., Printer from colophon., and Signatures: A⁴ (A4 blank).
Alani de Insulis doctoris celeberrimi cognomento universalis compendiosa in cantica canticorum ad laudem Deiparae virginis Mariae elucidatio and Compendiosa in cantica canticoru[m] ad laudem Deiparae virginis Mariae elucidatio
Description:
Binder's stamp: Cape., Entry on Alanus de Insulis from Joannes Trithemius' De scriptoribus ecclesiasticis on leaf a2., Final p. blank., and Signatures: a-i⁸.
Publisher:
Ex Officina Iacobi Keruer, sub duobus Gallis, via ad diuum Iacobum
Subject (Name):
Cape--Binding and Trithemius, Johannes, 1462-1516. De scriptoribus ecclesiasticis. Selections
Subject (Topic):
Bible--Song of Solomon--Commentaries--Early works to 1800
f. 42r, headline: [possibly in a different although similar hand:] Excellentissimi Philosophi Simonis Portij de / animae immortalitate Quaestio ex suis / lectionibus . 3 . de anima excerpta.
Description:
First pastedown: Fragment of parchment leaf from a twelfth-century Italiancodex, probably a Gospel Lectionary, containing an extract from the Gospel ofSt. John written in Latin in a Rotunda antiquior hand, bound in upside down., Leaves 114-115 excised., and Leaves 58-82, 85-103 blank, not digitized. Paper is consistent with rest of volume. 26-32 mm. chainlines, no discernible watermark.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy--Early works to 1800 and Divination--Early works to 1800