"An alphabetical dictionary, wherein all English works according to their various significations, are either referred to their places in the philosophical tables, or explained by such words as are in those tables": [157] p., with special title page. and Signatures: 2 l. unsigned, a-d2B-Z4Aa-Zz4Aaa-Mmm4 (Mmm4 blank) aaa4Aaa-Ttt4 (Ttt4 [blank?] wanting). Imperfect: lacks leaf Mmm4 (blank) and all plates and tables. With manuscript note on 1st preliminary leaf: "Eliphalet Adams. 1702/3 Donum D. Chip Medici."
Publisher:
Printed for Sa: Gellibrand, and for John Martyn printer to the Royal society,
Subject (Name):
Medici, D. Chip--Presentation inscription to E. Adams
Binding: Eighteenth century. Rebound in brown cowhide (?), blind-tooled, with numerous metal bosses. Pastedowns from the same 17th-century antiphonary used as flyleaves., Script: Written in two sizes of round liturgical gothic script by several scribes: Scribe 1, ff. 1r-235r; Scribe 2, f. 235r-v, and Scribe 3, ff. 236r-245v., and Three fine historiated initials, 4- to 2-line, shaded pink and/or green, with blue, yellow, green and orange foliage and knots, with gold dots and orange frame; figures against blue ground. 3- to 2-line calligraphic initials, divided, red and blue with red penwork, with blue and red penwork flourishes. 1-line initials red or blue with blue or red penwork, sometimes with black and green; some initials with guide-letters in outer margin. 1-line initials with yellow. Square notes on 4-line red staves. Rubrics throughout, with notes to rubricator in margins. One very crude 4-line initial (s. xvii) on f. 1r, in red, yellow, blue, green and purple.
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