Manuscript on paper (with parchment conjugate leaves at beginning and end of quires; calendar on parchment) of a Carmelite breviary
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written primarily by a single scribe in an informal, but careful, gothic script. Numerous additions by contemporary and later writers., Plain initials and KL monograms, 6- to 1-line, in red. Rubrics throughout. Paragraph marks, underlining, and initial strokes in red. The verso of the final folio bears the partially erased image of a large decorative initial, in green, over which the later text was written., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Head and fore-edge gilt, with tawed, pink markers on the fore-edge. Bound by William Matthews, a leading American binder (second half of the 19th century) in a dark brown goatskin Jansenist binding (plain outside with gold-tooled doublures).
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Carmelites. and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Breviaries, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Monastic and religious life
Manuscript on Paper of Breviary: Sanctorale and Common of the Saints from Erfurt, Southern Germany. Artt. 1, 2, 5, and 6 are the original texts in this volume
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in Gothica Semihybrida Libraria. The original arts. 1, 2, and 5 are written in one hand. Art. 6 is in a different hand. The other texts are written by various hands in small script., Decoration: In the original parts, there are countless red rubrics, 1-line versals, red underlinings, red stroking of majuscules and red running headlines. Some articles open with a larger red plain initial. In art. 3 there is red underlining and red stroking of majuscules. Art. 4 is undecorated. In artt. 7-9 there is red stroking of majuscules and extensive parts of the text are in red underline., and Binding: Original quarter binding sewn on three double cords: white pigskin over wooden boards, now covered by fragments of a 14th century liturgical music manuscript on parchment, with text in Northern Gothica Textualis Formata and “Hufnagel” notation on 4-line black staves. Handwritten title on spine (18th century). Paper(?) flyleaves.
Brightstovve, vulgo; quondam venta, floretissimum Angliae Emporium and Civitates orbis terrarum.
Description:
Mounted on sheet. Annotation on sheet: "Hoefnagel's map of Bristol, 1581 (Braun's Civitates). It shows Broad Stt., where the tennis court stood (1636). Preliminary record.
From Speed's The theatre of the empire of Great Britaine., Hand col. Sheet measures 42 x 55 cm. Lanman Collection., Left and right borders contain illustrations of notable persons from each of the 14 political districts., and Running title on verso: Heptarchiae
Publisher:
Are to be sold by John Sudbury & Georg. Humble,
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Maps--Early works to 1800
Subject (Name):
Humble, George, d. 1640, Speed, John, 1552?-1629. Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, and Sudbury, John
Appears in William Camden's Camden's Britannia (1695)., Imprint derived from the earliest atlas in which the map was issued., London meridian., Relief shown pictorially., Shows Roman placenames., and Subsequently issued in the same state in several editions of the
Publisher:
[A. Swalle & A. & J. Churchill],
Subject (Geographic):
British Isles--Early works to 1800--Maps, Europe--British Isles, and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Camden, William, 1551-1623. Britannia. English and Morden, Robert, approximately 1650-1703
Britannia prout divisa fuit temporibus Anglo-Saxonum praesertim durante illorum heptarchia.
Description:
Border illustrations include seven Anglo-Saxon kings on the left; the conversion to Christianity of a further seven are depicted on the right., Manuscript number in upper left corner: 7., Relief shown pictorially., and Shows kingdom boundaries, rivers, settlements and shields.