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
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
Aristotle Grouchy, Nicolas de, 1520-1572 Lhéritier, Catherine, d. 1558, printer Périon, Joachim, 1499?-1559
Published / Created:
1554
Call Number:
2009 1818
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
De anima. Latin
Description:
Extensive contemporary manuscript notes in a single hand throughout and on [39] p. at front and [10] p. at end. No. 2 of 4 works bound together. and Signatures: A-C⁸ D⁶ E⁴.