Manuscript on paper in two parts. Part I (late 15th century): 1) John of Rupescissa, De consideratione quinte essentie. 2) Aqua solempnissima, atque mirabilis. Part II (copied in 1775): 3) George Ripley (?), Touchant le grand magistere des sages, translated from English into French
Description:
In Latin and French., Script: Part I: Written by a single hand in a semigothic cursive. Part II: Written in a cursive hand sloping to the right., Part I: Headings in red., and Binding: Nineteenth century, English. Tan buckram boards, brown morocco back and corners, flat backstrip with gold-stamped title, plain edges.
BEIN GERsheet249: From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards., Title devised by cataloger., 15 fragments., and Suit system: acorns, bells, birds, roses.
le 15 iour de nouembre mil cinq cens [et] trois [1503]
Call Number:
1998 2006
Image Count:
33
Alternative Title:
Blasondes armes
Description:
BEIN 1998 2006: Coats of arms, pictorial initials, and printer's device hand-colored. Ms. notes on t.p. and in text. Imperfect: bled at edges, with partial loss of ms. notes., Imprint from colophon., Signatures: [a]⁸ b-c⁸ [d]⁴., and Gothic type.
BEIN GERsheet243: From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards., Title devised by cataloger., Uncut sheet of 8 playing cards (7, 4-2H; 8, 6, 4, 3B)., German suit system., and 3H: 1558; 2H, crossed hammers on shield; 6B, scroll-like ornament.
BEIN ITAsheet3S: From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards., Title devised by cataloger., Italian suit system., Uncut sheet of 20 playing cards (Wheel of Fortune, Chariot, Love, Fortitude, Popess, Emperor, Empress, Pope (?), Sun, Moon, Star, Bagatto, Fool (?), Tower, Devil, Temperance; 9 or 8B, 7B)., and Batons from separate sheet and mounted to appear as part of this sheet. All cards truncated except Popess, Emperor, Empress, Moon, Star, and Bagatto. Ancestral to marseille tarot.