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Illuminated manuscript on vellum, in a Gothic liturgical hand, of a Psalter, prefaced by a liturgical calendar and followed by the Office of the Dead.
Description:
Binding: modern full blue velvet., Ex libris John Ruskin. Ex libris Laurence Hilliard. Ex libris Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica (J. R. Ritman Library). Purchased from Sam Fogg on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2007., Presentation inscription on front flyleaf: Laurence Hilliard with John Ruskin's love, Brantwood, 25th January 1881., Tipped in at front of manuscript: parchment leaf containing copy of a letter from Joseph Mallord William Turner to John Ruskin, Midsummer Day [June 24] 1848, in the hand of John Ruskin., and Tipped in to front of manuscript: parchment leaf containing a description of the illuminations in the hand of John Ruskin.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church, Hilliard, Laurence--Ownership, Ruskin, John--1819-1900.--Autograph, and Turner, Joseph Mallord William--1775-1851.--Association
Subject (Topic):
Catholic Church--Liturgy--Texts, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Psalters
Inscription on title page: The gift of Admiral Ichichagoff to me C.W. Henslowe / much valued! (The admiral play’d extremely well on the / piano forte & on mine at Chatham Dock / Yard) / (To be preserved with care).
Publisher:
Artaria
Subject (Name):
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791. Don Giovanni. La ci darem la mano
De medicinali materia libri sex, Pedanii Dioscoridis Anazarbei, De medicinali materia libri sex, Ioanne Rvellio Svessionensi interprete, and Pedanij Dioscoridis Anazarbei, De medicinali materia libri sex / Ioanne Ruellio Suessionensi interprete. Singulis cum stirpium, tum animantium historijs, ad naturae aemulationem expressis imaginibus, seu uiuis picturis, ultra millenarium numerum adiectis ... ; Additis etiam annotationibus ... per Gualtherum Riuium, Argentinum, medicum. ; Accesserunt priori editioni, Valerij Cordi Simesusij Annotationes doctissimae in Dioscoridis De medica materia libros. ; Euricij Cordi Simesusij Iudicium de herbis & simplicibus medicinae, ac eorum quae apud medicos controuertuntur, explicatio. ; Herbarum nomenclaturae, uariarum gentium ... Aut. Conrado Gesnero, medico. Cum indice quintuplici copiosissimo ...
Description:
The sixth book comprises the De venenis and the De venenatis animalibus, which in the original edition of this translation (1516) were divided into 4 books called books 6-9.
Publisher:
Apud Chr. Egenolphum
Subject (Topic):
Botany, Medical --Early works to 1800, Materia medica, Vegetable --Early works to 1800, and Medicine, Greek and Roman --Early works to 1800