Manuscript binding fragment, on parchment, of part of the text of Lancelot du Lac.
Description:
Accompanied by three unidentified manuscript fragments that were part of the 2002 sale lot., Decoration: illuminated initial with brown penwork., Script: gothic script., and Sotheby's 2002 June 18 sale, lot 4. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-.
Manuscript chronicle roll, on parchment, in two hands. The first three membranes contain a late thirteenth-century chronicle in Latin prose on the kings of England from Atheldred to Henry III. The last two membranes contain John Lydgate's Middle English Verses on the kings of England.
Description:
Binding: modern case., Decoration: decorative frames around names of kings and families., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single column., and Script: two gothic bookhands.
Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of a portion of Bracton's treatise on English law.
Description:
A fuller description of the contents is found in Baker and Taussig, Catalogue (London: 2007), pp. 13-14., Annotated on f. 1 in the hand of Sir Thomas Phillipps: H. Bracton De Legibus Angliæ. From Sir G. P. Turner's Library. Phillipps MS 3097., Binding: nineteenth-century full russia, blind-stamped. Gilt title on spine: Bracton De Legibus Angliæ., Decoration: headings, paragraph marks, and running titles in red or blue; two-line initials throughout in red and blue; two large initials in red and blue., In Latin; one lengthy marginal annotation in Law French., Layout: double columns, 32 lines., Part of the Anthony Taussig Collection of English Legal Manuscripts (OSB MSS 184). Taussig catalog number: MS 82.12.7 (number 19 in main catalog numbering)., Previously owned by Sir Gregory Osborne Page Turner; Phillipps MS 3097; William Carr; W. J. Carr. Purchased from Anthony Taussig on the Hazel M. Osborn and the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Funds, 2012., Script: Gothic Textura., Some early marginalia. Lengthy annotation in Law French (ff. 182v-183) concerning a dictum by "Denam" (probably John or William de Denum)., and Title from incipit.
Manuscript on parchment of an illuminated Bible, with the prologues attributed to St. Jerome, and interpretations of the Hebrew names.
Description:
Binding: 19th century: calf over cardboard; both covers and spine, in six compartments, gold-tooled. Purple silk doublures., Manuscript on parchment of an illuminated Bible, with the prologues attributed to St. Jerome; interpretations of the Hebrew names: Interpretationes nominum Hebraicorum, with additions in the margins and at the end; an alphabetical list of words with explanations and/or ethymologies; a table of Epistles, Gospels and other readings for the ecclesiastical year: Temporale, Sanctorale and Common of the Saints; and a list, in two columns, of the kings of Juda and Israel., and Script: probably copied by one hand in extremely small Gothica Textualis Libraria (Perlschrift). Article 3 is by a contemporary hand. Numerous historiated initials of various sizes with long vertical extensions.
Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, d. 397 Peter, of Poitiers, ca. 1130-1205 Petrus, Comestor, 12th cent
Published / Created:
[between 1200 and 1210; 1300 and 1350]
Call Number:
Marston MS 220
Image Count:
11
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment composed of two distinct parts. Part I (13th century): 1) Petrus Comestor, Historia scholastica. 2) Petrus Pictaviensis, Historia actuum apostolorum. 3) Unidentified text about Titus and Vespasian. Part II (14th century): 4) Augustinus Hibernicus, De mirabilibus sacrae scripturae, in the long recension. 5) Extracts from Ambrose, Exameron.
Description:
Binding: 18th-19th centuries, England. Brown calf, gold-tooled. Striped turn-ins., From the estate of Wilfred M. Voynich. Purchased in 1959 from H. P. Kraus by Thomas E. Marston., Part I: Two illuminated initials in parallel positions on f. 1r, beginning mid-page and extending almost to the bottom of the leaf. The first initial composed of a gold trellis edged in black with heads of a grotesque devouring the trellis at top and bottom, and foliage designs in green and white scrolling around the body of the initial against pink interior with white highlight and gold balls. The whole on a rectangular ground tapering to a point at bottom, with white designs. The second initial, somewhat narrower and less ambitious in design, gold edged in black with blue interior and thin white design in center and two rosettes, one at top, the other at bottom, and a third stylized floral motif in center, all on a pink ground in the same shape as the first initial. Also on f. 1r, 7-line initial divided red and blue with interior foliage designs in green and white on parchment ground, and red and blue penwork designs around exterior of letter. For major text divisions, fine medium blue and/or red initials, 9- to 6-line, with intricate penwork flourishes in red and blue, each accompanied by several lines of oversize letters for the first few words of text, with letters either in one color with designs in the other or alternating red and blue. Small penwork initials, red or blue with modest design in the opposite color, throughout. Headings, running headlines and vertical lines within text columns, in red. Remains of instructions to rubricator (some perpendicular to text in gutter) and guide letters for decorator., Part II: One gold initial, 4-line, with purple penwork designs on f. 194r. Blue initials with red penwork, 9- to 2-line, throughout. Headings and initial strokes added, in brown and red, unsophisticated drawings of birds, animals, leaves and grotesques in upper and lower margins., and Script: Part I (ff. 1-173): Written in neat gothic bookhand, above top line; glosses added by a variety of hands, some exhibiting anglicana features. Part II (ff. 174-197): Written in gothic bookhand with some marginalia by contemporary and later hands.
Manscript document, on parchment, in a forged late eleventh-century script, purporting to be a charter issued by Edward the Confessor to the Abbey of St. Mary, Coventry. Accompanied by six other thirteenth century grants.
Description:
Phillipps MS 27963. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-.
Subject (Name):
Edward,--King of England,--approximately 1003-1066.
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a missal for the Use of St. Nicholas (Beauvais).
Description:
Collation: 59 l. + 2 l. paper + 3 l. original parchment endleaves., Decoration: miniature of the Crucifixion on gold ground, with protective cloth stitched to leaf (6v.), Decoration: rubricated. The two-line initials are in gold on pink and blue grounds. Large historiated initial "PP (5v)., Purchased from Richard A. Linenthal (Sotheby's London sale, 2013 July 2, lot 51) on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2013., and Script: Gothic bookhand, large and angular.
Subject (Geographic):
Beauvais (France)
Subject (Name):
Cathédrale Saint-Pierre (Beauvais, France) and Catholic Church--Liturgy