Manuscript fragment on parchment (damaged). The one side has fine drawings of a king and queen (with falcon) in elaborate robes. Beside them is a foot soldier in armor; below a warrior on horseback, in armor, pursued by an archer, without armor. Above is a centaur (Chiron?) shooting an arrow at a flying bird, a second bird on the ground. On the other side (much affected by paste) three warriors storm a tower.
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Removed from Marston MS 89 where it was used as a front pastedown. and See catalogue entry for Marston MS 89.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of the biblical book of Matthew, containing portions of chapter 25 (Parable of the Talents).
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Contained in Zi +237 (Dionysius de Burgo Sancti Sepulcri, Commentarii in Valerium Maximum), in which the fragment has been used as a spine support., Decoration: initials in red., In Latin., and Script: written in an unidentified script.
Manuscript on parchment, composed of three parts, of Petrus Riga, Aurora, Biblia Versificata (a Latin verse translation of the Bible). Parts I and III in the same format and possibly from the same manuscript.
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Binding: Nineteenth century, Belgium. Tan calf over wooden boards, blind-tooled with the Arenberg arms on the sides. Title on spine: "Sacrae Scripturae excerptae/ Circa 1225-50". Remains of old fore-edge tabs., Parts I and III: Red initials, plain or with modest designs throughout. Headings in red often added to right of text. First letter of each verse stroked in red or ochre, often by drawing a single line the length of the written space. Part II: Plain initials and headings in red throughout., Presented by Otto Rauschberg in 1956 to Thomas E. Marston., and Script: Parts I and III (ff. 1-72 and 113-136): Copied by multiple scribes in small gothic bookhand, with first letter of each verse usually aligned on the second vertical bounding line. Part II (ff. 73-112): Written by multiple scribes in a larger module and a neater gothic script than that in Parts I and III; each verse is justified by the placement of the final letter along outer vertical ruling. Script has often been retraced.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of the biblical book of Judges.
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Decoration: alternating red initials with blue penwork and blue initials with red penwork; initials heightened in red; roman numerals in blue and red indicating chapter numbers., In Latin., Script: written in a late pregothic bookhand., and These fragments are contained in Zi 3612.6 (Gianantonio Sangiorgio, Sermo de passione...), around which they are used as wrappers.
Manuscript on parchment of an illuminated Bible, with the prologues attributed to St. Jerome, and interpretations of the Hebrew names.
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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.
Manuscript of a Latin Bible with Prologues attributed to St. Jerome, pages1-823, lacking most of the prologue to the whole Bible but including the Prologue to the Pentateuch, lacking Numbers XXXIV:26 to Deuteronomy I:35, Deuteronomy XXXIII:21 to Joshua II:1, Ruth IV:15 to I Kings I:4, I Kings XXX:3 to II Kings II:3, Proverbs XIX:11 to XXIII:11; Ecclesiasticus X:16 to XIV:3, Jeremiah XLIX:16 to LI:3; Interpretation of Hebrew Names, pages 825-896, lacking end (from Uphir). The Psalms are omitted, although the final three Psalms (148:4-150) appear in two parallel versions on page 389 following Job.
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Annotations: contemporary and later annotations in several hands. One mentions the book of Brother Richard of London (page 186)., Binding: contemporary tawed skin over wooden boards; remains of leather straps and brass clasps., Decoration: each Biblical book and some prologues open with a large puzzle initial in red and blue, often with the other letters of the initial word in red and blue capitals with penwork flourishing; chapter initials rubricated and with penwork flourishing., Layout: contemporary pagination. 52 lines in two columns; columns of each book numbered in the lower margins; with the columns themselves divided into sections using letters of the alphabet and Arabic numerals., Script: very small Gothic bookhand., Tra[m]ays, notarial sign and inscription, 15th century. Edward Turner, ownership inscription, 16th century. William Collins, ownership inscription and note, 1614. Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd. (Christie's London sale, 2012 June 13, lot 6) on the Herman W. Liebert Fund, 2012., and Wanting pp. 1-4, 125-126, 151-152, 191-192, 217-218, 399-400, 429-430, 511, 524-526.
Manuscript on parchment (thin, pliable) of Aristotle, 1) Priora analytica, Lat. tr. Boethius. 2) Posteriora analytica, Lat. tr. Jacobus Veneticus (ca. 1130-40). 3) Books I-III of the Ethica Nicomachea. 4) De anima, Lat. tr. Jacobus Veneticus. 5) De anima (from the Parva naturalia), Lat. tr. Jacobus Veneticus.
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Attractive flourished initials, red and blue divided with penwork designs in the same colors, mark the beginning of arts. 1-4; first few words of each of these texts written in red and blue alternating majuscules. For minor text divisions 2-line initials red or blue with designs in the opposite color. Paragraph marks in red (or sometimes alternating red and blue). Headings and instructions to rubricator in red., Binding: Nineteenth century, Germany. Parchment case binding made from a bifolium of a missal (Germany, 15th century) containing text for the end of the Secret for the 11th Sunday after Pentecost through part of the Gospel reading for the 12th Sunday. Remains of title, in ink, on spine. Pink (faded red?) edges., and Script: Written in a small neat gothic text script, above top line and with uncrossed tironian et. Marginal and interlinear annotations, contemporary or slightly later, in a variety of scholarly hands; annotations written in ink, crayon and lead, some very faded and barely legible.
