Manuscript on paper of Johannes Herolt, Sermones de tempore.
Description:
Binding: Fifteenth century, Germany. Sewn on four supports attached to wooden boards. Covers lined with parchment documents; text side pasted down and illegible. Covered in white tawed skin with two fastenings, the catches on the upper board. Remains of label with title on spine; traces of inscription on upper board. Rebacked., Only selected leaves scanned., Plain red initials, 3- to 2-line. Paragraph marks, initial strokes and underlining in red; rubrics added sporadically., Purchased in 1956 from Bernard Quaritch of London by L. C. Witten, who sold it in 1958 to Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written in hybrida script, perhaps by a single scribe., The bookplate of Hilprand Brandenberg (hand-colored woodcut of an angel holding a shield representing his arms: an ox passant with a ring in its nose) is pasted below the ownership inscription, to which the shelf-mark "CXXXI" was added by a later hand., and Watermarks: several bull's heads including Piccard Ochsenkopf V.636 and similar in design to V.305-13.
Subject (Name):
Brandenburg, Hilprand, 1442-1514, bookplate, Catholic Church --Sermons, Herolt, Johann, and Marston, Thomas E., bookplate
Subject (Topic):
Church year sermons, Church year sermons--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Sermons, Latin, and Sermons--Early works to 1800
Engraved title page: Dialogvs de systemate mvndi autore Galilæ Galilei, lyncæ, serenissimo Ferdinando II, Hetrvr. magno duci dicatus. Aug. Treboc., impensis Bonav. et Abr. Elzevir, Leydens, 1635.
Signatures: [*]¹ (?)² (?)(?)¹ **² A-G² N² [+]¹ I-M² H² O-Z² Aa-Cc² a-g² h¹. Hand colored illustrations., Text on versos of most maps., and Title-page and maps hand-colored; inlaid.
Printed for Henry Herringman, and are to be sold by Francis Saunders at the Blew Anchor in the lower walk of the New Exchange, and James Knapton at the Crown in St. Pauls church-yard
Collection Created:
London : Printed for F. Saunders, at the Blue Anchor in the New Exchange in the Strand, 1693