47 letters and documents, on paper (one document on parchment) in various cursive scripts, produced in England between 1554 and 1706. Mostly from the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, they consist of claims for expenses, wages, and other benefits. The...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603., James I, King of England, 1566-1625., and Great Britain. Exchequer.
Manuscript, on paper, in cursive scripts by six scribes, produced in England in 1597. A contemporary scribal copy of the work, not included among the fifteen recorded in the Variorum Edition of Spenser's Prose Works
Manuscript on parchment (goatskin) of Andrea Vendramin, Doge of Venice (1476-1478), Commission (dogale) to Girolamo Michiel as governor of Asolo, near Treviso
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., Asolo (Italy), and Venice (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Vendramin, Andrea, 1392-1478.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Politics and government
Album containing 296 printed reply forms, completed in manuscript by individuals subscribing various sums of money for the expenses of a forthcoming meeting in Dublin of the Protestant Friends of Civil and Religious Freedom, known as the Great Protest...
Description:
Front cover title: "Autographs for Civil and Religious Liberty."
Subject (Geographic):
Ireland and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
De Vere, Aburey, Sir, 1788-1846, Parnell, Henry, Sir, 1776-1842, Wyse, Thomas, Sir, 1791-1862, and Protestant Friends of Civil and Religious Freedom.
Subject (Topic):
Catholic emancipation, History, and Politics and government
Manuscript on parchment (goatskin) of Gaspare Zacchi, Bononiensium res publica. Most probably the dedication copy, sent by the author from Tivoli to the Signoria of Bologna on or soon after 29 Nov. 1471
Description:
The author (d. 1474) in 1450-1455, being protonotary of Volterra, was a member of Cardinal Bessarion's legation to Bologna. In 1460 he became bishop of Osimo. At the time he wrote the present treatise he was prefect of Tivoli ("Arx Tiburtina").
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Bologna (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Zacchi, Gaspare.
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Politics and government
Manuscript on parchment of Capitularies of Charlemagne and Louis the Pious compiled by Ansegisus in 827. With Capitularies of Charles the Bald; and List of Frankish kings from Faramund to Philip II (1180).
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and France
Subject (Name):
Charlemagne, Emperor, 742-814., Charles II, King of France, 823-877., and Louis I, Emperor, 778-840.
Subject (Topic):
Law |z France, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Politics and government
