Manuscript on paper. Includes notes on arithmetic and accounting for merchandise; a romance of Tristan; list of spices; astronomical and astrological information; charms and prayers; recipes; extracts in Venetian; and poems
Description:
In Italian and Latin., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Fruit 7372-76, Briquet Cheval 3564, and Briquet Fruit 7341., Script: Written by a single scribe in a neat notarial hand, through f. 67v. Notes added by various hands of 14th-15th centuries., Drawings of ships, towers and merchants in ink, with added yellow, brown, green, red and blue; many diagrams. Crude 2- and 1-line initials in red, with guide-letters for rubricator showing beneath; headings in red., Repair of f. 1 with later paper; some loss of text. Repairs at outer edges on this and other folios do not affect text., and Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Rigid vellum case with paste paper back endleaf and pastedowns. Central fold of each bifolium has been reinforced with a strip of parchment.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Venice (Italy)
Subject (Topic):
Accounting, Arithmetic, Astrology, Astronomy, Medieval, Formulas, recipes, etc, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, Merchants, Prayers, Tristan (Legendary character), and Economic conditions
BEIN 2013 1188: Armorial bookplate: Bryan Fausset. Inscriptions: Simon Hughes. Scant manuscript annotations on rear free endpaper. No. 1 of 12 titles bound together., With a title-page portrait., Signatures: A-E⁸ F⁴., and With a final advertisement leaf.
Publisher:
Printed by J. Macock for the Company of Stationers
Merlinus verax and Almanack for the year of our Lord, 1687
Description:
BEIN 2013 1188: Armorial bookplate: Bryan Fausset. Inscriptions: Simon Hughes. Scant manuscript annotations on rear free endpaper. No. 3 of 12 titles bound together., A lover of loyalty = John Gadbury., A different work from the "Merlinus verax" of Robert Neve., and Signatures: A-B⁸ ²B⁸ D⁸ E⁴.
Publisher:
Printed for the Company of Stationers
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Almanacs, English, Ephemerides, Astrology, History, and Chronology
Remarkable news from the stars and Ephemeris for the year, 1687
Description:
BEIN 2013 1188: Imperfect: hole in corner of leaf B4, with no loss of text. Armorial bookplate: Bryan Fausset. Inscriptions: Simon Hughes. Scant manuscript annotations on rear free endpaper. No. 9 of 12 titles bound together., Subsequently published with title: Remarkable news from the stars., Quires [A]-B in red and black., Printer's name from Wing CD., and Signatures: [A]⁸ B-C⁸.
Publisher:
printed by A.G. [Alice Grover] for the Company of Stationers
Starry messenger for the year of our redemption, 1687
Description:
BEIN 2013 1188: Armorial bookplate: Bryan Fausset. Inscriptions: Simon Hughes. Scant manuscript annotations on rear free endpaper. No. 6 of 12 titles bound together., Title page and calendar in red and black., Printer's name from Wing CD., and Signatures: [A]⁸ B-C⁸.
Publisher:
Printed by A.G. [Alice Grover] for the Company of Stationers
Olympia dōmata and Almanack for the year of our Lord God 1687
Description:
BEIN 2013 1188: Armorial bookplate: Bryan Fausset. Inscriptions: Simon Hughes. Scant manuscript annotations on rear free endpaper. No. 7 of 12 titles bound together., Title page and calendar in red and black., First two words of title in Greek characters., and Signatures: A-C⁸.
BEIN 2013 1188: Armorial bookplate: Bryan Fausset. Inscriptions: Simon Hughes. Scant manuscript annotations on rear free endpaper. No. 11 of 12 titles bound together., Part 2 has special t.p.: Poor Robin, 1687 : a prognostication ..., Advertisements: p. [7] and [48]., and Poor Robin = William Winstanley. Cf. ESTC.
Engraved title page, title within architectural border., In ink on title page at bottom left: m., In ink on title page in upper right corner: m / L., Manuscript note pinned to last leaf., On verso of title page: DK 15.15., Slip giving aphorism CXV which was omitted in text, inserted between e4 adn f1., and Supplement to Leovitius, C. Brevis et perspicva ... Londini, 1558, and bound preceding it.
Publisher:
[Excudebat Henricus Suttonus impensis Nicolai England]