Bound in are 24 writing tables of prepared vellum, of which two are black, and the rest natural yellow. and Signatures: A-D⁸.
Publisher:
by Franke Adams, stationer and bookebinder, dwelling in Thames Streete, at the signe of ye black Rauen, nere Londo[n] Bridge, & are there to be sold, or else in Paules Church Yarde, at the signe of the Helmet, by Thomas Chayre,
Binding: early binding; undecorated brown leather over wooden boards., Decoration: rubrics in red (rare); red or blue paragraph marks. Red stroking of majuscules. Alternately red and blue versals; brown or grey cadels, often decorated with a grotesque human face; numerous 2-line dentelle initials; large foliate initials on ff. 7v, 52r, 63v, 74v; these are accompanied by three-margins left floral borders., and Script: copied in northern gothica textualis formata (textus rotundus) with English features.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Liturgy.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Psalters.
Chez Lecrene-Labbey, imprimeur-libraire, Grande-rue, n 160, ou l’on trouve un assortiment general d’almanachs, livres d’ecoles, Bibliotheque bleue et images
Subject (Name):
Osage Indians --Portraits and Osage Indians --Travel --France
The documents record events in Nauvoo from April 1842 to January 1843, with comments on the Nauvoo authorities and Nauvoo Legion. Oliver Olney notes Joseph Smith's plans to move west, the John Cook Bennett scandal, the beginnings of polygamy, and his work to establish a new church. There is a draft of Olney's pamphlet "The Absurdities of Mormonism Portrayed" and some personal papers
Description:
calendar by Dale L. Morgan.
Subject (Geographic):
Illinois. and Nauvoo (Ill.)
Subject (Name):
Bennett, John Cook, 1804-1867., Olney, Oliver H., Smith, Joseph, 1805-1844., and Nauvoo Legion.
Binding: later medieval brown leather over beveled boards; some damage to upper board where a chain has been removed., Decoration: rubricated., Purchased from Richard A. Linenthal (Sotheby's London sale, 2013 July 2, lot 51) on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2013., and Script: main text in early gothic. Additional obituaries in a variety of book and cursive scripts.
Subject (Geographic):
Beauvais (France)
Subject (Name):
Cathédrale Saint-Pierre (Beauvais, France) and Usuard, -876 or 877
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Martyrologies--Early works to 1800, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Necrologies--France--Beauvais