Woodblock depicting scene of the miracle of Christ stilling the wind and waves.
Description:
Accompanied by: Christmas card from "the Wilsons," dated 1930, containing a print made from the woodblock and attributing the block to a craftsman in the Netherlands, circa 1480., Binding: modern cloth case., Bookplate: Arthur and Charlotte Vershbow., Collection of Elmer Adler. Ex libris Arthur and Charlotte Vershbow., and Date uncertain.
Subject (Name):
Jesus Christ--Miracles--Art, Vershbow, Arthur--Bookplate, and Vershbow, Charlotte--Bookplate
Manuscript on paper of Minuccio Minucci, 1) Discorso alla santita di Papa Sisto Quinto. 2) Fondamenti chi si hanno inclinatione del duca Augusto Elettore di Sassonia alle religione cattolica.
Subject (Name):
Minucci, Minuccio,--1551-1604 and Sixtus--V,--Pope,--1520-1590
Palladius, Bishop of Aspuna, d. ca. 430 Paul, the Deacon, ca. 720-799?
Published / Created:
[between 1450 and 1500]
Call Number:
Marston MS 218
Image Count:
196
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of 1) Paul the Deacon, Historia gentis Longobardorum. 2) Palladius of Helenopolis, Liber de moribus Brachmanorum, translated into Latin.
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century, Germany. Quires cut in for sewing. Rigid vellum case with a red, gold-tooled label: "P. Diacon. De Gest. langobar". Early title in ink on fore edge: "De Gest. Longobardo"., One initial, divided red and blue, 5-line, with red penwork flourishes, f. 1r; the initial may have been retouched by a contemporary hand. Plain red initials throughout; spaces for rubrics left unfilled, except for those at beginning of each book. Running headlines in red. Guide letters for decorator., Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1958 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written in a cursive minuscule script, above top line; the first words of each chapter in large gothic bookhand., and Watermarks: similar to Piccard Ochsenkopf I.731-35.
Manuscript on paper of part of a collection of letters by Antonius Panormitanus (Antonio Beccadelli, 1394-1471), written during his teaching at the Studio of Pavia, 1429-1434.
Description:
2-line plain red initials with guide letters in the margin. Red stroking of the majuscule following an initial., Binding: Unbound., Foliated 11-20. Wanting ff. 1-10., and Script: Copied by one hand in a wide Gothica Hybrida Libraria.
Manuscript on parchment containing a possibly unique French translation of the Prologue and first five books of the Moralia in Job, copied in Chimay.
Alternative Title:
Moralia in Job. French
Description:
Bergendal Collection of Mediaeval Manuscripts (Bergandal 91). Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., (Sotheby's sale, 2011 July 5, lot 28) on the Herman W. Liebert Book Fund, 2011., Binding: nineteenth-century full blue calf, gold-tooled., and Script: written in a single gothic bookhand.