Manuscript inventory, on parchment, in a secretary hand, of ceremonial plate and jewels collected from religious houses in Hampshire, Wiltshire, Glocestershire, Wiltshire, and Hertfordshire by several of the King's Commissioners for the suppression of the monasteries and turned over to the Master of the King's Jewels. The commissioners named include Robert Southwell, Edward Carne, John Ap Rice, and William Barnes. The sources of the plate were some of the larger houses targeted in the 1539 Act for the Dissolution of the Greater Monasteries and include St. Swithun's Winchester, Amesbury, Malmesbury, Cirencester, Hailes, Pershore, and Tewksbury. The plate listed comprises chalices; crosses; monstrances; cups; a pyx; gold mitres, and "thirteen other Myters garnisshd with perles." and Composed of one sheet of parchment; head indented
Description:
In English., Signed, "by me John Williams" (Master of the King's Jewels)., Binding: modern quarter morocco case., and Bookplate: Mark Lansburgh Collection.
Subject (Geographic):
England. and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547.
Subject (Topic):
Church plate, Convents, Church and state, Monasteries, Monasticism and religious orders, and Secularization
Manuscript on paper. The document establishes the rights of Don Bernardo Antonnio Ramirez Tinagero to property in the district of Riobamba; dated 20 April 1740, Ciudad de los Reyes del Peru (Lima).
Description:
In Spanish., Watermarks: similar to Heawood 294-295 (with the number 4 added beneath circles) and to 740., Script: The manuscript has no uniform format; it consists of a single gathering written in a fine italic hand., and It was previously laid in Beinecke MS 34. The tops of ff. 1r and 8v bear stamps for the years 1739-1740.
Subject (Geographic):
Peru., Connecticut, New Haven., and Lima (Peru)
Subject (Topic):
Land tenure, Land titles, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment of a Letter of rejoicing, from Henri de la Thuillerie to his father, the French diplomat and politician Gaspard Coignet de la Thuillerie upon the father's return
Description:
On the French diplomat and politician Gaspard Coignet de la Thuillerie (1597-1653), see Dictionnaire de Biographie Francaise, v. 9, cols. 146-47., In Latin., Script: Written in italic, with larger size of script for headings and proper names., Each page has full border incorporating personifications, coats-of-arms, mottoes, putti, birds, and flowers, in red, blue, green, yellow, gold and silver, all of mediocre quality. On f. 1r, full-page drawing with arms of the Coignet family of Auxerre (azure, 2 swords per saltire argent, hilted to the base or, between 4 crescents argent)., and Binding: Seventeenth century. Red goatskin, gold-tooled with a "seme" pattern of swords and crescents, flames and fleurs-de-lis. Satin doublures. Traces of two fastenings.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Thuillerie, Henri de la.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin letters, Medieval and modern, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Letter on parchment in a gothic hand from Wyndale, Provincial Prior of the Dominican Order in England, excusing Andevyr from monastic discipline and liturgical duties by reason of his infirmities
Description:
In Latin., Illuminated initial letter., and Remains of seal showing the figure of St. Dominic.
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Wynhale, Walter., Andevyr, John., and Malmesbury Abbey.
Holograph letters on paper, written and signed in a Humanist cursive. Addressed to Raffaelo de' Medici, nuncio to the Imperial court at Antwerp, Ghinucci's letters contain detailed descriptions of his arrival at the court of Henry VIII; the receptions of foreign ambassadors and the nature of their business; and Ghinucci's impressions of Henry VIII's own advisors and diplomats. He comments particularly on Cardinal Wolsey and Cuthbert Tunstall, who was being dispatched to Antwerp as ambassador, Other subjects include the illness of Giovanni Matteo; the business activities in London of Florentine merchants; and Ghinucci's strong dislike of the cold English weather during his first visit to the country, and All signed: "Hir. Audit[or]."
Description:
In Italian. and Binding: modern red quarter-morocco slipcase; gilt spine title and decorations.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain., England., Great Britain, Holy Roman Empire, and Holy Roman Empire.
Subject (Name):
Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547, Matteo, Giovanni., Medici, Raffaelo de'., Tunstall, Cuthbert, 1474-1559., Wolsey, Thomas, 1475?-1530., and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Court and courtiers, Foreign relations, Italians in Great Britain, Papal courts, Papal nuncios, Ambassadors, Diplomats, and Catholic Church
Manuscript on parchment of seventeen miniatures (all versos), formerly inserted in MS 287, which were removed and rebound in their present form when recognized as the work of the 19th-century facsimilist, Caleb Wing. They were intended to replace originals excised from MS 287 at an uncertain date. As suggested by the format of MS 287, there were probably only sixteen miniatures in the original program
Description:
Binding: 19th-20th centuries. Worn red velvet.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Wing, C. W. fl. 1826-1860. (Charles William),
Subject (Topic):
Arts, Forgeries, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment of a facsimile of the edition Venice, Aldus Manutius, [1495-1497]. In contrast with the edition, in which the Greek text is interleaved with the Latin translation by Marcus Musurus (c. 1470-1517), in the facsimile the Greek text is followed by the Latin translation and the copy of the two woodcuts illustrating the Hero and Leander story is placed between both on ff. 11v-12r
Description:
In Greek and Latin., Script: "Typographic" Greek and Latin script., and Binding: De luxe binding by Francois Bozerian called Bozerian Jeune, 19th century. Black morocco over cardboard, both covers with gold-tooled frame and corner-pieces and the Aldine anchor and dolphin in the centre. Spine with seven raised bands with in the compartments the gold-tooled inscriptions "MUSAEUS", "ALDUS / 1495", "REL.P.BOZERIAN.JEU" and "IN MEMBRAN". The other compartments tooled. Gilt edges. Gold-tooled green silk doublure and silvery silk pasted on the facing flyleaf.
Manuscript on paper of a facsimile of Iohannes Calderia (Giovanni Calderia, 15th century), member of a Venetian family, Politica (De praestantia Venetae politiae libri V ad Antonium Vinciguerra).
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by one hand in Humanistica Semitextualis Libraria., No decoration; the space provided for the initials is not used., Each page consists of two leaves of extremely thin paper pasted together. The paper is now dark brown and brittle (causing loss of text in the lower margins of pp. 1-6). For reasons of conservation the bifolios have now been cut into singletons and these have been encapsulated in transparent Mylar sleeves united in an album., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Kept separately. Marbled brown leather over pasteboard, each cover decorated with a gold-tooled floral border and gold-tooled doublure margin; gold-tooled spine with paper label containing the hand-written number "24068". Marbled paste-downs.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Venice (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Calderia, Giovanni.
Subject (Topic):
Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Politics and government
Manuscript on paper (no watermarks) of the Statutes of Queens College Cambridge. With an Epistle from Queen Elizabeth I dated 1570; the Academic Statutes of the University of Cambridge; and Interpretations of these statutes
Description:
In Latin and English., Script: Written by a certain Langwith according to a note on f. i recto; a fine calligraphic italic hand., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Written upside down in a brown calf, blind-tooled, ready-made blank book. Split along spine.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603. and Queens' College (University of Cambridge)