Group of eight manuscript fragments, on vellum, originally from the second of a three-volume set of Augustine's commentary on the Psalms. The scribe was probably Eadmer of Canterbury.
Description:
Decoration: two large capitals in colored ink., Fragments show marks of having been used as binding material., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: double-column, originally 42 lines., Marginal notations on two of the fragments probably date from the later fifteenth century., and Script: "prickly script" associated with Christ Church, Canterbury.
Adolf, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf, 1526-1586.
Published / Created:
1560 September 10.
Call Number:
Takamiya MS 128
Image Count:
3
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Letter, signed, thanking Queen Elizabeth for conferring the Order of the Garter on him. The Duke apologizes in advance for his absence from the ceremony, owing to his war with the Swedes, and requests that he be represented by Walter Devereux, Earl of Essex.
Description:
Annotated with probable catalog number (Phillipps?): 33068., In Latin., Layout: single column of 14 lines., On deposit from the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Script: Italic., Seal: pendant red wax seal of Duke Adolf., and Signed: "Adolf Holsatia Dux," with monogram SH as the initial letter of the second word.
Subject (Geographic):
England--Foreign relations--Schleswig-Holstein (Germany) and Schleswig-Holstein (Germany)--Foreign relations--England.
Subject (Name):
Adolf,--Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf,--1526-1586., Elizabeth--I,--Queen of England,--1533-1603., Essex, Walter Devereux,--Earl of,--1541-1576., and Order of the Garter.
Manuscript, on parchment, containing the Penitential Psalms, the Litany of the Saints, the Psalms of the Passion, and other Latin prayers and devotions. The text is preceded by two pages of rubrics in Middle French; there are Middle English rubrics concerning indulgences on ff. 55-57. Several pages contain short pieces of music in the margins, probably in a contemporary hand. and The manuscript also contains two miniatures not original to the text. The first (f. 4) is a full-page miniature of St. Christopher in color against a stylized landscape and a gold ground with a title sewn to the top margin, possibly predating its current binding by 50 years. The second (ff. 62b-63) is a double-page miniature of the Adoration of the Magi; the figures are outlined in ink and finished with washes in green, red and blue. Possibly intended as a pattern for embroidery or for wall-painting.
Description:
Binding: 16th-century English blind-stamped calf, with panels of heads in medallions, rebacked., Decoration: Rubricated. Approximately 110 initials in blue with red penwork. Full-page minature illustration of St. Christopher; double-page illustration of the Adoration of the Magi., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Front and back pastedowns from a contemporary? printed German play about Adam and Eve., In Latin, with a small number of rubrics in Middle French (ff.1-2) and Middle English (ff. 55-57)., Layout: first section in single columns of 17 lines; second section in single columns of 12 lines., and Script: gothic liturgical script.
Manuscript binding fragment, on parchment, of part of the text of Lancelot du Lac.
Description:
Accompanied by three unidentified manuscript fragments that were part of the 2002 sale lot., Decoration: illuminated initial with brown penwork., Script: gothic script., and Sotheby's 2002 June 18 sale, lot 4. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-.
Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. John Lydgate's Life of St. Margaret follows the Chaucer text.
Description:
Binding: nineteenth-century full brown morocco., Bookplate: Chatsworth., Byname: Devonshire Chaucer., Decoration: full illuminated border on first page of text, including large portrait initial of author; other illuminated initials with decorated borders and elaborate penwork initials., From the collections of Sir Edmund Knyvett; John Walpole; Thomas Skarlet; Sir Henry Spelman; Hamon L'Estrange; George Mason; John Ker, Duke of Roxburghe; William Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire, and his descendants. On deposit from the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., In Middle English., Layout: single columns of 39-42 lines., and Script: English bookhand.
Subject (Name):
Chaucer, Geoffrey,---1400., Devonshire, William Spencer Cavendish,--Duke of,--1790-1858--Bookplate., Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451? Life of St. Margaret., and Lydgate, John,--1370?-1451?
Manuscript chronicle roll, on parchment, in two hands. The first three membranes contain a late thirteenth-century chronicle in Latin prose on the kings of England from Atheldred to Henry III. The last two membranes contain John Lydgate's Middle English Verses on the kings of England.
Description:
Binding: modern case., Decoration: decorative frames around names of kings and families., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single column., and Script: two gothic bookhands.
Manuscript on parchment, in a single hand, of the complete text of this anonymous verse chronicle. This version includes a brief chronicle in Latin prose.
Description:
Binding: modern case., Decoration: numerous roundels containing crowns., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., In Middle English, with a small addition in Latin., Layout: single column., and Script: English cursive bookhand.
Manuscript volume, in a single hand, containing the text of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica, followed by the text of the Historia brittoum of Nennius; a brief biography of Merlin; and Sybilline prophecies.
Description:
Binding: original oak boards covered in pink doeskin; remains of clasps., Bound with: parchment leaf of accounts kept by Robert de Staynford, steward of Lady Idoyne Percy, wife of Henry, Lord Percy (d. 1365)., Decoration: Rubricated. Numerous penwork initials and line fillers in red and blue ink. Ten larger illuminated initials, gilt and red and blue ink., Ex libris H. L. Bradfer-Lawrence. On deposit from the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Laid in: manuscript fragment, on paper, of a contract, in English (ca. 1574), formerly the back pastedown., Layout: single columns of 42 lines., Numerous marginal notes in contemporary and later hands., and Script: gothic text hand.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--History--To 1066.
Subject (Name):
Bede,--the Venerable, Saint,--673-735.--Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum., Bradfer-Lawrence, H. L.--(Harry Lawrence)--Bookplate., and Nennius, active 796.
Three miniatures, on vellum, from the copy of the Livre du Lancelot du Lac illustrated by the Dunois Master. They depict: 1) the Duke of Clarence and esquire, meeting a knight cutting off a woman's hair; 2) King Baudemagnus leading the battle against the Romans; 3) Lancelot's arrival at the city of Gorre.
Description:
Binding: individually mounted. and From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-.
Manuscript, on vellum, in two scribes' hands, of this collection of verse saints' lives.
Description:
Binding: eighteenth-century full calf., Decoration: numerous initials in blue with red penwork., Ex libris Thomas Weld. On deposit from the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single columns of 42 and 39 lines, respectively., Script: English cursive bookhand (two scribes)., and Text is substantially complete, lacking two leaves at the beginning, one in the middle, and probably several at the end.