Two volumes, in two different hands, with drawings in ink (some colored) on vellum of swan marks granted by the King of England to persons who have lands valued at least 500 marks and who wish to keep swans, otherwise designated a royal bird and the property of the crown. The catalog of marks assigned to each family, in rough alphabetic order is preceded by a summary of various laws related to the keeping of swans and their designation as royal game. From Horace Walpole's 1774 edition of Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole at Strawberry-Hill near Twickenham, Middlesex: Curious books in the glass closet in the library ... Two books of swan-marks, on vellum: extremely rare
Description:
In English and Latin., Title from preliminary leaf, larger volume, on paper bound in preceding marks on vellum leaves., Title on preliminary leaf in smaller volume: The swane booke., Both volumes with the armorial bookplate of Earl of Derby, 1775-1851 and press mark 25. B., and Text from the 1842 Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: Two books of Swanmark's, 8vo, bound in vellum, and extremely rare.
Bound with:
Amends for ladies: a comedie. As it was acted at the Blacke-Fryers, both by the Princes seruants, and the Lady Elizabeths ; Faire quarrell: as it was acted before the King and diuers times publikely by the Prince his Highnes seruants ; Merry divel of Edmonton : as it hath beene sundry times acted, by His Maiesties seruants, at the Globe on the Banke-side ; Tricke to catch the old one : as it hath beene often in action, both at Paules, the Blacke Fryers, and before his Maiestie ; Woman kilde wwith kindnesse : as it hath beene often-times acted by the Queenes Maiest. seruants.
Alternative Title:
Palmer Collection of plays
Description:
Borrows from Marston's "Parasitaster." and Signatures: A-H4 (A1, recto signature-mark, verso blank; H4 blank).
Publisher:
Printed for Nathaniell Butter, and are to be solde at his Shop at the Pyde Bull at Saint Augustines Gate,
Churchyard, Thomas, 1520?-1604 Gainsford, Thomas, d. 1624?
Published / Created:
1640
Call Number:
Ih F779 640
Image Count:
103
Alternative Title:
Fortunatus (Romance). English and Right pleasant and variable tragicall historie of Fortvnatvs
Description:
For "T.G." (Thomas Gainsford?) the later editions have "T.C.", supposed to stand for Thomas Churchyard., Imperfect: Leaf 2 mutilated; outer corners frayed. Binding is an Elizabethan manuscript land deed. Inscriptions: An Clarkson her booke; This is An Clarkson booke., and Signatures: A-M⁸ (A1 blank). Numerous errors in pagination.
Publisher:
Printed by George Miller, dwelling in the Blacke-Friers
Subject (Topic):
Conduct of life--Early works to 1800 and Courtesy--Early works to 1800
Manuscript, on paper, in a single scribal hand, of this treatise on the administrative questions of communal ownership and inheritance raised by the Franciscan vow of poverty
Description:
Bartolo of Sassoferrato (1313-1357), also known as Bartolus de Saxoferrato, was a prominent Italian legal scholar who taught in severa northern Italian universities and wrote many influential treatises, including several pertaining to the administrative and judicial problems raised by the rule of poverty of the Franciscan order., In Latin., Layout: single column of 43 lines., Script: gothica cursiva., Binding: 19th-century marbled paper over pasteboards., and Guards from fragments of unidentified Hebrew manuscript on parchment.
Written in 66 or 79 long lines; one side only, no rulings. Written in 2 different hands, both informal batarde. Stains and remnants of paste; used as pastedowns and binding reinforcements.
Description:
3 fragments, 70 x 80 mm., ca. 155 x 69 mm., and ca. 55 x 550 mm., the largest dated 1525., Parchment, and Subjects unidentified.
anno Domi[ni] 1400 octuagesimo t[er]cio, 18 die me[n]sis Augusti [1483]
Call Number:
2000 1552
Image Count:
7
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Alternative Title:
Vocabularius praedicantium
Description:
Contemporary ms. notes. Presentation inscription on inside of back cover to Abbot Johannes (probably Johannes Scherzwadel, abbot of Lambach from 1474-1504): Reuerendo hono[rabili]b[i] ac religiosis in [Christo] pri[ori]bus [et] fr[atr]ibus d[omi]no Johannj Abbati Andree priori totiq[ue] Couentuj Monasterii in Lambaco nob[is] semp[er] colendj., Imperfect: wormed, with slight loss of text. Leaves e1 and x10 repaired, with missing text supplied in facsimile., Imprint from colophon, supplied in facsimile in CtY-BR copy., Initials in red; rubricated throughout., Manuscript waste used in binding, including a vellum flyleaf with 92 lines of hexameter verse., Text begins on leaf a2: Si te materne remoratur inercia lingue, quo minus ad populu[m] funde[m] uerba queas ..., and Title and author from Goff.
Publisher:
Per Petrum Currificem ciue[m] Nurenbergensem,
Subject (Name):
Benedictines Austria Lambach Ownership., Klosterkirche Lambach Ownership., Scherzwadel, Johannes--Presentation inscription., and Wagner, Peter, fl. 1483-1500.
Subject (Topic):
Incunabula in Yale Library., Latin language--Dictionaries--German--Early works to 1800., and Monasteries--Austria--Lambach--Ownership.
