BEIR Eeca 704Pgb: Imperfect: Plates 12 and 17 wanting; map titled: A mapp of the Formosa, described by Candidus ... wanting. Frontis. is bound facing p. 1. Armorial bookplate of J. Archdeacon. On t.-p.: "Illustrated with several cuts. To which are added, a map and the figure of an idol not in the former edition.", BEIN Tinker 1693: Final [8] p. are numbered by hand. Final folded map is hand colored. Bound with his An enquiry into the objections against George Psalmanaazaar, London, [1710?]. Autograph of A.B. Drummond. Armorial bookplate of William Michel Sale., A fabrication. The author's real name is unknown. "Psalmanazar ... wrote in Latin, and the main portion of his manuscript was translated by Mr. Oswald ... What was not due to his own imagination he borrowed from Varenius's 'Descriptio regni Japoniae et Siam' (Amsterdam, 1649) or Candidius's 'Voyages'."--cf. DNB., and Contains two maps, both folded, and one folded chart. First map, entitled A map of Formosa, faces t.p.; second map, facing final p., has inset title: A mapp of the Formosa, described by Candidus, being Tyarvan and part of the coast of Formosa. Chart, facing p. 122, has title: The Formosan alphabet.
Manuscript on paper of 1) Jerome, Dialogus contra Pelagianos, Books I-III. 2) Rufinus Tyrannius, Apologia contra Hieronymum. 3) Jerome, Apologia contra Rufinum, Books I-II. 4) Jerome, Ad Algasium liber quaestionum undecim (Letter 121). 5) Anonymous, Disputatio de ratione anime. 6) Origen (?), translated into Latin by Jerome. 7) Jerome, Ad Hebydiam de quaestionibus duodecim (Letter 120). 8) Jerome, Ad Algasium liber questionum undecim (Letter 121), ending abruptly in the tenth questio. 9) Epistola ad Demetriadem de virginitate et vitae perfectione. 10) Jerome, Epistola CVIII ad Eustochium virginem, on St. Paula. 11) Jerome, Epistola CXLII ad Augustinum
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Monts 11895 and 11702; unadorned anvil similar to Harlfinger Enclume 5; unidentified letter (D?) similar in general design to Harlfinger Lettre 14., Script: Written by two scribes. Scribe 1 (ff. 1r-76v) in a fere-humanistic hand with features of round humanistic; Scribe 2 (ff. 76v-109v) in a more angular fere-humanistic hand., One 4-line illuminated initial, f. 1r, shaded pink with red and green acanthus leaves on dark blue with white filigree against a gold ground edged thickly in black. In the upper left corner a red, blue and gold flower with spiralling acanthus in the upper and inner margins, forming a partial border, green, blue, red, brown, the spirals filled with gold or blue with white filigree. Large gold dots with four black spikes. Numerous pen and ink initials, 5- to 1-line, alternating in red and blue with purple or red penwork. Headings in red. Instructions to the rubricator at lower edge, f. 1r., and Binding: 19th-20th centuries. Rigid vellum case with the title in ink on the spine: "Dialogi Pelagii et Attici".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420.
Subject (Topic):
Apologetics, Celibacy, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
BEIN 1971 233: Bound in 2 vols. Imperfect: half-title wanting. Autograph of Andersone. Autograph of Godwill., Signatures: v. 1: A-M8 (M8 blank) A-O8P2Q2 (Q2 blank); v. 2: a-z8aa4 (aa4 blank)., and The Arabic text without book 4 translated by Edward Pococke, and printed at the expense of the Hon. Robert Boyle.
Publisher:
excudebat Gulielm. Hall
Subject (Name):
Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691
Subject (Topic):
Apologetics, History, Indifferentism (Religion), and Dedications
Manuscript on parchment of 1) Jerome, Adversus Jovinianum; 2) The Venerable Bede, Expositio actuum apostolorum, and Nomina regionum atque locorum de Actibus apostolorum; with table of contents, and corrections and notes
Description:
Script: Copied in Praegothica by three hands: A) copied ff. 1r-54v; B) copied ff. 55r-97r22, and probably art. 1; C) copied ff. 97r22-101r., Decoration: Headings in red Capitalis/Uncialis or in Gothica Textualis; 2- or 3-line plain or decorated initials, half inserted, in red and/or green; and large red decorated initials with interior spaces., Binding: 19th-century brown leather over cardboard; both covers gold-tooled with a border of fillets and arabesques; gold-tooled spine with gold-tooled inscription. Brown paper endleaves., and In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735. and Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420.
Manuscript on vellum and paper of 1) Treatise on the Koran. 2) Ricoldus de Monte Crucis O.P. (Ricoldo da Montecroce, d. 1320), Libellus contra legem Sarracenorum (Confutatio Alcorani). 3) Anonymous treatise against the Koran in the form of letters exchanged between two friends, a Muslim and a Christian. 4) Bonacursius de Bononia O.P. (s. XIII2), De erroribus Graecorum. 5) A short history of the ecumenical councils
Description:
In Latin., Script: probably copied by one hand, who starts writing Humanistica Textualis but gradually changes into a rapid Gothico-Humanistica., and Binding: original binding. Blind-tooled calfskin over bevelled wooden boards, worm-eaten. Sewn on three split leather thongs. Brass? bosses.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Apologetics, Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), and Manuscripts, Medieval
