Manuscript fragment, on parchment, from an illuminated Book of Hours. It contains the opening of the Commendation of Souls, a series of psalms often found after the Office of the Dead in English or English-marketed books of hours
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Belgium, Bruges, Connecticut, New Haven., and Bruges (Belgium)
Subject (Topic):
Books of hours, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of Baudouin d'Avesnes (d. 1289; Lord of Beaumont and son of Margaret of Flanders), Chroniques de Hainaut. Continues to ca. 1131
Description:
In French.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Hainaut (Belgium)
Subject (Name):
Baudouin d'Avesnes.
Subject (Topic):
French literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper of Capitula for several feasts; prayers for the offices of the Temporale and the Sanctorale; prayers for the Commemorations of the Virgin; various other prayers, benedictions, liturgical instructions, and additional collects
Description:
Script: Apart from additions, copied by a single hand in a large, high, and very angular Northern Gothica Textualis Formata in two sizes; and the earlier additions are in Northern Gothica Textualis Formata, while the later ones are in Humanistica Curs...
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Augustinian Canons., Catholic Church. Diocese of Liège (Belgium), and Catholic Church
Manuscript on parchment (thick, but good quality) of a Collection of Texts on St. Barbara. With a miscellany of texts including patristic works, moralistic poems, and prophecies
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Barbara, Saint.
Subject (Topic):
Christian martyrs, Christian poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern), Fathers of the church, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Prophecies
Printed options contract, completed in manuscript, relating to a potential purchase of shares in the Compagnie d'Ostende by Joannes Kramp. The contract includes signatures from Kramp, Jean Van Lancker, and Joannes Carlo Wittebol
Description:
The Compagnie d'Ostende (also called the Keyserlijcke Indische Compagnie) was a chartered trading company, established in 1722 in the Austrian Netherlands (now Belgium) to trade with the East and West Indies. The company was dissolved in 1731.
Subject (Geographic):
Belgium, Antwerp, and Antwerp (Belgium)
Subject (Name):
Kramp, Joannes., Lancker, Jean Van., Wittebol, Joannes Carlo., and Compagnie d'Ostende.
Subject (Topic):
Capitalists and financiers, Finance, Merchants, Options (Finance), Stocks, and Commerce
Holograph diary, apparently incomplete, of a Continental tour from London through France, Belgium and Germany, ending near Zurich. The author, probably a young woman traveling with her family, lists sights seen, miles traveled, and towns passed throug...
Description:
Binding: original quarter-roan marbled boards.
Subject (Geographic):
Europe., Belgium, France, Germany, and Waterloo (Belgium)
Subject (Topic):
Tourism, Travelers' writings, English, Women travelers, and Description and travel
