Manuscript on parchment. The book is not so much a guide to the pilgrimage churches of Rome, as a set of instructions on how to obtain the same spiritual benefits without making the actual pilgrimage. The seven letters designating the seven Roman basi...
Description:
In French.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Margaret, of York, Duchess, consort of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, 1446-1503.
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, French, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Indulgences, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a gradual in Latin with rubrics partially in Dutch containing the Vigil of St. Andrew (29 November) and St. Andrew (30 November).
Description:
In Latin and Dutch.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Graduals (Chants).
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
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
