Manuscript on parchment containing 1) Nicolaus de Byard (ca. 1250), Tractatus de vitiis et virtutibus, often improperly titled Summa de abstinentia (themes treated in alphabetical order). 2) Readings for the liturgical year, referring to the chapters of Tractatus de vitiis et virtutibus, arranged as follows: the Vespers on Saturdays; Temporale and the feast of the Dedication of the church; Sanctorale ("De sanctis"), at the same time Common of the Saints
Description:
In Latin., Script: probably copied by one hand, writing a small, rapid Gothica Textualis/Semitextualis Libraria with numerous abbreviations., Headings and underlining in red. Alternately red and blue paragraph marks. Alternately red and blue 2-line half inset flourished initials, respectively with penwork at the opening of the chapters, with guide letters. 6-line littera duplex with penwork in the same colours on f. 1v., and Binding: spine with four raised bands. On the spine and partly on the covers, an 18th century paper title label with handwritten inscription "Ancien / Manuscrit / sur / Velin / Complet / et ********" (cfr. MSS 940 and 941).
The Virgin, seated in the clouds, feeds a naked child with irradiated head into the large hopper of a windmill; wafers, the product of the mill, fall onto a patera held up by a short figure in a white surplice; a stout priest, intended as a Roman Catholic, gives the sacrament to a kneeling figure at the left, another kneeling behind
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. London : Published by R. Faulder, New Bond Street; and J. Egerton, 1794, vol. 1, opposite p. 122., and Cf. Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 3, no. 2156.
Publisher:
R. Faulder and J. Egerton
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint. and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Transubstantiation, Communion, Grinding machines, and Priests
The Virgin, seated in the clouds, feeds a naked child with irradiated head into the large hopper of a windmill; wafers, the product of the mill, fall onto a patera held up by a short figure in a white surplice; a stout priest, intended as a Roman Catholic, gives the sacrament to a kneeling figure at the left, another kneeling behind
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. London : Published by R. Faulder, New Bond Street; and J. Egerton, 1794, vol. 1, opposite p. 122., Cf. Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 3, no. 2156., and On page 232 in volume 3. Sheet trimmed to: 22.4 x 14.3 cm.
Publisher:
R. Faulder and J. Egerton
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint. and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Transubstantiation, Communion, Grinding machines, and Priests
Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of Book of Hours with Full calendar, in French
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in batarde script., Miniatures and an extensive cycle of border vignettes by Jean and Jacquelin Montlucon who were active in Bourges between 1477 and 1492. The calendar pages are framed by gilt columns and entablatures in the antique manner with the occupations of the month and signs of the zodiac in the outer margin and a Creation cycle in the lower margin. Eleven half-page miniatures framed in magenta and gold with cusping at the top; fanciful architectural bases, surrounded by simulated grey-black marble with joined wings and foliage branches in gold. Twenty-three miniatures, 8-lines in height, in magenta and gold frames, each with a full border of flowers and acanthus, birds and grotesques on compartmented gold and white grounds. Text pages with full borders: columns in inner margin; panels with masks, shields, garlands, and wings in upper margin; flowers and acanthus, as above, in outer margin; and, in the lower margin, one of the fullest known cycles devoted to the wild man (sometimes extended to include outer margin as well). Other manuscripts from the same shop, the Monypenny Hours and Grenoble Bibliotheque Municipale MS 1011, also contain extensive cycles of wild-man imagery; the artists Jean and Jacquelin de Montlucon lived in Bourges in a house "at the sign of the Wild Man.", 5- and 4-line initials with leafy branches, gold with fruits, flowers, profile heads on pink or mauve grounds. 2- and 1-line initials, line-endings, and KL monograms in the same style. Rubrics in red. Calendar entries alternate red and blue. F. i verso added in 16th century: the arms of Gian Francesco di Montegnacco in a frame closely modelled on the decoration of the calendar pages., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Tan goatskin, gold-tooled with concentric frames, the central panel daubed with green and red. Red label.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Books of hours, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Neophitus, Versio trilingvis Italica, Gallica, Hispanica historicorvm tractatvvm qvi adversvs episcopi Romani veraveriorem antichristianam tyrannidem, in Latinis tomis operum D. Mart. Lutheri extant, and Neophitvs
Description:
BEIN MS 1084: Stamp: Herzoglicher S. Meiningischer Bibliothek [Library of the Dukes of Saxe-Meiningen]. In ms. on t.p. verso: I.V.C.J. B[ernhard] H[erzog] Z[u] S[achsen] 1679. In ms. on front paste-down: [Rosenthal] MS230. Spine label and ms. note: Hdschr. 71 (number assigned by Theodor Linschman, who in 1902, reorganized the ms. holdings of the princes of Saxe-Meiningen). No. 1 of 2 titles bound together., Consists of the preliminary dialogue "Neophitus" in Latin only., Dedicated to Georg Mylius., Signatures: A-E⁴ (A1v, A4v, E4v blank)., Turned C's used in date in Roman numerals on t.p., and Includes bibliographical references in margins.
Manuscript on parchment (coarse, yellow) of about 40 selections from saints' lives
Description:
In Latin., Script: Copied by a single hand in careful Iberian Praegothica., Fine Romanesque initials (2-5 lines) with foliage penwork in red and blue. Some contain human heads (ff. 9r, 16v, 25r, 25v [two heads], 70r [two heads]). On ff. 64v, 125v and 135v initials of exceptional development, the latter two with animal decoration., Mutilated., and Binding: Twentieth century. Blind-tooled brown calf over....On the spine two labels with the hand-written inscriptions: "FLOS SANCTORUM MS" and "TOLEDO SAEC. XII".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment of a ferial psalter containing a calendar, a psalter with hymns and antiphons, canticles, a litany, and the Office of the Dead
Alternative Title:
Psalterium Davidicum ad usam Anglicanum, cum antiphonis et hymnis ecclesiae, calalendario, et Officio Defunctorum
Description:
In Latin., Six leaves containing Psalms 24-25, 51-52, 110-112 are missing., Includes musical notation for the antiphons; neumes on red four-line staff., Script: copied in northern gothica textualis formata (textus rotundus) with English features., Decoration: rubrics in red (rare); red or blue paragraph marks. Red stroking of majuscules. Alternately red and blue versals; brown or grey cadels, often decorated with a grotesque human face; numerous 2-line dentelle initials; large foliate initials on ff. 7v, 52r, 63v, 74v; these are accompanied by three-margins left floral borders., and Binding: early binding; undecorated brown leather over wooden boards.
Autograph diary of a six-month visit in Rome with "Charlotte and Papa." The author comments on art and architecture, gardens and fountains, and ancient monuments. The author, probably a woman, is interested in Catholic ceremonies and practices and describes the final profession ceremony of a nun, the lying in state and funeral of Cardinal Freschi, the celebration of the Festival of the Conception, Christmas services at St. Peter's, the Roman Carnival, and Papal processions and The author also details social encounters with such figures as Cardinal Antonelli, Sir Charles and Lady Lyell and the sculptor Benjamin Spence
Description:
Binding: contemporary half red morocco with marbled boards and endpapers.
Subject (Geographic):
Italy., Italy, and Rome (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Antonelli, Giacomo, 1806-1876., Lyell, Charles, Sir, 1797-1875., Lyell, Mary., Spence, Benjamin., and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Customs and practices, Tourism, Travelers' writings, English, Women travelers, Description and travel, Festivals, etc, and Social life and customs
Manuscript on parchment of a processional for a Dominican nuns' convent. Processions for Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Easter, Dedication of a Church, and Holy Week are included
Description:
In Latin., Script: the text is written in a somewhat irregular northern gothica textualis formata. Musical notation is in nota quadrata., Decoration: red rubrics (rare); 2-line red plain initials for prayers; black cadels of 1-line height; initial on f. 1r decorated with a grotesque human face., and Binding: original binding; brown pigskin over bevelled wooden boards; both covers blind-tooled.
Subject (Geographic):
Germany, Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Processionals (Liturgical books), Holy Week music, and Manuscripts, Medieval
