Manuscript leaf, on parchment, in a single hand, containing the text of Judges 5:5-6; 6:6; and 10:7-11:26. The leaf originally formed part of a manuscript known as the Werden Heptateuch
Description:
In Latin., Leaf recovered from a binding., Small part of conjugate leaf still present., Layout: double columns of 25 lines each., Script: Anglo-Saxon minuscule., and Byname: Werden Heptateuch (Fragment).
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Werden (Essen, Germany)
Manuscript fragment, on parchment, in a single hand, of text from the "Lyfe of Sylvester" in the Gilte Legende
Description:
In Middle English., From Takamiya MS 45: Doheny Collection of single leaves., Layout: double columns of forty lines., Script: English bookhand., and Decoration: initials in blue with red penwork.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
English prose literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Saints
Manuscript on parchment of books I-IX of Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job, also containing two Masses: (1) feast of Charlemagne (Jan 28) and (2) feast of St Catherine (Nov 25); various prayers; scriptural excerpts; and a list of donations to the abbey of Mersburg
Description:
In Latin., Script: The main section is copied by various similar hands, in Carolingian script: hand (A) copied ff. 3v and 5r-65v; hand (B) ff. 66r-254v and 256r-259v; hand (C) f. 255r-v. The 15th century replacements for missing parts are copied in Gothica Hybrida Libraria, and the additional texts are copied by various 13th-14th century hands, writing in Gothica Textualis Libraria in various sizes, except art. 2, which is in Gothica Cursiva Antiquior., Decoration: Limited and uneven, ceasing after f. 122r. A few simple initials. A small pen drawing of a young man sitting on a bench, with undecipherable accompanying text, and a dry-point sketch of a standing male figure., and Binding: 20th century brown morocco de luxe over cardboard, by Marguerite Duprez-Lahey (1880-1958); both covers blind-tooled with frames and disk motif, also apparent on the blind-tooled turn-ins; and the spine has four raised bands and gold-tooled inscriptions.
Onuphrio Muralto = Horace Walpole., The first state of the title-page, 1790, is found in thin paper copies, with uncorrected text, possibly for local sale., At least 2 copies on vellum have title-page in state 2, and text of the cancels., Half-title: Edwards's edition of the Castle of Otranto., BEIN: Vellum binding by Edwards of Halifax., and 25.5 cm. Frontispiece A and B. First leaf wanting. Extra-illustrated, including: folding map, drawings by F. Miller and G.P. Harding; 6 plates published by Harding in 1793; frontispiece of Sivrac's translation, 1795; Miel's plates from Berlin edition, 1794; Kirgate's notes; 2 trade cards.
Publisher:
Printed by Bodoni, for J. Edwards, bookseller of London
Manuscript on parchment of The Venerable Bede, 1) De templo Salomonis; 2) In librum Regum quaestiones XXX; 3) Aliquot quaestionum liber; 4) In librum Tobiae allegorica expositio; 5) excerpts from Homeliae evangelii
Description:
Script: Copied by several hands in Pregothic script., Decoration: Art. 1 is undecorated. Elsewhere, red headings and incipit and explicit formulae (sometimes in Capitalis); on some pages, red stroking of majuscules; red versals and plain, generally 2-line, initials; some large Romanesque initials, or space for large initials, anywhere between 5 and 13 lines., Binding: 19th century light brown calfskin, silver-tooled with a large, diamond-shaped central motif and four smaller motifs in the corners. Each cover is framed in dark brown leather, blind-tooled with several rolls. The spine, with five raised bands, is partly gold-tooled and partly blind-tooled., and In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735. and Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem).
Subject (Topic):
Allegorical interpretations and Manuscripts, Medieval
