Title etched below image., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Publication information extrapolated from the place and date of publication of the periodical for which the plate was etched., Reduced copy of a print published by William Holland in London in 1797., Plate from: London und Paris. Weimar: Im Verlage des Industrie-Comptoirs, 1798, v. 2, opp. p. 200., Numbered 'No. XX' in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Pugilism: boxing match -- Soldiers -- Military uniforms: grenadiers' uniform -- Sailors -- Naval uniforms: sailor's uniform -- Trades: barber -- Butcher -- Tailor -- Bricklayer -- Glazier -- Baker -- Shoemaker -- Blacksmith -- Allusion to the secession of the Opposition, May 1797., and Mounted to 27 x 36 cm.
Publisher:
Im Verlage des Industrie-Comptoirs
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
New Irish jaunting car and Tandem, or, Billy in his sulky
Description:
Title from item., Caption title, below image: Tandem, or Billy in his sulky., Reduced copy of a print with the same title by Isaac Cruikshank., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Publication information inferred from the periodical for which the plate was etched., Plate from: London und Paris. Weimar: Im Verlage des Industrie-Comptoirs, 1799, v. 3, opp. p. 274., Numbered 'No. IX' in upper right corner., and Temporary local subject terms: Unions: reference to the Union of Ireland and Great Britain -- Resolutions: reference to Irish resolutions, 1798 -- Unions: reference to Irish objections to the union -- Slogans: voice of the people -- Vehicles: sulky -- Signs: signposts -- Bulls -- Paddy Bull (Symbolic character) -- Whips.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Vergil's Aeneid containing portions of Books 2 and 3, including a section of the Pseudo-Ovidian Prologue to Book 3.
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: a portion of the initial "P" of Book 3 is preserved, written in red; 1-line initials at the beginning of verses are in brown in a mixture of rustic capital and uncial forms; punctuated with the punctus.
Manuscript fragment on parchment (6 non-consecutive leaves) of vesper antiphons. Feasts noted for some antiphons are: Ascension; 21st-23rd Sunday after Pentecost; Vigil of Saints Peter and Paul
Description:
In Latin., Script: written by a single scribe in a formal gothic bookhand., Six lines of text with musical notation on a four-line red staff. Initials in red, blue, and black., and Unbound.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Antiphonaries, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Vespers (Music)
Manuscript fragment on parchment of an antiphonary containing St. Paul (30 June).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: initials of antiphons and responses are 1-line red capitals; 1-line initials for verses and Psalm incipits are in brown highlighted with red; rubrics written in red in the same script as the text; punctuated with the punctus; hyphenation in the same ink as the text; interlinear neumes in the St. Gall style, somewhat surprising in a manuscript of this date; differentiae in roman numerals with neumes in the St. Gall style are in the outer margins for antiphons with full text.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of an antiphonary containing: the Annunciation (25 March); Responsories from the book of Job and Psalms; and a computistical table for calculating the time between Christmas and Shrove Tuesday, with explicatory notes in German
Description:
In Latin and German., Script: written by three scribes in gothic script (littera textualis); one scribed copied fol. 1, another copied fol. 2r, and a third copies fol. 2v., and Decoration: 2-line initials at the beginning of the antiphon on fol. 1 are in red; the guide letters for these initials are still visible in light brown ink and some have been ornamented, including one with a crude figure of a person; 2-line initials at the beginning of verses on fol. 1 are in black with black penwork; fol. 2v begins with a very crude 2-line round D in red; rubrics written in red; musical notation is in black and on fol. 1 is on a 4-line staff in black; on fol. 2r it is on a 5-line staff in black; punctuated with the punctus.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of an antiphonary containing: Sts. Cosmas and Damian (27 September); Archangel Michael (29 September); St. Dionysius (9 October); and St. Gall (16 October).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis formata)., and Decoration: The offices of Archangel Michael and of St. Gall begin with 2-line initials in red and blue; the insider of the letters is decorated with an animal on a red and green ground surrounded by red and blue penwork and white dots; the outside of the letters is surrounded by red and blue penwork; 2-line initials of antiphons and responses alternate red and blue; the 2-line initial of the verse is in brown highlighted with red; the left margins of both versos are decorated with red and blue designs, which are topped by an animal head in red on fol. 1v; musical notation is in black on a 5-line staff in black; punctuated with the punctus.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of an antiphonary containing the Common of the Apostles
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in rounded gothic script (littera textualis formata)., and Decoration: The 4-line initial at the beginning of the office is blue and red with blue and red flourishes; 2-line initials at the beginning of responses alternate blue and red; 2-line initials at the beginning of verses are brown with brown and yellow flourishes; 1-line initials within verses are in brown and are highlighted with red; rubrics written in red in the same script as the text; punctuated with the punctus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text; musical notation is on a four-line staff.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of an antiphonary containing unidentified chants and Holy Saturday, lauds
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis formata)., and Decoration: the 4-line initial "U" is in blue and red; some of the sketched flourishes outside of the letter have been traced in red and filled with green; inside the letter a floral pattern has been sketched and partially completed; the 2-line initial "O" is red with sketched flourishes only partially completed and filled with green; rubrics in red in the same script as the text; quadrata notation is in black on a 4-line staff in red; punctuated with the punctus.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of an antiphonary, containing Antiphons for the week of Septuagesima; Sexagesima, first vespers to second vespers; Quinquagesima, from vespers to the first nocturn of matins
Description:
In Latin, Script: written in late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 2-line initial "Q" on f. 1v in red; 1-line initials in brown capitals with uncial M and an enlarged minuscule e; rubrics written in red minuscule, with occasional use of uncial M; interlinear neumes in the St. Gall style; punctuated with punctus placed on the base line; cross-shaped "+" mark in brown ink on f. 1r.
