Design consists of three panels in a horizontal row, each individually captioned in letterpress below, showing an artist with his portfolio under his arm stands at the counter talking to the clerk in a grocers. In the second frame he holds a long scroll "To the Finder" which he reads with interest. In the final frame the clerk leads him to the door as the artist points gestures to a place outside. Advertisments on the door include: "Colours prepared for printing" and "Theatre Royal Much Ado ... All in the Wrong ... Tale of Mystery".
Description:
Title from text beneath leftmost image., Publisher from series title page., and Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record.
Publisher:
J. Lendrum
Subject (Topic):
Artists' materials, Horoscopes, and Stores & shops
Manuscript on parchment of the Iudicium astrologicum, or horoscope, for the year 1475. Prepared for the humanist condottiere Federigo da Montefeltro (1422-1482, lord of Urbino from 1444; named duke by Pope Sixtus IV in 1474), perhaps by his court astrologer Iacobus of Speyer
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by a very elegant and uniform humanistic hand., The dedication on f. 1r written in very pale red. Capitals with guide-letters in plain burnished gold or blue at paragraph divisions set into the left margin, the letters of the final word or words in a paragraph often in capitals and spread to fill out the line. On f. 1r is an illuminated border in the upper, inner, and lower margins consisting of a triple band of narrow gold stripes, quadruple and broader at the bottom margin, containing a very complex "white-vine" pattern, the spaces of which are filled up with red, blue, and green pigment peppered with patterns of three small dots in white lead; set within the lower band of the border is a round wreath incorporating a shield with the arms of Federigo da Montefeltro lord of Urbino; the first capital of the text, f. 1r, 8, is in burnished gold within a square painted frame of blue, red, and green ornamented with white tracery. No illustration., and Binding: Rebound ca. 1800 in England (?) in blind-paneled brown diced Russia with doublures of the same, flat back without title label, the original gilt edges now somewhat irregular due to the rebinding, two parchment guards and one of paper at beginning, one parchment guard at end. Preserved in a recent black cloth folding box with gilt-stamped black niger label.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Federico, da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino, 1422-1482. and Iacobus, of Speyer.
Subject (Topic):
Astrology, Horoscopes, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Title from item., Place of publication derived from street address., Date of publication derived from when Lemercier was located at address., In margin top center: L'artiste. Journal., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Lith. de Lemercier, rue du Four S.G. No.55
Subject (Topic):
Palmistry, Horoscopes, Fortune telling, Skulls, and Fish
