Manuscript on paper (watermarks obscured by binding and trimming) of prayers and hymns to the Virgin Mary
Description:
In Italian and Latin., Script: Written by one scribe in round gothic bookhand., Four poorly executed initials in gold and colors on ff. 1r, 2r (two), and 4r; the last accompanied by green and gold dots. Red initial strokes; rubrics throughout., and Binding: single quire tacketed to a piece of folded vellum.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Devotion to., Hymns, Italian, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Title supplied by curator., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., Place of publication from item., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Pieter Schenk
Subject (Name):
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint and Elizabeth (Mother of John the Baptist), Saint.
Subject (Topic):
Visitation, Pregnant women, Pregnancy, and Visiting
Syriac-Armenian lexicon (pages 4-199), with the Armenian written in Syriac script, consists mainly of an alphabetical list of verbs in various forms. The lexicon is preceded by poems of Barhebraeus (pages 1-3), and followed by: 1. Poem on the "Life of Saint John", son of Euphemianus, of the city of Rome (pages 200-216). 2. "On the transit of the Mother of God Mary from the world" (folios 216-231). 3. "Syriac-Armenian glossary" of verbs in the imperative forms, conjugations of verbs, pronouns, etc. (pages 231-241). 4. Prayer of the solitary monks (yíḥídāyē) to each other (page 241). 5. Poems by Saint Ephrem: Commandments and admonitions for Christians (pages 242-286). 6. Prayers and miscellaneous statements in a different hand (285-286). The lexicon seems to have been written for the benefit of Syriac speakers within Armenian communities. Name of copyist and place and date of copying not mentioned probably from the 17th century
Description:
In Syriac and Armenian in Syriac script., Title supplied by cataloger., Romanization supplied by cataloger., The dictionary starts with: "Eštbíw. Talnúsān ...", The poems of Barhebraeus start with: "Qúm tāʼ aḥún kašrútā lak hā mṭāyibʼnā ...", 1. Poem on the "Life of Saint John", son of Euphemianus starts with: "Kātbínan tašʻítā d-Māry Yúḥanān bar ʼÚpímyanús d-men Rúmí Mdíntā b-níšā d-Māry Aprém Súryāyā ...", 2. On the transit of the Mother of God Mary from the world starts with: "Túb seprā da-štā ʻal šúnāyeh d-Yaldat Alāhā Maryam d-men ʻalmā hānā ṣlútah ʻaman. Āmín ...", 4. Prayer of the solitary monks (yíḥídāyē) to each other start with: "Ṣlútā d-nemrún yíḥíyāyē la-ḥdādē: Alāhā d-barek la-Šlíḥāwhy qadíšē mbarek lak ...", 5. Poems by Saint Ephrem start with: "Ḥúr b-Alāhā ḥabíbay d-madnaḥ šmšeh ʻal bíšē ...", Prayers and miscellaneous statements in a different hand start with: "Ematy d-qāymat b-ṣaprā men šentā pšúṭ ʼīdayk la-šmāyā ú-sím tlātā búrkē l-apay madnḥā ú-ʼemar ..., 10.5 x 15.5 cm; written surface varies ; lines per page vary., Binding: In wooden cover., In clear West Syriac script, in black ink on cream color paper, markings in red., Inside the front cover: An erased note (four lines)., On page 285: An erased note (one lines): "Šlem ktābā ..." (The book is completed ...)., and Many of the pages in the latter half of the manuscript include marginal glosses giving the Armenian renderings of words occuring in the Syriac text.
Subject (Name):
Ephraem, Syrus, Saint, 303-373. and Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
Subject (Topic):
Assumption, Syriac language, Armenian, Armenian language, Syriac, Monks, Prayers and devotions, and Syriac poetry
Manuscript, on vellum, in several hands, containing several Middle English devotional texts. The Abbey of the Holy Ghost is followed by The Meditation of St. Anselm; The Five Sorrows of the Virgin; and an explanation of how to say the Psalter of the Virgin. These are followed by a poem to the VIrgin ("Mari moder well [th]e bee"); a six-line political poem referring to Edward IV ("The lyon sens thre days"); and a recipe for a medicine for pestilence, in a later hand
Description:
In Middle English., Script: several hands., Decoration: Abbey of the Holy Ghost has initials in blue with red penwork., and Binding: modern full red morocco.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Edward IV, King of England, 1442-1483 and Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
Subject (Topic):
Allegory, Devotional literature, English (Middle), English literature, English poetry, English prose literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, Women, and Conduct of life
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 paper (coarse, thick) of 1) Commentary on selections from Seneca the Elder, Controversiae, beginning imperfectly in I.3. 2) 300 exempla. 3) Gualterus Angelicus, Fabulae. 4) More than 100 extracts about the Virgin Mary, and other topics. 5) Extracts about virtues and vices derived primarily from Gregory the Great, Dialogi. 6) Exempla drawn from Walter Burley, De vita et moribus philosophorum. Arts. 7-18: collection of epitaphs
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks, in gutter: similar to Briquet Monts 11854 and unidentified mountain (?)., Script: Written by a single scribe in semi-cursive gothic bookhand, above top line. Arts. 8-18 added by one or more contemporary hands., 2-line plain initials, paragraph marks and headings, in red, throughout; some marginalia in red., Folio 151 damaged, with loss of text., and Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy (?). Limp vellum case made from a document; text not legible, but docketing note visible under ultra-violet light on upper cover: "N. 167".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Burlaeus, Gualterus, 1275-1345?, Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604., Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint., and Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 55 B.C.-approximately 39 A.D.
Subject (Topic):
Conduct of life, Epitaphs, Exempla, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholia
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669, printmaker
Published / Created:
[19th century].
Call Number:
Print20106
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title supplied by curator., Original date is 1639. This is a 19th century restrike., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint.
Subject (Topic):
Pulse, Death, Medicine in the Bible, Deathbeds, Saints, Priests, and Angels
Collaert, Hans, approximately 1530-1581, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not after 1581]
Call Number:
Print00938
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Childbirth
Description:
Title supplied by curator., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., Place of publication derived from printmaker's nationality., Sheet trimmed., and See: Hollstein, F.W.H. Dutch and Flemish etching, engravings, and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. 4-23.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint,
Subject (Topic):
Childbirth, Maternity nursing, Child care, Infants, Mothers, Children, Nurses, and Eating & drinking
