Manuscript roll, on parchment, in a single hand, illuminated, containing the "Arma Christi" poem and other prayers, in Dutch, including prayers ascribed to Popes Sixtus IV and Alexander VI. The prayers are preceded by a rubric instructing readers to kneel as they recite the prayers in order to obtain an indulgence
Description:
In Dutch., Layout: single column of text., Script: gothic., Decoration: Rubricated. Initials in red or blue. Large miniature at head of roll containing a bust of Christ wearing a crown of thorns, displaying his stigmata, and surrounded by the "arma Christi" (also known as the Instruments of the Passion). On a blue ground in gold frame. One large decorated initial immediately below miniature. Text accompanied by decorated borders on both sides., and Binding: section of leather sewn to top of scroll. Accompanied by seventeenth-century? fabric case with fabric and metal appliqués.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Netherlands
Subject (Name):
Jesus Christ and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Passion, Dutch, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Indulgences, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Religious life and customs
Title from item., Publication place and date from book in which this print was published., Plate 19 from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ... , v. 1., Two columns of text in Dutch in lower left of the image: Actieuse papiere atlas naar de mode met zyn na-sleep, of t[sic] Kegelspel des klynen tds ..., Two columns of text in French in lower right of the image: L'Atlas actieux de papier à la mode, avec ses complices et le jeu de quille du petit tems ..., Two lines of text in Dutch on either side of title: Verklaaring van 't Tafereeltje ..., Bowditch's ms. annotations on the mounting sheet., and Mounted to 37 x 56 cm.
Title from item., Publication place and date from book in which this print was published., Two columns of verse in English on left below image: Here, may the wand[e]ring eye with pleasure see Both knaves and foolls [sic] in borrow[e]d shapes agree ..., Two columns of verse in Dutch on right below image: Hier kan 't Nieuwsgierig oog met Lust en ruymte weyen ..., Plate 14 from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ... , v. 2., Temporary local subject terms: Architecture: assembly room., and Watermark in the right part of sheet.
Title etched below image., Date from item., Place of publication derived from copyright statement., Trimmed sheet., Document depicted in image titled: Gewapende neutralitiet., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament 5 January 1781, price 4 Schilling
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Netherlands
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., and First League of Armed Neutrality.
Subject (Topic):
Neutrality, Armed, Art and mental illness, Anger, Sleeping, Writing materials, Treaties, Candlesticks, Politicians, Kings, Crowns, and Politics and government
Title from item., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., One line of text below image: Alwaar de Ziel zig aan de Geldzugt heeft gegéven ..., Five columns of verse in Dutch at top of image, below title: Het heilloos goud, van elk dienstplegtig aangebeden ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Dutchmen -- Greed for gold., and Title translation in an unverified card catalog record: Speculation on the gold-greedy world at the beginning of the destruction of commercial affairs.
"Satire on the financial crisis in 1720, the print is No.1 in a series of eight prints. A cartouche, enclosing a view of a tomb or monument before which stand Aesop, with a fox and holding a parrot and a pipe, and Bombario with a pedlar's tray holding a flask and allowing his hunchback to be used by a well-dressed man as a writing desk; a monkey plays on a pipe at his feet. On the tomb is an inscription 'Het na-geslecht zal dit/ Voor Fablen houwen/ En tot Esopus eer, een/ Graf naald bouwen' (Posterity will take this as a fable, and will build a tomb in honour of Aesop). The cartouche is supported by a satyr, whose name is given at the top on a ribbon as "Oorblasers Baas" (Chief of the Ear-blowers, or liars), his head peers over the top of the cartouche and he blows bubbles, some bearing images of ears; on his head is a basket with little figures of men and women who will appear in subsequent prints in the series. At the top of the cartouche are pan-pipes, on the left, and a hunting horn, on the right; at the bottom between the satyr's goat legs is the date, 1720."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Title translation in the British Museum catalogue: Bombario the share jobber and the ghost of Esop., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered '1' within the image., Earlier design burnished from plate and replaced with verse of this edition., Two columns of verse at top of image on either side of the design: 1 Bombario treed in gesprek Met broer 2 Esopus Geest zy kaller ..., Temporary local subject terms: South Sea Bubble., and Mounted to 26 x 19 cm.
A satire on the financial crisis of 1720 ... Time draws back the curtain to reveal what appears to be a large painting showing a 'Roomse Schilderij', the deathbed of Pope Clement XI in March 1721. In front of the bed stand John Law and the Old Pretender, who has lost his wig and hat; they hold strings attached to the sails of a windmill on the canopy of the bed, beside which are the French cock, the Imperial eagle and the lion of the Netherlands. A thread encircles the waists of Law, the Pretender and Cardinal Alberoni who stands on the far side of the bed. At the head of the bed stands a group of cardinals holding up the papal tiara as the future Innocent XIII reaches for it; his medallion portrait hangs above, with an angel driving away a devil as the background. The Director being pushed forward by the satyrs is now identified as Robert Knight, cashier of the South Sea Company; coins fall from his pocket. The town in the distance is now 'Vryplaats'. The two vignettes at the bottom of the sheet have been changed, that on the left, which still has the same design is now identified as the son of the Pretender (born in 1720); that on the right, now showing a wheel of fortune with Pope Innocent at the top holding a scourge which he directs towards Law who falls down at the left, and destroying with a lightning bolt a paper representing the constitution as the Pretender ascends on the right; Cardinal Alberoni is at the bottom of the wheel. Engraved Dutch title, inscriptions, and verse in three columns which differs from those in the original state
Description:
Title from item., Title translation in British Museum catalogue: Bombario, O death, you were no friend to law when you shot down Pope Clement., State, with depiction of a chamber containing pope's deathbed in the right portion of the image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Three columns of verse in Dutch at bottom of image, titled: 't Cashot van Mr. Knigt zuidzee actie Kassier en de roomse schildery en medali., Plate 33 from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ... , v. 1., Temporary local subject terms: Pictures amplifying subject -- Rome: allusion to "Romish picture" -- Architectural details: palace interior -- Freetown -- Popes -- Furniture: canopyed bed -- Papal deathbed -- Destruction of Constitution -- Crimes: South Sea -- France as crowing cock -- Rome as eagle -- England as lion -- Mississippi scheme -- Humbug -- Reference to Venetian trade -- Clergy -- Papacy: tiara and keys -- Father Time with hourglass -- Death as skeleton with sickle -- Portraits: Innocent XIII -- Satyrs with spears -- Capital punishment: gallows -- Bags of money -- Zanies -- Bladder: noisemaker -- Emblems: papal emblems -- Mottoes: S.P.Q.R. -- Schemes -- Symbols: wheel of fortune -- Symbols: tomb of death., and Watermark in the lower portion of sheet, countermark in the upper portion.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Clement XI, Pope, 1649-1721, Innocent XIII, Pope, 1655-1724, James, Prince of Wales, 1688-1766, Alberoni, Guilio, Cardinal, 1664-1752, Knight, Robert, 1675-1744, and Law, John, 1671-1729
Subject (Topic):
South Sea Bubble, Great Britain, 1720, Cardinals, Emblems, National emblems, and Windmills
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a book of hours (litanies) including a litany that includes the following saints: Gereon and companions, Cosmas, Damian, Fabian, Sebastian, Gervase, Protase, Crispin, Crispinian, Chrysogonus, Leodegarus, Lambert, Christopher, Thomas, Demetrius, Blaise, Livinus, Firminus, Silvester, Gregory, Leo, Hilary, Martin, Nicholas, Augustine, and Ambrose
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in gothic script (littera fere bastarda)., and Decoration: each line begins with a 1-line initial "S" in gold on alternating grounds of red and blue; the names of the saints are written on the same line as "Or[a pros nobis]" but are separated from it by line fillers or alternating bands of red and blue decoraed with gold penwork; there is no punctuation.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a book of hours (Office of the Dead).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in two sizes of gothic script (littera textualis formata), with a larger script for the canticle and Psalm and a smaller script for the chants., and Decoration: the 2-line initial at the beginning of the Psalm and the 1-line initials at the beginning of Psalm verses are in gold on a ground that alternates between red with blue penwork and blue with white penwork; the interior of letters on the red ground are filled with blue and white penwork, and the interiors of those on blue ground are filled with red and blue penwork; 1-line initials at the beginning of chants are in brown; rubrics written in red in the same script as the text; punctuated rarely with the punctus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text.
Illuminated manuscript on parchment of a book of hours, use of Sarum, incomplete. May have been produced for a Scottish patron. Contains 1) Prayers in Latin and Middle Scots, f1r-5v; 2) Hours of the Virgin, use of Sarum, with Hours of the Cross and of the Holy Spirit intermixed, f6r-30r; 3) Prayers, including Seven Joys of the Virgin, O intemerata, and Obsecro te, f30v-42v; 4) Seven Penitential Psalms and Litany, f43r-55v
Description:
In Latin; rubrics in Middle Scots., Script: gothic bookhand., Decoration: 5 column-width miniatures, some illuminated; 4-6 line initials with illuminated full borders; 2-line blue initials with red penwork; 1-line initials in alternating red and blue. Rubricated., Layout: single columns of 22 lines., Secundo folio: tuo., Binding: modern limp vellum. Spine title: "Horae ad Usum Sarum" and "MS.", Some annotations in Middle Scots in 15th-century hand., Some full and partial leaves removed throughout., and Bookseller description available.
