Manuscript on parchment of a breviary with ferial psalter, various prayers, computistical tables, and a calendar
Description:
In Latin., Script: Copied by five hands in Gothica Hybrida Libraria: scribe A (Arnoldus Guetsen) copied ff. 1r-108v and 246r-268v; B copied f. 110r-v; C copied ff. 111r-206v; D copied ff. 207r-244v; and E copied f. 245r., Decoration: red rubrics, underlining and stroking of majuscules. Alternately red and blue versals; plain initials; and flourished initials or litterae duplices with penwork, which often takes the form of foliage. Gold initials with or without penwork are seen on ff. 111r-125v and 134r-141v. Large initials variously in the trompe-l'oeil style, the dentelle type, in gold and colours with borders, the Renaissance style, and the landscape style of the Ghent-Bruges school. See catralog description for further detail., and Binding: 20th century red morocco over wooden boards, sewn on two thiongs; two braided leather and brass clasps attached to the rear cover. Red, blue or green parchment tabs.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Breviaries, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Psalters
Title from texted engraved above image., Attributed to P.V.D. Berge in an unverified card catalog record., Publication date from book in which this plate was published., Earlier lettering burnished from plate and replaced with title and verse of this edition., On one sheet with five columns of letterpress., "Pag.14."--Upper left corner of plate., Four lines of verse below image: Al wie zyn maag te veel met d'Acties heeft belaân ..., Plate from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark., Numbered '45' in pencil in an unidentified hand., and Title translation on verso of mount: Spring water as medicine for the ill shareholder; mounted to 46 x 33 cm.
Title from item., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Later version of the design by Peter Brueghel the Elder., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
South Sea Bubble, Great Britain, 1720 and Medical procedures & techniques
Manuscript on parchment of a calendar in Latin, one page for each month, based on luni-solar computistical data
Description:
In Latin., Script: Copied in Northern Gothica Textualis Formata using only “box”-a., Decoration: Red rubrics; occasional crossing in red of abbreviations such as “epi”, “mr”, “virg”; occasional yellow heightening of majuscules written in black ink; and “KL”-abbreviations treated as 4-line dentelle initials., and Binding: None.
A loose copy in reverse of Hogarth's "3 characters. 4 caricaturas"; a group of heads drawn in profile, mostly caricatures; heads on the top rows are lettered and the bottom rows numbered, the last row from right to left, numbered 76 to 82.
Alternative Title:
Caricatures d'apres Hogarth
Description:
Title etched above image., Plate from vol. 4: Lavater, J.C. Essai sur la physiognomonie. La Haye : Imprimé chez Jacques van Karnebeek, 1781-1803., and Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.) no. 156.
Title from item., Publication date inferred from British Museum catalogue., Version with printmaker's name and additional caption lines not present on the British Museum impression and without symbols on backs of figures numbered 13, 14 and 15. Cf. No. 1472 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2., Another version of No. 1472 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2., and Mounted to 46 x 30 cm.
"George III (left), seated in a chair, is being shown by the ghost of Chatham a procession of figures walking towards a pit (right) inscribed "Chaos". Chatham wears pseudo-classical draperies, a tie-wig crowned with a laurel wreath, and is surrounded by a glory of rays. He holds up a circular glass to the king, who looks through it with an expression of alarm. On the back of the king's chair is a crown surmounted by a weathercock which points to the South, probably to indicate that North's power is over, cf. BMSat 5659. Under his feet are torn county petitions, and an open book, "Lock on Government". The petitions are those of York, Westminster, Middlesex, Hampshire, Surrey. There is also the design of the façade of a building inscribed, "The Elevation of [a] Baby House". The leaders of the procession, who are on the brink of the pit, are the kings of France and Spain. A devil (right) with wings, horns, and a long barbed tail, points into the pit. Behind the two kings come North and Sandwich. North holds a rolled document inscribed "Taxes". Under his arm is a large money-bag with a gaping hole in it, by which is an open book or paper inscribed "New Way to pay old Debts, A Farce by Boreas" (Massinger's comedy had recently been revived at Drury Lane). On his right Sandwich walks with his arms folded, a paper under his arm is inscribed "Catches & Glees Mr Arne" (Arne (1710-78), the musical composer, is generally styled Dr; Sandwich was "the soul of the Catch Club", see BMSat 5342). From his pocket protrude papers, one inscribed "Greenwich Hospital", in allusion to the scandal caused by Captain Baillie's exposure of abuses there, see BMSat 5548. The other is inscribed "Love & Madness"; this is the title of a series of fictitious letters recently published purporting to be the correspondence of Hackman and Martha Ray, Sandwich's mistress, see BMSat 5540, &c, but really by Herbert Croft. See Walpole, 'Letters', xi. 139-40,13 Mar. 1780. Behind come Mansfield, in judge's wig and robes, and Bute in Highland dress, both with expressions of despair; they are being hurried along by a man with the face of a fiend who has seized Mansfield by the arm and Bute by the shoulders. Beside them walks a Dutchman, his hands in his breeches pockets, being propelled from behind by a devil, significant of the unpopularity of the Dutch Republic,"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Peep into futurity
Description:
Title from item. and Trimmed within plate line.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs May 16, 1780, by W. Wells, No. 132 opposite Salisbury Court Fleet Street London
Subject (Geographic):
Netherlands.
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778., Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792., Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793., Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Charles III, King of Spain, 1716-1788., and Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793.
Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, baron de, 1689-1755
Published / Created:
M. DCC XXXIV [1734]
Call Number:
2004 77
Image Count:
2
Description:
BEIN 2004 77: Shelfmark label on front pastedown. Undeciphered autograph on t.p. Red chalk marks throughout., Pirated ed. based on the octavo true first ed., Signatures: pi2 A-Y⁸·⁴ Z⁸(-Z8)., Final p. blank., and Includes bibliographical references.
Title from text engraved above image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Title translation in British Museum catalogue: Controller of the fortunate and miserable Lapis-seekers or searchers for the Philosopher's Stone., Plate numbered '8' within the image., Earlier text burnished from plate and replaced with verse of this state., Ten lines of verse below image: Men eyst miljoenen van elk schatryk actionist ..., Temporary local subject terms: Reference to John Law, 1671-1729., and Mounted to 27 x 20 cm.
