Manuscript on parchment of a Book of Hours with Calendar (rather empty) and headings in French
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in formal batarde script; ff. 238r-241v in a different hand than the preceding folios, but probably almost contemporary., Thirteen undistinguished historiated initials (6-, 4-, and 3-line), ca. 1460-70, blue or pink with white highlights on brown grounds with gold highlights. Six other initials (ff. 13r, 17r, 27r, 107r, 155r, and 195r) enclose carefully studied flowers. Scatter and compartmentalized borders of average quality added later, ca. 1480-1500, for the most part to pages with historiated or flower initials, similar to borders in manuscripts of the "Ghent Associates"; the majority with acanthus branches, flowers, and birds, or flowers alone scattered on backgrounds of pink, bright blue, slate blue, gold and/or black, or flowers set within a lattice of twigs, the diamonds so formed alternately pink and blue (f. 123r) or green, pink and blue (f. 238r). Three borders (ff. 27v, 69v, and 136v) with thistles, brown and blue or brown and green, touched with gold, arranged in a wallpaper-like pattern over grounds of slate-blue or red cross-hatched with lines in a darker shade of the same color. In the border on f. 107r, a grotesque with the torso of a man and the hind legs of a large cat; on f. 185r the same, holding a bow., 2-line initials in gold on pink and blue with white highlights, except on ff. 238r-241v, gold on blue and brown with white highlights. 1-line initials in blue with red penwork, or gold with black penwork, or black with a red stroke; a few spaces for such initials have not been filled. In the text, headings and marks for antiphons in red; in the calendar, headings for months, dates, and important feasts also in red. Line-fillers: two oblique lines, blue or gold, with dots attached., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Brown calf. Paste-decorated edges. Rebacked. Spine stamped with gold leaves and the words "GETEY BOEK".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Books of hours, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
In Dutch., Script: Written in gothic bookhand., Four 9- or 8-line historiated initials, blue with white highlights or spiralling acanthus in white and gold, against cusped grounds, with penwork floral sprays in border, tinted red, blue and yellow. Fourteen 5-line initials for the Hours, blue, with leaves in white, filled with flowers or fruit, against gold grounds, square with cusps at corners: each with a three-quarter border, a red, blue and gold bar, some with dragon-head terminals, in outer margin; foliage with flowers, red, blue, green, purple and pink, and animals surrounded by brown and black hair-spray and gold dots. 4 inserted miniatures probably date ca. 1475-85 and differ in style from the manuscript to which they were added. The miniature on f. 55v Angels with Monstrance (Hours of the Eucharist) and most of the overpainted borders around miniatures and pages with historiated initials probably date from ca. 1500-10. The borders consist of pink and/or gold arched frames, cusped in black, with full borders, some compartmentalized, pink, blue and/or gold, with various combinations of gold curling acanthus, red, blue, and green flowers, insects and jewels; one (f. 149v) a damask pattern with jewels and flowers in roundels., Many small initials in red or blue with flourishing in blue or red, often extending the length of the written space. 1-line initials alternating red and blue. Rubrics throughout., and Binding: Seventeenth century. Gold-tooled, green goatskin with a red label and a spine decorated "a la grotesque," possibly by one of the Padeloups, a family active in Paris from ca. 1654 to 1800. Traces of original sewing and paste in gutter and on contemporary parchment flyleaves. Gilt edges.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Books of hours, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment of a Book of Hours with prayers in Dutch. The manuscript is misbound
Description:
In Dutch and Latin., Script: Written in liturgical gothic bookhand by a single scribe. 3-, 2-, and 1-line initials with very fine penwork: gold with dark blue penwork or blue with red penwork. 1-line initials within the text black with one or two red strokes. Line fillers: blue cables. Rubrics in orange-tinted red., Water damage on ff. 8v, 38v and 39v has obliterated some initials; the text is still legible., and Binding: Date? Bookblock tacked to a vellum folder. The light rectangular patch on the front cover, lower left, was probably left by the removal of a shelf tag.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Books of hours, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper, ca. the turn of the 15th and 16th centuries, of 1) Bernard Silvestris, De cura rei familiaris; 2) Ps.-Seneca, De remediis fortuitorum; 3) Elegantiarum viginti precepta; 4) Notes on moveable feasts, a calendar, mnemotechnic verses, calendar tables, lists and other notes; 5) Office for the feast of Our Mary "ad Nives," hymn for the Virgin and Child, and biblical prayers
Description:
In Latin., Script: Copied by three hands: A) copied ff. 1r-6v and 16r-26v in Gothica Semihybrida Currens; B) copied ff. 8r-14r in Gothica Cursiva Currens; C) copied ff. 14v and 27r-36v in Gothica Semihybrida Libraria., Decoration: Red paragraph marks, underlining, stroking of majuscules, rubrics (rare, except in the Calendar, art. 5). Red 1-2-line plain initials. Alternately red and blue 1-2-line plain initials in art. 7. Red KL-ligatures in the Calendar., and Binding: none.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Bernard Silvestris, active 1136., Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D., and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin and Manuscripts, Medieval
In Latin., Script: Written by several scribes in liturgical gothic bookhand or square and disjointed humanistic script, both of which have been influenced by printing., Decorated with initials and partial borders cut from earlier manuscripts, none of high quality; penwork decoration added to portions pasted in. Twenty engravings, woodcuts and drawings, colored by hand, also pasted in and surrounded by simple borders in red ink. Crude 1-line initials in red and faded purple. Square notes on 4-line red staves. Rubrics throughout., Many leaves repaired or trimmed. Some leaves or portions of leaves used to complete sections were inserted sideways or pasted over another part of the manuscript., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Brown calf with a gold-tooled spine and parts of two fastenings.
Title, place of publication and printmaker from ms. note by George Steevens in his collections of Hogarth prints., Steevens's note mounted below: "Inside of an Opera-House. This plate (which in manner is strongly Hogarthian, and might have suggested to him an idea of the scenery we meet with in "Booth, Wilks and Cibber contriving a pantomime") was sold as a performance of our Artist, at Mr. Gulston's Auction, for two pounds four shillings. It was, however, engraved in Holland, with the following inscription at the bottom of it, which had been craftily effaced by some print-dealer for the purposes of deception.--P. Marot fecit, avec Privilege des Etats generaux des provinces unis et d'Holland. W.F.", Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On page 22 in volume 1.
Title, place of publication and printmaker from ms. note by George Steevens in his collections of Hogarth prints., Steevens's note mounted below: "Inside of an Opera-House. This plate (which in manner is strongly Hogarthian, and might have suggested to him an idea of the scenery we meet with in "Booth, Wilks and Cibber contriving a pantomime") was sold as a performance of our Artist, at Mr. Gulston's Auction, for two pounds four shillings. It was, however, engraved in Holland, with the following inscription at the bottom of it, which had been craftily effaced by some print-dealer for the purposes of deception.--P. Marot fecit, avec Privilege des Etats generaux des provinces unis et d'Holland. W.F.", Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On page 22 in volume 1.
Manuscript on paper containing 1) Instructions for a nun, addressed as "ma devote fille", by a priest, containing extensive Latin quotations, followed by their French translations, from the Bible, St. Augustine, St. Bernard, Cesarius of Arles, St. Gregory the Great, Isidore of Seville, St. Jerome, St. John Chrysostom, Macrobius, Origen, Richard of St. Victor ("ung docteur nommé Richart"), Seneca, Thomas Aquinas. 2) The Passion according to the Gospel of St. John, as read in the office of Good Friday (Jn. 18:1-40; 19:1-42), to be read when a nun is dying, in French translation
Description:
In French., Script: Copied by one hand in Gothica Cursiva Libraria/Currens., Watermark: Crowned Lily, var. Briquet 7252 (mostly 1468-1477)., Written in campo aperto in one column, 20-23 lines., Headings and stroking of majuscules in red., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Blue mottled paper over cardboard.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, French, Manuscripts, Medieval, Women, and Religious life
Title from caption below image., Place of publication surmised from the fact that half the print's text is in Dutch., Text in image of letter on desk: "To Hon. Cotes Esqr. London.", and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Published according to Act of Parliament 1764; vitgegeeven by Acte van het Parlement
