Manuscript, on parchment, of the Bible, including prologues. The Old Testament omits 1 and 2 Chronicles and Psalms; Esther and Judith follow Nehemiah. New Testament is incomplete: Acts folllows the Pauline and Catholic epistles but ends in chapter 13; Revelations not present. Chapter divisions throughout often deviate from Langton arrangement. Numerous brief marginal annoations in several hands
Description:
In Latin., Numerous brief marginal annotations, in Latin, in several thirteenth and fourteenth century hands, apparently English. Ecclesiastes annotated in at least four different hands., Layout: double columns of 55 lines., Script: gothica textualis., Decoration: each prologue and book opens with a large initial in red and blue with red and blue penwork, often with bar extensions in red and blue., and Binding: seventeenth-century full dark blue English polished calf. with extensive gold tooling in cottage style. Six-compartmented spine; all compartments gold-tooled except for the second, which contains a handwritten paper label: "Latin Bible. Manuscript." Marbled endpapers.
Illuminated manuscript on parchment of a book of hours, Franciscan Use, created for a clergyman. Contains 1) Calendar, ff. 1r-12v; 2) Mass of the Virgin, ff. 13r-15v; 3) Gospel extracts, ff. 15v-19v; 4) "Obsecro te," "O intemerata," and other prayers, ff.19v-28v; 5) Office of the Dead, use of Rome, ff. 29r-61v; 6) Fifteen Gradual Psalms, ff. 61v-70r; 7) Hours of the Virgin, ff. 70r-121v; 8) Hours of the Cross, ff. 121v-127v; 9) Hours of the Spirit, ff. 127v-132v; 10) Office of the Dead, ff. 132v-134r; 11) Seven Penitential Psalms and Litany, ff. 134r-153r; 12) Preparation for the Mass, ff. 153r-164v. Items 5-6 belong after f. 132v; text on f. 29r continues from f.133v and Bound with contemporary illuminated manuscript on parchment containing 13) Benedictions, ff. 165r-173v; 14) Pontifical ordos, ff. 173v-180. Benedictions open with 3-line historiated initial. Rubrication. 2-line initials excised at f. 166 and f. 179
Description:
In Latin., Title devised by cataloger., Layout: single columns of 17-19 lines., Script: gothica textualis., Decoration: Forty historiated initials of approximately 6 lines. Inhabited full borders. Rubrication., Binding: nineteenth-century full brown calf. Covers framed with gilt and blind ornament; spine gilt and lettered. Spine title: Missale., and Bookseller description available.
Subject (Geographic):
France., Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Books of hours, Devotional literature, Latin, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript, on parchment, incomplete, of a book of hours, probably Use of Châlons. It contains a calendar (1r-12v); the Hours of the Virgin in the Use of Châlons (13r-70v); Hours of the Cross and Hours of the Holy Spirit (71r-78v); Seven Penetential Psalms (79r-98v); and the Office of the Dead (99r-138v).
Description:
In Latin., Bookseller description available., Script: gothica textualis semi-quadrata., Layout: single column, 14 lines., Decoration: Many small decorated initials, gilt, or with contrasting red and blue penwork; some two-line decorated initials, also gilt. Nearly all pages have one margin filled with an ivyleaf border with gold leaves and colored blossoms. Nine large miniatures accompanied by large gold initials and full gold borders: Annunciation (13r); Nativity (40v); the angel and the shepherds (47r); Presentation in the temple (55v); Coronation of Mary (66r); Crucifixion (71r); Pentecost (76r); David repenting (79r); Mass for the dead with mourners and clerics (99r)., and Binding: eighteenth-century full blind-tooled brown leather, rebacked: spine title "HORAE" on modern spine. Marbled endpapers.
Manuscript fragment, on parchment, from this Latin grammar text
Description:
In Latin., Layout: single columns of 24 lines, centered, with gloss in a much smaller script surrounding the central text., Script: gothica textualis semi-quadrata, with gloss in littera glossularis., and Decoration: paraph marks in alternating red and blue inks, in both the text and the gloss.
Manuscript fragment on parchment, probably from a Bible. The recto contains the end of "the Interpretation of Hebrew Names" in a gothic bookhand; rubricated. The verso contains two unidentified texts in a slightly later anglicana script, one medical and one mathematical
Manuscript on paper, in a single secretary hand, corrected, containing the text of a school drama on the life of Oedipus. The text, mainly in fourteener couplets, draws heavily on Alexander Neville's verse translation of Seneca's Oedipus (1581), and also contains extracts from Thomas Newton's Thebais (1581). The original scenes show the influence of other contemporary verse, including Lyly's Euphues and the fifth book of Spenser's Faerie Queene (1596). The work was apparently intended for performance by the pupils of a grammar school, probably the Royal Free Grammar School at Newcastle upon Tyne and The final two leaves of the volume contain "A speach deliverd before the founders at the entrance of the schole," in the same hand. The speech refers to the Selby family (George Selby was elected Mayor of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1600).
Description:
In English., Title on front cover: Oedpius with a song., Watermark similar to Briquet 11046., and Binding: contemporary full parchment.
Subject (Geographic):
Newcastle upon Tyne (England)
Subject (Name):
Lyly, John, 1554?-1606, Neville, Alexander, 1544-1614., Newton, Thomas, 1542?-1607., Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D., and Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599
Subject (Topic):
Influence, College and school drama, English, Endowed public schools (Great Britain), English drama, and English poetry
