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;...
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,...
Description:
In Latin.
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...
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 a...
Collection of "Prologues" and "Epilogues" and other verses in an unidentified hand, circa 1750 to 1788, some performed at the Austen family home at Steventon. There are four pieces written by Rev. James Austen, Jane Austen's eldest brother, performed ...
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 a...
Description:
In English.
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