Title within woodcut border. Historiated initials. Full-page coast of arms and crest of Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester (to whom the work is dedicated) on verso of title. Full-page portrait of author on verso of 3d p.l.
Manuscript on paper (no watermarks) of Unidentified Geography, translated into modern Greek from Latin by Demetrius Notaras. With Dedication to Chrysanthus Notaras, Patriarch of Jerusalem (1707-33).
Description:
In Greek., Script: The text was written by two scribes in similar styles of minuscule. Scribe 1 (pp. 1-238) is the same scribe (Constantine Raphael Byzantinus) as that designated as Scribe 1 in Beinecke MSS 294, 295 and 300, etc.; Scribe 2 copied pp. 239-586. A third person supplied the Table of Contents at the beginning of the codex (pp. i-xv)., No ornamentation or rubrication., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Near Eastern. Brown goatskin with a deeply impressed medallion containing a crown, sword, sceptre, eagle, bull and I. K., N. B., originally gilt. Title gold-tooled. Spattered edges.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Chrysanthos, Patriarch of Jerusalem, ca. 1663-1731.
MUDD S26 0107: Vol. 1, 2d ed. (1883) ; vol. 2-3, 1st ed. (1886-87), The Vili︠u︡ĭ district of the I︠A︡kutsk province., and The app. to vol. 2, p. XXVI-CVLI, contains alphabetic indexes to geographic point on and near the rivers : Lower Tunguska, Olenek, Vili︠u︡ĭ.
MUDD S26 0107: Vol. 1, 2d ed. (1883) ; vol. 2-3, 1st ed. (1886-87), The Vili︠u︡ĭ district of the I︠A︡kutsk province., and The app. to vol. 2, p. XXVI-CVLI, contains alphabetic indexes to geographic point on and near the rivers : Lower Tunguska, Olenek, Vili︠u︡ĭ.
Bankoku ichiranzu, Bankoku ichiran zusetsu, and (Explanation of the visualized map of all the countries)
Description:
BEIN 2018 +512: Manuscript annotations in English on margins of map., Cover attached; cover and map title the same., Accompanied by: BANKOKU ICHIRAN ZUSETSU : (Explanation of the visualized map of all the countries) / Koyano Yoshiharu. -- Bunka 7 : (1810). -- 2 v., ill. ; 25.2 x 18 cm., Kôzanrō is a private school of Koyano Yoshiharu., and California shown as an island.
Publisher:
Kôzanrô, (June, 1809)
Subject (Geographic):
Japan and Japan.
Subject (Topic):
World maps, Geography, Study and teaching, and Prints, Japanese
Manuscript on paper of notes and quotations, in two hands. Notes in a secretary hand include instruction for the branle and tables of """"The rates of ffynes for Respitt of homage"""" and other fees. Notes in an Italic hand include comments on witchcraft, didactic phrases and sentences, and notes on geography and cosmology.
Description:
Binding: early 17th century limp vellum., Blank leaves not reproduced digitally., Flyleaf annotated: """"Francis Grosvenor."""", and Teaching resource: English Paleography Examples, 16th-18th century.
Cosmographia Petri Apiani / per Gemmam Frisium apud Louanienses medicum et mathematicum insignem, iam demum ab omnibus vindicata mendis, ac nonnullis quoque locis aucta, & annotationibus marginalibus illustrata. ; Additis eiusdem argumenti
