Private Collection of Antiquarian Books and Manuscripts

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: Fragment from parchment folio, with text on one side.; Fragment from parchment folio, with text on one side. The main text is surrounded by commentary, and there are also marginal annotations by different hands. Some initials are marked in red and blue ink. The page was used in binding. 19.7 x 39.4 cm, Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A445167/datastream/PDF/view

: Fragment of a parchment folio with 12 lines of text and musical notation.; Fragment of a parchment folio with 12 lines of text and musical notation. Text partially erased. Some initials in red ink. The fragment was used in a binding. 32 x 17.5 cm, Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A445155/datastream/PDF/view

: Fragment of a vellum folio with text on both sides.; Fragment of a vellum folio with text on both sides. Includes only 12 lines of text with wide separation between the lines. It seems as if musical staves had been erased (more visible under the first 3 lines). A capital letter "D" (Dixit autem pater...) is rubricated, and there was a decorated initial (3 lines tall) that was also erased (there are traces of green, red and blue ink). 32 x 19.5 cm. The fragment was used in binding., Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A445170/datastream/PDF/view

: Fragment of parchment bifolium; Fragment of parchment bifolium. Writing on one side (ink very faded). Probably used in a binding. Remains of adhered material. 40 x 15 cm, Some folds were left unfolded when captured to avoid damaging the manuscript, and some text is covered by the folds., Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A445152/datastream/PDF/view

: Gebendoek; "(prayerbook, probably a getijdenboek or book of hours, including part of the Magnificat). Netherlands (probably northern). 15th century. One leaf. Textualis hand. One two-line capital and 5 one-line capitals on each page in either red or blue. This is the only vernacular text in the collection. The translation is by Geert Groote.", Measurements: 14 cm x 10.25 cm, Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A439349/datastream/PDF/view

: Genealogie de la tres ancienne et noble famille de Faesch, originaire de la ville de Baste en Suisse; Written in French in a neat early 19th-century cursive hand. With 3 blind-stamped paper wax seals, mounted on the vellum with red wax, two with yellow and brown cloth ties. With a large coat-of-arms on the title-page and 27 smaller coat-of-arms in the genealogical tree (some being the Faesch family coat-of-arms together with the coat-of-arms of the families related by marriages, sometimes the coat-of-arms next to the Faesch coat-of-arms left blank), all hand-coloured with gouache. The genealogical tree is interconnected by green branches, painted with gouache. Sewn with yellow and brown threads, as a single quire of 4 in vellum wrappers. Early 19th-century manuscript genealogical tree of the Faesch family, a prominent Swiss, French, Belgian, Corsican and Italian noble family, originating in Basel. The tree starts in the early 15th century with Jean-Rodolphe Faesch, born 1491, who was the grandson of Nicolas Faesch, who was born in 1438. It ends with Marie Valerie Faesch, born in 1804. The genealogical tree not only lists the members of this important family, but also shows besides the family coat-of-arms the coat-of-arms (as far as known) of the families that are related to the Faesch family by marriage. Many members of the Faesch family were important jurists, bankers or military officers, as is sometimes also noted in the tree. The manuscript is dated 1806 and made in Vienna, Austria and it is signed by Charles-Jean Beydaels de Zittaert (1747–1811) and Fran.ois-Joseph de Leenheer. Beydaels de Zittaert was the first king of arms of the Austrian Netherlands, head of the Burgundian Circle and head of the Chambre H.raldique, who made genealogies on behalf of noble families in the Southern Netherlands. We know less about Francois-Joseph de Leenheer, but he also signs the present work and he wrote that he was archivist at chancery of court and state. The present genealogical tree is not only a beautiful and colourful document, but also seemes to be a quite official document, ordered by the Faesch family themselves. Wrappers and margins a little dust-soiled, outer edges a little curled, but overall in good condition., Measurements: 38.5 cm x 30 cm, Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A439352/datastream/PDF/view

: German Heraldic Manuscript; Armorial manuscript, comprising 5 double-page sheets on thick, good-quality paper and mounted at an early date. 96 shields per page (half a sheet), each finely drawn in pen and ink with original watercolour, names below in brown ink. Light age browning, old damp stain to foot of one sheet, small tearing to one lower corner. A unique volume in modern tan calf with gold tooling, spine with raised bands and double gilt-line decoration. 45 x 34.5 cm, ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT. Slim folio comprising 5 double-page sheets on thick, good-quality paper and mounted at an early date. 96 shields per double-page sheet, each finely drawn in pen and ink with original watercolour, names below in brown ink. Light age browning, old damp stain to foot of one sheet, small tearing to one lower corner. A unique volume in modern tan calf with gold tooling (conserved and rebound in 2010, original invoice included), spine with raised bands and double gilt-line decoration. "The 480 hand-painted armorials and elaborate crests include many canting arms, representing the bearer’s name in visual puns, as well as early Grand Masters of the Teutonic Knights—not recorded in Siebmacher’s Wappenbuch—such as Karl Beffart, Heinrich Dusner (1280-1353), and Ludolf König (1290-1348). Bavaria, Suabia, Franconia, and Rhineland are the most prevalent areas represented in the bearers’ coats. A thorough, beautifully and precisely drawn, study on early Germanic heraldry, worthy of close examination." Places: Germany, Austria Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A449840/datastream/PDF/view

: Gradual [3 leaves]; "THREE ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAVES, FROM A GRADUAL IN LATIN. (Germany, 14th[?] century) 16 x 11 1/2." Nine lines each of music on a four-line red stave and of text in a thick, humpbacked gothic hand. Rubrics in red, typically three large initials painted in red with yellow wash, three of the leaves WITH additional complex INITIALS in black and red CONTAINING WHIMSICAL FACES, Minor soiling, other trivial defects, but generally in quite excellent condition. The text here is in a curious hand that contains elements looking very much like the “hufnagal” notation that characterizes many German manuscript choir books (but, ironically, not this one); the letters “m,” “n,” and “i” look like so many cloves standing in an upright row.", Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A439365/datastream/PDF/view

: Grammatical text [two fragments]; Two pieces from a complete bifolium from a grammatical text, including the opening of a chapter on participles, 29 lines, red initials, probably Germany, fourteenth century., Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A445727/datastream/PDF/view

: Gramota with grant of arms to Dmitrii Klementevich Tarasov; "[Wikipedia] Tsarskoye Selo (Russian: Ца́рское Село́, IPA: [ˈtsarskəɪ sʲɪˈlo] , ""Tsar's Village"") was the town containing a former Russian residence of the imperial family and visiting nobility, located 24 kilometers (15 mi) south from the center of Saint Petersburg." "illuminated manuscript on vellum, 4 leaves, first page written in gold and surrounded by imperial armorials, other pages with the crowned monogram of Nicholas I and vignettes in margins, third leaf with armorial of Tarasov, signed by Nicholas I at end, original green velvet binding with embossed floral border, watered silk guards between each page, sewn with a single thick gilt thread, thread fraying, spine frayed at ends, without seal A large and impressive gramota, providing a grant of arms to Dmitrii Tarasov (1792-1866), who was physician to Alexander I and Nicholas I. He wrote a memoir which included the last days of Alexander I who died in mysterious circumstances in 1825. The text of the document provides details of Tarasov's career." Measurements: 47.25 cm x 33.5 cm Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A448604/datastream/PDF/view

: Grant; "John, Ironmonger of London, Grant to Thomas Shypton, currier, his fellow citizen of London, in Latin, for £100 paid last Michaelmas "at the font of St. Paul's Cathedral, London, between two and four in the afternoon", for land at Eversholt, Bedfordshire, comprising 13 acres lately held by Roger Barnewell, a total of 9 acres in several parcels lately held by Ambrose Gregory, previously by John Arnold alias Cowper, and a dwelling with garden and small piece of land at Church End, and two enclosures at Potters End, formerly of the late John Ponter, vellum, attractive penned initial, all in a clear hand, grantor's seal bearing a helmeted head, 19" x 13", 13th May 1561 seal rather worn. The present indenture is "according to the tenor of a certain tri-partite indenture of 30th May last past" between John Style, Edmund Ponter, citizen and girdlemaker of London, and Thomas Shypton. Subscribed with autograph note of examination by John Gybon, Master in Chancery, [ref: 17634]", Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A439197/datastream/PDF/view

: Grant of Alfonso V of Aragon and Sicily; "Grant by Alfonso V of Aragon and Sicily, "the Magnanimous", to Rambau de Corbera (Rambaldus de Corbaria), of a vast territory in Sardinia, in Gallura, comprising a number of depopulated villages from the environs of the present Santa Teresa Gallura (in the northern point of Sardinia) to the environs of the present Castelsardo., Dated: 4 Feb. 1421. Latin. Signed 'Rex Alvons(us)1 Subscribed by Petrus de Reus, 'domini Regis scriptor' and notary public, with notarial symbol. Endorsements in Catalan, with pressmark 'A/No. 149'; Spanish, with pressmark 'Caxn. 22 Lign. 1 N. 4' Seal cords; seal now missing. The expansion of the signature above follows the example of a document of 1418 transcribed in J & D Mateu Ibars, Colectánea paleográfica de la Corona de Aragon, 1991, no. 200, and pp. 883-885. There is a signature of 1442 on an incomplete document in BL Cotton MS Vespasian F III, f. 86. Alfonso V of Aragon (reigned 1416-1458): lover of Italy, devoted to the Renaissance, he subordinated the interests of Aragon to those of Naples, and was recognized as King of Naples in 1442. The present document belongs to earlier years, when he was extending his interests in Sardinia; title to Sardinia and Corsica was bestowed on Aragon by the papacy in 1297. In 1420 Alfonso bought up the claims and possessions of the viscount of Narbonne in Sardinia (J N Hillgarth, The Spanish Kingdoms 1250-1516, II, 1978, p. 249; Alan Ryder, The kingdom of Naples under Alfonso the Magnanimous, 1976). Rambau de Corbera: from a branch of the Catalan family of Corbera which moved to Sardinia in the 14th Century. Some more famous members also named Rambau (Riambau) are included in the Diccionari Biografic I, 1966, p. 618; another was vice governor general of Sardinia in 1347. The Rambau of the present grant was included in the Parliament of Alfonso which sat at Cagliari in January and February 1421, and he was not the only recipient of a grant in the course of that sitting (see A. Boscolo, I Parlamenti di Alfonso il Magnanimo, Milano, 1953, p. 20, who cites the register copy of the present grant in Archivo de la Corona de Aragón, Barcelona, Reg. 2784, ff. 96-98). ACA Reg. 2784 is in the group Registros del Rey 2781-2795, Itinerum sigilli secreti, 1420-1446 (Ryder, op. cit., p. 375). The villages: over twenty are named, starting with Sylonis, Carciana, Haagiana, Crastu, Istodu; some of them are identified in John Day, Villaggi abbandonati in Sardegna dal trecento at settecento: inventario, Paris, 1973, pp. 133 -136." Grant of Alfonso V of Aragon and Sicily Latin "(a) 625mm. by 320mm., grant in Latin by King Alfonso V 'the Magnimous' of Aragon and Sicily, and Count of Barcelona, to his officer, Rambau de Corbera, of a vast estate in Sardinia, dated 4 February 1421, 28 lines, written in light brown ink in the hand of the royal scribe "Petrus de reus" who names himself at the foot of the document, and with the apparent signature of the king himself, seal missing, else in outstanding condition", The fold across the bottom of the document covers some signatures. The signatures under the fold were not captured to avoid damaging the document., Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A439200/datastream/PDF/view

: Grant of Arms; Valladolid, Spain, 17 March 1559. Folio (58 x 54.5 cm; 23 x 21.5"; h x w), 1 leaf. Pedro de Villanueva was one of the conquistadores of Mexico. He was among Cortés's original party, part of the Francisco de Saucedo (also spelled "Salcedo") contingent, whose ship was delayed in leaving Cuba. With Saucedo, a friend of Cortés, he arrived at Villarica de Veracruz in July of 1519, shortly after Cortés and his men had destroyed the "idols" at Cempoala. Villanueva was among the small but grand "army" that marched into Tenochtitlán in the Spring of 1520 and in July of the same year were to flee the western world's largest city fighting for their lives, on the "Noche Triste." He survived the hell and slaughter of the causeways and later returned with the greatly augmented force that destroyed the Aztec capital and its empire. Still later he was with Cortés in the exploration and conquest of Pánuco and following that with Nuño de Guzmán in the exploration and conquest of Zacatecas and Jalisco. He and his brother Fernando (also a member of the Saucedo contingent) jointly received an encomienda (Quechula) and settled in Puebla de los Angeles where Pedro served as a regidor on the town council in the 1540s and 1550s. In the last years of the 1550s Villanueva petitioned the crown for the grant of a coat of arms in recognition of his service to the crown in the conquest of Mexico. Felipe II honored that request in this impressive document. He enumerates the Conqueror's deeds, specifically mentioning Don Hernando Cortés and Nuño de Guzmán and the various conquests in which Villanueva participated. He describes the coat of arms being granted and the significance of the colors and symbols. The granted arms are beautifully accomplished in many colors within the text of the document, with that text yielding space to the large miniature: Measuring 17.5 x 15 cm (7 x 6"), the arms are painted with a formal frame delimiting their presentation on a red field with corner brackets of gold over blue. Surmounting the arms is a knight's helm with plumage, trailing from which are decorative "swooshes." The new Villanueva arms are quartered, showing a cyphered "M" surmounted by a fleur de lis in the upper left, a crowned lion en passant in the upper right, an arm holding a sword rising out of a flowing river in the lower left, and a castle on a hill in the lower right. The text of the grant of arms is elegantly indited in a standard court semi-round gothic in sepia ink and is enclosed on the left, right, and top sides by an illuminated and historiated sash-like border. In the upper left and right corners are miniatures of Justice and Knowledge in sylvan settings. Running between those two along the top of the document is a decorative panel incorporating flowers, fruits, mythic animals, and cherubs. Below this, the king's name is accomplished in large letters of gold on a field of red accented with gold, and the "D" of his honorific "Don" is given special treatment. This is elaborated in an ornate, almost baroque style that comes close to obfuscating the fact of its being a majuscule "d": Wrought in gold, the letter at first appears to be merely a "frame" for the royal coat of arms that fills its center. The king's arms are accomplished in gold, white, black, red, and blue; the whole being laid on a blue field with white accents. The panels running down the left and right sides of the document are accomplished in red, gold, green, pink, white, red, blue, and brown, many in several shades. The decoration includes birds of several varieties including a fine owl, animals including a watchful rabbit, strawberries and other fruits, and flowers, ribbons, grotesques, and butterflies. The document is signed in the king's name by Juana (Joanna Habsburg) de Austria, "princesa de Portugal." Married to Prince Juan of Portugal, young Juana (b. 1537) was the regent of the Spanish crown from 1554 until her brother Philip's return to Spain in September of 1559. She had just lost her husband to death and borne his posthumous son, both in January, 1554, when she left Portugal and her child in the Spring of that year to assume the regency throne in Valladolid (information supplied by Kelli Ringhofer, Ph.D. candidate, University of Minnesota). In format and content this document differs dramatically from the cartas executorias de hidalguia that most collectors are familiar with. Here we have a single large sheet of vellum handsomely engrossed, artfully illuminated, and exquisitely decorated with a composite border containing miniatures. This is not a bound volume of copies of documents created for storage in the family archive. This was created for display in a prominent place of honor; and it is a magnificent display item. This is not a grant of nobility nor a confirmation of it based on something that some vague ancestor did; rather it is a grant of a coat of arms to a man who himself performed significant military and other service for the Crown and whom the Crown wishes to honor both publicly and privately. Only a few hundred of Cortés's men survived the Noche Triste, the reentry into and destruction of Mexico City, and the subsequent conquests in Panuco and elsewhere. The number of grants such as this to actual members of Cortés's original "army" were few. And surviving grants to those actual participants in the Conquest are extremely rare, even more so in commerce. This is the only royal grant of a coat of arms to an actual member of Cortés's "army" that we have seen that has ever appeared in the marketplace. Via published auction records and our extensive archive of dealer catalogues, we trace no instance before this one of the offering for sale of a grant of arms to a Conqueror of Mexico. Yes, there are examples in various libraries and museums in Mexico and Spain, and probably in the U.S., but such examples seem to have entered their institutional resting places via donation from descendants of Conquerors, not via purchase. Provenance: It is awesome to realize that this is no mere retained secretarial copy of Felipe's grant of arms to Pedro de Villanueva. This gorgeous document not only records the king's rewards to one of Cortés's men, but was that Conqueror's personal property. It is the copy of the decree sent to him expressly, by the Crown! On Villanueva, see: Icaza, Diccionario autobiográfico de conquistadores y pobladores de la Nueva España, I, 88-89; Thomas, Who's Who of the Conquistadors, 146; Himmerich y Valencia, The Encomenderos of New Spain, 1521-1555, 262; Díaz del Castillo, Verdadera historia de la conquista de la Nueva España, chap. Lill. Overall in very good condition. Some fold tears, some minor rubbing of small areas of images, stains as visible in our illustrations. The wax seal and its silk cords no longer present. Text clear, not faded, and colors strong.", Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A439203/datastream/PDF/view

: Grant of Clerical Status; "203 x 305 mm. (8 x 12"), with pendant seal (55 mm. in diameter) attached to the bottom, folded over, portion. Single column, 19 lines of text in a very small regular gothic book hand. The seal in its original round wooden encasement. With a large and flamboyant calligraphic "Franciscus" at the beginning of the text. Rome. The usual soft folds in the vellum, two small holes in the upper margin, four insignificant round wormholes in the text (three letters touched), small portion (3 mm. deep) at the top of the seal missing and two tiny chips rubbed off at the bottom (image and lettering in the wax rather muted), but the document extremely pleasing in general nevertheless, the vellum clean and fresh, and with the text all very clearly legible. This document, originating from the papal curia of Julius II (pope from 1503-13), confirms that a Spanish student living in Rome, Franciscus of Salamanca, has been granted clerical status. The document indicates that Franciscus had sought a bishop resident in the Roman curia to tonsure him as a cleric, most likely with the aim of securing employment in the papal bureaucracy. the initial petition from Franciscus had resulted in the pope's ordering "G Cardinal of San Pietro in Vincoli" (that is, Cardinal Galeotto della Rovere, the pope's nephew) to select a curial bishop as the student's sponsor. The cardinal's choice fell on Franciscus, bishop of Milopotamos (a titular see in Crete), who is the originator of our document. In it, after summarizing the case as outline above, he says that by papal mandate he tonsured and conferred clerical status on Franciscus on Sunday, June 21, in St. Peter's basilica, and on the same day in the same place in the year 1506 he attached his seal to the present document prepared by a notary and witnessed by two clerics from Cordoba, Johannes de Angulo and Petrus de Angulo (perhaps brothers and apparently friends of Franciscus), attending the ceremony. First tonsure consisted of a ceremonial haircut, with small locks taken from the front, back, sides, and top of the head by an officiating bishop. Once shorn, the tonsured individual would acquire juridical status as a cleric, which removed him from the jurisdiction of secular courts and entitled him to revenues from an ecclesiastical benefice, provided he eventually obtained such a living. First tonsure did not necessarily imply the candidate would continue on to ordination as a priest. A simple cleric could marry and still maintain his clerical status in the late Middle Ages, and some clerics continued to live essentially lay lives. Petrarch, for example, supported himself as a cleric in considerable style with revenues from church livings. (Early printers, too, often enjoyed clerical status: Sweynheym and Pannartz were clerics, respectively, if the dioceses of Mainz and Cologne, and Sweynheym is known to have had an ecclesiastical living.) It seems surprising that Julius II was personally involved in this case, as the document indicates. By 1506, the third year of his pontificate, Julius had a great deal on his papal plate. His artistic projects for Michelangelo were already well underway; in the year of our document Bramante presented the pope with the initial plans for the new St. Peter's; and 1506 was also the year of the pope's famous military campaigns - which he led wearing full armor - that regained control of Perugia and Bologna for the papacy.", Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A439368/datastream/PDF/view

: Grant of weekly market and two annual fairs...; Document signed ('Marye the quene'). 17 lines in a neat secretary hand, on paper, countersigned by Sir John., A grant of a weekly Friday market and two annual fairs to Lyme Regis. Mary gives a warrant to an unidentified official to draw up the grant for the town of ’Kings Lyme’ [Lyme Regis] of a weekly Friday market and two annual three-day fairs in February and September: the grants to include all stallage, piccage [a fee for breaking ground at a fair], tollage and customs with the court of piepowder [a special tribunal for actions during the market or fair], as well as the right of correcting weights and measures; those attending the fairs may not be ’suyd arrested or molested in any suyte ... except it be for acc[i]ons and suyts onely rysyng... w[i]t[h]in the seid Fayers’. ’Where at the humble suyte and peticion of the Burgesses of our Towne of Kings Lyme in our Countie of Dorsett, we are right welle contented and pleaced ... to give and graunte unto the Burgesses of our seid Towne and to their Successours forev[er] one m[ar]kett to be kepte weekely w[ith]in our seid Towne on the Friday forev[er], And also t[w]o Fayres yerely there to be holden and kept, that is to say thone Fayre to begynne the firste day of February yerely forev[er], And there to conynue three dayes then next folowyng, And thother Fayre to begynne the xx [20th] day of September yerely and there to continue for three days then next folowyng’. The grant for Lyme Regis was formally issued on 14 June. This charter falls at a lull in the turbulent first year of Mary's reign, between the quelling of Wyatt's Rebellion in February and the preparations for her marriage to Philip of Spain in July., Measurements: 43.5 cm X 32 cm, Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A439190/datastream/PDF/view

: Homiliary (fragment); Homiliary containing sermons on the Circumcision based on Luke 2, 1-12, and on the Epiphany based on Matthew 2, 16 and 2,13. A complete bifolium from a small format manuscript (leaves not consecutive). Each page written in a single column of 14 lines in brown ink. Simple Carolingian minuscule of the Southern German type. 19.4 x 14.5 cm. The fragment is stored in a binder from The Schoyen Collection, MS 625., HOMILIARY, in Latin, manuscript on vellum [southern Germany, 1st third 9th century] A fine example of early southern German Caroline minuscule, once in the library of Lambach Abbey. 2 leaves, each c.195 x 145mm, unruled, one column of 14 lines written in brown ink in an early Caroline minuscule of the southern German type, one-line uncials in the margins touched lightly in red, antiphons and responses for the Circumcision and for the Epiphany added in an 11th-century hand in the lower margins (two natural flaws in the vellum, a little wormholing, some words retraced, evidence of damp-staining). Bound in grey buckram at the Quaritch bindery. Provenance: (1) Lambach Abbey: a sister-leaf to the present bifolium is at the Beinecke in Yale (see below). That leaf was formerly used in the binding of a volume from the Lambach Stiftsbibliothek with the shelf number '312'. Although the measurements of the Beinecke fragment correspond with those of Lambach Ccl 312, the flyleaf of Ccl 312 is from a Hebrew manuscript. The number '312' on MS 481.8 may therefore be an older Lambach number. Lambach Abbey was one of the great cultural centres of the early Middle Ages, and from the 12th century onwards boasted one of the finest scriptoria in Europe. (2) Kurt Merlander, Los Angeles, sold in March 1956 to: (3) Bernard Rosenthal, his 'I/39'. (4) Bernard Quaritch, Bookhands V, cat.1147 (1991), no 73. (5) Schøyen Collection, MS 625. Sister-leaves: The present bifolium contains the text immediately preceding a leaf at Yale, Beinecke Library MS 481.8, which begins 'Saluator noster fratres carissimi natus de Patre [...]' and continues the sermons on the Circumcision. That too has suffered water-damage, with the letters retraced perhaps in the 11th century when the antiphons and responses (as in the present bifolium) were added in the margins. Another early manuscript from Lambach with extensive water damage and retracing is Beinecke MS 481.21. Text: The sermons preserved here and in the Beinecke leaf (see above) are from a homiliary that circulated in southern Germany in the Carolingian period (see J.-P. Bouhot, 'Un sermonnaire carolingien,' Revue d'Histoire des Textes 4 (1974), pp.181-223 and G. Folliet, 'Deux nouveaux témoins du Sermonnaire carolingien récemment reconstitué,' Revue des Etudes Augustiniennes 23 (1977), pp.155-198). They are found here in the same order as in Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 6310 (Freising, first half 9th century) where they are homilies 1-3 (see Bouhot, 209), and in Berlin, Preussische Staatsbibliothek, Hamilton 56 (12th century; see Bouhot, 215-6 and Folliet, 178-9). In their 1991 catalogue, Quaritch suggested that the small format of the manuscript supported a hypothesis that this was perhaps produced as a personal handbook, a Carolingian preacher's manual. The bifolium, whose leaves are not consecutive, contains sermons on the Circumcision based on Luke 2:1-12 and on the Epiphany based on Matthew 2:16 and 2:13. Script: The script has not been localised to a specific centre, but its clearly spaced upright letters, with minims tending to curve around towards the left, the shaft of the 'r' dropping below the line and the 'g' in a somewhat clumsy 3-form suggests a southern German hand. There are numerous ligatures, a semicolon is used for the main pauses, and a punctus in the medial position for lesser pauses. A very similar hand can be seen in a leaf reused as a pastedown in a Lambach Prophetarium now in the monastic Library and Archives of Downside Abbey in Stratton-on-the-Fosse, Somerset (see B. Pohl, 'Two Downside manuscripts and the liturgical culture of Lambach in the twelfth century' The Downside Review, 136(1), 2018, pp.41-79). In a letter of 9 December 1985, Bischoff dated the Beinecke fragment to the first third of the 9th century. Bibliography: R.G. Babcock, Reconstructing a Medieval Library: Fragments from Lambach, New Haven, 1993, pp.40 and 48., Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A443174/datastream/PDF/view

: Homiliary [leaf]; A complete parchment leaf, double columns of 29 lines, brown ink, written in Carolingian minuscule. The text includes, in Latin, two homilies on the Circumcision by Origen and Bede. 294 x 236 mm (242 x 190 mm). The fragment is stored in a binder from The Schoyen Collection, MS 621., HOMILIARY OF PAUL THE DEACON, with excerpts from Origen and Bede, in Latin, manuscript on vellum [France, last third of the 9th century] A handsome and clear example of Caroline minuscule written at an unidentified scriptorium in France: a testament to the popularity of Paul the Deacon's homiliary at the height of the Carolingian Empire. A single leaf, 294 x 236mm, blind-ruled for two columns of 29 lines written in a fine Caroline minuscule in pale brown ink, ruled space 242 x 190mm, Rustic Capitals at the beginning of new sentences and for the heading of the Bede sermon, a medial punctus is used for the medial and main pauses, single bounding lines visible, '66' written in a ?16th-century hand in the middle of the top margin of the verso (a few stains and some marginal soiling, else in excellent condition). Bound in grey buckram at the Quaritch bindery. Provenance: (1) Dr Thomas E. Marston (1905-1984), former curator of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Yale University, sold in October 1957 to: (2) Bernard Rosenthal, his 'I/51'. A letter from Bernard Bischoff dated 18 July 1986 accompanies the documentation of this lot. (3) Bernard Quaritch, Bookhands of the Middle Ages, V, cat. 1147 (1991), no 76. (4) Schøyen Collection, MS 621 Text: The leaf contains two homilies on the Circumcision by the early Christian scholar, ascetic and theologian Origen of Alexandria (Patrologia Latina 26, Hom. XIV on Luke, col,246-247A, line 15), and Bede (ed. D. Hurst, Corpus Christianorum, Series Latina, vol. 122, 1955, pp. 73-4, line 39). For more on the homiliary of Paul the Deacon, see lot 424. This anthology of patristic and contemporary Church texts was widely circulated in the Carolingian Empire at the instigation of Charlemagne, and still forms the basis of the Roman Breviary. Script: The text is written in a handsome and clear French Caroline minuscule of the later 9th century, with tall ascenders and rudimentary loops sometimes appearing at the top. Strokes of the pen are clearly visible, and the minims are curled at the feet and the downstrokes of the 's', 'f', 'r' and 'q' taper slightly. Bibliography: Z.M. Guiliano, ‘The composition, dissemination, and use of the homiliary of Paul the Deacon in Carolingian Europe from the late eighth to the mid-tenth century’, Ph.D. thesis, University of Cambridge, 2016., Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A443160/datastream/PDF/view

: Household accounting document.; Alcala de Henares, Spain. Isabel I, Queen of Spain. Document on paper, in Spanish, signed "Yo la Reyna." Alcalá de Henares, 12 July 1503. Folio (29.3 cm). On the first two and a half pages the queen orders Sancho de Paredes, her chamberlain, to turn a large number of things over to Juan de Tabira, her under-chamberlain. The items to be given are listed: woolens and linens, including hangings and bedding linens, all itemized and minutely described. The top half of the last page is a receipt signed by Tabira. The document has the usual slash of cancellation (visible above) indicating that it has been entered into the account books., Seal for letter included at end of digital volume., Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A439179/datastream/PDF/view

: Indenture.; "Elizabethan vellum indenture, dated 1593, referencing Hugh Middleton, London goldsmith. About 19 x 10", on ruled vellum; roughly 800 words in English, written in a solid secretary hand. Two vellum pendant strips are attached, one retaining a red was lump seemingly with an illegible seal impression. Endorsement and docketing texts in English and Latin in Italic and Gothic scripts. Date 20 March 1593 and concernint an agreement between Jane Middleton of Llanfarnay, county Debighe [Wales] (widow of Richard Middleton) and her son John Middleton on the one part and Thomas Middleton, of London, Esquire, on the other part, and referencing a previous indenture in which Hugh Middleton of London, Goldsmith, had sold the messuage of Henllay (also in Denbighe), to Thomas, brother of Richard. Witnessed by Robert Salseburye, John Challoner, and Anthony Challoner, with their signatures. Hugh Middleton eventually went on to devise the scheme for bringing fresh water to London; he and one brother Thomas Middleton (probably identical with the Thomas Middleton of this document) have been described as among the "merchant adventurers" of Elizabethan London. Middleton seems likely to have been related to the Challoners, also prominent in Elizabeth's London: one can trace some of these family connections even in Wikipedia. In short, while this indenture records a seemingly mundane transaction in a remote part of the kingdom, a number of important Londoners were involved, and the document is especially interesting as a result.", The fold across the bottom of the document covers some writing. The writing under the fold was not captured to avoid damaging the document., Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A439395/datastream/PDF/view

: Land Grant; "A land grant with warranty for land in Cowick. 5 1/2 x 8 1/4". 16 lines. Vellum a bit browned, a few small stains, but with virtually no text obscured, and generally in very good condition. This appears to be a 13th century grant with warranty. Adam, son of William, the merchant, of Cowick (West Riding), grants to William of Cargil one section of land in Cowick. Witnessed by John, son of Thomas de Snayth, cleric, and John Godard, Hugh, son of Alan.", The fold across the bottom of the document covers some writing. The writing under the fold was not captured to avoid damaging the document., Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A439398/datastream/PDF/view

: Land Grant; Elizabeth Dei Gracia Angli Francia et Hibernia Regina Fidei Defensor Elizabeth I (1533-1603), Queen of England. Land grant written in Latin on vellum, with the Great Seal of Elizabeth. Hampton: 1560. Vellum leaf (12 1/8 x 21 3/8"; 308 X 543 mm.) and brown wax seal (3 1/2 inches d; 89 mm. d). Twenty lines in Latin, written with brown ink in a bastard secretary hand. Leaf, seal, and a small engraved portrait of Elizabeth by W.T. Fry matted in red velvet in a large wooden frame (39 1/2 x 32 1/4 inches; 1003 x 819 mm.) with a decorative floral design carved along the edges., The document is folded in quarters and thirds, with Elizabeth's name and three other words on the first line in a larger script with cadel flourishes on risers extending to the upper edge, space allotted for the initial capital, important words written larger throughout, the leaf creased at the foot and laced through with a vellum band to which is attached the circular pendant seal. The embossed seal depicts Elizabeth in robes and crown on a throne beneath a canopy supported by columns, her left hand holding an orb, her right a scepter, to either side escutcheons within garlands beneath a crown, the words REGINA FIDEI distinct along the left rim. The seal with several areas rubbed and slightly damaged, but still an excellent example of the queen's first seal attached to a fine document. Dated ix° die October Anno Regia ij ("the ninth day of October in the second Royal year," i.e. 9 October 1560) at Hampton Palace, and handsomely mounted in red velvet in a beautifully carved wooden frame, this is a fine royal land grant with an excellent example of Elizabeth's first seal, used between her ascension (in 1558) until 1585. Although the pendant seal is worn along the rim (only two words of the legend are legible), still it is an exceedingly scarce and remarkably intact artifact. HBS 61628., Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A439204/datastream/PDF/view

: Lay Fraternity Statutes (Dalmatia); Statutes of Rules of Association of a Lay Fraternity, Ch. 12-16, listing cities in Northern Dalmatia and offshore island in the Adriatic where members of the fraternity might fall ill. MS. in Croatian vellum, Island of Krk, Croatia, early 14th century. 2 folios, 29 x 21 cm. Text in two columns (19 x 13 cm), 26 lines in Glagolitic book script, headings in red, 2 7-line and 4 half-page illuminated initials in strapwork and leafy design in red and black with yellow wash infill. (The item includes a description from schoyencollection.com), STATUTES OR RULES OF ASSOCIATION OF A LAY FRATERNITY, ch. 12-16, in Cakavian Croatian, illuminated manuscript on vellum [Island of Krk, Croatia, early 15th century] Two leaves from one of the earliest Glagolitic manuscripts of Statutes of a lay fraternity. 2 leaves, 290 x 210mm, blind-ruled for 2 columns of 26 lines written in black ink in a fine square Glagolitic book script, ruled space 185 x 125mm, headings in red, six large illuminated initials in strapwork and leafy design in red and black with yellow wash infill (some marginal staining, a few wormholes, smudge to one initial). Provenance: (1) From a manuscript containing the rules of a lay fraternity in the 15th century, mentioning in ch.16 various places in which members of the fraternity might fall ill, including Senj and Rijeka, coastal towns in northern Dalmatia; and Cres and Rab, offshore islands in the Adriatic, on the Dalmatian coast. The text ends with a reference to an unnamed island, apparently the home of the fraternity, and likely the island of Krk, between Cres and the mainland. (2) Predrag Milovanovic, Belgrade, Serbia, 20th century, sold to: (3) I. Pozaric, Zagreb, Croatia, sold to: (4) Jeremy Griffiths, Oxford, purchased in 1991. (5) Schøyen Collection, MS 1391. Text: Glagolitic script, the first Slavic alphabet, was created by the 9th-century Slavic-speaking Byzantine missionary to Moravia, Constantine (St Cyril): the possession of a distinct alphabet gave Slavic the dignity necessary for use in Biblical translation and liturgy (against the ‘trilingual heresy’ that held there to be only three sacred languages, Hebrew, Greek and Latin). After the expulsion of the Slavic monks from Moravia, in Croatia the square form of Glagolitic early replaced the round (and continued to be used for liturgical books into the 20th century), while in the wider Slavic realms the Greek-derived Cyrillic script soon came to predominate. Hundreds of Croatian Glagolitic texts, both handwritten and printed, the oldest from the 12th century, are held in national museums in Europe and the USA, but very few ever come to the market. Among these: three codices and two sets of fragments from the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps (the codices, a Missal of c.1400-10, bought in the Guildford sale at Evans, 8 December 1830, lot 460, for the vast price of £168, and among his proudest possessions, sold Sotheby’s on 29 November 1966, lot 162, and now Pierpont Morgan Library; a 15th-century priest’s manual, sold at Sotheby’s on 28-29 June 1976, lot 4040; and a copy of patristic texts dated 1602, lot 1240 in the same sale; the fragments: two leaves from a 15th-century illuminated Missal, sold at Sotheby’s on 16 December 1970, lot 5; two further leaves from a contemporary copy of the same text, sold at Hartung in 2012, and now in two private UK collections); a 12th/13th-century Psalter sold at Christie’s on 3 June 1998, lot 28 for £53,200; and two small 14th-century fragments in the binding of a printed Glagolitic Breviary sold at Christie’s on 11 July 2018 for £97,500. Script: The script of present fragment is characterized by the general elongation of letters and the marked development of ascenders and descenders, while the illumination, with its plaited yellow and red strapwork, is typical of Glagolitic manuscripts., Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A445173/datastream/PDF/view

: Leaf from a Missal; Manuscript vellum leaf from a Missal. Region unknown, but probably southern Europe. 13th or early 14th century, based on flourishing of initials. Two leaves (10.8 x 8.8 cm). Semi-textualis hand. Minuscule text in red and black. Ink flourishing on some initials. A nice example of just how abbreviated medieval Latin could get, even in a non-legal text such as this. Catalogued by PRB&M (short description provided with the item), Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A445570/datastream/PDF/view

: Leaf from a Missal; Manuscript vellum leaf from a Missal (or ordinal). Region undetermined. Possibly 14th century. One leaf (13 x 10.3 cm). Text in two columns of 28 lines. Ruling in red and pricklings visible. Hybrida hand. One red and one blue initial on each side, some underlinings in red. Apparently part of the feast of the Invention of the Cross, but an unusual use, possibly Franciscan. Catalogued by PRB&M (short description included with the item), Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A445181/datastream/PDF/view

: Leaf from an Antiphonal; "Folio extra (61 cm x 36 cm, 20.25" x 14.25"). This single parchment leaf is from a large choirbook—an antiphonal. (The term choirbook refers to a particular format of a codex of liturgical music, intended to be placed on a lectern in the midst of the liturgical choir and to be large enough for those standing in the choir to sing from; an Antiphonal, specifically, contains the antiphons and responsories for the celebration of the daily office.) This particular choirbook is written with eight lines of text and music per page. The text is in black ink in a gothic liturgical hand, with two red initials on each page, for a total of four, the verse and response signs being also in red, and the first letter of the second half of the responsory being overlined in red. The music is on a four-line red staff with black neums, as is usual. The text and music on this leaf are part of the responsory Cantemus domino ... in the eighth mode (beginning with the words "et ascensorem"), the third responsory at Matins for the Fourth Sunday of Lent, the text for which is excerpted from the canticle of Moses (Exod. 15:1-19). Hesbert, Dorn René-Jean. Corpus Antiphonalium Officii, IV, 6270, var. A ("Currus Pharaonis ..."). Traces of soiling, a little creased, very small tears to one margin from sewing holes, four rectangular spots with remnants of adhesive on verso. Lightly ruled in pencil; gutter edge with a streak of dust-soiling and outer edge with prick marks (for ruling the page) remaining.", Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A439211/datastream/PDF/view

: Lectionary [leaf]; Manuscript folio on parchment. Text on one side of the folio only (recto), in two columns of 24 lines. One decorated initial (3 lines tall), in red and blue ink, and a rubricated sentence before the initial. Some other capital letters are touched in red ink. The script could be a transitional gothic style from the 13th century (could be French). The text includes the fourth reading (Lect. iiii) from the epistle (epte.) of the Apostle Paul (beati pa. ap.) addressed to the Colossians (ad. Colocenses). The leaf was used in a binding. 22 x 33 cm., Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A445575/datastream/PDF/view

: Lectionary, a rubricated leaf from the Common of Saints, in Latin, manuscript on vellum [fragment]; Parchment folio from a lectionary or homiliary, written in black and red ink. The fragment might come from the scriptorium of the Weingarten monastery, from the 1st third of the 12th century. The script is similar to that used by Udalricus Custos (described as such in a letter by Dr. Regina Hausmann in 1989). The fragment is stored on a binder from The Schoyen Collection, MS 602. Folio: 32 x 23.9 cm, LECTIONARY, a rubricated leaf from the Common of Saints, in Latin, manuscript on vellum [Germany (perhaps Weingarten Abbey), first third of the 12th century] Exceptionally elegant script from one of the great scriptoria of 12th-century Germany. A single leaf, c.315×240mm, blind-ruled for a single column of 26 lines written in brown ink in a very fine, regular, Romanesque book-hand, ruled space c.275×180mm, enlarged initials and chapter numbers in red (recovered from use in a binding resulting in a dirty verso, the outer margins slightly trimmed but not affecting the text, two small neat slits in the fore-edge margin, small holes from the sewing-bands, the recto clean and presentable). Bound in grey buckram at the Quaritch bindery. Provenance: (1) Perhaps written at Weingarten Abbey during the abbacy of Cuno von Waldburg (d.1132), whose obituary mentions ‘his successes in the construction of the monastery library, for which he also copied books himself’. The abbey was secularised in 1803. (2) Bernard Quaritch, 1989. (3) Schøyen Collection, MS 602. Script: The script is very regular and upright, the ‘r’ descending slightly lower than other minims, the letters ‘pp’ not kissing (e.g. ‘app(re)henderet’, recto line 8, ‘p(o)p(u)los’, line 9), but letters ending with an up-stroke (e, c, l, t, x) usually touching the next letter. Orthography is Germanic (e.g. ‘karitatem’ with a ‘k’). Dr Regina Hausmann of the Wurtemburgisches Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart, has suggested that this leaf was written at Weingarten Abbey, based on its similarity to the handwriting of the scribe Udalricus Custos, who wrote Fulda, Hessische Landesbibliothek, Aa 35 (cf. H. Kollner (ed.), Illuminierten handschriften der Hessischen Landesbibliothek Fulda, I, Stuttgart, 1976, no 39. Text: The text comprises most of the third to seventh readings for the Birth of a Martyr in the Common of Saints; the text is printed in Homiliae sive conciones praestantissimorum Ecclesiae catholicae doctorum, Cologne, 1557, pp.643-44 (‘cuius sepulchrum intrare […] possim diligere. At[tendis]’); lessons IV-VII are edited from Caesarius of Arles’s Sermon 223, ‘In natale martyrum’, in Corpus Christianorum, series Latina, 104, 1953, no 837 pp.882–84., Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A443154/datastream/PDF/view

: Legal document.; Rectangular vellum, 30.5 x 11.7 cm, written in Latin, 7 lines, brown ink, in a nice, legible hand, flourished monogram on the 2cm fold at bottom, from which hangs Mocenigo’s substantial lead seal. Ink very slightly faded in places, three 1cm holes affecting text, else good., "An interesting document, unusually complete with its lead seal, written by the 96th Doge of Venice Aloysius [Luigi] Mocenigo during the last year of his reign (and life). It is a letter in which Mocenigo guarantees the truthfulness of the documents drawn up by the notary ‘Paulus de Grandis Venes’. He says: ‘We notify to each and every friend who might be expecting a false transaction that Paulus, who on the 6th of February wrote and made public the following document, which caused Donna Lisia, wife of Leonello de Le[onelli], to be nominated proxy in order to carry out what was written in the said documents, [we notify] that, in order to avoid that he [Paulus] is deprived of good opinion and of success, good faith should be granted to both the said documents and to those that he will write in the future’. At the end, before the date, Mocenigo also states the place where the document was written, i.e. the beautiful Palazzo Ducale in Piazza San Marco, Venice. The seal reads ‘Alo/ isius/ Mocenigo/ Dei.Gra.Dux/ Venetia’ on one side, and depicts Mocenigo kneeling in front of St Mark, patron saint of Venice, on the other. Luigi Mocenigo was Doge of Venice from 1570 to 1577, when he was killed by the plague. During his reign, in 1571, Venice lost to the Turks the fortresses of Nicosia and Famagosta in Cyprus, acquired for the Republic by another Mocenigo (Pietro) in 1473. In the same year, however, the Venetians and the Christian coalition won the famous battle of Lepanto, in which Mocenigo took part not only with his fleet, but also by treating personally with the Sultan. In 1574 he gave a magnificent welcome to the French king Henry III. He was a man of great value to the Republic and much loved by its inhabitants.", Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A439404/datastream/PDF/view

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