Private Collection of Antiquarian Books and Manuscripts

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: Letter of Attorney.; Letter of Attorney, on vellum, ca 57 x 273 mm., with seal tag (lacking seal), 4 December 1362 Letter of attorney from Thomas Playce of Bolleby (Boulby) to Dom William de Buston, parson of the Church of Esynvtone (Easington), and John de Whetelay, to deliver seisin to John de Buston, Joan his wife and heirs of John, in two messuages and eight bovates of land in Bolleby. Given at Bolleby in Whiteby strand, the Sunday after the feast of Saint Andrew the Apostle, 36 Edward III (4 December 1362), Seisin was an old feudal term for possession and title, i.e. absolute title to land, which could be passed on by will or inheritance. A bovate of land was a measure which could be ploughed in one year by one eighth of a plough team with eight oxen. The dating of the present document neatly encapsulates the problems of arriving at a form recognizable in today's terms. Edward III came to the throne on 25 January 1327 and thus his regnal year runs from 25 January to 24 January of the following year. The 36th year of his reign was mostly in 1362. The feast of St Andrew falls on 30 November, a Wednesday that year. The next Sunday was therefore 4 December., Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A439407/datastream/PDF/view

: Letter of signed remission "Henry" in favour of Henry Philibert, knight, lord of Venterol pres de Gap. Poitiers: May 1602.; (535 X 618 mm). Manuscript on parchment, folded up. Seal delphinal and wire lakes of colors. (Some small rednesses, restored seal.), Lettre de rémission signée "Henry" en faveur de Henry Philibert, écuyer, seigneur de Venterol près de Gap. French "(HENRI IV (1553-1610). Letter of signed remission "Henry" in favour of Henry Philibert, knight, lord of Venterol pres de Gap. Poitiers: May 1602. (535 X 618 mm). Manuscript on parchment, folded up. Seal delphinal and wire lakes of colors. (Some small rednesses, restored seal.) REMISSION GRANTED BY HENRI IV HENRY PHILIBERT, LORD OF VENTEROL, FOLLOWING A DUEL TO THE DEATH WITH THE LORD OF THE GAYET. ONE MONTH AFTER the EDICT OF BLOIS (in April 1602) PROHIBITING the DUELS, the KING GRANTS HIS FORGIVENESS. The letter reports the circumstances during which the lord of Gayet, following a dispute with the lord of Gua, caused a duel with Henry Philibert. "[...] fire Jacques Pila and the supplicant, being in our town of Grenoble assembled in the house of the Lord of the Motte for [? ] a ballet that they staged to honour the day of the baptism of the son of the Lord of Créquy”. At the time of this repetition, the Lord of Gua came to make an unfortunate comparison between the color of his [pourpoint] and that of the Lord of Gayet. "On these terms, the supplicant, believing that [ilz gaussaient] one or the other of the colors of their habitz, auroit by manner of play and passetemps and without thinking of aulcune offence dict with the sior of Gayet that the color of ysabelle estoit passed well, that it falloit not to make a comparison [... ]". the situation envenima as long as of Gayet sent to him by its lackey" a trust of deffy and signed his hand with the choice of two poignardz [...]". After having wounded Henry Philibert, of Gayet" precipitating in mesme time seroit in end found opposite the sword begging and opened a playe apréhendant the evil and recognoissant its fault and the wrong that it avoit, asked the life begging, which without luy to redouble aulcun blow the luy voluntarily granted aussy that in regret [... ]". But of Gayet was to die a few hours later. The good faith of the lord of Venterol was recognized, although it already obtained remission for the death of the sior of Regnard. Preferring "mercy with rigour of justice" the king granted his forgiveness. It is further learned "begging it" "always has faict and faict encores profession of the Protestant alleged religion". [ One joint: ] --Un handwritten document relating to the letter of remission and confirming the forgiveness of the king. VERY BEAUTIFUL DOCUMENT COMPRISING A VERY RARE SEAL DELPHINAL.)", Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A439230/datastream/PDF/view

: Letters Patent ("Wir Otthainrich von gottes genaden Pffalzgrave"); "18 x 23 inches, folded. With wax seal attached by cord, in turned wooden case. Document housed in early tin case with raised dome. Handsome document with heraldic illumination at center, measuring 4 x 3 1/4 inches, showing heart pierced by tree on shield, surmounted by helmet crowned by blackamoor grasping arrow and another pierced heart, surrounded by gilt ornamented frame. Text begins "Wir Otthainrich von Gottes genaden Pffalzgrave ben Rhein des Heilegen Romischen Reichs..." etc., with elaborate calligraphic initial W. A few spots, moderate wear along folds, some darkening to illumination, otherwise nicely preserved, with Otthainrich's wax seal.", Otto-Henry, Elector Palatine, (German: Ottheinrich; 10 April 1502, Amberg[1] -12 February 1559, Heidelberg)[2] a member of the Wittelsbach dynasty was Count Palatine of Palatinate-Neuburg from 1505 to 1559 and prince elector of the Palatinate from 1556 to 1559. He was a son of Rupert, Count Palatine, third son of Philip, Elector Palatine; and of Elizabeth of Bavaria-Landshut, daughter of George of Bavaria., The fold across the bottom of the document covers the last line of text. The text under the fold was not captured to avoid damaging the document., Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A439218/datastream/PDF/view

: Letters of Charles II ('le Mauvais'), King of Navarre to the Vicomte d'Avranches instructing him to reward Jehan le Roussel dit Friquet 'aide de nostre cuisine' for his services, both in his office and in other ways, with the sum of 30 livres tournois &c.; 272mm. by 102mm., letter in French from King Charles II of Navarre to the Vicomte d'Avranches, instructing him to reward the bearer (Jehan le Roussel dit Friquet), countersigned by one Froissart, dated 28 April 1370, 7 lines in dark brown ink, seal and tag missing, slightly trimmed on right-hand edge, in fine red morocco gilt-tooled binding, "Countersigned Froissart (Philibert Froissart, secretary to Charles II) Text cropped on right margin, with loss of some words. The money grant maybe instead of a wardship; the text refers to 'lieu de la garde de louir de feu normant de champeaulz a present en nostre main pour le petit aage dicelli', but the full meaning is obscured by the loss of words preceding. Jean dit Friquet, de Fricamps one so named appears several times in the chronicles of Jean Froissart and served as emissary from Charles II of Navarre to England in 1359 (Kervyn de Lettenhove ed., Oeuvres de Froissart, xxi, 1875, pp. 373, 374) Philibert Froissart, Vicomte de Fronsac soldier and man of letters; secretary to Charles II of Navarre and his name at the base of many charters (op.cit., xxi, p. 379). This document is dated not long before the meeting of Charles II and Edward III of England at Clarendon 1 Aug. 1370 (op. cit., xxii, . 273) Despite the wording on the present cover of this document*, Philibert is not connected with the chronicler Jean Froissart, as far as presently known. Provenance: from the well known Barrett collection (Parke-Bernet sale 30 Oct. 1950 lot 437), then regarded as Jean Froissart. later in the collection of Halsted Billings Van de Poel, d. 2003. *Jean Froissart/The "Shakespeare" of Chroniclers/Document Signed/28th April 1370/Unique", Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A439418/datastream/PDF/view

: Letters of Jan van Ranst, seigneur of Cantecroy (Canticrode) and Mortsel, near Antwerp, Belgium, concerning rents and lands called "karremans velt" in Schooten; 1 Sept. 1438.; (e) 385mm. by 224mm., letter in Flemish of Jan van Raust, seigneur of Cantecroy and Mortsel, near Antwerp, dated 1 September 1438, 24 lines in light brown ink in a secretarial hand, 4 tags present, 2 seals missing, 2 present (that of arms of Jan van Raust in excellent condition), overall outstanding condition, "With fine seals, including clear impression, virtually complete, of the armorial seal of Jan fan Raust; part of the armorial seal of Jan van Haveskerke; and the armorial seal of Jan Vlincx. The seigneurie of Mortsel was granted in 1381 by Duchess Mathilde of Guelders to Jan van Raust, and the family kept the lordship to 1547. Jan van Raust was lord of Morsel, Buisegem, Hove &c; Cantecroy (Cantecrode) was a chateau in Mortsel, known from the late 13C (see E de Seyn, Dict. hist. et géogr. des communes belges, II, 3rd ed., n.d. (1930's), pp. 935-6) Schooten is short distance east of Antwerp.", The fold across the bottom of the document covers text. The text under the fold was not captured to avoid damaging the document., Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A439410/datastream/PDF/view

: Letters of Jean de Maillen, lieutenant of Claude de Wahau in his lordship of Baillonville, provost of the castle lands &c of Poillevache concerning rents from property at Daische.; Letters of Jean de Maillen, lieutenant of Claude de Wahau in his lordship of Baillonville, provost of the castle lands &c of Poillevache concerning rents from property at Doische being two related documents, attached now together by seal tags, the earlier of 10 June 1541 (parties including Guillaume de le Loye on behalf of chevalier Hean de Warisoul) and the later of 19 Jan. 1542 (parties including Jean de Warisoul, and Thierry, Baron de brandenbourg and lord of the castle of Bioul) with named witnesses from the fief of the prévôté de Poillevache, different persons for each document, who added their seals Dated: 10 June 1541, 19 Jan. 1542. French, "Five seal tags on the earlier, lower, document; one seal complete and parts of four others. Six tags on the later, upper, document (the tags put through both deeds) with names above the top of all tags save the first; small parts of five seals remain. The best preserved seals are of Jehan de Maillen (far left, lower deed): armorial on both sides, S IEHAN DE.... Alixit Dauthines (third from left, lower deed): armorial,....ALEXIS.... Englebert blondeau (furthest right, lower deed): complete, armorial, ENGLEBERT BLONDOIE Loys Lodevoet (fourth from left, upper deed): amrorial, ...LODEU... The district concerned is in the environs of Namur and Dinant, in southern Belgium. Poilvache was an important chateau in the commune of Houx, on the banks of the Meuse north of Dinant. Bioul is a short distance west of the Meuse, northwest of Poilvache. Bioul was acquired by Thierry de Brandenbourg in 1523; he constructed a chateau there and the property stayed in the family until 1708. Baillonville is east of Dinant. Daische or Aische was in the prévôté of Poilvache; it cannot be the large place, Aische-en-Refail, which is some way NW of Namur. (See E de Seyn, Dict.hist. et Géogr. des communes belges, I, rd ed., n.d. (1930s), pp. 12, 136, 605)", Measurements: 41.5 cm x 29 cm, Only the rectos of the document were scanned to avoid damaging the letter and seals., Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A439413/datastream/PDF/view

: Letters of Wouter van Berchem; "Vidimus is the name of the burgermaster, aldermen and council of Antwerp Of letters of Wouter van Berchem, ridder, 'in franchyne gescreven bezege met eenen zegel in groenen wasse', about rent from property at Winnende Lande in Schooten (just east of Antwerp), dated Monday in Easter (des maendags in de paeschdaye), 1336 Dated: 5 August 1553. Flemish. (The text of the original is not recited in French.)", Measurements: 25.5 cm x 22.25 cm (w/o seal tags), 33.75 cm (w/ seal tags), Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A439421/datastream/PDF/view

: Liber interpretationis hebraicorum nominum.; "Folio (32.5 cm, 12.75"), 2ff. The "Liber interpretationis hebraicorum nominum" ("Book of Interpretation of Hebrew Names") was often found as part of the fore-matter of medieval and Renaissance Bibles penned in France, especially in Paris. It is an alphabetical list, with quite fanciful etymologies or origins, of Hebrew proper names in the Bible. In hand are two large conjugate leaves (i.e., four pages), the very attractive "spread" measuring 32.5 cm x 45.5 cm (h x w) (or 12.75 x 18"). The text is penned in an extraordinarily neat, even impeccable hand in sepia ink, using a modified and sometimes semi-rounded gothic textura hand, in triple-column format with 49 lines per column, on large pages with very ample margins. One folio contains the entries Anatha to Araphah on its two sides, the other Badam to Benael. Each entered name begins with at least a large one-line initial in red or blue, and each time the third letter of a name changes from that of the previous entry, the initial of that name is a large two-line one embellished with tracery in the margin and with decorative in-fill. Thus, a typical page has 8 large red or blue initials with contrasting tracery and 55 to 60 smaller initials in red or blue. Fine quality vellum, supple and white. As pleasing to look at, as interesting for content.", Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A439425/datastream/PDF/view

: Lucia virgo, quid a me petis [leaf]; Manuscript leaf with illuminated initials and prayers to Saint Lucy Vellum manuscript folio. Two columns of minuscule text (8.5 x 11.9 cm), 31 lines. Five (3 on the verso and 2 on the recto) illuminated initials, decorated with vines and floral motifs, in gold, blue, red, green and pink. Small gothic textura script. The text in Latin contains prayers to Saint Lucy (mentions the name Lucia various times). Mounted on a matte. Folio: 18.7 x 13.7 cm, "Use of Sarum. Recto: Text in Latin written on high quality vellum in black ink in two sizes of an assured Gothic bookhand. Pricking marks on theright margin and a small delicate repair to the vellum in the top margin. Ruled in red and rubrics in red. Some initials touched inyellow. Three exquisite two-line illuminated initials in pink and blue outlined in black and finished with fine white penwork. Eachinitial is infilled with a different design. The initials are on highly burnished gold grounds and have illuminations radiating into themargins of black tendrils bearing coloured acanthus and other flowers, green leaves and burnished gold ivy leaves and bezants. Verso: As Recto, with a further two equally exquisite illuminated initials." "The text on Recto contains sections of two Lessons from the Feast of Saint Lucy, celebrated on December 13. Theilluminated ‘E’ in the left column begins the 7th Lesson: Et his auditis experge facta surrexit tremens et ait matri sue. The smaller script in the right column is a sung Response: Lucia virgo, quid a me petis quod ipsa poteris præstare continuo matrituæ? Nam et fides tua illi subvenit, et ecce salvata est: Quia jucundum Deo in tua virginitate habitaculum præparasti. Sicut per mecívitas Catanensium sublimatur a Christo, ita per te Syracusana cívitas decorabitur. (O Virgin Lucy, why seekest thou of me thatwhich thou thyself canst presently give thy mother? For thy faith hath helped her, and, behold, she is made whole. Because thouhast made in thy virginity a pleasant dwelling-place for thy God. Even as Christ hath by me glorified Catania, so by thee shall Heglorify Syracuse.) Then follows the 8th Lesson, beginning: Lucia dixit. Audi tu mater consilium meum. Condition: The leaf is in pristine condition apart from the small repair and a small (original) hole in the bottom margin. It has clean,fine vellum and jewel-like illuminations as colourful and lustrous as the day they were done, well over 500 years ago. It isunconditionally guaranteed genuine.", Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A445578/datastream/PDF/view

: Manuscript collection of loose leaves and a smaller booklet, together forming a genealogy of the Zeghers family and their descendants,; "Extraordinary and finely decorated genealogy, intended to show the legitimate descent of the Zeghers family, with more than 525 beautifully drawn coat of arms. Collection consisting of larger leaves and some smaller leaves (the latter are numbered), together constituting the genealogy of the Zeghers family. Large folio (48 x 34 cm) and folio (40.5 x 24.5 cm). Manuscript in brown ink in Dutch, Latin and French. Both the loose leaves as the booklet are written in a neat 17th-century hand in different styles, for example writing more calligraphic headings, some parts in a more cursive hand and some in a more secretary hand. The collection consisting of the loose leaves is richly illustrated with 528 drawn coat of arms in brown ink (plus some heraldic shields which remained blank), the larger ones often accompanied by animals like eagles, lions and dogs. Also with some other drawings in brown ink, such as a knight and some heraldic clothing. Also with one large engraved coat-of-arms of the Zeghers van Wassenhove family which is mounted on one of the leaves and other small engraved coat-of-arms of the Zeghers van Wassenhove family loosely inserted. Also with 11 engraved illustration which are scrapbook-like mounted on various pages as part of decoration, including one large engravings with the banderolle cutout and filled with hand-drawn coat-of-arms of the Zeghers family and related families, also in brown ink. In the small booklet the genealogical trees are drawn, but the coat of arms all left blank. The smaller leaves sewn, the other leaves loose, stored together in a modern white cardboard folder." "The present collection is executed by two notaries of the Council of Brabant (the most important court in the Duchy of Brabant) named Joannes van Ham and Jan Baptiste Bellaert and the authenticity of the documents were confirmed by the priest Jan Baptiste Geerincx and another nobleman named Francois Ignace Mazner, who signed the document both together with Van Ham and Bellaertin the council house of Antwerp in 1692. We may assume the other extracts were also written ca. 1692 and so is probably the smaller booklet. A finely executed and legal genealogy on the noble Zeghers family, being a rich source of information on the history of this interesting family. With some 19th- or 20th-century small notes, probably used for research, inserted between the leaves. Some positions in a few genealogical trees are filled in with pencil by a modern hand (names or coat of arms). Some marginal (water)staining, paper edges a little frayed, some marginal loss of marginal text on one leaf, one drawing cut out, first and last leaf of the smaller booklet loose, but overall an interesting genealogical manuscript with beautiful drawings in good condition. [74] ll, including a few blanks; [1], 4-49 pp. On the Zeghers family: NNBW V, col. 1171." Genealogy of the Flemish Zeghers family, both comprising the Zeghers van Wassenhove and the Zeghers van Idegen branch including the by marriage related families, intended as a legal act of certification for the legitimate descent of Jeronimo Zeghers van Idegen van Wassenhove from the noble Zeghers family, in particular of Gilain Zeghers (1493-1564), who was lord of Wassenhove, Arentsberge and Ammers, but also advisor of Karel V in The Hague. His sons, Gilainand Jan Zeghers, joined the compromise of noblemen in the Dutch Eighty Year's War, revolting against the suppression of protestants in the Low Countries. Because of this, they were persecuted and banned by the Duke of Alba and fled to the Northern Netherlands. The present manuscript was commissioned by Jeronimo Zeghers van Idegen van Wassenhove for himself and for his own offspring to prove their aristocratic origin. It contains extracts of several legal documents derived from archives, testaments, codicils and contracts. The larger loose leaves therefore contains information on various family members (including their pedigrees) from the 13th century on and is beautifully decorated with 528 executed coat of arms (and some coat of arms which were left blank) and other drawings. The smaller booklet contains more contemporary genealogical information, particularly 17th-century, and the coat of arms in this smaller booklet are (probably because of this) left blank, as it was not finished yet. Languages: Dutch, French, Latin Image capture notes: -White slides with black text were added to separate and identify each item in the collection. -Images of the 19th century notes were captured in the order they were found in within the collection. Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A449573/datastream/PDF/view

: Manuscript compilation of documents relating to the estate of Ana Vanegas; In modern gray wrappers. Written in a sepia ink with some minor bleed-through from one side of a leaf to the other; dark stain in upper area of a dozen leaves. Some age-toning of paper. A few areas with tears, none serious. On the whole, very good. "Ana Vanegas was the daughter of Baltasar Vanegas and Catalina Hernandez, who at the time of this compilation were both deceased, and the widow of Jusepe de Peñafiel. In 1606 she was a novice in the monastery of Santa Clara in Mexico City and ill; she soon died of that illness. Her estate included real estate (houses) that she had inherited from her parents and others acquired during her marriage. Her heirs were her four children, sons Alonso, Jusepe, and Simon de Peñafiel, and daughter Catalina de San Jusepe, a nun in the same monastery as Ana. The approximately 125 documents in this file are notarial copies done in 1607 and incorporate texts of documents from as early as the 1570s relating to the real estate that was being auctioned by executors of Ana's estate. The landholdings are listed on folio 8r-v and include a large house on Tacuba Street (in which Dr. Villanueva, a canon, lives), a house with a plot in the Theatines street, some “casas de indios” in the Tomatlan neighborhood, and a tall house (whose neighbors are given but not the street). The information on the houses gives details of acquisition, loans or other pledges imposed on them, and ultimately the prices realized at auction." The documents are written in a standard early 17th-century public notary's hand and as such are a great tool for teaching paleography as well as other principles of research, as they are full of abbreviations, lack of punctuation, non-separation of words, etc., Measurements: 31.5 x 22.4 cm

: Manuscript concerning the heraldry and genealogy of the Roosterman family.; [Registry: 31.5 x 21 cm.; Obituary: 37.5 x 22.5 cm]. Manuscript (including the separate registry) written in brown ink using a fine and neat 18th-century cursive script (with later additions on pp. 200 and 203-206 in a fine and neat mid-19th-century script). With 9 expertly coloured coats of arms, including 5 highlighted in gold: 5 half-page (19 x 27 cm), 2 on slightly larger leaves (26.5 x 27 cm), 1 on a smaller, quarter-page leaf (24 x 16 cm) and 1 on a bigger, loose leaf (34 x 23.5 cm), which has been separately inserted between pp. 79 and 80. 7 out of 9 illustrations contain 2 family crests, combined on the occasion of a marriage into 1 coat of arms, the other 2 are coats of arms belonging to a single family. Below all coats of arms, a banderole with the names of the families in question can be found. 5 of the coats of arms are topped with a helmet, while the other 4 are crowned. Contemporary vellum over boards, with 2 pairs of green cloth ties and blue and red sprinkled edges. The registry is sewn, but has never been bound. "Extensive genealogy of the Dutch Roosterman family, giving an extensive overview of each member of all different branches of this family from the second half of the 16th century until the end of the 18th-century and it even includes information for the first half of the 19th century in some additional notes at the end of the manuscript. The whole is enriched with 9 beautifully illustrated and hand coloured coats of arms, including 5 highlighted in gold. It also includes a separately inserted registry with an alphabetized list of all different surnames of all members who in some way belong to the Roosterman family. This includes names of many prominent Dutch families, such as: Schoël, Pauw, Van den Sande, Van Bellinchove, Bekker (or Becker), Van Mansveld, Elsevier, Van Westreenen, Van Bronkhorst, and Van Heemskerk. Many prominent members of Dutch society during the 17th and 18th centuries, mainly in Haarlem, Rotterdam and Utrecht, belonged to, sometimes by marriage, to the Roosterman family; from successful and wealthy cloth merchants to municipal officers called ""schepenen"". The most prominent and famous member of the Roosterman family was Tieleman Roosterman, who had his portrait painted in 1634 by the famous, Dutch Golden Age master painter Frans Hals (ca. 1582-1666). He also painted a companion portrait of Roosterman's wife Catherina Brugman in the same year. The 6th, and incidentally one of the more elaborately decorated and highlighted coats of arms in the present manuscript was made on the occasion of the marriage of Tieleman Roosterman's grandparents, Tieleman Roosterman and Alida (or Aletta) Pauw in or before 1568. Fol. 4 in the manuscript tells us that Tieleman Roosterman (1594-1673) married Catharina (1611-1677) in 1631 and together had 10 children, about whom more information can be found on fol. 9. Tieleman was a cloth merchant and he and his family resided in Haarlem. He was a good friend of cloth merchant Willem van Heythuysen (ca. 1590-1650) - who had also been the subject of one of Frans Hals' paintings - and Roosterman was the first regent of the still existing Hofje van Willem Heythuysen in Haarlem, but built outside the city walls. The obituary was written about Albertus Alberthoma (1687-1758), who was a preacher in and around Groningen (mentioned in the genealogy on p. (or fol.) 104), by his son-in-law Johannes Petrus Driessen also in the name of Albertus' son Albertus Johannes. It was sent as a letter - complete with a wax seal - to their nephew, the mayor of Utrecht P. van Mansveld. All paper used in the manuscript and 2 additional documents is 18th-century Dutch paper. The majority of the paper used in the main manuscript is watermarked in one half of the sheet with a fleur-de-lis within a crowned coat of arms and countermarked ""VI""/""IV"" or ""I VILLEDARY"", made by a papermaker of French origin, Jean Villedary, and his successors in Hattem, Gelderland, The Netherlands. The paper used for the registry is from Amsterdam, showing the city's coat of arms in one half of the sheet, while the paper of the obituary was made in North Holland (Wormerveer) and is watermarked ""Van der Ley"". Binding somewhat soiled, cloth ties slightly worn but still intact. Slight foxing throughout and with some offsetting of the plates. The outer edges of the outer pages of the additional manuscript registry are slightly soiled. The obituary is printed on a separate, black-bordered leaf and contains some manuscript additions on the first, second and last page: mainly an address since the obituary was folded and sent as a letter. The last page contains an intact, black wax seal, and the opposite edge of the page is slightly damaged from removing the seal to open the letter. This remarkable genealogical manuscript, with the additional manuscript registry and printed obituary, is in very good condition. [6 blank], [8], [1 blank], 206, [5 blank] pp. With the registry: 11, [1 blank] pp. and the printed obituary on a single folded leaf: [2], [1 blank], [1] pp." Images of two inserts (registry with an alphabetized list and obituary) are included at the end of the manuscript. Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A448630/datastream/PDF/view

: Manuscript document on vellum with archbishop of Magdeburg's seal; Archbishop of Magdeburg, Document, 20 December 1462. Single leaf of parchment written in brown ink, preserved with the archbishop's seal, a lease from the archbishop to Clawsen Welmersdorff, a citizen of the town of Jueteborg for land at Rorbecke, noting the quantity of rye, oats, and barley that will be produced by the land; housed in a custom box, ex libris Count Carl Gustaf Bloomfield Eric von Rosen (1879-1948) with his bookplate, and that of Brian Douglas Stilwell, the document 7 1/2 x 9 3/4 in., the seal 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 in Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A449942/datastream/PDF/view

: Manuscript document on vellum.; Manuscript document on vellum. The script seems to be a 16th century cursive business or personal handwriting from England. 31 lines of text and an elaborate signature. 22.5 x 34.7 cm, Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A445590/datastream/PDF/view

: Manuscript estate indenture.; A superb example of the signature of one of the great sailors of Elizabethan England, the first document showing him acquiring land at Chatham, established as a Royal Dockyard by Elizabeth I in 1567. Sir John Hawkins (1532-1595), merchant, privateer and naval commander, was cousin to Sir Francis Drake "but Hawkins arguably knew more about seamanship and did more for his country than Drake. During several voyages in the 1560s Hawkins demonstrated to his countrymen that good profits could be made trading in the Spanish ports of the West Indies. He also introduced his queen and his fellow merchants to the loathsome business of slave trading, where even greater profits could be made by men whose consciences were not of exceeding tenderness" (Harry Kelsey, Sir John Hawkins: Queen Elizabeth's Slave Trader, Yale 2003, p. xiii)., Measurements: 1st scanned document - 42.3 cm (47 cm with seal) x 55.7 cm 2nd scanned document - 34 cm (41.8 cm with seal) x 50 cm Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A449925/datastream/PDF/view

: Manuscript folio from the Book of Amos with illuminated initials.; Vellum manuscript folio with text on both sides. Text in two columns of 50 lines (14 x 9 cm). Extremely small textura script, with some rubricated sentences and capitals touched in red ink. Four illuminated initials on the recto, in gold, blue, red and white ink. Two of these initials are also historiated: a capital "O" inhabited by a wyvern, and a capital "U" with a scene with three male figures. There are also two decorated initials with penwork in red and blue ink on the verso. The running title: "Amos," indicates the text is a passage from the Book of Amos in the Old Testament. 19 x 13.8 cm (Mounted on matte), Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A445581/datastream/PDF/view

: Manuscript fragment on paper.; Manuscript fragment on paper. Text on both sides. Probably a receipt (it looks like other receipts in this collection). The ink on both sides has bled through the paper, and in some parts it has destroyed it (probably iron gall ink). 10.5 x 15 cm., Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A445596/datastream/PDF/view

: Manuscript fragment with historiated initial ("S"); Manuscript fragment on parchment, with text on one side. The main text (in Latin) has decorated capitals in red and blue penwork, and a small historiated initial ("S"), with details in gold. The colors have been washed out, but there are traces of green, blue and red. The historiated initial shows a bedridden man and two (female?) attendants. There is also a hybrid creature that springs from the letter, holding an arch on a stretched arm, with claws as feet and a long tail that becomes a branch of vine leaves. The main text is surrounded by commentary and there are also marginal annotations. The script looks like 13th-15th century small textura bookhand. The fragment was used in a binding. 35 x 20 cm, Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A445593/datastream/PDF/view

: Martyrology. [leaf]; "A VERY LARGE, VERY EARLY, AND VERY HANDSOME ROMANESQUE ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF, FROM AN EARLY MARTYROLOGY IN LATIN. WITH TEXT FROM THE CONCLUSION OF THE LIFE OF ST. VALENTINE AND THE OPENING OF THE LIVES OF SAINTS FAUSTINUS AND JOVITA. (Italy, ca. 1150) 18 1/2 x 13 3/4." 45 lines of text in double column, in a fine late Carolingian hand. WITH A BEAUTIFULLY PAINTED FIVE-LINE “D” with elegant detailing (the initial measuring approximately 48 x 50 mm.). Central horizontal crease, the hair side with brownish grain in vellum (as usual), very minor soiling and other faint creases, but IN EXCELLENT CONDITION, THE FLESH SIDE OF THE LEAF UNUSUALLY BRIGHT AND APPEALING.", Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A439430/datastream/PDF/view

: Missal (?); Manuscript on vellum. Text in single column, 17 lines. Most pages have wide blank margins. Many initials decorated in blue, red and gold, or with extensive penwork in the outer margin. Folio 1 recto with full border decoration of floral motifs with monogram of Christ, engraving paste-ins (Annunciation and Lamentation of the Virgin), and a historiated initial ("O" with patron portrait?). There is a miniature in folio 8r (Virgin Mary nursing the Child Jesus). Folio 29v has floral marginal decoration and a decorated initial (M). Folio 35v has border decoration and a historiated initial with a portrait of King David. Folio 42v: marginal decoration in penwork and decorated initial ("K"). Folio 52v: Decorated initial ("A"), with marginal decoration of floral motifs. Stiff-board binding with pressed leather., Measurements: 25.75 cm x 18.25 cm Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A448230/datastream/PDF/view

: Missal [3 leaves]; "Three folio leaves. Textualis hand. Recovered from one or more bindings; dark-stained from glue and binding, with illumination and other embellishments virtually obliterated.", Measurements: 31.5 cm x 22 cm (first 2 leaves); 32 cm x 22.25 cm (last leaf), Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A439448/datastream/PDF/view

: Missal [3 leaves].; "Textualis hand. Double-column format. Written almost entirely in red. Two illuminated two-line initials and one 8-line illuminated initial. Upper outer corner of the single leaf torn with loss of vellum and some few letters on two lines of each page. One illuminated initial unfortunately has “eaten” through the vellum, which is brittle; one edge is chipped, with a separated portion present that contains a few letters on each of six lines, on each side.", Measurements: 13.2 cm x 8.5 cm, The brittle leaf was scanned within it's plastic sleeve to avoid further damage., Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A439441/datastream/PDF/view

: Missal [bifolium]; "A VELLUM MANUSCRIPT BIFOLIUM, WITH ILLUMINATING REMNANTS OF AN HISTORIATED INITIAL, FROM A LARGE MISSAL IN LATIN. (Germany, 15th century) Slightly irregular, but approximately 14 x 20." Rubrics in red, capitals struck with red, seven small and 11 large initials in red, and the remnants of a large (54 x 52 mm.) historiated initial of St. Peter (see discussion, below). Recovered from a binding, so with a few small holes, slight wrinkling, and overall browning, that part of the text written in brown ink on the inner two pages indistinct (about half of it legible), but the text of the outer pages quite readable (and all of the red paint well preserved), inner pages rather spotted, but still an appealing item as a revealing specimen despite its defects. Moisture from the glue used in binding has faded or effaced much of the text on the inner pages here, and it appears to have taken away all but a tiny vestige of (red) paint used for the initial. But this loss provides us with a significant gain because it enables us to see the illuminator’s technique in an especially memorable way. The areas within the initial’s rectangle that would have been gold are clearly indicated by a terra cotta color that marks the presence of gesso, a thick substance usually composed of plaster, chalk, or gypsum bound together with a glue, the mixture used as a ground for gilding because it formed a raised adherent surface ideal for burnishing (the raised surfaces are pronounced on the present leaf). The same terra cotta color is seen in several small disks at the top and along the left margin, which were no doubt the ground for gold bezants, probably as part of an elaborate scrolling decorative painted border (there are significant remnants of gold adhering to the gesso in the initial, but not in the border decoration). At least as important, the disappearance of the paint from the initial has exposed the careful and rather elaborate underdrawing in brown ink for the figure of St. Peter. The recto of the leaf on the left side concludes the sanctoral cycle of the ecclesiastical year with Mass propers for the feasts of Chrysogonus (24 November) and Catherine of Alexandria (25 November). A rubric at the bottom of the second column announces the incipit of the common of saints, beginning with the Mass for the vigil of the feast of an apostle, the text of which follows on the verso beneath the initial depicting St. Peter. What can be identified on the conjugate leaf is the common for the feast day of a confessor bishop.", Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A439433/datastream/PDF/view

: Missal [leaf] (includes part of the masses for Good Friday); "Textualis hand. Double-column format. Space left for one initial on each side, unaccomplished. From a binding, cut down in lower area with loss of text. Large roundish hole in text with loss to seven lines on each page.", Measurements: 27.5 cm x 23 cm, Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A439438/datastream/PDF/view

: Missal [leaf].; "Folio (29.9 x 22.8 cm, 11.75 x 9"). [1] f. This missal leaf contains the propers for the eighth Sunday after Pentecost, part of the communion and the post-communion prayer for the seventh, and the beginning of the ninth, including part of the epistle. The text is in black, some black initials being lined in red, with rubrics in red and with five red decorative initials and seven blue. Of these, five of the red and six of the blue are two lines in height (the remaining two being one line in height), although the pen tracery on some of these, in red, is up to eight lines in height. The text is written in a round Italian gothic script, in two columns of 31 lines per column. The blind-ruling guiding the scribe’s alignment of his text can be seen; the pricking holes showing how the blind-rules were laid on, can be seen also. Some light soiling, light cockling; at outer margin, where a small tab was apparently removed, slightest thinning of vellum." Missal: Inclina aurem tuam accelera ut eruas me, Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A439455/datastream/PDF/view

: Missal [leaf].; Manuscript folio. Written in Gothic textualis script on parchment with decorated capital "D" (9 lines tall), with foliage extending into the margin, in red, blue, green, pink brown and white ink, and also gold and (tarnished) silver. Page from a missal. The text is arranged in two columns (34 lines). As a heading to the page, and rubricated, the Roman numeral: CXVI. The beginning of the passage reads: "Domine lingua mia iraui exultavit cor meu in salutari tuo cantabo domino qui bona tribuit mihi" (a section comes from Psalm 12:6 "Exsultabit cor meum in salutari tuo. Cantabo Domino qui bona tribuit mihi"). The text includes rubricated phrases and initials, as well as a capital "D" in blue ink. 34.7 x 25.2 cm, "[southern Germany, probably Augsburg, end 15th century]344 x 248mm (visible area in mount). The initial with foliage staves of pink with an infill of punched silver against a punched ground of burnished gold and within a moulding frame of green and pink, the staves leading behind the frame to acanthus tendrils in pink, green and blue interspersed with gold disks with pink penwork surrounds; 34 lines in brown ink in two sizes of gothic bookhand, with cadell in lower margin of verso, between four verticals and 35 horizontals ruled in brown, justification: 277 x 86-18-83mm, rubrics in red, text capitals touched red, letters of opening word and two-line initials alternately in red and blue (slight cockling, slight staining to margins, silver tarnished). Double-sided gilt frame. Provenance: Collectors stamp in blue with initials FH on verso; paper label on framing 'Coll JV 106'; typewritten description in German. The initial D begins the introit for the first Sunday after the octave of Pentecost, or the first Sunday after Trinity, Domine in tua misericordia. The leaf was f.cxvi in a missal that must have closely resembled the smaller missal from which six leaves entered the Cornelius J. Hauk Collection, sold Christie's, New York, 27-28 June 2006, lots 120-122. The decoration indicates an origin in Augsburg." Missal: illuminated Initial D on Vellum, Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A445601/datastream/PDF/view

: Missal with neumes [leaf]; "...including music notation in neumes. Provenance: There is little doubt that the leaf has a Germanic origin and that it is mid-twelfth century in date. One feature of this leaf enables it to be more specifically attributed. This is the style of the ampersand and the letter ‘g’ which are exactly the same as on the leaf that was Lot 1 of the Korner sale at Sotheby’s, 19th June 1990. That leaf was attributed to the workshop that supplied manuscripts for St. Peter’s Abbey in Salzburg during the period 1147-1167. The scribe of this leaf may either have worked in this workshop, or very close to it. One noted authority has suggested the leaf may be of Austrian origin. Verso: 26 lines of text in Latin written in dark brown ink in one column on parchment. A fine mid-12th century proto-gothic script int wo sizes, rubrics in red. The Verso is decorated with ten initials of various sizes in bright red. There are no signs at all that the leaf has been ruled. There is a sewn repair to the vellum in the inside margin that was made before the leaf was written on which the scribe has carefully avoided. 11 lines include music notation in St Gall neumes (see Notes). The responses, versicles and antiphons (in the smaller script) are setto music using neumes written without staves. Where words of the chant are split to relate to the melody of the neumes, the parts are connected by red lines. Recto: As Verso with a further six lines with music notation and four red initials. At the top of Recto is a folio number CCXXXIII in a 13th or 14th century hand. Source: Probably Southern Germany, Salzburg, but possibly Austria (see Provenance)." This leaf has presumably been used as a cover for a later pastedown. A fold can be seen down the outside edge andall four edges have been trimmed, presumably to remove unsightly damage. The parchment is browned and there is a degree ofsurface dirt but overall the leaf is in remarkably good condition for its extreme age., Measurements: 25.5 cm x 16 cm, Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A439463/datastream/PDF/view

: Missal with neumes [leaf]; "114 x 210 mm. (4 1/2 x 8 1/4)." Single column, nine lines of text with neumes, written in two sizes of an extremely fine romanesque book hand. Rubrics in red capitals, large capitals in red. Marginal annotations in an early (but not contemporaneous) hand. Recovered from bindings, so somewhat yellowed, one leaf with elongated worming (not affecting text), one side of one leaf mostly obscured by binder’s glue, but one leaf entirely legible, and both rather well preserved, especially given their history. Among the texts included here are Mass texts (1) for Ash Wednesday, (2) for the Thursday after Ash Wednesday (Isaias 38:3-6) and the Gospel of Matthew 8:5-13 (though the scribe has mistakenly written John), and (3) for the Friday after Ash Wednesday (including Isaias 58:6-8).", Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A439458/datastream/PDF/view

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