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Book stamp of a lion rampant with autograph annotation by Sir Thomas Phillipps.
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Layout: single columns of 26 lines each.
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Script: secretary.
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Decoration: 33 armorial devices in ink; many blank shields in pencil.
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Binding: eighteenth-century full calf; arms of John Lewis Goldsmid on front cover in gilt.
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Title on the manuscript: "Gweddi'r hwsmon, a Welsh prayer by the Vicar of Llandyfry in Queen Elizabeth's reign."
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Attribution of Rhys Prichard as author of the original text is through The Vicar of Llandovery, or, Light from the Welshman's Candle, by John Bulmer (Haverfordwest: J. Potter, 1821).
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Auction catalog description pasted onto front pastedown, with annotation concerning purchase at Sir Edward Coates' sale, Sotheby's July 9, 1923.
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Bookplate: Fairfax of Cameron armorial bookplate.
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Ownership inscription of Charles Fairfax on front flyleaf.
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Layout: double columns of 48 lines, incorporating genealogical charts.
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Script: secretary script in two different hands.
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Decoration: in the Chronicle, names in genealogical charts in roundels with lines of descent in various colors; pen and ink illustrations of coats of arms and four drawings of cities, in color.
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Binding: seventeenth-century full calf, gilt ornament on covers, with the initials C. and F. in blind; remains of green silk ties.
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Layout: two columns of 28 lines.
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Script: Anglo-Saxon minuscule.
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Decoration: well-formed initial 'a' embodying two animal heads, partially colored in red and blue.
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With a thirteenth or fourteenth inscription on one of the leaves, "Iste liber est de armario Sarr".
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Layout: single column of 27 lines.
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Script: copied by one hand in Praegothica.
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Decoration: initial E in red ink with green tendrils.
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Page is trimmed slightly at one edge, affecting the text.
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Layout: single column of 18 lines.
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Decoration: Rubricated. Initials in red ink.
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Layout: single column of 31 lines on recto, 30 lines on verso.
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Script: copied by one hand in Praegothica, with ascenders sometimes notched, and uncial d and tall d.
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The leaf is from a small format pocket-sized manuscript. Trimming affects text at the top of the page, and text on verso is faded and obscured in places by staining.
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Layout: double columns of 36 lines.
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Script: romanesque book script.
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Script: protogothic.
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Shailor and Watters have identified this fragment as coming from the same parent manuscript as Beinecke MS 712.254.
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In contemporary marbled paper covers, roan-backed.
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Text corresponds to Patrologia Latina (PL) 94: 180/81.
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Layout: double columns of 28 lines.
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Script: copied by a single hand in Caroline minuscule.
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Decoration: capitals touched with red ink.
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From a Bolognese manuscript copied by the pecia system, with characteristic mark faintly visible in margin of recto on the first leaf
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Layout: principal text written in double columns of up to 30 lines, with surrounding gloss in 89 lines.
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Script: two sizes of rounded gothic script.
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Decoration: two historiated initials painted in color against burnished gold backgrounds.
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Binding: modern cloth covered boards.
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Layout: two columns of 39 lines.
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Script: gothic hand.
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Decoration: initial C in blue and initial Q in red.
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Stained and somewhat worn from use as a pastedown, with some later pen trials.
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With copious corrections, annotations, etc., by Carlo Landberg.
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Title from fol. 3a.
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Fol. 3b: Commentaire et notes sur le Dīwān d'Abou Firās el-Ḥamdānī par Carlo Landberg.
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Fol. 4a: 27 lines.
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Several additional leaves and slips inserted loose. Contains also some notes on the Amharic language.
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Front cover: "Grammaire amariña."
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Good modern (19th century) naskhī.
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Fol. 2a: 19 lines.
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This copy comprises the facsimile only (1 l., 126 p., and maps). It is not clear whether it is imperfect, or whether it was issued for the Oriental trade, with the Latin matter omitted.
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2 p. l., 23, [1] p.; 2 l., facsim.: (126 p., XIX maps), 127-132 p., 1 l.
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Spine title: Hymns & : Poems By : Eliz Scott.
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The volume descended in the family of Elizabeth Scott Williams Smith's brother-in-law Solomon Williams (1701-1776). Inscribed inside front cover: "Anna Williams, / Given me by Grandm[other] / Elisabeth Smith," "Thos. S. Williams / from his brother / S. P. Williams / July 1826," and "Isaac Parsons."
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Volume opens with unpaginated 6 p. index of recipes and a list of "characters and valew of medicinall weights;" rest of volume is paginated 1-256. Pages after p. 83 are blank.
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Ownership stamp of Anna Rogers, in red ink, appears on verso of front endpaper and verso of second blank page. "April 6 1765" written below the second stamp in an unidentified hand.
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Watermark: coat of arms not in Heawood; similar to Heawood Coat of Arms 348.
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Binding: in the style of Queens' Binder A (William Nott). Contemporary full red morocco, elaborately gilt in an all-over design incorporating drawer-handle tools, floral motifs and flower tools, framed in a repeating ornamental border. Seven-compartment gilt spine; coroneted monogram "RR" (Robert and Rebecca Paston) in the third compartment. Marbled endpapers.
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With two inscriptions on front pastedown: [1] "M.E. Milles. This book was given to me by the Honble. Mary Grace Watson, Octr. 1798, copied from one I gave her." [2] "Grace Palmer. This book was given to me by my greatgrand mother M.E. Milles, April 18th, 1819."
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Bound in contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards.
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Stored in 19 boxes.
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The Yale Center for British Art also has a signet ring, ca. 1787, bearing the design of the anti-slavery medallion, in slightly variant form. This item is cataloged separately (see link provided herewith).
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Written in pen and black ink.
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Bound in blind paneled green calf.
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Transcribed from original journals purchased by Albert Francis Judd from the Dunster House Bookshop in Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 1931.
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Ownership inscription on verso of last leaf:"Antoine Descamps pasteur de Hollain 1607."
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Ownership inscription on verso of last leaf: "Alard Sprien pasteur de Hollain 1647 26 Januarii."
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Ownership inscription on verso of last leaf: "Pierre Lemari pasteur de hollain, x julii 1660."
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Ownership inscription on verso of last leaf: "Paul François Deschamps pasteur de hollain le 12 de decembre 1693."
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Layout: single column with varying number of lines.
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Script: Gothic liturgical bookhand.
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Decoration: Rubricated. Initials in red or blue; paragraph marks in alternating red and blue.
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Binding: Remnant of original wooden binding attached to back of volume.
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Layout: single-column, up to 21 lines on a page.
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Script: written in a littera cursiva script.
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Binding: contemporary parchment wrapper, stitched.
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Numerous marginal annotations in both contemporary and later hands.
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Layout: single columns, mostly of 32 lines.
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Script: manuscript is in at least seven hands.
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Decoration: Rubricated. Large blue initial with red penwork (f. 8).
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Binding: contemporary binding of tawed white leather over bevelled wooden boards, sewn on four leather thongs. Remains of clasp; brass pin and mount on lower cover.
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Note concerning the probable date of the volume in Latin, in a later hand (9v.)
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Layout: single columns of 21 lines.
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Script: rounded gothic liturgical script.
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Decoration: Rubricated. Small initials throughout in red and blue with contrasting penwork; seven large illuminated initials with two-sided borders; large illuminated initial on the first leaf of the text of the Psalter.
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Binding: contemporary binding of reversed skin over bevelled wooden boards; sewn on five double bands. Remains of clasps on the front board.
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Numerous contemporary marginal annotations in a number of hands.
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Ownership inscription: "Wilelmo Elwys" on first leaf (1r) and final leaf (269v).
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Ownership inscription: "T. Butler 1759" on first leaf (1r).
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Layout: single columns of 30-36 lines.
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Script: several secretary scripts.
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Binding: early flexible binding, designed to accomodate further additions of leaves, with stiff leather covers stitched on with leather thongs; original bands and sewing visible. "Edw. Bennett" cut into upper cover in a later hand.
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Bound by a former owner, with a photograph of Sand affixed to a preliminary page.
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Contents preceded by "A Table of the Graunts of Armes contained in this booke" and "A Callender of what is contained in this Booke."
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Title transcribed from front cover.
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Printed bookseller's description pasted on inside front cover.
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Binding: contemporary limp parchment; remains of ties.
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