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Bookplate: Allan Heywood Bright, pasted on front pastedown.
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Layout: double columns of 47 lines each.
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Script: gothic textura.
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Decoration: marginal notes in red ink with blue penwork. One historiated initial, in full color, depicting a horned Moses holding the tablets of the Law.
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Binding: nineteenth-century brown leather; marbled endpapers.
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Manuscript notebook, "originally written in Spring of 1891 ... revised 1895." Text is densely written, in black ink.
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Bound in contemporary calf.
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Script: Written in a careful cursive hand sloping slightly to the right in a single column 170 x 110 mm without bordering lines or ruling. the text has been partly corrected by another hand and with significant marginalia throughout by this hand in inks of different hues.
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Watermarks: Paper watermarked with a crowned coat of arms, probably a Dutch paper not certainly identified.
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Binding: English binding of diced brown Russia leather, a border of gilt dots around the edges of the covers, inside and out, the backstrip in compartments similarly treated, original title label on second compartment from top gold-lettered: "Anonimo Manuscritto di un Vero Adepto." Plain edges. Hinges and corners repaired.
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Tome 1: 1 smaller leaf 220 x 140 mm inserted after first leaf of index.
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Tome 2: 1 smaller leaf 190 x 112 mm inserted after page 157.
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With wax seals appended to the four signatures: John Ley, Susanna Ley, Eleanor Ley, John Bennett.
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With a blind-embossed 1 shilling stamp on blue paper.
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Signed by Conradus Gold.
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Script: gothic cursive.
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Binding: quarter calf.
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Includes musical notation (square notation on three-line staves) for Passion week lessons (57v-60v).
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Paper is torn and damaged in many places and has been repaired with strips and patches of parchment manuscript waste, mostly from a fourteenth-century Latin breviary in gothic minuscule. There are also manuscript fragments from a parchment manuscript in German and Latin, possibly a Latin-German dictionary.
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Front pastedown contains annotations in a sixteenth-century German hand.
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Watermarks include Briquet 9173-9185.
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Layout: double columns of 33-38 lines.
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Decoration: Rubricated. Several larger initials in red ink.
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Binding: contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards; paneled with triple fillets on boards and central diagonal fillets, forming lozenges.
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Layout: sngle columns. Music of square notation on four-line staves with five lines of gothic bookhand.
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Decoration: rubricated. Initials in blue or red ink with pen flourishing in red or blue ink.
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Binding: contemporary? blind-stamped leather over wood; flower-shaped metal bosses at center and corners of boards and to secure straps on upper cover (straps not present).
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Annotation at f67v. identifies the author as "Io. Ost." and the manuscript as having been written at Castel San Pietro, whilte the author was with the antipope John XXIII "n. p. io. 23").
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Ownership inscriptions include early signatures by Phillippus Vergier; robert Lemayn; and Frater Stephanus Vixier.
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F11v inscribed, in an eighteenth-century hand: "Bibliotheca Augustinianae Generalis Collegii Parisiensis fol. 10."
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Decoration: rubricated. one line initials blue with red penwork or red with brown penwork. One large initial with marginal extensiton in red and blue, smudged.
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Binding: eighteenth-century full brown calf, gilt oval centerpiece on covers. Upper also has large blind oval stamp depicting St. Augustine enthroned between kneeling friars; rebacked.
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Bookplate: Jean-Bapiste L'Ecuy, abbatis Praemonstratensis.
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Layout: single columns of 25-37 lines.
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Decoration: a few capitals and sections headings in red ink.
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Layout: single columns of variable lines.
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Script: cursive.
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Laid in: autograph letter,signed, from the Liverpool bookseller Jaggard to Allan Heywood Bright, 1896 April 27, concerning the unknown early provenance of the manuscript. With autograph and typed notes by Allan Heywood Bright, 1898 and undated.
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Title from ownership inscription by Remy Megret (f80r).
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Opening sentence: Les continuelles meditationes de la volubilite et soudaine mutation des creatures raisonnables.
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Layout: single columns of 19 lines.
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Script: gothic bastarda.
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Decoration: 13 large full-color miniatures in architectural frames illustrating various events in the allegorical pilgrimage of the author's soul, guided by Dame Inspiration. The opening miniature is full-page and depicts the author asleep beneath a tree hung with her coat of arms. Other subjects include: the soul, accompanied by Dame Inspiration, begins her pilgrimage to the Fontaine de Penitence f.9; Inspiration explains to the soul what needs to be done in order to reach the Fontaine de Penitence f.11, the soul, carried on the back of Inspiration, flies to the Château de Contention diabolique f.17, Inspiration and the soul meet Raison f.20; the soul enters the Chemin de Crainte de Dieu f.35; souls are cleansed in the Fontaine de Penitence f.47; the soul sets off on her journey to the Terre de Promission f.50v; the company journey to the coast where they find boats awaiting them f.53; the company embark f.58; the company sets off on the Navire de Penitence f.61; the company is attacked by seven other boats f.63; the company is swept up by the Vent de Hypocrisie f.69v.
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Pledge note naming "henrico matthew" on f376v in a contemporary hand.
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Second parchment front flyleaf recto contains a note on the death of "myne uncle Oliver Godfraye" on 2 September 1550. Parchment bifolium (8 x 6 mm.) containing entries on events from 1297 to 1341 sewn onto flyleaf below the note. Verso contains ownership inscription of John Burns dated September 24, 1921 with slip recording auction sale 19 July 1928 pasted in below.
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Account fragment in a contemporary secretary hand pasted in on f12r.
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Fragments of the first printed edition of John Gower's Confessio Amantis, printed by William Caxton in Westminster 2 September 1483, (almost one full leaf, d4, Goff G-329) pasted in on f13r. Annotation in pencil below by Sebastian Evans.
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Bookplate of Sebastian Evans on front pastedown.
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Bookplate of Harold Douthit on front pastedown.
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Layout: single columns of 30-42 lines.
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Script: secretary hand.
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Decoration: rubricated. Two-line initials of blue with red penwork. Pythagorean diagram in red and black tipped in at f88v.
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Binding: contemporary leather over beveled wooden boards with two straps and nielloed clasps and catches; repaired and restored in the twentieth century.
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Layout: double columns of 50 lines each.
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Decoration: rubricated. Initials in red.
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Binding: nineteenth-century full red morocco, gilt; by Charles Lewis.
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Decoration: rubricated. Five half-page miniatures and one arch-topped miniature, accompanied by full-page borders. The subjects of the miniatures are as follows: f.3 A lady kneeling before St. Jerome, seated, with the lion at his feet. f.10 The same lady presented to the Annunciate Virgin by the Archangel Gabriel, whose scroll greeting the Virgin curls up behind the lady's head as if she too uttered the words. f.19 Coronation of the Virgin with hovering angels on either side with scrolls oriented for them to read 'Hec est regina virginum' and 'Ave maris stella'. f.30v Christ standing in a lush landscape teaching the kneeling apostles and disciples the Lord's Prayer, the words on his scroll coming from Matthew 6:9. f.48 The lady, with her patron St. Jerome, kneeling and offering her soul, in the form of a naked child, up to God above, illustrating the opening words of Psalm 24 (Vulgate) on her scroll; to the right a young man kneeling with his patron saint, a deacon martyr, and the second verse of the psalm continuing on his scroll. f.101 Crucifixion flanked by the lady with the Virgin and the young man with St. John the Evangelist.
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Binding: contemporary blind-stamped brown leather; central panel with lozenges with fleur-de-lys bordered by tooled swans and winged fruit. Two later metal pins and leather straps.
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Full spine title: The Lock off Love. Meditatyon upon the 51st Psalme &c. MS.
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Layout: single columns of varying lengths.
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Script: almost entirely in secretary script; a few passages, headings and mottos in italic.
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Decoration: some rubrication. Three highly decorated title pages with wide ornamented borders. The title page for The Lock of Love is a rebus title with drawings for the lock and the key. The second and third title pages are in red and black ink. The manuscript also contains a variety of initials, headings and tailpieces with decorative penwork in black ink.
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Binding: nineteenth-century full brown calf, gilt, with armorial centerpiece of the Dukes of Northumberland; compartmented spine, gilt; red leather shelfmark tag: MS 469.
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Great seal of England attached by red silk cord.
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Layout: single column of 19 lines.
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Decoration: large initial R and calligraphic ascenders in the first line.
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Layout: single columns of 18 lines. Music with square notation on four-line staves.
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Decoration: rubricated. Initials alternately in red and blue; large opening initial in liquid gold with blue and red penwork.
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Binding: contemporary blind-stamped calf; one clasp and catch, repaired.
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Volume imperfect. Lacks opening leaf and many leaves throughout.
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Some marginalia in contemporary and other early hands.
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Layout: double columns surrounded by gloss.
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Decoration: rubricated. One-line initials in red or blue with penwork in contrasting ink. Larger initials in blue with red penwork. Numerous decorations in penwork to capitals and text edges.
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Binding: Original? binding of light reversed calf over beveled wooden boards, sewn on nine double thongs. With a sheepskin chemise cover with flaps of skin remaining at foot and foredge. Remains of two clasps attached in recesses cut in earlier binding and passing through holes cut into chemise cover.
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Signed and dated by the scribe, Jacobus Burenman of Waldsee, canon of the Premonstratension abbey of Schussenried, November 20, 1472.
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Layout: single columns of 25 lines.
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Decoration: rubricated. Initials and some embellishments in red.
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Binding: contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards; remains of single clasp.
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Layout: two columns, the left containing genealogical trees for Scottish and English kings, the right containing genealogical and historical notes.
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Decoration: numerous calligraphic initials; large royal coat of arms in pen and ink.
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Binding: mounted on linen.
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Decoration: coats of arms in multicolored pen and wash.
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Binding: seventeenth-century full black morocco, gilt; rebacked.
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With: multiple entries on front and back flyleaves in Latin and English containing notes on the family history of various members of the Heneage family, 1528-1820 and undated. Also 6 pages of similar notes, laid in.
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With: two horoscopes on back flyleaves for Michael Heneage, 1532 March 28.
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Decoration: two full-page borders accompanied by three-line foliate initials on a gold ground (ff.1, 40); three three-sided borders (ff.32, 35, 92v), four- and five-line initials in gold on a ground of blue and red with white ornament and leafy sprays extending into the margin (ff.20v, 90v, 92v), one three-line foliate initial on a gold ground with extensions forming a two-sided border (f.81), two-line and three-line initials alternately in gold with blue penwork, or blue with red penwork, usually forming reserved leafy designs within the body of the initial and extending up and down the left margin, one- to six-line paraphs in the text and margins alternately gold with blue penwork or blue with red penwork,
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Binding: contemporary white doeskin over cushioned boards, sewn on six double bands; remains of two clasps including nails. Lower edge of leaves inscribed "hylton" in a contemporary hand. Center of upper board inscribed with a capital E and W-B in a nineteenth century hand.
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Note pasted on back in the hand of French botanist Duhamel du Monceau.
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Explicit signed and dated by Gonzales de Vega, 14 August 1415.
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Layout: single columns of 29-32 lines.
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Script: cursive chancellery script.
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Decoration: public notary's initials at the bottom of every folio. Some pen flourishing and decorated initials at the start of Latin texts; five two-line initials in red ink with purple penwork; two four-line initials in gold leaf with elaborate purple penwork.
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Binding: contemporary full green sheepskin over pasteboards; remains of ties.
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Written on upper board: 1372. Notario de Auila.
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Woodcut sign manual of King Edward VI at the head of the document, with "By the kyng;" counter-signature of Lord Protector Somerset ("E. Somerset") at the end of the text.
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Papered seal on verso with address.
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Date in original given as: "the last day of the twelfth moneth called ffebruary Anno Dom 1648."
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Laid in: four additional maps, unfinished, and an autograph document, signed, by Pierre Jacotin, detailing the contents of the survey.
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Binding: contemporary blue-gray cardboard, stitched. Paper label affixed to front cover: Atlas de Bois de la Houssaye. 1797.
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Laid in: correspondence and notes concerning the possible attribution of this volume to Richard Philips (1661-1751), governor of Nova Scotia, 1942-1961 and undated.
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