Examples mounted on both sides of continuous strip folded accordian fashion to form 33 leaves. Interleaved with translations., Most likely compiled during the late Edo period, circa first half of the 19th century.
Manuscript document. Title devised by cataloger. Date based on style of pen-work ornamentation., Collation: Parchment, ii (modern paper) + 131 + i (modern paper) folios on parchment, modern foliation in pencil, 1-131, lacking five leaves (collation i-vi8 vii8 [-3, lacking one leaf after f. 50, with loss of text] viii8 ix8 [-2, lacking one leaf after f. 64, with loss of text] x8 xi8 [-1, -6, lacking one leaf after f. 78 and one leaf after f. 82, with loss of text] xii8 [-5, lacking one leaf after f. 88, with loss of text] xiii-xvii8 )., Decoration attributed to the Master(s) of Dirc van Delft Group. Rubrics in red, capitals touched in red, 1-line initials alternating in burnished gold and blue throughout, decorated with blue and red pen-work, 2-line initials in burnished gold throughout, decorated alternately with red and blue pen-work, seven 3-line initials in burnished gold on grounds divided in pink and blue, accompanied with borders decorated with bars in burnished gold, pink, and blue; and branches of leaves and flowers in burnished gold (ff. 2v, 21, 24v, 28, 31, 34, 38v), two 7-line initials, one in blue (f. 1), another in pink (f. 44), decorated with geometric pattern in white, on burnished gold grounds with bar borders in burnished gold enlivened with curling branches of flowers and leaves in burnished gold and colors, a small tear in the outer margin of folio 22 and in the lower margin of folio 93., Binding: Bound in eighteenth century brown calf, spine gold-tooled with flowers; red leather label with gilt titling: GETYDEN MANUSCRIP; multi-colored gold brocade endpapers with flowers and leaves; modern fitted case, spine restored, stitching of quires somewhat loosened, small marks of wear on the leather., Lettering: Gothic book-hand (textualis), written in brown ink., Translation from Latin to Middle Dutch by Dutch reformer Geert Grote (1340-1384) in 1383-1384. Grote also added a new text to the standard contents, the Hours of Eternal Wisdom, the Getijden van de Eeuwige Wijsheid, a translation of the Cursus Aeternae Sapientiae by Henry Sus.
Manuscript document. Title devised by cataloger., Collation: Parchment, single leaf, 2 pages., Decoration: Every other line begins with a decorated initial in alternating blue and red pigment. The initials have the opposite color for flourish. The blue flourish either has faded or was never applied and the under-drawing remains in light pink. The text is in black ink. Recto has CCX in the top right and a random pen marking in the right margin. Verso has - 70 - beneath the final line of text., Binding: disbound., Lettering: Written in Italian Gothic Rotunda script.
Manuscript document. Title devised by cataloger., Disbound leaf (2 pages) form a missal., Collation: Parchment, single leaf, 2 pages., Decoration: Initials in red or blue, with opposite color flourishing. The blue flourishing either faded, or was never applied, for only a light pink outline of the flourish remains around the red initials. Text is in black and red, and alternates in size throughout. The text of the verso appears to have been done by a different hand than the recto; the text is much squarer than the recto., Binding: disbound., Lettering: Written in Gothic script (littera textualis semi-quadrata).
Manuscript document. Title devised by cataloger., Collation: Parchment, single leaf, two pages., Decoration: Large initials in red or blue, and non-musical script in red. Music lines are in red, and the notes and corresponding text are in black. On the verso, the initials in black have some flourishing., Binding: disbound., Lettering: Written in Gothic script (textualis prescissa).
Manuscript document. Title devised by cataloger., The text begins with a continuation of Apocalypse 21:19, finishing at the twenty first line of the page. Apocalypse 22 begins at the twenty-second line and makes up the rest of the text of the leaf. Verso is blank., Collation: single sheet., Decoration: One decorated initial in red with blue flourishing; roman numeral XVII alternates between red and blue; last two words in the second column are red; and the rest of the text is in black, with red marks showing the beginnings of new sentences., Binding: disbound.
Manuscript codex. The properties of herbs: hexameter poem on medicinal uses of herbs, written in the late 11th century under the pseudonym of Macer (with reference to the Roman poet and naturalist Aemilius Licinius Macer, d. 16 BC). The French physician Odo de Meung-sur-Loire, known as Odo Magdunensis, has been suggested as the real author, as his name is mentioned in a 12th-century copy of the text (Dresden, Sa_chsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Dc. 160, f. 37v, explicit) and a number of later manuscripts. The epithet 'Floridus' was added to the name by scribes from the 13th century onwards (Wellcome Library). The text draws from classical and early medieval sources, Pliny (23-79 AD) and Walafrid Strabo (d. 849) in particular. Cited for the first time by Sigebertus Gemblacensis (d. 1112), the poem circulated widely in Europe, both in Latin and in vernacular translations, for the following five centuries, with the number of hexameter lines varying greatly (Wellcome library). The poem is one of the earliest Western documents proving a medieval revival of interest in botany., Collation: Three quires of 8. Catchwords on f. 8b, f. 16b., Decoration: Illuminated capital 'H' on first recto: Brownish-purple with white highlights on raised gold square, filled with foliage in blue and pink, with green foliate extensions and 9 scattered raised gold dots outlined with ink. Four Lombardic capitals, three in red and four in blue; some unfilled capital spaces. Gothic ornamental capitals (same ink and size as script) starts each line. First five divisions have headings in red., Binding: Gray-green paper and brown morocco leather spine over boards. Leather is blind-tooled with four pairs of horizontal lines, each bracketed by a small gold dot. Spine labeled MACER lengthwise in gold. Paper pastedowns and four paper flyleaves at front and back., Script: Rounded Gothic book minuscule in brown ink with rubrication.
Contents: 1. Ff. 1v-107r: Psalms of David. -- 2. Ff. 107v-119r: Biblical Canticles. -- 3. Ff. 119r-125v: Song of Songs, common version. 4. -- Ff. 125v-135v: Praises of Mary [Wəddase Maryam], laid out in one column. arranged for the days of the week (Monday, f. 125v; Tuesday, f. 126v; Wednesday, f. 128v; Thursday, f. 130; Friday, f. 132r; Saturday, f. 133v; Sunday, f. 134v). -- 5. Ff. 136r-139v: Gate of Light [Anqäṣä Bərhan]., Manuscript document. Title devised by cataloger., Item cataloged from existing description in Catalogue of the Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project: Volume 1, in which this manuscript is entered as EMIP 73., Quires: protection quire + 12 full quires, ii + 141 folios, 138 x 105 mm. Quire descriptions: quires 1-4, 6-12 balanced; quire 5 adjusted balanced., Binding: four Coptic chain stitches attached with bridle attachments to rough-hewn boards., Overlooked words of text are written interlinearly (f. 138v)., The scribe regularly has to complete a line of text on another line. Much of the problem is addressed through the selection of an appropriate aspect ratio for the codex combined with an appropriate script size. But, where the line of text is still too long, the scribe completes the line of text above the end of the line (e.g., ff. 1v, 2v, 3r, 4v, etc.). This scribe will also reduce the font size at the end of lines to avoid having to go onto the next line (e.g., ff. 55v and 57v).
Manuscript codex. Justinus the historian [was] of unknown date, but not later than 300 or 400 AD. His work is taken from the Historiae Philippicae of Progus Pompeius ... writing the history of Macedonian monarchy ... Justin's work is not so much an abridgment as a selection of those parts [of Trogus' history] which seemed to him most worthy of being generally known--Edward Sandford Burgess notes., Includes two pages of written notes by Edward Sandford Burgess on Justinus and his text, and notes on the veneration of Cicero's texts by later scholars., Collation (Cicero): 50 leaves, Quires of 10 + 2 front flyleaves. No page headings, numbers, signatures. Catchwords in middle lower margin at end of quires., Collation (Justinus): 69 leaves, quires of 10 except last of 9. Catchwords in middle lower margin at end of quires. No page headings, numbers, signatures., Binding: Both works bound together in grained brown morocco over heavy boards. Spine has six panels with gold stamped letters: Argumenta Tullii, Justini Historia, M. S. in chart. Interior covers have gold fillet border with fleurons at corners. Flyleaves have watermark J. Whatman, 1833., Script: Cicero manuscript written in Humanistic minuscule in brown ink; smaller script in Justinus manuscript.