title: Walker, George

text: MSS File Id #39545

text: Box 25, Fol 47

title: Walker, George

text: Correspondence


mmsType: Item

field: dateIssued

keyDate: yes

point: start

point: end

field: dateCreated

title: Front doubleur

sourceSystem: mms

namePart: Marius Michel, M. (1846-1925)

type: personal

authority: naf

usage: primary

namePart: France, Anatole (1844-1924)

type: topic

authority: lctgm

text: Bookbinding

type: content

text: Binding, by Marius Michel, 1907, of green crushed levant morocco. v. 1 inlaid with leather of ten different colors. Sides adorned with conventionalized leaves, buds, and groups of flowers and surrounded by a frame of three fillets, the two inner apparently passing through loops suspended from the outer. Doublé with light brown morocco. Center panel plain,within a border of conventionalized leaves and flowers inlaid in green and red, and surrounded by a frame inlaid in black and two fillets tooled in gilt; at the side, the monogram of Mr. Spencer. With edges gilt over rough, marbled end papers, and lining of gold colored satin figured in rose. Original covers bound in. v. 2, three quarters binding only. Back inlaid and lettered in gilt. With marbled end papers and gilt edges. In loose leather protective covers, lettered, and inserted in slip cases.

title: Front doublure.

supplied: no

rights: Can be used inside free NYPL exhibition catalogs and in free NYPL brochures

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rights: While the book bindings may be artistic works, they were all created between 1880-1910. Per the Foreign Works memo, any foreign work published prior to 1923 is treated as public domain.

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collectionTitle: Bookbinding : books bequeathed by William Augustus Spencer.


title: Walker, Henry

namePart: Tilden, Samuel J. (Samuel Jones), 1814-1886

type: admin

text: MSS File Id #39546

text: Box 25, Fol 48

title: Walker, Henry

typeOfResource:
text
still image

text: Correspondence

rights: Based on a high-level review of this collection, it appears that many of the items are unpublished. We are presuming much of the content is public domain, but are unable to say with certainty for each item. A secondary review at container/item level would need to happen to confirm copyright status.

collectionTitle: Samuel J. Tilden papers


title: Front endpaper

text: Bookbinding

title: Front endpaper.


title: Back endpaper

text: Bookbinding

title: Back endpaper.


title: Back doubleur

text: Bookbinding

title: Back doublure.


title: Walker, Mary Edwards

text: MSS File Id #39547

text: Box 25, Fol 49

title: Walker, Mary Edwards

text: Correspondence


title: Back cover

text: Bookbinding

title: Back cover.


title: Spine

text: Bookbinding

title: Spine.


title: Walker, Robert

text: MSS File Id #39548

text: Box 25, Fol 50

title: Walker, Robert

text: Correspondence


title: Front cover

text: Bookbinding

title: Front cover


title: Wallace, Robert

text: MSS File Id #39549

text: Box 25, Fol 51

title: Wallace, Robert

text: Correspondence


title: Front doublure

text: Bookbinding

title: Front doublure


title: Front endpaper

text: Bookbinding

title: Front endpaper


title: Ward, C. L.

text: MSS File Id #39552

text: Box 25, Fol 54

title: Ward, C. L.

text: Correspondence


title: Back endpaper

text: Bookbinding

title: Back endpaper


title: Back doublure

text: Bookbinding

title: Back doublure


title: Ward, Townsend

text: MSS File Id #39554

text: Box 25, Fol 56

title: Ward, Townsend

text: Correspondence


title: Back cover

text: Bookbinding

title: Back cover


title: Warner, Andrew

text: MSS File Id #39555

text: Box 25, Fol 57

title: Warner, Andrew

text: Correspondence


title: Spine

text: Bookbinding

title: Spine


title: Warner, Joseph

text: MSS File Id #39556

text: Box 25, Fol 58

title: Warner, Joseph

text: Correspondence


title: Warner, S.

text: MSS File Id #39557

text: Box 25, Fol 59

title: Warner, S.

text: Correspondence


title: Front cover

text: Bookbinding

text: Binding, by René Kieffer, of full blue crushed levant morocco, without ornament. Doublé with blue-green morocco. Center panel within a frame of two fillets enclosing a design of garlands of flowers and foliage and fillets inlaid in dark blue and tooled in gilt. Back lettered. With gilt edges, marbled end papers, and lining of silk brocaded in stripes and in colors. Original covers bound in. Inserted in slip case.

title: Front cover.


title: Waterbury, Nelson J.

text: MSS File Id #39558

text: Box 25, Fol 60,61

title: Waterbury, Nelson J.

text: Correspondence


title: Front doubleur

text: Bookbinding

title: Front doublure.


title: Front endpaper

text: Bookbinding

title: Front endpaper.


title: Back endpaper

text: Bookbinding

title: Back endpaper.


title: Back doubleur

text: Bookbinding

title: Back doublure.


title: Back cover

text: Bookbinding

title: Back cover.


title: Spine

text: Bookbinding

title: Spine.


title: Front endpaper.

originInfo: 19111883ParisL. Conquet

namePart: Mercier, Georges (1885-1939)

namePart: Gautier, Théophile (1811-1872)

text: Bookbinding

text: Binding, by G. Mercier, 1911, of blue crushed levant morocco, gilt. Sides within a frame of four fillets and an inner frame of Louis XVth design, composed of three fillets broken and ornamented at the corners. Doublé with brown morocco within a border of small tools. Centre panel within a frame of three fillets and an ornate inner frame of modernized Louis XVth design, composed of small tools and fillets forming compartments inlaid with blue and others adorned with small quatrefoils in red; at the bottom, the monogram of Mr. Spencer. Back tooled and lettered. With gilt edges, marbeled end papers, and lining of blue watered grosgrain silk. Original covers bound in. In loose leather protective cover, tooled and lettered, and inserted in slip case.

title: Front endpaper.


title: Back endpaper.

text: Bookbinding

title: Back endpaper.


title: Back cover.

text: Bookbinding

title: Back cover.


title: Spine.

text: Bookbinding

title: Spine.


title: Front cover.

text: Bookbinding

title: Front cover.


title: Front doublure.

text: Bookbinding

title: Front doublure.


title: Front endpaper.

text: Bookbinding

title: Front endpaper.


title: Back endpaper.

text: Bookbinding

title: Back endpaper.


title: Back doublure.

text: Bookbinding

title: Back doublure.


title: Back cover.

text: Bookbinding

title: Back cover.


title: Watterson, Henry

text: MSS File Id #39559

text: Box 26, Fol 1

title: Watterson, Henry

text: Correspondence


title: Weaver, E. M.

text: MSS File Id #39561

text: Box 26, Fol 3

title: Weaver, E. M.

text: Correspondence


title: Webb, William H.

text: MSS File Id #39562

text: Box 26, Fol 4

title: Webb, William H.

text: Correspondence


title: Webster, Sidney

text: MSS File Id #39563

text: Box 26, Fol 5

title: Webster, Sidney

text: Correspondence


title: Weed, Smith M., 1866-1876

text: MSS File Id #39564

text: Box 26, Fol 6,11

title: Weed, Smith M., 1866-1876

text: Correspondence


title: Front cover.

namePart: Champs, Victor (1844-1912)

namePart: Halévy, Ludovic (1834-1908)

text: Bookbinding

text: Binding, by Champs, of grayish-blue crushed levant morocco, gilt. Sides within two frames of three- and two-line fillets respectively, enclosing a border of wild poppies with petals inlaid in red. Springing from the base of the inner frame, two conventionalized spears of wheat. In the centre, the monogram A. W. [Comte Alfred Werlé] partly inlaid in red. Doublé with old rose silk tapestry figured with leaves and flowers in delicate hues of many colors; the whole surrounded by frames of fillets and dentelle borders. Back tooled, lettered, and inlaid with units from the design on the sides. With marbeled end papers and rough edges; gilt top. Original covers bound in. Inserted in slip case.

text: Bookplate of Comte Alfred Werlé.

title: Front cover.


title: Front doublure.

text: Bookbinding

text: Bookplate of Comte Alfred Werlé.

title: Front doublure.


title: Front endpaper.

text: Bookbinding

text: Bookplate of Comte Alfred Werlé.

title: Front endpaper.


title: Back endpaper.

text: Bookbinding

text: Bookplate of Comte Alfred Werlé.

title: Back endpaper.


title: Back doublure.

text: Bookbinding

text: Bookplate of Comte Alfred Werlé.

title: Back doublure.


title: Back cover.

text: Bookbinding

text: Bookplate of Comte Alfred Werlé.

title: Back cover.


title: Spine.

text: Bookbinding

text: Bookplate of Comte Alfred Werlé.

title: Spine.


title: Weed, Smith M., 1877-1879

title: Weed, Smith M., 1877-1879

text: Correspondence


title: Weed, Smith M., 1880-1881

title: Weed, Smith M., 1880-1881

text: Correspondence


title: Spine.

namePart: Lortic, Marcellin (1852-1928)

text: Bookbinding

text: Binding, by Lortic fils, 1898, three-fourths bright red crushed levant morocco. Back lettered in gilt; panels cornered and mitred in blind; at the bottom, the monogram of Mr. Spencer. With marbeled end papers and rough edges; gilt top. Original covers bound in.

title: Spine.


title: Front cover.

text: Bookbinding

text: Binding, by Marius Michel, of dark blue crushed levant morocco. In the upper right corner of the front panel, a spray of blue bell-flowers and carnations inlaid in appropriate colors. In the lower left corner of the back panel, a spray of orange bell-flowers; in the open space, a winged insect tooled in gilt. Doublé with light tan silk poplin. At the sides and ends of the board, compartments formed of three-line fillets; in the corners, the monogram A. W. [Comte Alfred Werlé]. Back lettered and inlaid with carnation blossoms. With edges gilt over rough, marbled end papers, and lining of the same material as the doublure. Original covers bound in.

text: Bookplates of Comte Alfred Werlé and W. A. Spencer.

title: Front cover.


title: Front doublure.

text: Bookbinding

title: Front doublure.


title: Front endpaper.

text: Bookbinding

title: Front endpaper.


title: Back endpaper.

text: Bookbinding

title: Back endpaper.


title: Back doublure.

text: Bookbinding

title: Back doublure.


title: Back cover.

text: Bookbinding

title: Back cover.


title: Spine.

text: Bookbinding

title: Spine.


title: Weed, Smith M., 1882-1883

title: Weed, Smith M., 1882-1883

text: Correspondence


title: Front cover.

namePart: Mercier, Emile (1855-1910)

text: Bookbinding

text: Binding, by Mercier, 1906, of dark red crushed levant morocco, gilt. Sides inlaid with a Gothic frame in leather of seven different colors, the fillets forming compartments enclosing a repeat border, with blue and orange the predominating tones. Doublé with maroon morocco within a border of small tools. Center panel within ten fillets in gilt and two in blind enclosing a scroll work border of small tools; at the bottom, the monogram of Mr. Spencer. Back lettered and inlaid in colors. With gilt edges, marbled end papers, and lining of maroon grosgrain silk. Original covers bound in. In loose leather protective covers, tooled, lettered, inlaid in colors, and inserted in slip cases.

title: Front cover.


title: Weed, Smith M., 1884-1885

title: Weed, Smith M., 1884-1885

text: Correspondence


title: Front doublure.

text: Bookbinding

title: Front doublure.


title: Front endpaper.

text: Bookbinding

title: Front endpaper.


title: Back endpaper.

text: Bookbinding

title: Back endpaper.


title: Back doublure.

text: Bookbinding

title: Back doublure.


title: Back cover.

text: Bookbinding

title: Back cover.


title: Spine.

text: Bookbinding

title: Spine.


title: Weed, Smith M., undated

title: Weed, Smith M., undated

text: Correspondence


title: Frontispiece]

namePart: Laborde, M. de (Jean-Benjamin) (1734-1794)

namePart: Trautz, Georges (1808-1879)

text: Bookbinding

text: Binding, by Trautz-Bauzonnet, of red crushed levant morocco, gilt. Sides tooled with three fillets. Inside dentelles. Backs tooled and lettered; panels mitred and cornered and stamped with a lyre. With marbled end papers and edges gilt over rough.

title: [Frontispiece]

text: Engravings


title: Title page]

text: Bookbinding

title: [Title page]


title: Ses yeux son fermés au jour Comme son coeur à l'amour.

text: Bookbinding

text: Engravings


title: La dormeuse.

text: Bookbinding

title: La dormeuse.

text: Engravings


title: Mais l'ombre des berceaux Aigrit encor mes maux.

text: Bookbinding

text: Indicated on photo order: P. 65; Les jardins de Marly.


title: Les jardins de Marly.

text: Bookbinding

title: Les jardins de Marly.

text: Engravings


title: Sommeille en paix ma chere Annette; Hélas! c'est pur moi seul que son faits tous les maux.

text: Bookbinding

text: Engravings


title: Weed, Thurlow

text: MSS File Id #39565

text: Box 26, Fol 12

title: Weed, Thurlow

text: Correspondence


title: Weir, George

text: MSS File Id #39566

text: Box 26, Fol 13

title: Weir, George

text: Correspondence


title: Wells, David A.

text: MSS File Id #39568

text: Box 26, Fol 15

title: Wells, David A.

text: Correspondence


title: Front cover.

text: Bookbinding

title: Front cover.


title: Front doublure.

text: Bookbinding

title: Front doublure.


title: Front endpaper.

text: Bookbinding

title: Front endpaper.


title: De l'amitié dans ce jour Vous demandés la statuë, Et vous emportés l'amour.

text: Bookbinding

text: Indicated on photo order: Tome II  page 62; La Statue de l'Amitie.

text: Engravings


title: La statue de L'Amitie.

text: Bookbinding

text: Indicated on photo order: Tome II  page 63; La Statue de l'Amitie.

title: La statue de L'Amitie.

text: Engravings


title: Back endpaper.

text: Bookbinding

title: Back endpaper.


title: Back doublure.

text: Bookbinding

title: Back doublure.


title: Back cover.

text: Bookbinding

title: Back cover.


title: Wendell, C.

text: MSS File Id #39569

text: Box 26, Fol 16

title: Wendell, C.

text: Correspondence


title: West, David

text: MSS File Id #39570

text: Box 26, Fol 17

title: West, David

text: Correspondence


title: West, Dewitt C.

text: MSS File Id #39571

text: Box 26, Fol 18

title: West, Dewitt C.

text: Correspondence


title: West, Jesse

text: MSS File Id #39572

text: Box 26, Fol 19

title: West, Jesse

text: Correspondence


title: Western, H.M.

text: MSS File Id #39574

text: Box 26, Fol 21

title: Western, H.M.

text: Correspondence


title: Weston, Edward Payson

text: MSS File Id #39575

text: Box 26, Fol 22

title: Weston, Edward Payson

text: Correspondence


title: Wetmore, Prosper Montgomery

text: MSS File Id #39576

text: Box 26, Fol 23

title: Wetmore, Prosper Montgomery

text: Correspondence


title: Wheaton, Charles

text: MSS File Id #39578

text: Box 26, Fol 25

title: Wheaton, Charles

text: Correspondence


title: Wheaton, Horace

text: MSS File Id #39579

text: Box 26, Fol 26

title: Wheaton, Horace

text: Correspondence


title: Wheeler, Charles C.

text: MSS File Id #39580

text: Box 26, Fol 27

title: Wheeler, Charles C.

text: Correspondence


title: Wheeler, D.E.

text: MSS File Id #39581

text: Box 26, Fol 28

title: Wheeler, D.E.

text: Correspondence


title: Wheeler, J. D.

text: MSS File Id #39582

text: Box 26, Fol 29

title: Wheeler, J. D.

text: Correspondence


title: White, B.

text: MSS File Id #39583

text: Box 26, Fol 30

title: White, B.

text: Correspondence


title: White, Horace

text: MSS File Id #39585

text: Box 26, Fol 32

title: White, Horace

text: Correspondence


title: White, Peter

text: MSS File Id #39586

text: Box 26, Fol 33

title: White, Peter

text: Correspondence


title: White, Philo

text: MSS File Id #39587

text: Box 26, Fol 34

title: White, Philo

text: Correspondence


title: Whitehead, D.

text: MSS File Id #39589

text: Box 26, Fol 36

title: Whitehead, D.

text: Correspondence


title: Whitney, Charles A.

text: MSS File Id #39590

text: Box 26, Fol 37

title: Whitney, Charles A.

text: Correspondence


title: Whitney, James S.

text: MSS File Id #39591

text: Box 26, Fol 38

title: Whitney, James S.

text: Correspondence


title: Wickham, William H., 1875 Mar - Dec

title: Wickham, William H., 1875 Mar - Dec

text: Correspondence


title: Wilkinson, Alfred

text: MSS File Id #39594

text: Box 27, Fol 3

title: Wilkinson, Alfred

text: Correspondence


title: Wilkinson, John

text: MSS File Id #39595

text: Box 27, Fol 4

title: Wilkinson, John

text: Correspondence


title: Willers, Diedrich Jr.

text: MSS File Id #39596

text: Box 27, Fol 5

title: Willers, Diedrich Jr.

text: Correspondence


title: Williams, J. L.

text: MSS File Id #39597

text: Box 27, Fol 6

title: Williams, J. L.

text: Correspondence


title: Willson, H.P.

text: MSS File Id #39598

text: Box 27, Fol 7

title: Willson, H.P.

text: Correspondence


title: Wilson, J.

text: MSS File Id #39599

text: Box 27, Fol 8

title: Wilson, J.

text: Correspondence


title: Wilson, James Grant

text: MSS File Id #39600

text: Box 27, Fol 9

title: Wilson, James Grant

text: Correspondence


title: Wilson, Matthew

text: MSS File Id #39601

text: Box 27, Fol 10

title: Wilson, Matthew

text: Correspondence


title: Wilson, R. L.

text: MSS File Id #39602

text: Box 27, Fol 11

title: Wilson, R. L.

text: Correspondence


title: Wilmer, Joseph P.

text: MSS File Id #39603

text: Box 26, Fol 12

title: Wilmer, Joseph P.

text: Correspondence


title: Winfield, Charles H.

text: MSS File Id #39604

text: Box 27, Fol 13

title: Winfield, Charles H.

text: Correspondence


title: Wingate, George W.

text: MSS File Id #39605

text: Box 27, Fol 14

title: Wingate, George W.

text: Correspondence


title: Winslow, R.

text: MSS File Id #39606

text: Box 27, Fol 15

title: Winslow, R.

text: Correspondence


title: Wittenburg, T. C.

text: MSS File Id #39608

text: Box 27, Fol 17

title: Wittenburg, T. C.

text: Correspondence


title: Wood, Benjamin R.

text: MSS File Id #39609

text: Box 27, Fol 18

title: Wood, Benjamin R.

text: Correspondence


title: Wood, Fernando

text: MSS File Id #39610

text: Box 27, Fol 19

title: Wood, Fernando

text: Correspondence


title: Woodbury, Charles H.

text: MSS File Id #39611

text: Box 27, Fol 20

title: Woodbury, Charles H.

text: Correspondence


title: Woodward, James Otis

text: MSS File Id #39613

text: Box 27, Fol 22

title: Woodward, James Otis

text: Correspondence


title: Woodward, John B.

text: MSS File Id #39614

text: Box 27, Fol 23

title: Woodward, John B.

text: Correspondence


title: Worcester, E.D.

text: MSS File Id #39615

text: Box 27, Fol 24

title: Worcester, E.D.

text: Correspondence


title: Workingmen's Democratic Republican Association

text: MSS File Id #39616

text: Box 27, Fol 25

text: Correspondence


title: Wright, Silas

text: MSS File Id #39618

text: Box 27, Fol 27

title: Wright, Silas

text: Correspondence


title: Wright, William B.

text: MSS File Id #39619

text: Box 27, Fol 28

title: Wright, William B.

text: Correspondence


title: Yale University

text: MSS File Id #39620

text: Box 27, Fol 29

title: Yale University

text: Correspondence


value: undated

title: Yard, W. Sterling

originInfo: undated

dateCreated: undated

text: MSS File Id #39621

text: Box 27, Fol 30

title: Yard, W. Sterling

text: Correspondence


title: Youmans, Edward Birdsall

text: MSS File Id #39622

text: Box 27, Fol 31

title: Youmans, Edward Birdsall

text: Correspondence


title: Young, Thomas

text: MSS File Id #39624

text: Box 27, Fol 33

title: Young, Thomas

text: Correspondence


title: Young Men's Democratic Union Club

text: MSS File Id #39625

text: Box 27, Fol 34

title: Young Men's Democratic Union Club

text: Correspondence


title: Zborowski, Marton

text: MSS File Id #39626

text: Box 27, Fol 36

title: Zborowski, Marton

text: Correspondence


title: Unidentified, 1831-1888

text: MSS File Id #39627

text: Box 27, Fol 36,37

title: Unidentified, 1831-1888

text: Correspondence


title: Unidentified, undated

title: Unidentified, undated

text: Correspondence


title: I. C. Counsel of the Corporation, 1843-1844

text: Box 27, folder 38

text: Correspondence


title: I. D. Tweed Ring, 1870 Jun-1871 Oct

text: Box 28, folder 1-8

text: image id range 3978576-3978700

text: box 28, folder 1

title: I. D. Tweed Ring, 1870 Jun-1871 Oct

text: Correspondence


title: Front cover

namePart: Nodier, Charles (1780-1844)

text: Bookbinding

text: Binding, by Lortic, 1897, of brown crushed levant morocco, gilt. Sides within a frame inlaid in blue and tooled with long foliated scrolls, the corners left open and ornamented with small tools. Doublé with blue morocco. Center panel inlaid in brown with scroll work forming a repeat pattern of quatrefoils, the interspaces adorned with small tools and dots; spaces adorned with small tools and dots; at the bottom, the monogram of Mr. Spencer. Back inlaid in blue and tooled with a long foliated scroll. With gilt edges, marbled end papers, and lining of blue watered silk. Original covers, dated 1893, bound in. In loose leather protective cover, lettered, and inserted in slip case.

title: Front cover.


title: Front doubleur

text: Bookbinding

title: Front doublure.


title: Back endpaper

text: Bookbinding

title: Back endpaper.


title: Back doubleur

text: Bookbinding

title: Back doublure.


title: Back cover

text: Bookbinding

title: Back cover.


title: Front endpaper

text: Bookbinding

text: Binding, by Lanscelin, of red crushed levant morocco, gilt. Sides within a frame of three fillets. Doublé with green morocco within a border of small tools. Center panel within a single line fillet in gilt and a frame inlaid in orange and tooled with a fillet au pointillé with fleurons at the corners. Back tooled and lettered. With marbled end papers and rough edges; gilt top. Original covers and wrapper bound in.

title: Front endpaper.


title: Back doubleur

text: Bookbinding

text: corrupt file. needs to be reshot

title: Back doublure.


title: I. D. Tweed Ring, 1871 Nov-Dec and undated

text: Box 28, folder 1-8

text: box 28, folder 2

text: image id range 3978701-3978866

text: Correspondence


title: Front cover

namePart: Stroobants, Jean (1856-1922)

text: Bookbinding

text: Binding, by Stroobants, 1911, of light brown crushed levant morocco, gilt. Sides within three fillets. Inside border of small tools. Back tooled and lettered. With marbled end papers and gilt edges. Original covers bound in.

title: Front cover.


title: Front doubleur

text: Bookbinding

title: Front doublure.


title: Front endpaper

text: Bookbinding

title: Front endpaper.


title: Back endpaper

text: Bookbinding

title: Back endpaper.


title: Back doubleur

text: Bookbinding

title: Back doublure.


title: Back cover

text: Bookbinding

title: Back cover.


title: pl. 13

namePart: Renouard, Paul (1845-1924)

text: Bookbinding

text: Undressing

authority: lcsh

text: Ballerinas

text: Binding, by Lortic, 1898, of full red crushed levant morocco. Sides and back panels within two fillets, blind tooled. Inside wide border of two fillets, interlacing at the corners; at the bottom, the monogram of Mr. Spencer. With marbled end papers and gilt edges.

type: statement of responsibility

text: vingt dessins de Paul Renouard, transposés en harmonies de couleurs.

title: La danse

title: La danse

text: Offset photomechanical prints


value: 1872 Jan-Feb

title: I. D. Tweed Ring, 1872 Jan-Feb

originInfo: 1872 Jan-Feb

dateCreated: 1872 Jan-Feb

text: Box 28, folder 1-8

text: box 28, folder 3

text: image id range 3978867-3978973

title: I. D. Tweed Ring, 1872 Jan-Feb

text: Correspondence


title: Front cover

namePart: Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)

namePart: Riviere & Son

type: corporate

text: Bookbinding

text: Binding of brown crushed levant morocco, gilt. Sides inlaid with bands of green and blue, two forming at the center a large club-shaped ornament enclosing a twig of the sensitive plant inlaid in brown and green; the space between the round and straight bands filled with a mosaic of branches, leaves, and flowers in leather of six different colors; the whole surrounded by two fillets inlaid in green enclosing a border of alternate red hearts and blue forget-me-nots. Doublé with three shades of green morocco within fillets of gilt and light blue. Center panel tooled and inlaid with a twig of the sensitive plant in a circular compartment at the center, and butterflies and sprays of snowdrops in four contiguous compartments, each compartment outlined with a fillet in light blue within a border of violet leaves with flowers in each corner and in four pendant semicircular groups. Back tooled, lettered, and inlaid in colors. With gilt edges and lining of dark green watered silk. Inserted in slip case.

title: Front cover.


title: Front doubleur

text: Bookbinding

title: Front doublure.


title: Illuminated title page.

namePart: Sangorski, Alberto (1862-1932)

text: Bookbinding

title: Illuminated title page.


title: [Illuminated page.]

text: Bookbinding

title: [Illuminated page.]


value: 1872 March

title: I. D. Tweed Ring, 1872 March

originInfo: 1872 March

dateCreated: 1872 March

text: Box 28, folder 1-8

type: ownership

text: box 28, folder 4

text: image id range 3978974-3979102

title: I. D. Tweed Ring, 1872 March

text: Correspondence


title: I. D. Tweed Ring, 1872 Apr-1873 Dec

text: Box 28, folder 1-8

text: image id range 3979103-3979237

text: box 28, folder 5

title: I. D. Tweed Ring, 1872 Apr-1873 Dec

text: Correspondence


title: I. D. Tweed Ring, 1874-1875

text: Box 28, folder 1-8

text: image id range 3979238-3979380

text: box 28, folder 6

title: I. D. Tweed Ring, 1874-1875

text: Correspondence


title: I. D. Tweed Ring, 1876-1877

text: Box 28, folder 1-8

text: image id range 3979381-3979483 also 3984205

text: box 28, folder 7

title: I. D. Tweed Ring, 1876-1877

text: Correspondence


title: Judicial misconduct

text: Box 28, folder 9

title: Judicial misconduct

text: Correspondence


title: Canal Ring

text: Box 28, folder 10

title: Canal Ring

text: Correspondence


title: Canal Ring

text: Box 29, folder 1-5

title: Canal Ring

text: Correspondence


title: Interior of 159 Bleeker

namePart: Phyllis Twachtman/World Telegram & Sun

namePart: Library of Congress (Public Domain)

donor: Theodore Mann/Paul Libin

type: name

nameType: personal

text: Circle in the Square (Organization : New York, N.Y.)

text: Theaters

type: geographic

text: New York (N.Y.)

text: Theatrical productions

text: New York (State)

text: New York

title: Interior of 159 Bleeker

text: Photographs

rights: World Telegram & Sun photo morgue acquired by Library of Congress, which declares staff photographers' work as public domain. Twachtman's 1969 obituary describes her as a World Telegram staff photographer from 1948-1967. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/076_nyw.html

collectionTitle: Circle in the Square papers


title: Constituent letters, 1875

namePart: Tilden, Samuel J. (Samuel Jones), 1814-1886

text: Box 29, folder 6-13

text: image id range 3985759-3985801

text: box 29, folder 6

title: Constituent letters, 1875

text: Correspondence


value: 1876 Jan-Jun

title: Constituent letters, 1876 Jan-Jun

originInfo: 1876 Jan-Jun

dateCreated: 1876 Jan-Jun

text: Box 29, folder 6-13

text: image id range 3985802-3985872

text: Box 29, folder 7

title: Constituent letters, 1876 Jan-Jun

text: Correspondence


value: 1876 July

title: Constituent letters, 1876 July

originInfo: 1876 July

dateCreated: 1876 July

text: Box 29, folder 6-13

text: image id range 3985873-3985969

text: Box 29, folder 8

title: Constituent letters, 1876 July

text: Correspondence


value: 1876 Aug-Sep

title: Constituent letters, 1876 Aug-Sep

originInfo: 1876 Aug-Sep

dateCreated: 1876 Aug-Sep

text: Box 29, folder 6-13

text: image id range 3985970-3986061

text: Box 29, folder 9

title: Constituent letters, 1876 Aug-Sep

text: Correspondence


title: Constituent letters, 1876 Oct

text: Box 29, folder 6-13

text: image id range 3986062-3986148

text: Box 29, folder 10

title: Constituent letters, 1876 Oct

text: Correspondence


title: Constituent letters, 1876 Nov 1-7

text: Box 29, folder 6-13

text: image id range 3986149-3986234

text: Box 29, folder 11

title: Constituent letters, 1876 Nov 1-7

text: Correspondence


title: Constituent letters, 1876 Nov 8

text: Box 29, folder 6-13

text: Box 29, folder 12

text: image id range 3986235-3986348

title: Constituent letters, 1876 Nov 8

text: Correspondence


title: Constituent letters, 1876 Nov 9-10

text: Box 29, folder 6-13

text: image id range 3986349-3986503

text: Box 29, folder 13

title: Constituent letters, 1876 Nov 9-10

text: Correspondence


title: Constituent letters, 1876 November 11-13

text: Box 30, folder 1-11

text: Correspondence


title: Constituent letters, 1876 November 14-18

text: Box 30, folder 1-11

text: Correspondence


title: Constituent letters, 1876 November 19-23

text: Box 30, folder 1-11

text: Correspondence


title: Constituent letters, 1876 November 24-30

text: Box 30, folder 1-11

text: Correspondence


title: Constituent letters, 1876 December 1-11

text: Box 30, folder 1-11

title: Constituent letters, 1876 December 1-11

text: Correspondence


title: Constituent letters, 1876  December 12-19

text: Box 30, folder 1-11

text: Correspondence


title: Constituent letters, 1876 December 20-31

text: Box 30, folder 1-11

text: Correspondence


title: Constituent letters, 1877 January

text: Box 30, folder 1-11

title: Constituent letters, 1877 January

text: Correspondence


title: Constituent letters, 1877 February

text: Box 30, folder 1-11

title: Constituent letters, 1877 February

text: Correspondence


title: Constituent letters, 1877 March-December

text: Box 30, folder 1-11

text: Correspondence


title: Portrait of Matthew in gold frame on purple background, with gold, green, and other colors.

text: Lectionaries

text: Matthew, the Apostle, Saint

text: Listed in De Ricci, Seymour, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York. N.Y.: H.W. Wilson, 1935; and Supplement, New York, N.Y.: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962.

type: citation/reference

text: De Ricci, 1315.

text: De Ricci, 1315.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.  Library dossier.

rights: Nothing dated after the 16th century. Therefore, all images are in the public domain and can be used freely, without restriction.

collectionTitle: Renaissance and medieval manuscripts collection, ca. 850-ca. 1600.


title: Full-page portrait of Mark in gold frame on purple background.

text: Lectionaries

text: Mark, Saint

text: De Ricci, 1315.


title: Full-page portrait of Luke in gold frame on purple background.

text: Lectionaries

text: Luke, Saint

text: De Ricci, 1315.


title: Full-page portrait of John in gold frame on purple background.

text: Lectionaries

text: John, the Apostle, Saint

text: De Ricci, 1315.


title: Four Evangelist symbols.

text: Lectionaries

text: Symbols

text: Evangelists (Bible)

text: De Ricci, 1315.

title: Evangelist symbols.

title: Four Evangelist symbols.


title: Christ in Majesty.

text: Lectionaries

text: Jesus Christ

text: De Ricci, 1315.

title: Christ in Majesty.


title: Opening of intertwined lettering in gold, in gold frame on purple and blue:  Legenda per anni curriculum.

text: Lectionaries

text: De Ricci, 1315.


title: Elaborate text page in gold, purple and green:  DNS

text: Lectionaries

text: De Ricci, 1315.


title: Elaborate text page in gold, purple and green:  Sequentia sancti

text: Lectionaries

text: De Ricci, 1315.


title: Elaborate text page in gold, purple and green:  Evangelii

text: Lectionaries

text: De Ricci, 1315.


title: Elaborate text page in gold, purple and green:  Secundum

text: Lectionaries

text: De Ricci, 1315.

title: Initial page.


title: Elaborate text page in gold, purple and green:  Mattheum/Respondeat omnes gloria tibi Domine

text: Lectionaries

text: De Ricci, 1315.


title: Elaborate text page in gold, purple and green:  In illo tempore

text: Lectionaries

text: De Ricci, 1315.


title: Gold uncial text in gold, purple and blue frame.

text: Lectionaries

text: De Ricci, 1315.


title: Gold uncial text inside gold, purple and blue frame; decorated letters IN VIGI-

text: Lectionaries

text: De Ricci, 1315.


title: Decorated text page in frame: Nativitas Domini in nocte...

text: Lectionaries

text: De Ricci, 1315.


title: Page of regular caroline text, with 2-line gold and pink initials.

text: Lectionaries

text: De Ricci, 1315.


title: Gold capitals, uncials and Caroline in gold and purple frame, with large gold, purple and green initial.  Strip of vellum written in later hand sewn into manuscript lies across the page.

text: Lectionaries

text: Initials

text: De Ricci, 1315.


title: Gold caroline in gold and purple frame.

text: Lectionaries

text: De Ricci, 1315.

title: Gold caroline in gold and purple frame.


title: Gold uncial and caroline on purple background within gold frame.  Text for Feast of the Circumcision/Purification.  Large initial.  Strip of vellum in later hand lying across page.

text: Lectionaries

text: De Ricci, 1315.


title: Gold text on purple background in gold frame.

text: Lectionaries

text: De Ricci, 1315.


title: Gold text on purple background in gold frame.  Large decorated initial.  Text for Feast of the Annunciation.

text: Lectionaries

text: De Ricci, 1315.


title: Title for Palm Sunday.  Frame of gold and green.  Text in gold capitals with an irregular purple checkerboard background.

text: Lectionaries

text: De Ricci, 1315.


title: Frame in gold and purple, with text in gold on purple background.  Large decorated P-I-I initials, for text "Passio Domini nostri Iesu Christi."

text: Lectionaries

text: Initials

text: De Ricci, 1315.


title: Maundy Thursday?  Frame of gold and purple, with text in gold.  Elaborate 12-line decorated initial I.

text: Lectionaries

text: Initials

text: De Ricci, 1315.


title: Gold and purple frame with text in gold.

text: Lectionaries

text: De Ricci, 1315.


title: Elaborate text page on purple background with gold and purple frame.  Large decorated initials.  Strip of vellum in later hand lies over the page.

text: Lectionaries

text: Initials

text: De Ricci, 1315.


title: Text in gold on purple background in gold frame.

text: Lectionaries

text: De Ricci, 1315.


title: Elaborate initials in gold, green, blue and purple on purple background in gold and purple frame.

text: Lectionaries

text: Initials

text: De Ricci, 1315.


title: Text in gold on purple background in gold and paint frame.

text: Lectionaries

text: De Ricci, 1315.


title: Text for Pentecost in gold, in gold and paint frames.  Large decorated initial.

text: Lectionaries

text: De Ricci, 1315.


title: Text in gold, in gold and paint frames.  Large decorated initial.

text: Lectionaries

text: Initials

text: De Ricci, 1315.


title: Text in gold, in gold and paint frames.

text: Lectionaries

text: De Ricci, 1315.

title: Text in gold, in gold and paint frames.


title: Constituent letters, 1878

text: Box 30, folder 1-11

title: Constituent letters, 1878

text: Correspondence


title: Gold text on purple background in gold frame.  Large decorated initial.  For feasts relating to Peter and Paul?

text: Lectionaries

text: De Ricci, 1315.


title: Gold text on purple background in gold frame.  Large decorated initial I.  Text for the Assumption.

text: Lectionaries

text: Initials

text: De Ricci, 1315.


title: Explicit.

text: Lectionaries

text: De Ricci, 1315.

title: Explicit.


title: Charter pasted into front binding.

text: Given 16 April 1486 by Pyatardi (?), cantor and canon of cathedral of St. Maurice, Vienne, to Father Johannes Burgensis, of the convent "Dominae Nostrae prope Chisas Gardiano."  Bought at William R. Williams sale, 1896.

text: 1 hand; different noting hands on f. v

text: Scribal mark at lower left of charter?

text: 22-44 lines in up to 3 columns, ruled in pencil, prickings and occasional catchword visible.

text: 3-line brown initial.

text: 34 long lines, ruled in pencil.

text: Charter 34 long lines

text: Charter has 1 scribe.

text: Charter on parchment

text: De Ricci, 1315-1316.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.  Library dossier.

text: Flyleaf (f. v):  Contains unidentified text on recto, and note of gift by Pyatardi on verso.

text: Glossed Gospels on parchment

text: In-house sources do not indicate date or place of this Charter; the item is dated at the top, but the date is illegible.

text: Large red and blue initials, some puzzle design, with penwork extending into border.  Alternating blue and red smaller initials.  Red and blue placemarkers.  Name of book and chapter number in red and blue.

text: Legendarium sanctorum 31 lines in two columns, ruled in pen, prickings visible.

text: Legendarium sanctorum on paper

text: Legendarium sanctorum rubrics, 1-line and 2-line red initials.

text: Note on the Legendarium sanctorum ms proposes date of s. XV.

text: Parchment

title: Charter pasted into front binding.


title: Opening of legendary with rubrics; spaces reserved for initials.

text: 1 hand; different noting hands on f. v

text: Scribal mark at lower left of charter?

text: 3-line brown initial.

text: 34 long lines, ruled in pencil.

text: Charter 34 long lines

text: Charter has 1 scribe.

text: Charter on parchment

text: Glossed Gospels on parchment

text: Legendarium sanctorum on paper

text: Parchment


title: Constituent letters, 1879

text: Box 31, folder 1-5

title: Constituent letters, 1879

text: Correspondence


title: Biblical exposition in highly abbreviated script.

text: 1 hand; different noting hands on f. v

text: Scribal mark at lower left of charter?

text: 3-line brown initial.

text: 34 long lines, ruled in pencil.

text: Charter 34 long lines

text: Charter has 1 scribe.

text: Charter on parchment

text: Glossed Gospels on parchment

text: Legendarium sanctorum on paper

text: Parchment


title: Note of gift by Pyatardi.

text: 1 hand; different noting hands on f. v

text: Scribal mark at lower left of charter?

text: 3-line brown initial.

text: 34 long lines, ruled in pencil.

text: Charter 34 long lines

text: Charter has 1 scribe.

text: Charter on parchment

text: Glossed Gospels on parchment

text: Legendarium sanctorum on paper

text: Parchment

title: Note of gift by Pyatardi.


title: Opening of main text, large initial with penwork, small initial and placefinder, name of book in blue and red.  Biblical text written larger than commentary.

text: 1 hand; different noting hands on f. v

text: Scribal mark at lower left of charter?

text: 3-line brown initial.

text: 34 long lines, ruled in pencil.

text: Charter 34 long lines

text: Charter has 1 scribe.

text: Charter on parchment

text: Glossed Gospels on parchment

text: Legendarium sanctorum on paper

text: Parchment


title: Gospel of Matthew, flourished initial

text: 1 hand; different noting hands on f. v

text: Scribal mark at lower left of charter?

text: 3-line brown initial.

text: 34 long lines, ruled in pencil.

text: Charter 34 long lines

text: Charter has 1 scribe.

text: Charter on parchment

text: Glossed Gospels on parchment

text: Legendarium sanctorum on paper

text: Parchment

text: Splendor of the Word, PBL # 8

title: Gospel of Matthew, flourished initial


title: Page of text with catchword and quire signature.

text: 1 hand; different noting hands on f. v

text: Scribal mark at lower left of charter?

text: 3-line brown initial.

text: 34 long lines, ruled in pencil.

text: Charter 34 long lines

text: Charter has 1 scribe.

text: Charter on parchment

text: Glossed Gospels on parchment

text: Legendarium sanctorum on paper

text: Parchment


title: Marginal note, 3 columns of text, placemarkers.

text: 1 hand; different noting hands on f. v

text: Scribal mark at lower left of charter?

text: 3-line brown initial.

text: 34 long lines, ruled in pencil.

text: Charter 34 long lines

text: Charter has 1 scribe.

text: Charter on parchment

text: Glossed Gospels on parchment

text: Legendarium sanctorum on paper

text: Parchment


title: Explicit of main text.

text: 1 hand; different noting hands on f. v

text: Scribal mark at lower left of charter?

text: 3-line brown initial.

text: 34 long lines, ruled in pencil.

text: Charter 34 long lines

text: Charter has 1 scribe.

text: Charter on parchment

text: Glossed Gospels on parchment

text: Legendarium sanctorum on paper

text: Parchment

title: Explicit of main text.


title: Charter? Pasted to inside back cover; perhaps left half only of document.

text: 1 hand; different noting hands on f. v

text: Scribal mark at lower left of charter?

text: 3-line brown initial.

text: 34 long lines, ruled in pencil.

text: Charter 34 long lines

text: Charter has 1 scribe.

text: Charter on parchment

text: Glossed Gospels on parchment

text: Legendarium sanctorum on paper

text: Parchment


title: Opening of text. Large puzzle initials, rubric, red daubs and blue marker as placemarkers, marginal notation.

namePart: Petrus, Comestor (12th cent. )

text: Erased ex-libris at end, ending apparently with word Brugensis or Bergamensis.  French auction sale, ca. 1880.  From R.L. Stuart collection (no. 13969), bequeathed 1892.

text: 50 lines in two columns, ruled in pencil.  Prickings visible.

text: De Ricci, 1316.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.  Library dossier.

text: Human head sketched in margin, f. 23.

text: Large red and blue initials with puzzle design and penwork, which often extends into borders.  2-line and 3-line alternating red and blue initials, with penwork.  Red daubs and red and blue markers as placemarkers.  Rubrics.  Name of book in red and blue.

text: Parchment

text: We thank Profs. J.J.G. Alexander and Lucy Freeman Sandler for their notes on this  manuscript.


title: Large and small initials, rubrics, name of text in red and blue, human face sketched in bottom margin.

text: Human head sketched in margin, f. 23.

text: Parchment


title: Explicit, final note and (last rule line) erased ex libris.  2-line initials with penwork, name of book in red and blue.

text: Human head sketched in margin, f. 23.

text: Parchment


title: Close-up of erased ex libris.

text: Human head sketched in margin, f. 23.

text: Parchment

title: Close-up of erased ex libris.


title: Macaronic verse in French and Latin on the order of books in the Bible: Jeroime qui riens n'oublia/Ordinavit in biblia/ Libros sacros in hunc modum . . .

text: George Templeton Strong collection, sold 1878.  Given in 1878 by J.J. Astor.

text: 2-line and 4-line alternating red and blue initials with opposing penwork extending into borders.  1-line red and blue initials.  Chapter numbers and book names in red and blue.  Rubrics and placemarkers including pale yellow daubs.  Marginal notes.

text: 45 lines in two columns (ff. 446v-448v, 57-9 lines in two columns), ruled in pencil, prickings visible.  Quire signatures and catchwords visible.

text: De Ricci, 1316.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.  Library dossier.  Notes by Prof. L.F. Sandler.

text: Large initials at opening of each book, showing scenes from that book in many colors, including gold.

text: Leaf missing between ff. 224 and 225.

text: Parchment

text: Prof. Lucy Freeman Sandler places this manuscript in northern France (part of the Cambrai group), ca. 1280.  Note in dossier says it is French, with last few pages Dutch.

text: ff. 1v and 2 have poem in French and table of contents in Latin; ff. 446v-448v have prologues in a later hand which are missing in main text (notes in margin of main text direct reader to these folios).  Leaf missing between ff. 224 and 225.


title: Table of contents.

text: Listed in De Ricci, Seymour, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York. N.Y.: H.W. Wilson, 1935; and Supplement, New York, N.Y.: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962.

text: Leaf missing between ff. 224 and 225.

text: Parchment

title: Table of contents.


title: Historiated initial by Hand I showing Jerome as scribe. Manicules in margin as pointers.

text: Jerome, Saint, d. 419 or 20

text: Leaf missing between ff. 224 and 225.

text: Parchment


title: Numbers, historiated initial

text: Leaf missing between ff. 224 and 225.

text: Parchment

text: (detail – initial)

text: Splendor of the Word, PBL # 11.2

title: Numbers, historiated initial


title: Page of text with 4-line red and blue initial with penwork, chapter number and book name in red and blue, pale yellow daubs as placemarkers, and quire number and catchword.

text: Leaf missing between ff. 224 and 225.

text: Parchment


title: Joshua, historiated initial

text: Joshua (Biblical figure)

text: Leaf missing between ff. 224 and 225.

text: Parchment

text: (detail – initial)

text: Splendor of the Word, PBL # 11.3

title: Joshua, historiated initial


title: Daniel, historiated initial

text: Musicians

text: Daniel (Biblical figure)

text: Leaf missing between ff. 224 and 225.

text: Parchment

text: (detail – initial)

text: Splendor of the Word, PBL # 11.1

title: Daniel, historiated initial


title: Historiated initials, Hand II, of Joel talking to a group of people. Marginal note in blue ink directs reader to second prologue of Joel at the end, after Interpretations of Hebrew Names.

text: Joel (Biblical prophet)

text: Leaf missing between ff. 224 and 225.

text: Parchment


title: Amos, historiated initial

text: Amos (Biblical prophet)

text: Leaf missing between ff. 224 and 225.

text: Parchment

text: (detail – initial)

text: Splendor of the Word, PBL # 11.4

title: Amos, historiated initial


title: At the opening of Apocalypse, historiated initial by Hand I of John, as if asleep in his vision of Christ with the two-edged sword in his mouth. Note in blue ink for locating prologue.

text: Jesus Christ

text: John, the Apostle, Saint

text: Leaf missing between ff. 224 and 225.

text: Parchment


title: Opening of Interpretation of Hebrew Names.

text: Leaf missing between ff. 224 and 225.

text: Parchment


title: Hand 2, prologues for Matthew and Apocalypse.  3-line initials with penwork.  Rubrics.  Explicit.

text: Leaf missing between ff. 224 and 225.

text: Parchment


title: Constituent letters, 1880 January-May

text: Box 31, folder 1-5

title: Constituent letters, 1880 January-May

text: Correspondence


title: Opening of text (begins mid-sentence).  Large initial with human face.  Rubrics.  Book name and chapter number in red and blue.

text: Owned 1715 by John Lord Percival, Baron of Burton.  Later owned by John Perceval, fourth Earl of Egmont.  Sale by Braithwaite (1834).  Sold (1836) to A. A. Smets.  From the R.L. Stuart collection (no. 13874), bequeathed 1892.

text: 1 scribe.

text: 52 lines in two columns, ruled in brown ink.  Catchwords, prickings occasionally visible.

text: De Ricci places this manuscript in northern Italy; Dr. Guest says Italy?  De Ricci dates it to the 13th century, Dr. Guest to the late 13th century.

text: De Ricci, 1316.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.

text: Large illuminated initials extending far into border, in blue, red, yellow.  Red and blue alternating initials with opposing color penwork, extending into border.  Rubrics.  Book name and chapter number in red and blue.  Red and blue placemarkers.

text: Parchment

text: Some large initials include human faces.


title: Page of text with extensive marginal commentary on Queen of Sheba, red placemarkers, name of book in red and blue.

text: Sheba, Queen of

text: 1 scribe.

text: Parchment


title: Page of text with catchword.

text: 1 scribe.

text: Parchment

title: Page of text with catchword.


title: Page of text, initial with grotesque (human face).

text: 1 scribe.

text: Parchment


title: Explicit.

text: 1 scribe.

text: Parchment

title: Explicit.


title: Opening page of calendar.

text: Church calendar

text: R.L. Stuart collection (no. 13881), bequeathed 1892.

text: 1, plus different hand in calendar?

text: 2:  A, ff. 7-17v; B, f. 18r-v

text: Both De Ricci and Dr. Guest place this manuscript in Germany; Guest suggests possibly Regensburg?  De Ricci dates this to the 13th century, Guest to the early 14th century.

text: Cur in psalmorum tytulio qui auctore nostra(?) diversa reperiantur 26-28 long lines, ruled in pencil.

text: Initials with animal figures.

text: None of the sources mention this particular part of the manuscript, its place or date.  Contains two texts.

text: Parchment

text: Prologue for the psalms 26-28 long lines, ruled in pencil.

text: Psalter 21-22 long lines (32 in calendar; ff. 153-5 in two columns) ruled in ink

text: Red placemarkers.

text: Very large initials in blue, green, pink and gold.  2-line alternating red and blue initials with opposing color penwork.  Alternating 1-line red and blue initials.  Rubrics.

text: ff. 1-6v contain calendar; psalter begins f. 19.

title: Opening page of calendar.


title: Opening of Part two, title of first text.

text: 1, plus different hand in calendar?

text: 2:  A, ff. 7-17v; B, f. 18r-v

text: Initials with animal figures.

text: Parchment

text: Red placemarkers.


title: Explicit of this text; red placemarkers.

text: 1, plus different hand in calendar?

text: 2:  A, ff. 7-17v; B, f. 18r-v

text: Initials with animal figures.

text: Parchment

text: Red placemarkers.


title: Opening of Jerome's prologue to the Psalter, hand 2.

text: 1, plus different hand in calendar?

text: 2:  A, ff. 7-17v; B, f. 18r-v

text: Initials with animal figures.

text: Parchment

text: Red placemarkers.


title: Explicit of prologue.

text: 1, plus different hand in calendar?

text: 2:  A, ff. 7-17v; B, f. 18r-v

text: Initials with animal figures.

text: Parchment

text: Red placemarkers.

title: Explicit of prologue.


title: Opening of main text, very large initial, rubric, 1-line initials, note hand.

text: 1, plus different hand in calendar?

text: 2:  A, ff. 7-17v; B, f. 18r-v

text: Initials with animal figures.

text: Parchment

text: Red placemarkers.

title: Initial with large scale foliage; red, blue and ochre gothic capitals form a panel adjacent to initial for the first verses of Psalm 1.


title: On line 7, the word "domino" is inserted from the margin into the text via a tie mark (after "Servite"); on line 8, "et exultate" is erased having been copied twice because of eye skip from "in timore" to "cum tremore."

text: 1, plus different hand in calendar?

text: 2:  A, ff. 7-17v; B, f. 18r-v

text: Initials with animal figures.

text: Parchment

text: Red placemarkers.


title: Ps. 51, with the tail of its initial Q formed by a biting dragon.

text: 1, plus different hand in calendar?

text: 2:  A, ff. 7-17v; B, f. 18r-v

text: Initials with animal figures.

text: Parchment

text: Red placemarkers.


title: Added prayer, s. XV, for souls for whom no one prays: "Miserere domine miseris animabus que singularem intercessionem non habent . . . et perduc eas in locum refrigerii per temet ipsum, deus qui vivis et cetera."

text: 1, plus different hand in calendar?

text: 2:  A, ff. 7-17v; B, f. 18r-v

text: Initials with animal figures.

text: Parchment

text: Red placemarkers.


title: List of the books of the Bible with the number of chapters in each.

text: Collection of Marquis de Morante; his sale (1872) to Bachelin.  From the R.L. Stuart collection (no. 13880), bequeathed 1892.

text: 2-line red initials with bluish/purple penwork, red chapter numbers, red and blue book names, red placemarkers.

text: De Ricci states that Luke 15-23 pages are written in a 15th century Italian hand.

text: Luke 15-23 has 46 lines in two columns, ruled in very light red, prickings visible.


title: Opening of text, with large illuminated initial showing Jerome writing. Rubric, red placemarkers, and name of text in red and blue.

text: Listed in De Ricci, Seymour, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York. N.Y.: H.W. Wilson, 1935; and Supplement, New York, N.Y.: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962.


title: III Kings, historiated initial: Abishag and David, marginal sketch

text: David, King of Israel

text: Splendor of the Word, PBL # 4


title: Illuminated initial showing Jonah and the whale, 2-line initial with penwork, rubric, book name and chapter number.

text: Jonah (Biblical prophet)


title: Opening of part two, with initial, placemarkers, book name and chapter number.


title: Opening of Interpretation of Hebrew Names. Initials, rubrics.


title: Note of content in modern hand.

namePart: John, of Abbeville

text: Bought by John Preston for St. Augustine's abbey, Canterbury (strip of vellum, f. 1a, is ex libris); owned ca. 1733 by Maurice Johnson of Spalding.  Given in 1909 by Dr. Robert Abbe.

text: De Ricci, 1316-1317.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.  Typed notes in manuscript box.

text: 36 lines in two columns, ruled in pencil, prickings visible, some catchwords visible.  Some content notes in lower margins.  17 quires of twelve folios each, followed by one quire of five folios.

text: Parchment

text: Opening initial with animal heads.

text: 2-line red and blue initials with opposing color penwork extending into borders.  Daubs of red as placemarkers.  Passages underlined in red.

text: De Ricci dates this manuscript to ca. 1300; Dr. Guest dates it to the 13th century.

text: 1, plus other noting hands

text: Modern note of contents f. ii.  Folio 1a is a stub of vellum announcing purchase of book for St. Augustine's Canterbury.  On f. 209v there is a poem in French which begins "Flour de flours columbine de mes dolours plain medicine."

title: Note of content in modern hand.


title: Note of purchase of manuscript for St. Augustine's Canterbury.

text: Parchment

text: Opening initial with animal heads.

text: 1, plus other noting hands


title: Constituent letters, 1880 June

text: Box 31, folder 1-5

title: Constituent letters, 1880 June

text: Correspondence


title: Opening of text, initial with animal heads, 2-line initial, rubric, placemarkers.

text: Parchment

text: Opening initial with animal heads.

text: 1, plus other noting hands


title: Page of text with commentary and pointers in margins.

text: Parchment

text: Opening initial with animal heads.

text: 1, plus other noting hands


title: Page of text with catchword.

text: Parchment

text: Opening initial with animal heads.

text: 1, plus other noting hands

title: Page of text with catchword.


title: Explicit of main text.

text: Parchment

text: Opening initial with animal heads.

text: 1, plus other noting hands

title: Explicit of main text.


title: French poem.

text: Parchment

text: Opening initial with animal heads.

text: 1, plus other noting hands

title: French poem.


value: first half, 13th century

title: Large opening initial showing Jerome as scribe, extending far into border. 2-line red and blue initials with penwork. Placemarkers, chapter numbers. Note of ownership in upper margin.

text: Jerome, Saint, d. 419 or 20

text: Owned by Augustinians of Santa Maria del Popolo in Rome; G. Libri sale to H. Stevens (1859).  From the R.L. Stuart collection (no. 13908), bequeathed 1892.

text: De Ricci, 1317.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.

text: 51 lines in two columns, ruled in very light pencil.

text: Parchment

text: Opening initials of books show scenes from those books.

text: 5- and 6-line multicolored initials on gold fields.  Large gold initials on blue and pink fields.  2- and 4-line red and blue initials with penwork extending into border.  Daubs of red as placemarkers.  Red and blue book names and chapter numbers.

text: De Ricci places this manuscript in France, s. XIII; Dr. Guest places it in Italy, first half of the 13th century.

text: ff. 189v-193v left blank; pages missing between ff. 13 and 14 -- missing from Genesis 30 to Exodus 18.


title: Opening of Genesis, scenes of creation on gold.  Placemarkers, book name.

text: Parchment


title: Large gold initials on pink and blue backgrounds, rubrics, blue and red initials with penwork, placemarkers etc.

text: Parchment


title: Opening of Interpretation of Hebrew Names, small initials.

text: Parchment


title: Opening page of calendar with drawing of seasonal activity.

text: French catalog ca. 1850-60; collection of Dr. Thomas Addis Emmet; presented in 1896 by John S. Kennedy.

text: 16 long lines (32 in calendar), ruled in pencil.

text: At least 2; prayer, f. 216v, by another

text: De Ricci places this manuscript in England, s. XIII; Dr. Guest places it in eastern France, during the third quarter of the 13th century.

text: Figures in calendar doing seasonal activities.  6 full-page miniatures.  2 large illuminated initials.  Fish as linefillers.

text: On f. 216v is prayer.

text: Opening initials in gold on red and blue background.  2-line gold initials on red and blue fields; 1-line red and blue initials with opposing penwork.  Red and blue linefillers.

text: Parchment

text: Image not in archive, no derivatives


title: October-November pages: crushing grapes; slaying hog

text: Slaughtering

text: Hogs

text: Wine and wine making

text: Listed in De Ricci, Seymour, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York. N.Y.: H.W. Wilson, 1935; and Supplement, New York, N.Y.: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962.

text: At least 2; prayer, f. 216v, by another

text: On f. 216v is prayer.

text: Parchment

text: Splendor of the Word, PBL # 43.1


title: Full-page miniature, notes.

text: Angels

text: At least 2; prayer, f. 216v, by another

text: On f. 216v is prayer.

text: Parchment

text: Image not in archive, no derivatives

title: Full-page miniature, notes.


title: Opening of text, with large gold initials, small red and blue initials, and linefillers, including one in form of fish.

text: At least 2; prayer, f. 216v, by another

text: On f. 216v is prayer.

text: Parchment

text: Image not in archive, no derivatives


title: Virgin and Child; Flagellation

text: Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint

text: Jesus Christ

text: Passion

text: At least 2; prayer, f. 216v, by another

text: On f. 216v is prayer.

text: Parchment

text: Splendor of the Word, PBL # 43.2

title: Virgin and Child; Flagellation


title: Psalm 26: historiated initial: David holding Candle blessed by Lord

text: Candles

text: David, King of Israel

text: At least 2; prayer, f. 216v, by another

text: On f. 216v is prayer.

text: Parchment

text: Splendor of the Word, PBL # 43.3


title: Very large illuminated initial on gold field, small initials and linefiller.

text: Devil

text: At least 2; prayer, f. 216v, by another

text: On f. 216v is prayer.

text: Parchment

text: Image not in archive, no derivatives


title: Initials and linefillers.

text: At least 2; prayer, f. 216v, by another

text: On f. 216v is prayer.

text: Parchment

text: Image not in archive, no derivatives

title: Initials and linefillers.


title: Final page, with prayer in different hand.

text: At least 2; prayer, f. 216v, by another

text: On f. 216v is prayer.

text: Parchment

text: Image not in archive, no derivatives


title: Opening of text, large initial with Jerome as scribe and elaborate extension into border.  Small initials with penwork, rubrics, placemarkers, book name and chapter numbers in red and blue.

text: Belonged to W.A. McV.  From R.L. Stuart collection (no. 3), bequeathed 1892.

text: 53 lines in two columns, ruled in pencil, prickings visible, trace of quire signature f. 134?

text: Alternating red and blue initials with opposing color penwork extending into borders; chapter numbers and names of books in red and blue; daubs of red as placemarkers; rubrics.

text: De Ricci and Dr. Guest both place this manuscript in France, and Guest places it in Paris.  De Ricci dates it to ca. 1300.  Dr. Guest dates it to the mid-13th century.

text: Initials with animal or human figures at opening of each book, often with elaborate extensions into borders.

text: Parchment

text: Image not in archive, no derivatives


title: Page of text with small initials and penwork, placemarkers, book name and chapter numbers, and commentary box.

text: De Ricci, 1317.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.

text: Parchment

text: Image not in archive, no derivatives


title: Opening initial of Book of Ruth.

text: Parchment

text: Image not in archive, no derivatives

title: Opening initial of Book of Ruth.


title: Page of text with possible trace of quire signature at bottom?

text: Parchment

text: Image not in archive, no derivatives


title: Proverbs, historiated initial, Solomon beating student; decorated prologue initial

text: Parchment

text: Splendor of the Word, PBL #2


value: 1880 July - 1881 December

title: Constituent letters, 1880 July - 1881 December

originInfo: 1880 July - 1881 December

dateCreated: 1880 July - 1881 December

text: Box 31, folder 1-5

text: Correspondence


title: Opening of Interpretation of Hebrew Names.

text: Parchment

text: Image not in archive, no derivatives


title: Explicit.

text: Parchment

text: Image not in archive, no derivatives

title: Explicit.


title: Opening of text with large initial, rubric, full border design, small initials with penwork, placemarkers, name of book and chapter number in red and blue.  Later note and library stamp.

text: Frater Johannes Vuatat of Paris (1355); owned (1640) by Thebaut, and 18th century by Antoine Moreau.  Bought in NY by Thomas Addis Emmet, 1868.  Given by John S. Kennedy, 1896.

text: 50 lines in two columns, ruled in very light pencil, prickings still visible.  Small roman numerals occasionally appear in lower border -- appear to refer to chapter numbers on that page.

text: Both De Ricci and Dr. Guest place this manuscript in France; Dr. Guest places it in Paris.  De Ricci dates it to ca. 1400.  Dr. Guest dates it to ca. 1240s.

text: Some initials illuminated with animal figures.

text: Parchment


title: Initial with animal figure.

text: Lions

text: Parchment

title: Initial with animal figure.


title: Initial showing rabbit playing harp; small initials with penwork, placemarkers.

text: Harps

text: Rabbits

text: Parchment


text: Parchment


title: Opening of list of readings, in hand 2.

text: Parchment

title: Opening of list of readings, in hand 2.


title: Constituent letters, 1882-1886

text: Box 31, folder 1-5

title: Constituent letters, 1882-1886

text: Correspondence


title: Explicit, library stamp.

text: Parchment

title: Explicit, library stamp.


title: Front cover, large initial on gold field, with vines extending into border, and music.

text: R.L. Stuart collection (no. 13871), bequeathed 1892.

text: 42-5 lines in two columns, ruled in dark pencil, prickings and some catchwords visible.  Also notes of content in lower margins.

text: Modern boards covered with leaf from choir book.

text: At openings of books, large red and blue initials with puzzle design and penwork.  Small red and blue initials and placefinders throughout.  Content notes in bottom and top margins.  Vellum tabs as placemarkers attached to outer margins.

text: Both De Ricci and Dr. Guest date this to the 13th century, but Guest adds a question mark.  De Ricci does not localize the ms; Dr. Guest places it in France, again with a query.

text: Parchment

text: Single leaf used as binding.

text: The outer dimension measurement represents the front cover of the manuscript, since it would damage the binding to unfold and measure it.  Neither source gives a place or date for this leaf.

text: Two illuminated initials -- one blue on gold and red field, the other red on blue field.  Vines and flowers in many colors (green, red, blue, gold) extend from first initial into margin.

text: Leaf from choir book used for binding.


title: Opening of surviving text with placemarkers, rubrics, small initial, notes on content in upper and lower margins.

text: Listed in De Ricci, Seymour, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York. N.Y.: H.W. Wilson, 1935; and Supplement, New York, N.Y.: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962.

text: Parchment

text: Single leaf used as binding.


title: Page of text with rubrics, placemarkers, small initials, content note and catchword.

text: Parchment

text: Single leaf used as binding.


title: Page of text with vellum tab attached.

text: Parchment

text: Single leaf used as binding.

title: Page of text with vellum tab attached.


title: Page of text with large puzzle initial with elaborate penwork extending into border.

text: Parchment

text: Single leaf used as binding.


title: Explicit.

text: Parchment

text: Single leaf used as binding.

title: Explicit.


title: Back cover, with large initial, border design, and music.

text: Parchment

text: Single leaf used as binding.

text: Leaf from choir book used for binding.


title: Opening of text, with large and small initials, rubric, placemarkers, name of book and chapter number in red and blue, note of ownership.

text: Belonged to Sant'Onofrio, at Vasto d'Aimone in the Abruzzi.  Lenox collection.

text: 60 lines in two columns, ruled in pencil, prickings occasionally visible.

text: De Ricci, 1317-18.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.

text: Parchment

text: Red and blue initials with penwork, sometimes elaborate and extending into borders.  Alternating 1-line red and blue initials throughout.  Book names and chapter numbers in red and blue.  Red daubs as placemarkers.  Rubrics.


title: Opening of Genesis with large puzzle initial and elaborate penwork, placemarkers, 1-line initials, book and chapter number in red and blue, marginal note.

text: Parchment


title: Opening page of psalms.  Many initials with elaborate penwork in borders.

text: Parchment


title: Marginal commentary.

text: Parchment

title: Marginal commentary.


title: Explicit; page of Interpretation of Hebrew Names.

text: Parchment


title: General legislative correspondence, 1874

text: Box 31, folder 6-11

text: Correspondence


title: Front pastedown. Notes in modern hand and coat of arms of the abbey of Citeaux.

nameType: corporate

text: Abbaye de Cîteaux

text: From the Abbey of Citeaux.  Quaritch sold to J. Lenox.

text: Beginning of text missing.

text: De Ricci, 1318. Henkel volume.  Library dossier.

text: Imperfect at beginning.

text: Parchment

text: Related to Morgan and Wellcome Apocalypses.

text: Text written within and around the 35 full-page miniatures.

text: The 'Apocalypse' catalog states that this is a German manuscript from ca. 1430.  De Ricci agrees that it is early 15th century, but places it in France.


title: Full-page miniature showing John before the provost, and en route to Rome.  Text, with red placemarkers.

text: Sailing ships

text: John, the Apostle, Saint

text: Beginning of text missing.

text: Imperfect at beginning.

text: Parchment


title: First vision: John writes his text while on the island of Patmos; the Son of Man, with sword in his mouth, amongst the seven candlesticks; angels with the seven churches.

text: Jesus Christ

text: Churches

text: Mary Magdalene, Saint

text: John, the Apostle, Saint

text: Beginning of text missing.

text: Imperfect at beginning.

text: Parchment


title: Second vision: an angel shows John a vision of God in majesty, with symbols of the four evangelists, as the elders kneel in adoration.

text: Jesus Christ

text: Angels

text: Beginning of text missing.

text: Imperfect at beginning.

text: Parchment


title: Full-page miniature of the second vision, including the Lamb of God.  Text with rubrics, initials, and placemarkers.

text: Jesus Christ

text: John, the Apostle, Saint

text: Beginning of text missing.

text: Imperfect at beginning.

text: Parchment

title: Second vision: the Lamb of God surrounded by angels, and adored by the elders.


title: Third vision: with the opening of the first seal, John sees the first horseman of the Apocalypse; with the opening of the second seal, he sees the second horseman.

text: John, the Apostle, Saint

text: War

text: Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

text: Beginning of text missing.

text: Imperfect at beginning.

text: Parchment

title: Opening of First and Second Seal.


title: Third vision: John sees the third and fourth rider, each on a differently colored horse; the fourth issues forth from a hellmouth.

text: Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

text: Beginning of text missing.

text: Imperfect at beginning.

text: Parchment


title: Third vision: with the opening of the fifth seal, the souls of the martyrs under the altar cry out and receive white robes; with the sixth seal, stars fall from the sky, and naked peoples of the earth try to hide in caves in the mountains.

text: Angels

text: John, the Apostle, Saint

text: Martyrs

text: Beginning of text missing.

text: Imperfect at beginning.

text: Parchment


title: Third vision: angels hold back the four winds by covering the winds' blowing mouths; throngs, holding the palm branches of martyrdom, shout praise to the Lord.

text: Angels

text: Martyrs

text: Beginning of text missing.

text: Imperfect at beginning.

text: Parchment


title: Fourth vision: God seated in glory with angels to either side, proclaims salvation; the archangel Michael fights the 7-headed dragon as devils are hurled by other angels from the sky. (Apoc. 12:7-12)

text: Michael (Archangel)

text: Dragons

text: Beginning of text missing.

text: Imperfect at beginning.

text: Parchment


title: Fourth vision: the woman of the Apocalypse receives her crown from an angel and then flies to the mountains; the dragon spews water from his mouth in attempt to drown her. (Apoc. 12:1-6, 13-16)

text: Dragons

text: Beginning of text missing.

text: Imperfect at beginning.

text: Parchment


title: Fourth vision: angels battle against the crowned beast from the sea; the beast, without crowns, blasphemes God for forty two months.

text: Beast of the Apocalypse

text: Beginning of text missing.

text: Imperfect at beginning.

text: Parchment


title: Fourth vision: beast from the sea and the two-horned beast from the earth who gives the scepter to the first beast; men and women worship the first beast. (Apoc. 13:11-12)

text: Beast of the Apocalypse

text: Beginning of text missing.

text: Imperfect at beginning.

text: Parchment


title: Fourth vision: people kneel before the beast from the sea; God watches as the beast from sea kills soldiers. (Apoc. 13:5)

text: Beast of the Apocalypse

text: Beginning of text missing.

text: Imperfect at beginning.

text: Parchment


title: General legislative correspondence, 1875 January - April

text: Box 31, folder 6-11

text: Correspondence


title: Fifth vision: the two-horned beast instructs people to worship the beast from the sea; those who refuse are slain.

text: Beginning of text missing.

text: Imperfect at beginning.

text: Parchment


title: Fifth vision: all who worship the beast, including the rich and the lame (one with a dog), are marked on foreheads and hands; to honor the Lamb, the saved sing a new song, here "ihesu criste nostra salus" with musical notation.

text: Beginning of text missing.

text: Imperfect at beginning.

text: Parchment


title: Fifth vision: an angel announces judgment to men of many categories of life; another angel points to the city of Babylon falling to pieces.

text: Angels

text: Ruins

text: Babylon (Extinct city)

text: Beginning of text missing.

text: Imperfect at beginning.

text: Parchment


title: Sixth vision: John sees seven angels with the seven plagues in jars, and seven angels holdings harps, and standing on a sea of glass shot through with fire.

text: Harps

text: Angels

text: Beginning of text missing.

text: Imperfect at beginning.

text: Parchment


title: Sixth vision: one of the four living creatures (here as the lion of St. Mark) hands out vials containing seven plagues to angels; an angel pours out the first plague causing malignant sores to the bearers of mark.

text: Angels

text: Devil

text: Beginning of text missing.

text: Imperfect at beginning.

text: Parchment


title: Sixth vision: an angel pours out the second vial and the sea is filled with drowned men; an angel pours out the third vial turning the waters into blood; John listens as angels announce the judgment of God.

text: Angels

text: John, the Apostle, Saint

text: Beginning of text missing.

text: Imperfect at beginning.

text: Parchment


title: Sixth vision: an angel pours out the fourth vial on the sun, causing it to burn the people; an angel pours the fifth vial on the throne of the beast, and people bite their tongues in agony.

text: Angels

text: Beginning of text missing.

text: Imperfect at beginning.

text: Parchment


title: Sixth vision: an angel pours out the sixth vial on the Euphrates and dries the river; with the seventh vial, foul spirits, like frogs, come from the mouths of the dragon, the beast and the false prophet..

text: Angels

text: Beast of the Apocalypse

text: Beginning of text missing.

text: Imperfect at beginning.

text: Parchment


title: Sixth vision: as an angel pours the seventh vial into the air, a voice from the temple announces the end of time; cities split into parts and huge hailstones rain down on men. (Apoc. 16:17-21)

text: Ruins

text: Hail

text: Beginning of text missing.

text: Imperfect at beginning.

text: Parchment


title: Sixth vision: John sees birds feeding on the vanquished and the battle between the armies of the beast and those of the White Rider. (Apoc. 19:17-18)

text: John, the Apostle, Saint

text: Imaginary wars and battles

text: Beginning of text missing.

text: Imperfect at beginning.

text: Parchment


title: Sixth vision: John witnesses the defeat of the beast and the false prophet who are thrown into hell, where the birds feed on them; an angel, with key and chain, locks the beast in prison for a thousand years. (Apoc. 19:20-21)

text: John, the Apostle, Saint

text: Beast of the Apocalypse

text: Beginning of text missing.

text: Imperfect at beginning.

text: Parchment


title: Sixth vision: an angel shows John the great harlot; John, depicted as if a small child carried by the angel, sees the bedizened harlot mounted on the beast with seven heads and ten horns. (Apoc. 17:1-4)

text: Angels

text: Beast of the Apocalypse

text: Beginning of text missing.

text: Imperfect at beginning.

text: Parchment


title: Seventh vision: an angel from heaven points to the destruction of Babylon; another angel takes up a stone, as it were a great millstone, and hurls it into the sea. (Apoc. 18:2-21)

text: Angels

text: Ruins

text: Beginning of text missing.

text: Imperfect at beginning.

text: Parchment


title: Seventh vision: the first resurrection of those who had been beheaded for the sake of God; the judges seated on a throne; one thousand years later, the final defeat of Satan and the armies of Gog and Magog. (Apoc. 20:4-10)

text: Resurrection

text: Beast of the Apocalypse

text: Beginning of text missing.

text: Imperfect at beginning.

text: Parchment


title: Seventh vision: a hellmouth containing the devil, the beast and the false prophet; God enthroned with open book judging all the dead, some of whom remain in hell, while others, with books around them, are listed in the roll of the living. (Apoc. 20:11-12)

text: Hell

text: Judgment Day

text: Beginning of text missing.

text: Imperfect at beginning.

text: Parchment


title: Eighth vision: John watches as the new Jerusalem is sent by God from heaven; an angel has carried John to a mountain where he shows John the holy city. (Apoc. 21:1-11)

text: Angels

text: Jerusalem

text: John, the Apostle, Saint

text: Beginning of text missing.

text: Imperfect at beginning.

text: Parchment


title: Eighth vision: as John watches, God in heaven sends a flowing river through the city of Jerusalem; John attempts to worship an angel who instead points to God. (Apoc. 22:1-9)

text: Angels

text: Jerusalem

text: God

text: Beginning of text missing.

text: Imperfect at beginning.

text: Parchment


title: Eighth vision: John hears the vast throng shouting; Christ in Majesty with four beasts, angels and elders; wedding feast laid out on a table, on which the Lamb stands. (Apoc. 19:1-8)

text: Jesus Christ

text: Weddings

text: John, the Apostle, Saint

text: Beginning of text missing.

text: Imperfect at beginning.

text: Parchment


title: Eighth vision: John writes on a scroll of the wedding feast of the Lamb; John at the feet of the angel; the Rider on a white horse, with a sword issuing from his mouth at the head of the armies of heaven; the Rider in the winepress. (Apoc. 19:9-16)

text: Angels

text: John, the Apostle, Saint

text: Beginning of text missing.

text: Imperfect at beginning.

text: Parchment


title: Eighth vision: Christ tells John that he is Alpha and Omega; John returns to Ephesus; the raising of Drusiana. (Apoc. 22:13-21)

text: John, the Apostle, Saint

text: Miracles

text: Beginning of text missing.

text: Imperfect at beginning.

text: Parchment


title: Eighth vision: John returns from travels; John changes sticks and stones into gold and jewels; John destroyes the temple of Diana.

text: Roman temples

text: John, the Apostle, Saint

text: Miracles

text: Beginning of text missing.

text: Imperfect at beginning.

text: Parchment


title: St. John and the snaky chalice; John consecrating the host at the celebration of mass; and John rising from a tomb full of manna.

text: John, the Apostle, Saint

text: Resurrection

text: Mass

text: Beginning of text missing.

text: Imperfect at beginning.

text: Parchment


title: Incipit of text, rubric, music, red and blue initials.

originInfo: Melk, Austria

text: Written for the Benedictines of Melk (their arms f. 8).  R.L. Stuart collection, bequeathed 1892.

text: De Ricci, 1318.  Schmidt article.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.  Library dossier.

text: This manuscript consists of 22 folios from not fewer than three vanished codices.  Both the original three and this compilation were done at Melk, according to Schmidt's article.

text: Classmark formerly De Ricci 16

text: 21 lines in two columns, ruled in pen.

text: Parchment

text: 6-8 line many-colored initials on gold fields, with elaborate vine and flower designs extending into borders.  1-, 2-, and 3-line red and blue initials.  Rubrics.

text: De Ricci and Dr. Guest date the whole codex to the 15th century; Schmidt dates this part to ca. 1460.


title: 6-line green initial on gold field with vines and flowers in border, music and small initials.

text: Classmark formerly De Ricci 16

text: 21 lines in two columns, ruled in pen.

text: Parchment


title: Explicit of this part.

text: Classmark formerly De Ricci 16

text: 21 lines in two columns, ruled in pen.

text: Parchment

title: Explicit of this part.


value: 14th-15th centrury

title: Opening of part 2.  Hand 1(?), large initial with miniature of Virgin and Child.  Red and blue initials, rubrics and placemarkers.  Border design and coat of arms.

originInfo: 14th-15th centruryMelk, Austria

dateCreated: 14th-15th centrury

text: Jesus Christ

text: Nativity

text: Classmark formerly De Ricci 16

text: 24 lines in two columns, ruled in pen.  Quire signature f. 10v?  F. 11 has 18 lines in two columns, ruled in pen.

text: Parchment

text: 2 illuminated initials (ff. 8 and 9) and 1 miniature (f. 11).

text: 6-, 4-, and 3-line initials in various colors and designs.  Border designs in many colors.  Red and blue initials, red and yellow daubs as placemarkers, rubrics, coat of arms f. 8.

text: Schmidt classifies these folios as the second section of this manuscript.  However, f. 11 looks quire different from ff. 8-10, and may be from another manuscript.  De Ricci and Guest date whole codex to s. XV; Schmidt dates this section to ca. 1425.

text: 2 hands?, second on f. 11 ?

title: Nativity.


title: Initial with illumination, red and blue initials, border design, rubrics and placemarkers.

text: Listed in De Ricci, Seymour, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York. N.Y.: H.W. Wilson, 1935; and Supplement, New York, N.Y.: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962.

text: Classmark formerly De Ricci 16

text: Parchment

text: 2 hands?, second on f. 11 ?


title: Large initial on gold fields, border design, rubrics, small initials, placemarkers, quire signature?

text: Classmark formerly De Ricci 16

text: Parchment

text: 2 hands?, second on f. 11 ?


title: Miniature.  New hand?  Small initials and placemarkers.

text: Jesus Christ

text: Crucifixion

text: Classmark formerly De Ricci 16

text: Parchment

text: 2 hands?, second on f. 11 ?


title: Explicit of Part 2.  Small initials.

text: Classmark formerly De Ricci 16

text: Parchment

text: 2 hands?, second on f. 11 ?

title: Explicit of Part 2.  Small initials.


title: Incipit part three.  Large illuminated initial on gold field.  Rubrics, smaller initials (one with human face sketched in) music, placemarkers, border design.

text: Jesus Christ

text: Crucifixion

text: Trinity

text: Classmark formerly De Ricci 16

text: 11 large illuminated initials.  Animal and human figures in border, sketched onto initials.

text: 9 staves of music, 9 long lines of text per page, ruled in red and light pencil.

text: Large initials in many colors on gold fields.  Border designs.  Red and blue initials.  Rubrics.  Red daubs as placemarkers.

text: Parchment

title: Trinity.


title: General legislative correspondence, 1875 May

text: Box 31, folder 6-11

text: Correspondence


title: Page of music, note written in at bottom.

text: Classmark formerly De Ricci 16

text: Parchment


title: Large illuminated initial.  Smaller initials, rubrics, border designs.

text: Classmark formerly De Ricci 16

text: Parchment


title: Large illuminated initial on penwork field.  Smaller initials, border design, rubrics.

text: Classmark formerly De Ricci 16

text: Parchment


title: Large initial, smaller initials, human and animal figures in border design.

text: Classmark formerly De Ricci 16

text: Parchment


title: Large illuminated initial, smaller initials, rubrics, border design.

text: Classmark formerly De Ricci 16

text: Parchment


title: Explicit of Part 3.

text: Classmark formerly De Ricci 16

text: Parchment

title: Explicit of Part 3.


title: Page of music and text. Staves with single red line.

namePart: Boethius (d. 524)

text: George Templeton Strong sale (New York, 1878).  Given in 1878 by J.J. Astor.

text: De Ricci, 1318.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.  Library dossier.

text: 10 lines of music, 10 long lines of writing per page.  Ruled in drypoint, prickings visible.

text: De Ricci and Dr. Guest both date and place the codex itself in Italy, 14th century.  They do not address separately the dating of this particular part.  Stub of other half of this sheet seen after f. 11.

text: Parchment

text: Red daubs and symbols as placemarkers.


title: Historiated initial of Boethius and Lady Philosophy (?).

text: Boethius, d. 524

text: 2-line red and blue initials with red or purple penwork extending into border.  Painted large initials in various colors appear occasionally; also painted border designs.  Very pale yellow daubs as placemarkers.

text: 22 lines in 2 columns, ruled in very light pencil and in drypoint.  Prickings and catchwords visible.  One folio (part 1, perhaps was formerly large sheet serving as cover of first quire) followed by six quires of 10 folios each and one quire of 12.

text: Inscribed Date: 1381, December 29

text: On f. 73v dated 29 December 1381.

text: Opening initial shows two human figures; f. 11v initial with animal head.

text: Parchment

text: 1381 December 29


title: Page of text with small initials and penwork, very pale daubs of yellow as placemarkers.

text: Inscribed Date: 1381, December 29

text: On f. 73v dated 29 December 1381.

text: Parchment

text: 1381 December 29


title: Historiated initial with grotesque animal head. Note also stub of music folio (for which see descriptin of Part 1; it may originally have served as cover for this quire in Part 2).

text: Inscribed Date: 1381, December 29

text: On f. 73v dated 29 December 1381.

text: Parchment

text: 1381 December 29


title: Page of text with centered catchword.

text: Inscribed Date: 1381, December 29

text: On f. 73v dated 29 December 1381.

text: Parchment

text: 1381 December 29

title: Page of text with centered catchword.


title: Explicit of text and date of copying in scribe's hand.

text: Inscribed Date: 1381, December 29

text: On f. 73v dated 29 December 1381.

text: Parchment

text: 1381 December 29


title: Opening of text with large painted initial including stylized animal figures.  Blue initial with red penwork.  Rubric; book name and chapter number in red and blue.

text: Duke of Sussex collection; his sale (1844) to Rodd; Lenox collection.

text: De Ricci, 1318.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.

text: 55 lines in two columns, ruled in pencil.

text: Parchment

text: Some illuminated initials include stylized animal figures.

text: Large painted initials in many colors at opening of each book.  2-line and 3-line red and blue initials with opposing penwork extending far into borders.  Name of book and chapter number in red and blue.  Red daubs as placemarkers.  Rubrics.

text: De Ricci dates this to the 14th century; Dr. Guest to the 13th or 14th centuries.


title: Opening of Genesis with very large painted initial, small blue initial, placemarkers, rubric, etc.

text: Listed in De Ricci, Seymour, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York. N.Y.: H.W. Wilson, 1935; and Supplement, New York, N.Y.: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962.

text: Parchment


title: Page of text with red initial with blue penwork, book name and chapter number in red and blue, and marginal note about Jacob's children.

text: Parchment


title: Page of text with marginal notes.

text: Parchment

title: Page of text with marginal notes.


title: Explicit of Apocalypse.

text: Parchment

title: Explicit of Apocalypse.


title: Explicit of list of readings.

text: Parchment

title: Explicit of list of readings.


title: Table of contents and Jerome's preface for the psalms in different hand.

text: Duke of Sussex collection; his sale (1844) to Bohn.  Lenox collection.

text: 54 lines in two columns, ruled in light pencil.  Prickings and some catchwords visible.

text: De Ricci, 1318.  Adams article.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest. Library dossier.

text: Large illuminated initials at opening of each book showing scenes from that book.

text: Parchment

text: Several, incl. noting hands on ff. 1, 507r-v

text: Smaller illuminated initials in many colors (blue, orange, grey etc) throughout.  Red and blue initials with elaborate opposing-color penwork extending far into margins.  Names of books and chapter numbers in red and blue.  Rubrics.


title: Opening of main text. Large painted initial showing Jerome as scribe extending far into border with animal figures.  Red and blue initials with penwork.  Rubric.  Book name and chapter number.

text: Foxes

text: Roosters

text: Jerome, Saint, d. 419 or 20

text: Parchment


title: Opening of Genesis.  Large initial with scenes from Creation.  Small miniature of Crucifixion.  Rubric, book name in red and blue.

text: Jesus Christ

text: Crucifixion

text: Jesus Christ

text: Genealogy

text: Parchment

title: Genesis.


title: Ruth, initial

text: Parchment

text: (detail)

text: Splendor of the Word, PBL # 13.2

title: Ruth, initial


title: Initials with elaborate penwork, book name and chapter numbers in red and blue. Catchword.

text: Parchment


title: Illuminated initial of Job covered in sores.  Small painted initial in blue, orange etc.  Rubric.  Book name and chapter number in red and blue.

text: Job (Biblical Figure)

text: Parchment


title: Ecclesiastes, initial

text: Parchment

text: (detail)

text: Splendor of the Word, PBL # 13.3

title: Ecclesiastes, initial


title: Explicit of Interpretation of Hebrew Names.

text: Parchment


title: A pseudo etymological breakdown of the word Alleluia, done "secundum ebraicam expositionem."

text: Parchment


title: List of biblical passages useful for various purposes (to convert sinners, to put up with tribulations, etc.)

text: Parchment


title: Opening page of calendar with the month of January; the feast of the octave of Thomas Becket and the mention of the word "pope" at the feast of St. Marcellus have been erased.

text: Church calendar

text: Keynsham Abbey?  Collection of Dr. Thomas Addis Emmet.  Presented in 1896 by John S. Kennedy.

text: 1-line and 2-line blue and gold initials with opposing color penwork.  Larger painted initials on gold with extensions creating border, and border decorations in blue, gold, orange etc.  Rubrics.  Last three folios show simpler decoration -- see photo.

text: 2?, second on ff. 296-298

text: 30 lines in two columns (33 lines in calendar), ruled in pencil and pen, prickings and catchwords visible.

text: De Ricci, 1318.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.  Library dossier.

text: Dr. Guest and material in dossier indicat that this manuscript was written at Keynsham Abbey.

text: Full page miniature of crucifixion, f. 17v.  Occasional figure of animal sketched into border design.

text: Parchment

text: f. 298 followed by stub of another folio.


title: Opening of main text with large initial, border decoration; sketches of birds in lower border.

text: Borders (Ornament Areas)

text: 2?, second on ff. 296-298

text: Parchment


title: Page of text with initials and penwork; border; catchword.

text: Borders (Ornament Areas)

text: 2?, second on ff. 296-298

text: Parchment


title: Full-page miniature of crucifixion on red and gold chessboard background.

text: Jesus Christ

text: Crucifixion

text: 2?, second on ff. 296-298

text: Parchment

title: Crucifixion, including Longinus and the Centurion of Capernaum, against a red and gold tesselated background; small cross in the lower margin.


title: Te igitur, historiated initial, Priest at altar

text: Priests

text: Communion

text: Borders (Ornament Areas)

text: 2?, second on ff. 296-298

text: Parchment

text: Splendor of the Word, PBL # 34.2

text: (detail – historiated initial)


title: Explicit of text.  Hand 2.  Simpler decoration of last 3 folios -- red initials with brown penwork, rubrics, yellow daubs as placemarkers.

text: 2?, second on ff. 296-298

text: Parchment


title: Suffrage of St. John the Baptist.

text: Collection of Dr. Thomas Addis Emmet; presented in 1896 by John S. Kennedy.  On f. 92v:  "Henry Foxe his book"

text: De Ricci, 1318.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.

text: 18 long lines, ruled in very light pencil.

text: Parchment

text: Large (5-, 6-, and 8-line) red and blue initials on gold fields.  2- and 3- line gold initials on red and blue fields.  1-line blue and gold initials with red and black penwork.  Rubrics.  Red daubs as placemarkers.  Border designs in blue, red, gold.

text: De Ricci dates this manuscript to the 15th century, while Dr. Guest dates it to the 14th century, ca. 1340s.

title: Suffrage of St. John the Baptist.


title: Large red initial on gold field, full border design, small initials, rubrics.

text: Listed in De Ricci, Seymour, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York. N.Y.: H.W. Wilson, 1935; and Supplement, New York, N.Y.: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962.

text: Parchment


title: Hours of the Virgin - None: decorated initial and border

text: Parchment

text: Splendor of the Word, PBL # 49


title: Later note of ownership in left margin, "Henery foxe his book."

text: Parchment


title: In another hand, the opening of English verse, "Mary modir wel ye be."

text: Parchment


title: Explicit.

text: Parchment

title: Explicit.


title: General legislative correspondence, 1875 June - December

text: Box 31, folder 6-11

text: Correspondence


title: Inside front cover. Birth notices in French.

text: Owned (1567-1643) by the De Navinault family -- see birth entries on inside front cover, ff. i-ii, and inside back cover.  Quaritch catalog, 1874.  Lenox collection.

text: 14 long lines per page (17 in calendar), ruled in red pencil.  Catchword visible ff. 30v, 160v.

text: 14 miniatures.  Various animals appear in border designs.

text: 1 scribe, plus noting hands at beginning and end.

text: 2- and 3-line red and blue initials on gold fields.  1-line gold initials on red and blue fields.  Gold, red and blue border designs and linefillers.  Rubrics.

text: De Ricci places this manuscript in France, s. XV.  Dr. Guest places it in Paris? and dates it to the early 15th century.

text: De Ricci, 1319.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.

text: French early modern birth notices on back flyleaves and inside covers.

text: Parchment


title: Birth notices continue.

text: Parchment

title: Birth notices continue.


title: Opening page of calendar for the month of January. Entries for every line in French, alternating two red and two blue lines, with major feasts in gold. Dragon grotesque in lower margin.

text: Dragons

text: Parchment


title: Beginning of the gospel pericopes.

text: Parchment

title: Beginning of the gospel pericopes.


title: Miniature of Annunciation against a tessellated ground.

text: Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint

text: Annunciation

text: Parchment


title: Text with catchword.

text: Parchment

title: Text with catchword.


title: Adoration of the Magi

text: Magi

text: Jesus Christ

text: Nativity

text: Parchment

text: Splendor of the Word, PBL # 51.1

title: Adoration of the Magi


title: Adoration of the Magi

text: Magi

text: Jesus Christ

text: Nativity

text: Parchment

text: Splendor of the Word, PBL # 51.2

title: Adoration of the Magi


title: Opening of section of prayers in French, "Doulce dame de misericorde." Miniature of the Virgin and Child enthroned.

text: Jesus Christ

text: Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint

text: Parchment


title: Explicit of the mass for the dead.

text: Dragons

text: Parchment

title: Explicit of the mass for the dead.


title: Opening page of calendar, in French.

text: Church calendar

text: "Vizet" stamped on binding.  R.L. Stuart collection (no. 13883), bequeathed 1892.

text: 14-16 long lines per page (17 in calendar), ruled in red pencil.  In ff. 141-7v, ruled in light pencil.

text: 3-line blue and red initials on gold fields.  3-, 2-, and 1-line gold initials on blue and red fields.  Border designs, rubrics, linefillers in red, blue and gold.  In ff. 141-145v, yellow daubs as placemarkers.

text: 5 miniatures.

text: 5 scribes?:  A, text; B, f. 26r-v; C, f. 140v; D, ff. 141-145v; E, ff. 146-147

text: De Ricci places this in France, Paris use; Dr. Guest places it in Paris?

text: Parchment

title: Opening page of calendar, in French.


title: Miniature of John the Evangelist, 3-line blue initial, border design.  Main hand (hand 1).

text: John, the Apostle, Saint

text: Patmos Island (Greece)

text: 5 miniatures.

text: Parchment


title: Hand 2, different styles of initials.

text: 5 miniatures.

text: Parchment

title: Hand 2, different styles of initials.


title: Miniature of Annunciation, initials, linefillers, and border design.

text: Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint

text: Annunciation

text: 5 miniatures.

text: Parchment


title: Opening of French text, large initial and border design.

text: 5 miniatures.

text: Parchment


title: Close of French text in main hand; hand 3.

text: 5 miniatures.

text: Parchment


title: Opening of hand 4, different style initials, rubrics in French.

text: 5 miniatures.

text: Parchment


title: Opening of hand 5.

text: 5 miniatures.

text: Parchment

title: Opening of hand 5.


title: Opening page of calendar, in French.

text: Church calendar

text: Owned ca. 1860 by Dr. William Howard.  From collection of Dr. Thomas Addis Emmet, presented in 1896 by John S. Kennedy.

text: 1 scribe.

text: 15 long lines per page (17 in calendar), ruled in red pencil.

text: 10 miniatures.

text: Parchment

text: Vine, leaf, flower and fruit decoration in each border.  1- and 2-line gold initials on red and blue fields;  3-line blue and red initials on gold fields.  Red, blue and gold linefillers.  Rubrics.  Yellow daubs as placemarkers.

title: Opening page of calendar, in French.


title: Opening of main text, miniature of John the Evangelist, border design, 3-line initial, rubric.

text: Flowers

text: Eagles

text: John, the Apostle, Saint

text: Listed in De Ricci, Seymour, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York. N.Y.: H.W. Wilson, 1935; and Supplement, New York, N.Y.: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962.

text: 1 scribe.

text: 10 miniatures.

text: Parchment


title: Initials, linefiller, rubrics, placemarkers.

text: 1 scribe.

text: 10 miniatures.

text: Parchment


title: Miniature of King David, border design, initial and linefiller

text: Prayer

text: Harps

text: David, King of Israel

text: 1 scribe.

text: 10 miniatures.

text: Parchment


title: Explicit, border, and placemarkers.

text: 1 scribe.

text: 10 miniatures.

text: Parchment

title: Explicit, border, and placemarkers.


title: Opening of text, large painted initial with angel figure pasted in, rubric, placemarkers, hand 1.

namePart: Spoleto, Cherubinus de

text: Angels

text: Astor collection.

text: 31-6 long lines in main text, ruled in pencil.  In index (ff. 438-40), 49 lines in three columns.  Occasional prickmark and catchword visible.

text: 8 scribes?

text: De Ricci, 1319.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.  Note in manuscript box.

text: Dr. Guest dates ms to the 14th or possibly 15th century.  Red foliation accurate only to f. 46; thereafter use penciled foliation.  Scribes: A, f. 1r-v; B, ff. 2-46; C, f. 47r-v; D, ff. 48-166v; E, ff. 168-335v; F, ff. 336-437v; G, f. 437v; H, ff. 438-40.

text: Initial pasted on to f. 1 obscures much of rubric and incipit.

text: Occasional initials -- some painted in red, blue, green and gold (including f. 1), others with penwork.  Red and yellow daubs as placemarkers.

text: Opening initial with angel.

text: Parchment

text: Red foliation accurate only to f. 46; thereafter use pencil foliation, which appears every 10 folios.


title: Hand 2, placemarkers, marginal commentary.

text: Astor collection.

text: 8 scribes?

text: Opening initial with angel.

text: Parchment


title: Opening of hand 3, placemarkers, and red initial.

text: Astor collection.

text: 8 scribes?

text: Opening initial with angel.

text: Parchment