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Golden verses from the New Testament : with illuminations and miniatures from celebrated missals and books of hours of the XIV and XV centuries
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French illuminated manuscripts ... : with an original leaf from a miniature Book of Hours
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Collection of leaves from a missal, books of hours, and an antiphonal
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A collection of leaves from an unidentified missal, books of hours, and antiphonal; also modern ephemera. HM 82933 (1) leaves from a missal written for Chichester Cathedral, with decorated initials and possibly Flemish illuminated borders. The five leaves are bound into a volume with black Morocco binding and two ribbons laid in; with the bookplate of Edward J. Loftus pasted onto first page.
mssHM 82933 (1-7)
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[Twenty-six miniatures, taken from mss. of the 14th-17th centuries
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A rare series of eighteenth-century French copies of 26 of miniatures in the collection of the Duc de La Vallière. Intended to accompany Rive's "Essai sur l'art de vérifier l'age des miniatures..." which was never published. The series consists of hand-colored engravings on paper and mounted. The original images include 1 from the 14th century, 20 from the 14th, 4 from the 16th and 1 from the 17th century. Subjects represented include St. John, the Evangelist (14th century); the Taking of Jerusalem by King Antiochus, the Adoration of the Magi, five paintings of the "Fortresse de la Foy," the Entombment, Christ teaching his Apostles, a Burial Service (15th century); the Crowning of a Pope, Death riding in a Chariot, the Death of the Virgin (16th century) and St. Nicholas (17th century).
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[Leaf from a missal: Mass for the Sunday following the octave of Epiphany, Italy, 15th century]
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The collections consist primarily of letters from various American and British authors to James Fields, mostly relating to publication of their manuscripts by his firm Ticknor and Fields and in The Atlantic monthly. The collection, and especially the addenda, also includes letters to Annie Fields concerning literary matters. There are also poems, manuscripts, and correspondence by and about the following individuals: Thomas Aldrich, Charlotte Cushman, Charles Dickens, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Jessie Benton Frémont, Edward Everett Hale, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Julia Ward Howe, Helen Hunt Jackson, Sarah Orne Jewett, Lucy Larcom, Sara Jane Clarke Lippincott (better known by her pen name Grace Greenwood), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Helena Modjeska, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Celia Thaxter, Booker T. Washington and John Greenleaf Whittier. The collection also contains essays, notes, speeches, notebooks, photographs, and articles. The collections chiefly deal with the activities of Ticknor and Fields, as well as Fields' and his wife's own literary efforts. The following authors are subjects in the collections: Robert Burns, Lord Byron, John Milton and Percy Shelley. Presidential items in this collection include John Adams autograph bill for legal services to Thomas Pratt, 1767 October 14 (FI 5102) and two autograph letters signed from William H. Taft to Annie Adams Fields, 1914 February? and 1914 March 10 (FI 4098, FI 4099).
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