Manuscripts

Aerostat manuscript and drawing collection

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Description: Bound volume containing manuscripts and drawings related to aeuronautics. Text on spine is in French and reads, "Méthode pour Diriger des Aérostats." Manuscripts possibly also in Dutch.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1840-1843.
Call number: mssHM 14181
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In library as of September 1933.
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Commonplace book. English law : manuscript

Manuscripts

A bound manuscript volume, possibly in the hand of George Wither; includes notes on court cases, legal opinions, etc. Half-bound in maroon morocco over cloth with ex-libris of Thomas Brooke, and an unidentified ex-libris; spine reads "Wither's M.S. Note-Book 1650-1660."

mssHM 103

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Indian drawings volume

Manuscripts

The volume contains 20 colored drawings featuring Indian people in various professions and dress. Drawings have descriptions in French. Drawings on vellum, interleaved with bark. Possibly created in the Deccan Plateau. Contains auction description.

mssHM 1115

Devotions, in Dutch : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-21v, 54v-95v, 218, 139-163v, 173-177v. [Meditations]. Dutch. A collection of meditations, sermons and prayers arranged according to the liturgical year, with many excerpts from such authors as Bonaventure, Bernard, Augustine, Anselm and Gregory. The text includes numerous added/inserted shorter texts; it is misbound and many leaves are missing. ff. 177v (rubric only), 182-217v, 164-172v. [Gerard Zerbolt van Zutphen] Van geestelijke opclimmingen. Dutch. This is the Dutch translation of De spiritualibus ascensionibus. ff. 218-231. [Pseudo Bernard] Prekel der mynnen. Dutch. This is the Dutch translation of Stimulus amoris; for the Latin text, see PL 184:953-966. Back flyleaf. [Breviary?] Latin. Containing part of the rite for visiting the sick, here with feminine forms in the original text, and the masculine forms supplied in superscript. Parchment 105 x 145 mm (measurement as given are from a cropped leaf). Germany, between 1150-1199.

mssHM 1048

Statutes : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-7v. [Index to statutes from Counterple de voucher to Christien court]. French. Alphabetical subject index to statutes from Counterple de voucher to Christien [for the letter X] court, citing earlier statutes not copied in this volume, from Magna Carta on; text begins defectively and is misbound, with the 2 center bifolia in exchanged order. ff. 8-10, 10v-12, 12v-195v; f. 196r-v blank. [Statuta nova]. Latin; French. f. 10r-v. [La patent de perambulacion fait de bou des forestes = Perambulation of forests]. Incipit: Le Roy a touz as queux cestes lettres viendront salutz. Sachez que come la bone memorie seignur Edward iadys Roy D'engleterre nostre aiel iadys ent assigne ces foialx a le puraillez en ces forestes. Explicit: a Westm. le xiiie iour de march l'an du nostre regne primer. Rubric: La patent de perambulacion fait de bou des forestes. French. See Calendar of Patent Rolls. . .Edward III, A.D. 1327-1330 (London 1891) p. 39, membr. 15. f. 12. [Iste particulus erat Norhamptoun editus eodem Anno Revocacio brevium de audiendo et terminando]. Incipit: Accorde est par le Roy et soun Counseille a cest parlement de Norhampton que toutz les oiers et terminers grauntez countre fourme de l'estatut fait en temps le Roy E. aiel le Roy que ore est. Explicit: n'est pas mys en estatut einz est baille de la Chauncelrie par bille. Rubric: Iste particulus erat Norhamptoun editus eodem Anno. French. This text also in HM 906, f. 125r-v, HM 19920, f. 165 and EL 9 H 10, ff. 55v-56.

mssHM 930

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Commonplace book : manuscript

Manuscripts

A manuscript commonplace book, with text written in several different hands. The volume is written mostly in English but also contains French and German; though no country of origin is identified, it appears to be mainly British in subject. The text includes seven pages of index in the beginning of the volume; there are also rough drawings in pencil and pen, as well more finely executed pen and ink illustrations. The text covers an extraordinary range of subjects, including technical inventions and developments, animal husbandry, recipes, political comment, sports, current events, travel, medicinal cures, economics, wine, and many other topics. The volume is bound in late 18th century three-quarter calf gilt, red edges, with some wear to the binding.

mssHM 83388

Rule and testament of St. Clare of Assisi, in Dutch : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-18. [Clare of Assisi]. [Rules]. Dutch. Rule of St. Clare; for the Latin text, see Ignacio Omaechevarria, O.F.M., Escritos de Santa Clara (Madrid 1970) 251-76. On medieval Dutch manuscripts of the Rule and related texts, see David de Kok, ""Codices van Klarissen,"" Nederlandsch Archief voor Kerkgeschiedenis, n.s. 17 (1924) 200-25, and his Bijdragen tot de geschiedenis der Nederlandsche klarissen en tertiarissen voor de Hervorming. Werken uitgegeven door het Historisch Genootschap, Utrecht, ser. 3, No. 52 (Utrecht 1927) and ""De Zegen van S. Clara in het Oud-Nederlandsch,"" Het Boek 10 (1921) 321-26. ff. 18-25v. [Clare of Assisi]. [Testament]. Dutch. For the Latin text see Omaechevarria, 277-86. ff. 25v-26v. [Clare of Assisi]. [Benediction]. Dutch. For the Latin text see Omaechevarria, 400-01. ff. 26v-27; ff. 27v-30, notes. [Profession of a nun]. Dutch. Vow of profession, with interlinear changes in another hand, contemporary. On f. 27v, autobiographical notes dated 1536 and 1555, Ic suster Clara van vorssel vaert gheboren op den xxisten dach van Julio op sinte Maria magdaleenen auent. . .Anno m.v.c ende vi dertich. . .[and professed] Int Jaer ons heer m vc 1v. . .; on f. 28, prayer and versicles for the profession of vows; on ff. 28-30, devotional material, arranged numerically (5 holy rules, 6 points, etc.).

mssHM 1052

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