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Armenian prayer book leaf
Manuscripts
This is one leaf from a prayer book written in Armenian that was probably created in the 15th century (exact date and location of creation are unknown). The original manuscript (which the Huntington does not have) was written on 184 vellum leaves. The text is in black with decorations in red; the opening of the prayer is decorated with an elaborate design in red. There is a note about the original manuscript with the leaf. It was LACMA RB 178 Ar5 1400?
mssHM 81271
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Bible leaf
Manuscripts
One leaf from a 13th century copy of the Bible. It contains the text of Deuteronomy 13.
mssHM 1178
Brown's Famous Pictures ; Brown's Famous Bible Pictures
Visual Materials
Three price lists: one (and its duplicate) for art reproductions by the George P. Brown & Co., Beverly, Massachusetts, ca. 1924. They are entitled Brown's Famous Pictures for February, March and April and Brown's Famous Bible Pictures. The former was issued as a double-sided single sheet; the latter as a 6-page price list. All three items were laid in a Brown & Co. Catalog, HEH RB #603406. The two single-sheet price lists are illustrated with a single row of images across each side of the leaf. Below the title and images reproduction cards are listed for sale and grouped by categories, for example: Washington Pictures, Dickens Pictures, Lincoln Picture; Thanksgiving and Christmas Pictures. Brown's Famous Bible Pictures is illustrated with a single image on the first page. This publisher's price list also groups images by category: 'The Life of Christ'; 'Old Testament Pictures'; 'Christmas Pictures'; 'Easter Pictures'; 'Madonnas'; 'Miniature Bible Pictures'. An ink stamp indicated a price change. "May 1924" is written in ms., in pencil, on the first page of this list.
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Gradual
Manuscripts
The one leaf parchment gradual is from an unidentified manuscript, written in black and red ink with decorated blue and red initals, five-line red staff.
mssHM 15628
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Carthusian Psalter
Manuscripts
Fourteen leaves from a rubricated Carthusian psalter believed to be from a 15th century mansucript, hand-written in Church Latin in a Gothic bookhand in black and red ink on vellum; 5 lines per page; tied to wooden boards.
mssHM 80420