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Seiyaku Chōhi : [manuscript]

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    Heisho Jōkan : [manuscript]

    Manuscripts

    Black print, though return marks (i.e. kaeriten 返り点), kana (i.e. okurigana 送り仮名), and other grammatical symbols written in red ink; no illustrations in main text; a bit wormed. The ink on gold illustrations on inside covers appear to have been added at a later date.

    mssHM 81216

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    Kōmō Chayuhō : [manuscript]

    Manuscripts

    Recipes, intake methods (i.e. oral, skin, etc.), and commentary on various teas and oils from areas such as Holland, Sweden, etc.; many names of the incredients, techniques, etc., written in phoneticization of original title into Japanese kana script; some illustrations in latter sections depicting instruments used in process of distillation; 33 pages; medicines divided generally between water-based and oil-based recipes; title on box reads: "Japanese Medicinal Distilling"

    mssHM 81220

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    Aerostat manuscript and drawing collection

    Manuscripts

    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.

    mssHM 14181

  • Scale of perfection : [manuscript]

    Scale of perfection : [manuscript]

    Manuscripts

    ff. 1-84v but see reading order. [Walter Hilton] Scale of Perfection. Incipit: //þawȝ þe þink þiself reccheles & negligent. Explicit: and oftentymes þurȝ here gostly presence//. English. Walter Hilton, Scale of Perfection, beginning and ending defectively and with loss of text due to missing leaves; the volume is misbound and should be read as follows, the numbers in parentheses giving the page numbers in E. Underhill, ed., The Scale of Perfection by Walter Hilton (London 1923): f. 13r-v (75-77), f. 14r-v (84-87), f. 3r-v (136-38), f. 4r-v (164-67), f. 2r-v (167-69), f. 1r-v (170-71), ff. 16-20v (169-85), ff. 21-36v (189-245), ff. 43-84v (280-377), ff. 37-38v (377-82), f. 41r-v (382-84), ff. 7-8v (384-89), f. 42r-v (389-90), ff. 39-40v (390-96), ff. 11-12v (415-20), f. 15r-v (443-45), ff. 5-6v (451-55), ff. 9-10v (455-60). The text contains Books 1 and 2 in an apparently deliberate abridgment and thus the chapters do not always coincide with those in the Underhill edition; many of the expanded "Christo-centric" passages are present (that on the Holy Name not verifiable due to missing leaves). For list of manuscripts, see H. L. Gardner, "The Text of the Scale of Perfection," Medium Aevum 5 (1936) 11-30; S. S. Hussey, "The Text of the Scale of Perfection: Book II," Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 65 (1967) 75-92; T. Takamiya, "Luttrell Wynne MS of Walter Hilton," Reports of the Keio Institute 7 (1975) 171-91. See also R. Hanna, "The Archaeology of a Manuscript: Huntington Library HM 266," Scriptorium 36 (1982) 99-102.

    mssHM 266

  • Discorso della virtù femminile : [manuscript]

    Discorso della virtù femminile : [manuscript]

    Manuscripts

    ff. 1-6v. [Torquato Tasso]. Discorso della virtù femminile. Incipit: Alla Serenissima Madama Mia Signora, Sogliono le belle donne con vaghezza rimirare o statua o pittura ove alcuna somiglianza loro si veda espressa, e le giovani particolarmente di vagheggiarsi ne lo specchio e di vedersi ritratte et effigiate hanno vaghezza. Explicit: con queste possono esser accompagnate, ne possono infami o dishonorate in alcun modo esser giudicate, perche l'in//. Italian. The text ends abruptly, on p. 212, line 12 of the Guasti edition. On f. 7r-v, the missing portion of the text is supplied from the 1738 Venice edition. C. Guasti, ed., Le Prose Diverse di Torquato Tasso (Florence 1875) 2:201-14, this manuscript cited on pp. 169-70 with some of its variant readings quoted from the plate in the Libri sale catalogue (see below), as Guasti did not know the location of the manuscript. Dennis Dutschke, "Il discorso tassiano 'De la virtù feminile e donnesca'," Studi tassiani, 32 (1984) pp. 5-28.

    mssHM 884

  • Hymnal for vespers : [manuscript]

    Hymnal for vespers : [manuscript]

    Manuscripts

    ff. 1-29v. [Hymnal for vespers]: f. 1, blank; ff. 1 v-25: Hymns for 31 feasts of the temporale, sanctorale and common of saints at vespers, text only; ff. 25v-27: Suffrages "della Croce, De gli Apostoli, De Sancto Augustino, di San Petronio, della pace"; ff. 27v-29v: Office of Petronius.

    mssHM 1121