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  Die Wichtigsten Häfen und Rheden, sowie die Goldregion von Californien

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  Alternate title from sticker on verso. Harbors of California along with a map of the Gold Region in small detailed maps. Ten maps in all. See also 70909 for accompanying map of California. MS note: x70908. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Miles, kilometers. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Lithography.

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  Karte von Amerika : nach D'Anville und Pownall

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  Kashnor notes, "Shows the North-West Coast to the point where land was located by the Spaniards in 1775. The map of Alaska shows that it was indebted to the discoveries of Portlock and Dixon." Three submaps. Submaps: Karte von der Republik der Vereinigten Dreyzehen Staaten in NordAmerika; [Alaska]; [Hudson's Bay area]. Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Conic. Watermark: Lettering. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS note: 148975.

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  Erhöhung über dem Meere in Wiener Klafter der trigonometrisch bestimmten vorzüglichsten Punkte in der spezial Karte vom Steyermark und dem vormaligen Königreiche Jllyrien

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  Kirkpatrick Catalogue entry: "2532 Trieste. Erhöhung über dem Meere in Wiener Klafter der trigonometrisch bestimmten vorzüglichsten Punkte in der spezial Karte vom Steyermark und dem vormaligen Königreiche Illyrien. [Vienna?], F. von Schönfelder, C. Stein, 1871. 1 sheet. [see p.]."A few scattered MS notes and marks near Pirano (Piran) and in the Quarnero (Kvarner) Gulf. Across top of page: "Umgebungen von Triest, Capo d'Istria nebst Zeichenerklarung. Umgebungen von Laas, Feistritz und Piguente." Pinguente is now in Croatia and referred to as Buzet. Table in the bottom gives the highest points, their relative location, and their heights. Eastern extension folded over.. Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: hachures. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: Ms notes: p map Europe Trieste 2532.

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  Scientia Terrarum et Coelorum, or the Heavens and Earth Astronomically and Geographically Delineated and Display'd. Containing the most Curious & Useful Particulars in the Solar Starry & Mundane Systems, faithfully Enumerated & Delineated according to the latest discoveries. By S. Dunn

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  Kashnor notes, "Shows a good coastline to the North-West, and embodies the last discoveries of Cook, and one of the earliest maps to show them. Locates Sir. Fr. Drake's Harbour and Monterey." For another copy see HEH 99126. Printed in two sections. The upper section contains the date June 1, 1781 in the heading. The lower section notes the date as June 15, 1780 and only mentioned R. Sayer as the seller. A very busy map with many diagrams, explanations and tables. Submaps of solar system, northern and southern astronomical systems, Analemma system (orthographic projection system) with explanation, moon's surface, Mercator map of World, Seasons and a universal Mathematical Scale. Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Projection: Dual Hemisphere. Watermark: Crowned fleur-de-lis V. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: Ms note: 293.

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  Works by Ephraem and othe church fathers : [manuscript]

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  f. i verso. [Eusebius Cremonensis] [De morte Hieronymi ad Damasum]. Incipit: Lex dei semper sit in corde tuo. Noli timere opprobrium hominum. Explicit: odit hanc vitam qui se bene agere cernit. Rubric: Eusebius in epistulis ad damasum portuensem episcopum Et theodomum [sic] senatorem Romanum capitulo xxiii ubi consolatur et hortatur eusebium ad bonum. Latin. PL 22:266. f. ii; f. ii verso blank. [Innocent III] [De Miseria Humane Conditionis]. Incipit: Semper enim mundane letitie tristicia Repentina succedit. Explicit: quia quanto plus vita procedit tanto magis ad finem accedit. Rubric: Innocencius papa In libro de miseria condicionis humane capitulo xxiii de Inopinato [sic] dolore. Latin. Excerpt. M. Maccarrone, ed., Lotharii Cardinalis (Innocentii III) De Miseria Humane Conditionis. Thesaurus Mundi (Lugano 1955) 29-30; see also R. E. Lewis, ed., Lotario dei Segni (Pope Innocent III), De Miseria Condicionis Humane (Athens, Georgia, 1978) with list of manuscripts, including HM 1068. ff. 1-61. [Ephraem] [De compunctione cordis]. Incipit: Dolor me compellit dicere sed iniquitas mea comminatur mihi ut sileam. Explicit: ut omnis anima que hoc meditatur trahatur ad vitam eternam. Ipsi gloria et Imperium in secula seculorum. Rubric: Incipit liber primus sancti effrem dyaconi de Compunctione cordis. Latin. Libri Sancti Effrem de Compunctione cordis (Freiburg im Breisgau or Basle, not after 1491); Hain 6598. The 6 chapters of the manuscript generally correspond to the 6 treatises of the printed book, except for the end of the first (f. 22 of the manuscript), where the manuscript presents a shorter version, and ends with a prayer: [f. 27] Oracio devota, Obsecro te salvator mundi Ihesu christe respice et miserere mei et libera me a multitudine iniquitatum mearum . . . f. 61. [Jerome] [De viribus illustribus]. Incipit: Effrem adossene [sic] ecclesie dyaconus multa syro sermone composuit. Explicit: decessit autem sub valente principi [sic]. Rubric: Ieronimus autem loquens de sancto effrem in libro Illustrium virorum sic ait. Latin. PL 23:746-747, for the passage speaking about Ephraem. f. 61r-v. [Verba seniorum]. Incipit: Puer erat adhuc sancte memorie effrem. Explicit: et quia sancti spiritus operacio est que egrediebatur de labiis effrem. Rubric: Item in libro qui appellatur seronticum [sic] prefatus Ieronimus sic ait. Latin. A condensation of the first and third paragraphs of the Vitae Patrum, PL 73:321. ff. 62-104. [Ailred of Rievaulx] [De Institutis Inclusarum]. Incipit: //manuum suarum opere sustentantes. Illi vero qui nec hoc sibi securum propter solitudinis libertatem. Explicit: ut apud remuneratorem meum quem expecto apud iudicem meum quem timeo pro peccatis meis intercedat. Explicit formula vite seu regula sancti anselmi cantuariensis archiepiscopi ad sororem suam reclusam. Latin. C. H. Talbot, ed.,"The De Institutis Inclusarum of Ailred of Rievaulx," Analecta Sacri Ordinis Cisterciensis 7 (1951) 167-217, here beginning defectively. ff. 104v-107. [Hours of the Conception] Rubric: Sequuntur hore concepcionis beate marie virginis a prefato beato anselmo composite, Ad matutinas. Incipit: Eya mea labia nunc anunciate. Latin. Hours of the Conception, in short form. ff. 107v-163. [Pseudo Augustine] Liber soliloquiorum. Incipit: Agnoscam te domine cognitor meus. Explicit: sed Iubilare facis omnia ossa mea et reiuviscere [sic] facis ut aquile canos meos. Explicit liber soliloquiorum beati augustini. Rubric: Incipit liber soliloquiorum sancti augustini episcopi, primum capitulum. Latin. Ps. Augustine. PL 40:863-898. ff. 163-167; ff. 167v-168v blank. [Excerpts from the church fathers]. Rubric: Sequuntur aliqua dicta egregia sanctorum et doctorum fidei catholice et primo beati bernardi. Incipit: Ut igitur ab interiori Incipiens ad exteriorem hominem sermo procedat. Explicit: Qui habet laudem dei in corde suo in postremo apud deum gaudebit et animam suam in celo mirificabit. Hec augustinus. Rubric: Sequuntur aliqua dicta egregia sanctorum et doctorum fidei catholice et primo beati bernardi. Latin. Excerpts from the church fathers. Cited are Jerome, Bernard, Maximus, Augustine and Cyril. f. i; f. i verso blank. [Alphonsus de Spina] [Fortalitium fidei]. Incipit: //demones effugasse, mortuos suscitasse, ventis Imperasse pedibusque siccis super undas maris ambulasse et alia multa miracula fecisse. Explicit: Et sic satis claret ex predictis iiii testimoniis tempus adventus messie fuisse ante destructionem secundi templi. Ex fortalicio fidei libro primo testimonio quarto. Latin. Alphonsus de Spina, Fortalitium fidei, Book 1, Consideration 3, Article 6, Point 4, Thesaurus 1, at the end, on signature e5 v of the edition printed by Johann Mentelin in Strasbourg [not after 1471]; GW 1574. Added on the back flyleaf, in the same hand as that on the front flyleaves.

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  Dogali and Antiphonal fragments : [manuscript]

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  Part. 1. 1 leaf. [Dogale]. Latin. Commission to Vincenzo Donà as "Comes" of Lesina (now Hvar) issued by Leonardo Loredan (doge, 1501-21) . The initials "V.D." on either side of the Donà shield, barry of 6 azure and or, a chief argent (Rietstap, vol. 2, pl. 214, but lacking the charge in chief). Script: First 4 lines of text in gold square capitals; remainder, recto and verso, in an italic hand. Decoration: Full illuminated border on the recto with medallions of St. Mark's lion, allegorical figures, St. Vincent Ferrer, rabbits. In the lower margin, a later hand has written "Joannes Bellinus 1515." Assigned Date: s. XVI1/4. Part 2. 1 leaf. [Dogale]. Latin. Arms of Marcello, azure a bend wavy or (Rietstap, vol. 4, pl. 139 ; also on art. 23), and another coat of arms, unidentified, or on a bend sable, a bendlet lozengy argent. Blank on the verso. Decoration: The appointee being presented to the Virgin and Child by St. Nicholas. Assigned Date: s. XVI. Part 3. 1 leaf. [Dogale]. Latin. No arms. Blank on the verso. Decoration: St. Nicholas presents the appointee to the Virgin and Child, while a male figure hands his commission to him. Part. 4. 1 leaf. [Dogale]. Latin. Arms, apparently of Falier, quarterly, 1 or, 2 azure (although here it appears very dark), 3 and 4 argent (here very dark, perhaps oxidized: Rietstap, vol. 2, pl. 299 ). Blank on the verso, although notes in Huntington files state that it once had on the back a printed hymn and prayer, with engraved medallion portrait of Francis de Paola, signed "Zuliani F.". Decoration: The appointee kneels before the Virgin who supports the dead Christ; behind the appointee are twins (?) in court dress, holding checkered oval objects. Possibly by the same artist as in Parts 23, 25, and 26. Part 5. 1 leaf. [Dogale]. Latin. Arms, apparently of Bolano, per fess or and azure, on a bend gules, a bendlet argent; also on Part 29. Blank on the verso. Decoration: The Virgin and blessing Child look upon the appointe who is being presented by a saint in Dominican robes, holding fetters, possibly the blessed Antonio Neyrot. Part 6. 1 leaf. [Dogale]. Latin. Arms of Tron, per fess or, 3 fleurs-de-lis on thrones gules, and barry of 6 or and gules (Rietstap, vol. 6, pl. 52 , but without the 3-step "thrones" supporting the fleurs-de-lis). Blank on the verso. Decoration: The appointee, wearing a black surcoat, is being presented by a male saint holding a palm tree and a globe, to the Virgin and blessing Child. Part 7. 1 leaf. [Dogale]. Latin. Arms of Leoni, azure, a lion rampant or, on a bend or 3 roses gules (Rietstap, vol. 4, pl. 48 ; also on Part 28). Blank on the verso. Decoration: Mark, seated with the lion at his feet, hands he commission to the appointee; a vision of the Virgin and Child appears in the sky; though the open window, in the background, a ship sailing towards an island. Part. 8. 1 leaf. [Dogale]. Latin. Possibly the arms of Taiapiera, although damaged, or, on a bend azure a bendlet nebuly (Rietstap, vol. 6, pl. 2 , although in the manuscript the colors are reversed). Blank on the verso. Decoration: The appointee stands before a vision of Christ in the aperture of clouds in the sky. Part 9. 1 leaf. [Dogale]. Latin. Commission from Alvise Mocenigo (doge, 1570-77) to Andrea Pesaro as Commissioner to Zante (now Zakinthos); Pesaro arms, per pale indented or and azure (Rietstap, vol. 5, pl. 40 ). Script: Italic. Decoration: The appointee kneels before the Virgin and Child, as the Child holds the scepter towards him. Assigned Date: s. XVI2. Part 10. 1 leaf. [Dogale]. Latin. Commission from Niccolò da Ponte (doge, 1578-85) to Francesco Duodo as Captain of Brescia; Duodo arms, gules, on a bend argent 3 fleurs-de-lis azure (Rietstap, vol. 2, pl. 238 ); also on Parts 20 and 22. Script: Square capitals in gold; Humanistic script (imitative). Decoration: The appointee receives a plam leaf from a female saint holding a pine cone, while gazing up at a vision of the Holy Spirit. Assigned Date: s. XVI4/4. Part 11. 1 leaf. [Dogale]. Latin. No arms. Decoration: A triumphal cart drawn by 2 lions and driven by a woman holding sword and scaales, representing Justice, while another figure holding Cross and Chalice gazes upwards at the Holy Spirit; other figures surround them. Part 12. 1 leaf. [Dogale]. Latin. Arms effaced. Blank on the verso. Decoration: The appointee kneels before the Crucifixion, while a young man dressed in blue places the scepter in his hands; Francis of Assisi stands behind him. Allegorical medaillons in the border labelled Obedientia, Umiltà, Stabilità, Eternità (?), Resolutione, Constantia. Part 13. 1 leaf. [Dogale]. Latin. Commission of Marino Grimani (doge, 1595-1605) to A[lvi]se Muazzo to serve an office in "detta città nostra": the text has been scraped and is only partially legible; Muazzo arms, per fees or and azure a fleur-de-lis counter-changed (Rietstap, vol. 4, pl. 257 ); also on Part 15. Attributed to Giovanbattista Zelotti. Script: Square capitals in gold; Italic. Decoration: Venice, represented allegorically as an eleganti clad queen, hands the commission to the appointee, as a vision of God the Father appears in the sky. By the same person who made the attribution of artist for Part 1; the note here reads "Zilotti" presumably in reference to Giovanbattista Zelotti (ca. 1526-1578) rather than to Bernardo Zilotti (ca. 1730-1780). Assigned Date: s. XVI/XVII. Part. 14. 1 leaf. [Dogale]. Latin. Unidentified arms, barry of 6 argent and gules, an eagle displayed gules. Blank on the verso. Decoration: Allegorical female figures, the central one holding a flaming vessel; medallions in the border (as in Part 12), representing Virtù, Concordia, Felicità, Pace, Clementia, Sapientia. Part 15. 1 leaf. [Dogale]. Latin. Commission of Pasquale Cicogna (doge, 1585-95) to __?___ Muazzo as Podestà of A__?___a: the text has been scraped and is only partially legible. Muazzo arms as on Part 13. Decoration: The appointee and the allegorical representation of Venice adore a vision of the Crucifixion. The attribution is in the same hand as that of the person who made attributions of artist to Parts. 1 and 13. Assigned Date: s. XVIex. Part 16. 1 leaf. [Dogale]. Latin. Arms of Corner, per pale or and azure, an eagle displayed sable (Rietstap, vol. 2, pl. 128 ). Blank on the verso. Decoration: The figure of Venice rises from the lagoon and is crowned by a cherub, while Christ leans down from the clouds to point at the Doge's Palace and the Piazzetta San. Marco. Part 17. 1 leaf. [Dogale]. Latin. Two coats of arms, unidentified: on the left, argent, a lion rampant holding a fleur-de-lis (tincture uncertain), and on the right, gules, a mullet of 6 points or between 2 serpents (?) erect combatant. Blank on the verso. Decoration: The allegory of Justice sits with one foot on the globe, attended by 2 women supporting shields with coats of arms. Part 18. [Dogale]. 1 leaf. Latin. Space for St. Mark's lion at the top of the border, and that for the arms of the appointee at the bottom are painted brown. Blank on the verso. Decoration: Justice seated on the lion, rests her foot on the globe. Part 19. [Dogale]. 1 leaf. Latin. Commission from Niccolò da Ponte (doge, 1578-85) to Daniele Foscarini as "Locotenens" of Udine. Foscarini arms, or a bend lozengy azure (Rietstap, vol. 2, pl. 347 ). Script: Square capitals; Humanistic; Italic. Decoration: Justice, with her foot on the globe, sits between Truth and Temperance (?). Part 20. 1 leaf. [Dogale]. Latin. Arms of Duodo, as on arts. 10 and 22, and the inscription: "Procurator creatus anno 1587 28 Martii anno aetatis suae LXVIII mens VI." Blank on the verso. In the border are the arms of Corfù (now Kerkyra), Udine, Padua, Brescia, Bergamo and the Procuratia. Decoration: Christ Triumphant appears before the appointee; in the background the sea and a red ship are visible. Part 21. 1 leaf. [Dogale]. Latin. Arms, apparently of Fesso, azure, 2 bendlets or. On the verso, the space for the heading with the doge's name and the text space for the appointee's name have been left blank, although in the same hand as the rest of the text, the designation of office (Podestà) and of place (Treviso) have been inscribed. Decoration: Justice standing in an architectural niche (of simple execution). Part 22. 1 leaf. [Dogale]. Latin. Commission of Pietro Loredan (doge, 1567-70) to Francesco Duodo as Podestà of Bergamo. Duodo arms as on Parts 10 and 20; inscription: "Non nobis domine non nobis gloria tibi soli." Decoration: Shield held by Justice, and beside her 2 women hold the shields of Bergamo and Udine, while Neptune supports that of Corfù (Kerkyra). Assigned Date: s. XVI3/4. Part 23. 1 leaf. [Dogale]. Latin. Commission from Alvise Mocenigo (doge, 1570-77) to Giovan Marcello as Commissioner and Captain of Legnago and Porto (in the province of Verona). Marcello arms as on Part 2. Script: Square capitals; Italic. Decoration: John the Baptist presenting the appointee to Mark who hands him his commission; in the center, a vision of Christ Triumphant. Possibly by the same artist as in Parts 4, 25, and 26. Part 24. 1 leaf. [Dogale]. Latin. No arms, possibly because the painting has been severely trimmed and no border remains. Blank on the verso. Decoration: Judith, still holding the sword, places the severed head of Holofernes in a bag held by a servant. Part 25. 1 leaf. [Dogale]. Latin. Commission of Alvise Mocenigo (doge, 1570-77) to Girolamo Mocenigo as "Locotenens" of Udine. No arms, although the 2 5-petalled blue flowers set into the top of the architectural border may indicate Mocenigo, per fess azure and argent, a rose counterchanged (Rietstap, vol. 4, pl. 219 ); see arts. 26 and 30. Inscription: "Anno II Magnae Navalis Victoriae Dei Gratia contra Turcas [sic] M D LXXII," referring to the battle of Lepanto. Decoration: Venice crowned by Mark. Possibly by the same artist who painted Parts 4, 23 and and 26. Part 26. 1 leaf. [Dogale]. Latin. Arms of Mocenigo, as in Parts 25 and 30. Inscription: "Cum esset annorum quinquaginta magistratumque gereret sapientis terre firme electus fuit locumtenens Utini." Blank on the verso. Decoration: The kneeling appointee in purple robes receives book from a pope, at whose sides stand a doge and a king (representing Pius V, Alvise Mocenigo and Philip I of Spain?) Possibly by the same artist as in Parts 4, 23 and 25. Part 27. 1 leaf. [Dogale]. Latin. No arms. Blank on the verso. Decoration: An allegorical figure in armor stands on a pedestal, with Truth and Justice on either side. Part 28. 1 leaf. [Dogale]. Latin. Commission of Niccolò da Ponte (doge, 1578-85) to Jacopo Leoni as Podestà and Captain of Capodistria. Leoni arms as on Part 7. Decoration: Virgin and Child, rather coarsely done. Part 29. 1 leaf. [Dogale]. Latin. Arms of Bolano, as on Part 5. Blank on the verso. Decoration: St. Mark's lion stands with 2 feet on the water and 2 on land; the saints on either side are Anthony abbot and Mark; the painting is of mediocre quality. Part 30. 1 leaf. [Dogale]. Latin. Commission of Pietro Lando (doge, 1539-45) to Andrea Mocenigo as Podestà of Padua. Mocenigo arms as in Parts 25 and 26. Decoration: The Virgin and Child are in the center between Elizabeth and John the Baptist; Jerome and Andrew in medallions in the border. Script and style of decoration are the same as those in Part. 31. Assigned Date: s. XVI2/4. Part 31. 1 leaf. [Dogale]. Latin. Commission from Pietro Lando (doge, 1539-45) to Gaspare Raineri as Commissioner of Asolo. Raineri arms, per pale, argent, a chevron sable counter-changed (Rietstap, vol. 5, pl. 122 , which, however, is argent and vert). Decoration: The appointee kneeling before the Virgin and Child; Mary Magdalene (?) in a medallion in the border. Part 32. 1 leaf. [Dogale]. Latin. Commission from Marcantonio Trevisan (doge, 1553-54) to Francesco Pisani as Podestà of Treviso. Pisani arms, per fess, azure and argent a lion rampant counterchanged (Rietstap, vol. 5, pl. 62). Decoration: Christ blesses the kneeling appointee, who is presented by John the Baptist; in the background, Piazzetta San Marco. Assigned Date: s. XVImed. Part 33. 1 leaf. [Dogale]. Latin. Commission of Girolamo Priuli (doge, 1559-67) to Agostino Bembo as "Comes" of Traù (now Trogir). Bembo arms, azure, a chevron or, 3 roses or (Rietstap, vol. 1, pl. 173); also on Part 36. Decoration: In an architectural niche 2 figures embrace; below, in the inscription, "Iustitia et Pax Osculatae sunt" and "Virtutis Illustris Comes Benefactorum Merces." Part 34. 1 leaf. [Dogale]. Latin. No arms. Blank on the verso. Decoration: A bishop kneels in adoration before the Virgin and Child; the Child is holding a gold cross. Part 35. 1 leaf. [Dogale]. Latin. Arms of Pasqualigo, barry of 6 or and argent (Rietstap, vol. 5, pl. 17, where the colors are or and azure); also on Part 37. Decoration: The figure of Justice hands her scales and sword to a man in classical dress with 2 lions. Part 36. 1 leaf. [Dogale]. Latin. Arms of Bembo, as on Part 33. Blank on the verso. Decoration: The appointee receives his commission from a crowned Justice. Part 37. 1 leaf. [Dogale]. Latin. Arms of Pasqualigo, barry of 6 or and azure (Rietstap, vol. 5, pl. 17); also on Part 35. Blank on the verso. Decoration: A saint in classical dress hands his commission to the elderly appointee; out of a window an army is visible. Part 38. 4 cuttings. [Antiphonal fragments]. Latin. The cuttings, all from the same book, vary in size: 1) 170 x 150 mm; 2) 110 x 133 mm; 3) 115 x 117 mm; 4) 107 x 130 mm. Decoration: 4 historiated initials: Nativity; male saint with book and a knife (?); Presentation in the temple; Massacre of the Innocents. A modern hand on the second cutting offers the attribution to "Girolamo de Libri de Padua __?___." Assigned Date: s. XV.

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