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Decorated initials, cuttings : [manuscript]

Description: 3 sets of cuttings. Latin. Cuttings of decorated letters from a choirbook (or several choirbooks) arranged according to the letter: I or M or G.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: [14th century]
Call number: mssHM 47643
Provenance: All three manuscripts written in Italy. The "M" initials originally framed and glazed, the frame with a printed label "P. J. BACHMANN / FINE ARTS," the probable source of all parts of HM 47642 and 47643. Alice Millard (d. 1938), rare book dealer of Pasadena. Mounts and labels inscribed in pencil with stock(?)-numbers, e.g. "#18," and "from the Millard Collection" and "formerly PSS 389."
Restrictions: RESTRICTED. Available with curatorial approval. Requires extended retrieval and delivery time.
Dimensions: 80 x 430 mm
Associated organization: Henry E. Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
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Decorative Initials

Visual Materials

One set of initial sheets entitled Decorative Initials, published by Davis Press, Worcester, Massachusetts, ca. 1920. This set is comprised of 13 sheets of decorative initials and appears to consist of sheets from two or three different sets. The sheets are unnumbered and unlabeled and are housed within a paper envelope entitled: Decorative Initials: Made by the Davis Press for Use in Schools. A descriptive paragraph states there are 92 initials within this group. "M. Spofford" is written in ms. on the verso of one of the leaves.

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Jernegan family book of hours: [manuscript], late 15th century

Manuscripts

Book of Hours of the Jernegan family, England; text is in Latin, with decorated initials, no miniatures.

mssHM 56796

Factorum et dictorum memorabilium libri novem : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. i, 1-128v. [Valerius Maximus] Factorum et dictorum memorabilium libri novem. Incipit: Maiores nostri statas solennesque cerimonias pontificium scientia . . . [Rubric within the ruled space, and with decorated initial:] Incipit narrare suum propositum cum exemplis, Tantum autem studium antiquis non solum servande. Explicit: clementer [sic] imperio imminens iusto impendere supplicio coegit. Maximi vallerii viri clarissimi nonus et ultimus liber explicit. Deo gratias Amen. Rubric: De religione capitulum primum narrat. Latin. C. Kempf, ed., Valerii Maximi factorum et dictorum memorabilium libri novem (Leipzig 1898) 1-587; see also D. M. Schullian, "A Revised List of Manuscripts of Valerius Maximus," in Miscellanea Augusto Campana. Medioevo e Umanesimo 44, 45 (Padua 1981) 695-728, including HM 1026 on p. 720. Text is preceded by a chapter list and a prologue.

mssHM 1026

Sermons : [manuscript]/ by Geoffroy Babion and others

Manuscripts

f. ii; f. ii verso blank. [Gregory I]. [Letter from Gregory I to Empress Constantina Augusta of Byzamntium concerning apostolic relics]. Incipit: Serenitas vestre pietatis religionis studio et sanctitatis amore perspicua. Explicit: multa miracula in populo demonstrantur partem//. Rubric: Gregorius Constantine Auguste. Latin. Other creator(s): Constantina Augusta, Empress of Byzantium, addressee. S. Gregorii Magni: Registrum epistularum libri I-VII, edited by Dag Norberg, Corpus Christianorum, Series Latina, 140a (Turnhout, 1982), IV.30 at pp. 248-250, the manuscript ending 8 lines from the end in the printed edition. Status of text: Ending unfinished. ff. 1v-2v. Latin. Table of contents, not including the Hildebert items, with a list of 76 sermons numbered in roman numerals, each with an interlinear superscript rubric ("ad populum","ad monachas","ad eos qui sub regula vivunt","in dedicatione basilice", etc.); these rubrics sometimes appear as part of the rubrics in the main text. ff. 3-210. [Geoffroy Babion]. [Sermons]. Latin. Other creator(s): Ivo of Chartres, attributed to; Augustine, attributed to. ff. 210-220v. [Hildebert of Lavardin]. [Sermons]. Latin. After two sermons by Hildebert, a letter: on f. 218, Epistola episcopi cenomannorum .i. ad quandam reclusam. Humilis cenomannorum episcopus .I. A.[delae] sue domine atque dilecte ... ending imperfectly near the end, at"... Eius astutia factum est; ut de prima muliere //" (PL 171:149-153).

mssHM 58202

Portolan atlas, Italian : [cartographic material] : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-14v. [Francesco Ghisolfi] Latin. Contains 11 maps, etc.: 1, Blank except for decorated border and "Phillipps MS 22796" inscribed in center; 2, Western Mediterranean; 3, Table of declinations and armillary sphere; 4, the 2 hemispheres (showing western America linked to Asia); 5, Oval map of the world; 6, Planisphere with signs of zodiac and figures representing seasons; 7, Indian Ocean, Africa, Arabia, India, and part of Asia; 8, Central Mediterranean and Italy; 9, Pacific Ocean with portions of North and South America, East Indies, part of China; 10, Eastern Mediterranean and Aegean Sea; 11, Western Mediterranean, Iberian peninsula, Northwest Africa; 12, Eastern coast of North America, South America, Atlantic Ocean, Europe (including Scandinavia), Africa, Near East; 13, World in 5 gores (decorated at top and bottom with signs of the zodiac and other figures); 14, Black Sea.

mssHM 28

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Epistolae ad familiares : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-218v. [Cicero] Epistulae ad familiares. Incipit: Marcus Tullius Cicero Publio Lentulo salutem plurimam dicit, Ego omni officio ac potius pietate erga te. Explicit: in medio foro videro dissiaviabo [sic]. Me ama. Vale. Finis. M.T.C. Epistolarum Liber Decimus Sextus Et Ultimus Explicit Feliciter. Rubric: M.T.C. epistolarum liber primus incipit. Latin. H. Sjögren, ed., M. Tullii Ciceronis . . . epistularum ad familiares libri I-XVI (Leipzig 1925) 5-558.

mssHM 1028

Decorated initials, cuttings : [manuscript]

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