Western Libraries Digitized Collections

9 items

• Manuscript book of prayers, 15th century, circa A.D. 1450 : Rugby School Library : the gift of Matthew Holbeche Bloxam on his 78th birthday, 12th May 1883
  
  Book of hours, Use of Paris, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, single column, 17 lines, in black and red ink in a regular gothic bookhand, miniature of the Virgin and Child and one page with elaborate margins of floral decoration in gold, blue and green, numerous one and two-line initials, 19th century leather covered boards, [Paris], [c. 1450]
• MS128 Western : German book of hours : manuscript
  
  Title derived by cataloguer. Copied after 1461. Binding dated 1637. A paragraph in French on front flyleaf accurately describing the manuscript, added at a later date. Provides instructions for using the Hours of the Virgin for the entire calendar year. It is empathically Dominican.
• Ethiopian manuscript
  
  A religious text, possibly Coptic, from Abyssinia. Possibly includes some early neumatic notation. More information to come after the resource is catalogued.
• MS114 Buck: mini antiphoner, Cardinal deChanac: manuscript
  
  Owned by Cardinal deChanac. Leather bound with clasp. Double-sided, with neumes and Latin words in black and red ink, initials in red ink. First initial decorated with blue, black, red and gold ink. Neumes in black ink, on a four-line staff in red, with interlinear words. Hand written notes in French on front and back pages. Page numbering in light pencil. Stored in book shaped padded clamshell.
• Au bon coin : vaudeville en un acte : manuscript
  
  Manuscript, in an unidentified hand, of an early version of the play La fiancée du bon coin, by Eugène Labiche and Marc-Michel, with a folded wrapper annotated by Labiche. "Manuscrit de copiste d'une première version, portant sur la couverture le cachet du Bureau central des Copies dramatiques Enouf, soigneusement établi, avec les noms et didascalies soulignés à l'encre rouge, et l'emplacement des couplets réservé ; intitulé Au bon coin, il donne un texte différent du texte définitif, avec une petite addition marginale par Labiche (p. 37) ; le feuillet d'enveloppe est annoté par Labiche : ± La fiancée du bon coin (1er manuscrit de Marc-Michel) »."--Provided by vendor. Includes small marginal notation by Labiche on page 37.
• Lettres et souvenirs d'Eugène Labiche
  
  "Leveaux renvoit aux lettres nombreuses de Labiche, inclus dans ces notices, partiellement avec ses réponses. En 42 passages chronologiques Leveaux décrit le developpement privat et professionnel de l'amitié avec Labiche, en commencent avec le voyage commun jusqu'a la Sicilie en 1834, leurs fascination par le theatre et le developpement de leurs liaisons familiales."--Bookseller's description. Manuscript, in Leveaux's hand.
• MS011 Western : Persian manuscript
  
  Devised title based on vendor's description. Copied by the scribe Ahmadallah, known as Hakim. "Masnavi [Sufi Poetry]...Persian manuscript on paper, 650 pp., text written horizontally in two columns of 17 lines to the page in small nast'aliq script in black ink, and approximately 32 lines written diagonally in inner borders of each page, catchwords written in outer borders, inner and outer borders ruled in blue, red and gold, significant verses picked out in red ink throughout, text interspersed with illuminated corner-pieces decorated with floral motifs in colours and gold, one double page of illumination in colours and gold at the beginning incorporating the opening verses of the poem (torn at inner margin just into illumination), text interspersed with other illuminated pages throughout, seal impression of "Nur Muhammad" at end, some marginal water-staining and a few repairs to edges, contemporary calf, gilt, lower joint cracked, 8vo (219 x 125mm.), Kashmir, 5th Jumada al-Thani, A.H. 1243 / [24th December 1827]." --Provided by vendor.
• Book of hours: Canon Grandel's Prayer Book
  
  Book of hours, decorated initials, prayer book, Tournai use Contains hundreds of decorated initials, with a pre-French Revolution provenance at the Capuchin friary in Lille, a named owner, Canon Grandel, in a local eighteenth-century binding probably dateable to 1734. Almost certainly produced in Lille, French Flanders (under Spanish rule from 1477, or (less likely) in south Flanders, possible Bruges ... Written for male use, according to the emasculine forms of the Obsecro te and O intemerata"-- frp, bookdealer's description in catalogue.
• MS113 Toswell
  
  Leather bound with clasp. Latin words in black and red ink, initials in black, blue and red ink. Neumes in black ink, on a four-line staff in red, with interlinear words. Every other page numbered in light pencil.