Search Manuscripts/Mixed Material

  •
    Manuscript/Mixed Material
    [Bible in Latin]
    Byname: Biblia latina | Text begins, vol. 1: Incipit epistola beati Iheronimi presbiteri ad Paulinu[m] de omnibus diuine historie libris Capl'm primum | Text begins, vol. 2: Incipit Prefacio b[ea]ti Iheronimi presbiteri In libro ysaie prophete     Ms. codexes. Latin. Title and description taken from the full description in Library of Congress. Medieval and Renaissance manuscript books in the Library of Congress, v. 1, p. 41-61, by Svato Schutzner. Very regular littera textualis formata, one hand throughout. Ink black to grayish black. Two columns, 60 lines. Decoration: initials, mostly unfinished, and some borders. Several historiated initials ... probably by more than...
    • Contributor: Mainzer Dom - Rosenwald, Lessing J. (Lessing Julius) - Bernhard - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1452

    Resources: View All Images | PDF View All Images | PDF

  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    De re militari. When this military treatise was completed around 1460, the patron, Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, distributed a number of manuscript copies to rulers such as Louis XI, Francesco Sforza, and Lorenzo de' Medici. Twenty-two handwritten copies survive. In 1472, the book appeared in print in this Latin edition, which was followed in 1483 by an Italian version. The novelty of the publication lay less in the...
    • Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Valturio, Roberto
    • Date: 14??

    Resource: View All Images | PDF

  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    De re militari. Manuscript on paper. Signatures (with catchwords at end of each): [a-s¹⁰, t²⁺]. Humanistic script. Illuminated initials; headings in red; sepia drawings colored in part. Leaves [106]-[107] and a few leaves at end wanting. Leaf [Ia]: ELENCHVS ET INDEX RER[um] militarium; leaf [4a]: Ad MAGNANIMVM ET ILLVSTREM HEROA SIGISMVNDVM PANDVLFVM MALATESTAM ... ROBERTI VALTVRRII REI MILITARIS VOLVMINVM PREFATIO; leaf [181b]: (book 12, last chapter): plurima...
    • Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Franck, Peter - Valturio, Roberto
    • Date: 14??

    Resource: View All Images | PDF

  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    [Encyclopedic manuscript containing allegorical and medical drawings]. An early parent to the modern almanac, these "monthly rules" are often found in astrologically focused medical manuscripts. In the Rosenwald copy, the twelve months of the year, titled in red ink for easy locating, border the central figure affectionally known to medievalists as "Vein Man." Instructions pertaining to each vein surround the body in a system of circles that connect to the pertinent...
    • Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1410

    Resource: View All Images | PDF

  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Speculum regum. Partial text and commentary. Manuscript, on paper, 2 columns, rubricated. Leaves 1-12 misbound between leaves 25 and 26. Begins (leaf [1a]): Speculu[m] r[e]gu[m] co[m]pos[i]tu[m] p[er] Gotfridu[m] Viterbien[sem]; ends (leaf [16b]): Hic a Papa Hono[r]io in Basilica S[an]cti Petri coronat[us]. Et sic e[st] finis hui[us] op[er]is n[unc] laus Deo et o[mn]ib[us] s[an]ctis. Followed by the anonymous Tractatus de occultatione vitiorum sub specie virtutum, beginning (leaf [17a]): Incipit tractat[us] de...
    • Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Godefridus
    • Date: 1478

    Resource: View All Images | PDF

  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Specchio di croce
    Text begins leaf [1]1: In no[m]i[n]e D[o]m[ini] Yh[s]u Xpi crucifixi amen. Questo libro chiama Lo spegio de la croce spripto p[er] vulgaro ad utilitade de queli che no[n] intendeno gramadga. Comenza la prologo. Narra el sancto Evangelio per simiglanza como uno segnore partandose dela sua citade Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Italian. Ms. codex. Manuscript on paper in Gothic script with marginal corrections. Initials and chapter headings in red. Foliation in a later hand. Contemporary wooden board binding with modern rebacking. For watermark see Briquet 5632 Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 10 Library of Congress. Rosenwald collection (1954), 30 Acquired by Lessing J. Rosenwald from the William H. Schab Gallery May 12, 1955,...
    • Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Cavalca, Domenico
    • Date: 1400