Search Results: Titles starting with M from Littera Scripta

"Then the king being angry, commanded frying pans and brazen cauldrons to be made hot: which forthwith being heated. "
Recto: Latin text written in black & brown ink on fine vellum in an extremely precise gothic minuscule script in two columns of 47 lines. The scribe appears to have used two different inks. Ruled in red, versal initials touched in yellow. Heading CHA II (half of the abbreviated running title of MACHABEES II) and chapter number VII in red and blue. One two-line initial 'C' in blue with intricate red penwork extending the full length of the page. Two "manicules" (pointing hands) in the left margin.
Verso: As Recto with the heading MA II and an eight-line red initial 'I' with blue penwork beginning chapter 8. The decorative penwork from the initial extends the length of the page, as Recto.
Origin: Northern France, doubtless Paris.
Date: Mid-13th century, c. 1250.
Content:The text consists of sections of chapters 6 & 8 and all of chapter 7 of the Second Book of Maccabees. The blue initial… Read More

Verso:Text in Latin written in two columns on high quality vellum in black ink in three sizes of an assured Gothic bookhand. Pricking marks on the right margin. Ruled in red, rubrics in red and some initials touched in yellow. Eight exquisite two-line illuminated initials in pink and blue outlined in black and finished with fine white penwork. The initials are on highly burnished gold grounds and infilled with a variety of coloured foliate designs. Four have illuminations radiating into the margins of black tendrils bearing coloured acanthus and other flowers, green leaves and burnished gold ivy leaves and bezants.
Recto: As Recto, with a further nine equally fine two-line illuminated initials.
Origin: Northern France/Flanders, for the Use of Sarum (Salisbury).
Date: c.1475
Content: The illuminated initial 'C' at the bottom of the left column on Verso begins the antiphon:
Convertimini ad me in toto corde vestro in jejunio et fletu et planctu ait dominus et scindite corda vestra et non… Read More

"afflict not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, nor oppress them unjustly"
Recto: Latin text written in black ink on fine vellum in an extremely precise gothic minuscule script in two columns of 47 lines. Ruled in red, versal initials touched in red. Heading 'RE' (half of the abbreviated running title of 'IERE' (IEREMIAS), and chapter numbers in red and blue. One five-line initial 'H' and one two-line initial 'V' in blue and red with intricate red and blue penwork embellishments extending the full length of the page. Interestingly, in the right margin are words that the scribe originally omitted and has added later. (see Notes).
Verso: As Recto with the heading 'IE' and one two-line coloured initial 'V'. The decorative penwork from the initial extends the length of the page, as Recto.
Origin: Northern France, doubtless Paris.
Date: Mid-13th century, c. 1250.
Content:The text on Recto beginning Chapter 22 at the red initial 'H' reads:
Haec dicit Dominus descende in domum regis Iuda et… Read More

Complete chapters 43,44,45, with sections of 42 & 46.
Recto: Latin text written in black ink on fine vellum in an extremely precise gothic minuscule script in two columns of 47 lines. Ruled in red, versal initials touched in red. Heading 'RE' (half of the abbreviated running title of 'IERE' (IEREMIAS) and chapter numbers in red and blue. One four-line initial 'F' in blue with intricate red and blue penwork embellishments extending the full length of the page. One two-line initial 'V' in red with similar embellishments.
Verso: As Recto with the heading 'IE' and two two-line coloured initials 'V' and 'Q'. The decorative penwork from the initials extends the length of the page, as Recto.
Origin: Northern France, doubtless Paris.
Date: Mid-13th century, c. 1250.
Content:The text on Recto beginning at the blue four-line 'F' reads:
Factum est autem, cum complesset Jeremias loquens ad populum universos sermones Domini Dei eorum, pro quibus miserat eum Dominus Deus eorum ad illos, omnia verba hæc,
Dixit… Read More

pp. lxxxii, 315; 8 pages of b/w plates, chronological outline, notes, index; hardback, dustjacket with minor wear, clipped, good copy.
James Hardy Vaux was a quick-witted and notorious pick-pocket and swindler who flourished in the early nineteenth century. He gives vivid descriptions of the London underworld and his life in the penal settlement under Governors King and Macquarie.