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Observatoire de Nice. Souvenir de l'association Internationale Géodésique (Session 1887). Entrée du Gd. Equatorial. Photographer: Disdéri, André Adolphe Eugène
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Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait of delegates and family members, gathered on the steps of the Great Equatorial Telescope building of Nice Observatory. A printed key on the following page identifies the participants as: Col. de Stefanis (delegate, from Florence), Capt. Defforges (dele...
Bible, with prologues and the Interpretation of Hebrew Names ('The Fécamp Bible')
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Contents: f. ii recto: Partial index of readings, added in the 13th century. ff. 1r-4v: Jerome’s preface to the Vulgate. ff. 4v-524v: Bible. ff. 525r-572v: Interpretationes Hebraicorum nominum (Interpretations of Hebrew Names), an alphabetical list of Hebrew names found in the Bible, with a ...
This manuscript is a collectar, a liturgical book containing the collects used in the Divine Offices. The volume is known as the 'Ottobeuren Collectar', after the Benedictine abbey of St Alexander and Theodor, in Ottobeuren, Germany, where it was probably commissioned or made by a monk called Re...
Book of Hours, Use of Rome ('The Hours of Jacques de Brégilles')
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Book of Hours, Use of Rome, including a calendar (ff. 1r-12v), and with later notes on the family of Jacques de Brégilles, French (ff. 194r-v), an added prayer to the Virgin Mary in French, 16th c (ff. 204r-209v), and a 16th c French verse (f. 210r). ff. 41v, 178v, 186v-186*v are blank. Decora...
Contents: f. [iii] recto: Notes on the purchase of the manuscript from Jean-Bénigne Lucotte, seigneur du Tilliot. ff. 1r-6v: Calendar. ff. 7r-v: Suffrage to the Trinity (using masculine forms). ff. 9r-12v: Gospel extracts. ff. 13r-19v: Passion narrative (John 18:1-19:42) and a prayer ff....
Book of Hours, Use of Rome, including calendar (ff. 1r-12v). Decoration: The decoration of the opening page of the manuscript has been attributed to Niccola Rapicano, and the remaining decoration to Cristoforo Majorana (see Alexander and de la Mare, Italian Manuscripts (1969), p. 78 n. 1). 4...
Book of Hours, Use of Rome ('The Hours of Dionora of Urbino')
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Book of Hours, Use of Rome. Known as the 'Hours of Dionora of Urbino', after its owner Eleanor (Dionora) Gonzaga della Rovere (b. 1493, d. 1550), wife of Francesco Maria I della Rovere, (b. 1490, d. 1538), Duke of Urbino . ff. 46, 51v, 104, 109v are 18th-century English replacements of missing ...
Contents: A copy of the Bible, containing Proverbs-Revelation. This manuscript was formerly known as Add MS 41751 and is the second of two volumes, the first being Harley MS 616, which contains Genesis-Psalms (incomplete). This two-volume Bible is one of the three extant manuscripts of the Fre...
Psalter and Book of Hours, Use of Arras, with prayers added in the mid-14th century (ff. 1v-3v). ff. 4r, 16v-17r, 196v, 329r-330v, 388v are blank. Decoration: The manuscript belongs to a wider group attributed to a workshop active in Arras at the end of the 13th century (see Randall , Medieva...