New Search Name Didot, Ambroise, author, publisher and collector, 1790-1876

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1. Add MS 30861

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Add MS 30861
Title:
DECII Junii Juvenalis Satyrarum libri v.; with contemporary interlinear and marginal glosses and notes. The following lines are wanting : Sat. viii., 113-144, 273-275; ix., 1-28, 61-93; x., 91-93 ; xiv., 157-188, 262, 278; xv. 146-174; and the whole of Sat. xvi. On f. 32, in a contemporary hand, is the following couplet :- Presul Eberhardus Christi famulamine parcus Hunc tribuit librum Christi genetricis ad usum." Vellum; ff. 113. xith cent. From the library of Ambroise Firmin Didot, 1850. Quart...
Scope & Content:
Decimus Junius Juvenalis: Satyræ: 11th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11th century
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 30862

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Title:
PUBLII Ovidii Nasonis Heroides sive Epistolæ; with a few notes. Imperfect; wanting Ep.xv., "Sappho Phaoni" Ep.xvi. ll 39-142, Ep. xxi. 11. 13-248. The two last lines of Ep. vii. have been interpolated by a later hand. At the end, f. 48, is an Italian poem of 137 lines on the Virgin Mary, in a 16th cent. hand (actually Petrarch's Vergine bella, che di sol vestita (Canzoniere, 366)), and on f. 48 b is written, in Greek characters, "Iste liber est Petri, Gregorius frater ejus seripsit." Vellum; ff....
Scope & Content:
Publius Ovidius Naso, Roman poet: Heroides: 14th cent. includes: f. 48 Saint Mary,; the Blessed Virgin: Poem on: 16th cent.: Ital. f. 48 b Poetry: Poem on the Virgin Mary: 16th cent.: Ital. f. 48 b Petrarch's Vergine bella, che di sol vestita (Canzoniere, 366).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 30863

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Title:
" LE Roman de Troie, par Benoît de Ste Maure." Imperfect; beginning at line 1443 and ending at line 27,422 of the printed edition, Benoît de Sainte More et le Roman de Troie, par A. Joly, Paris, 1870. Several leaves have been mutilated. At the foot of f. 14 b is the following. " A madame de Martignie madame Mauleurier saluz et bonne amor." Vellum; ff. 132. xiiith cent. From the library of Ambroise Firmin Didot. Large Octavo.
Scope & Content:
ancient town of Troy, Asia Minor: Roman de Troie: 13th cent. Benoît de Sainte Maure: Roman de Troie: 13th cent. Romances: Roman de Troie: 13th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 30864

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Title:
VOEUX du Paon: by Jacques de Longuyon. The second and third parts of the chanson only, containing the taking and accomplisliment of the vows. There is a lacuna after f. 76. With eight miniatures. The book appears to have formerly belonged to the Barons De Roos or Ros, and the " byll " on If. 1*, 2* for " Lady Gartyrede " may refer to Gertrude, eldest daughter of Thomas, 13th Baron Ros, who married Gilbert, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury. Vellum; ff.81. From the library of Ambroise Firmin Didot,and havin...
Scope & Content:
Voeux du Paon: A romance: 14th cent. Romances: Voeux du Paon: 14th cent. Jacques de Longuyon: Voeux du Paon: 14th cent. includes: f. 1* Gertrude Talbot, daughter of Thomas, 13th Baron Ros, and wife of George, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury: Accompt probably referring to her: 16th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 14th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 31827

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Add MS 31827
Title:
1. COMMENTARY on the Odes, Epodes and Carmen Sæculare of Horace. Imperfect, beg. Bk. I., ode iii., 1. 13. Lat. f. 2. 2. P. Terenti comoediæ tres, viz. Andria, f. 10 ;-Eunuchus, f. 20 b;- lleautontimorumenos, f. 35. With interlinear and marginal commentary. The last play is imperfect, ending in act ii., sc. 3, 1. 98 (ed. Umpfenbach, 1870, p. 211). At the end of each of the others is the note " Calliopivs recensvi." 3. Q. Horati Flacci Ars Poetica et Epistolæ. The Epistles are imperfect, consistin...
Scope & Content:
Liturgies LATIN: Fragments of a service-book with pneums: 12th cent. Bindings FRENCH: Boards covered with skin, with iron hook: 14th or 15th cent. includes: f. 1 b Capud rotundum, Bertrannus called: Grant of tricenarium to: 13th cent. f. 2 Quintus Horatius Flaccus, poet: Commentary on the Odes, Epod...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
12th century-1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 31828

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PETRI de Riga Aurora, sive Biblia metrica. Vellum; ff. 90. Late xiiith cent. Bound in boards, covered with skin. " Hune librum dedit Magister Thedericus, phisicus, Carthusiensibus Treuerensibus," etc. From the library of A. Firmin Didot. Large Octavo.
Scope & Content:
Thedericus, Magister, Physicus: Gave to the Carthusians of Treves. Petrus de Riga: Aurora: 13th cent. Bindings FRENCH: Boards covered with skin: 14th cent. Bibles Bible Histories, Paraphrases and Abridgments: P. de Riga Aurora: 13th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 13th century
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 31829

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Title:
BOETHIUS de consolatione philosophiæ: an Italian version, printed under the title Boezio della consolazione, volgarizzato da maestro Alberto [dalla Piagentina] Fiorentino, etc., Firenze, 1735. Vellum; ff. 79. xvth cent. From the library of A. Firmin Didot. Octavo.
Scope & Content:
Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus Boethius: De consolatione philosophiæ: 15th cent.: Ital.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 39843

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Title:
LA SAINTE ABBAYE, and other religious treatises, in French, originally a part of the same volume as Add. MS. 28162, which contains La Somme le Roy. The contents are :- (1) Treatise without title, beg. " La sainte abbaie et la religion doit estre fondee esperituelment," ends " et einsi sera labbaie ordenee et renformee comme deuant." Other copies of this work are in Add. MSS. 20697, f. 29 (imperfect), 29986, f. 149 b (with several variants), and Brussels, Royal Library, MS. 2304 (old no. 9555-8),...
Scope & Content:
Henry Yates Thompson, manuscript collector: Bookplates. Theology French: La Sainte Abbaye, and other treatises: circ. 1300. Bookplates: Thompson (Henry Yates), d. 1928. Art. Illuminations and Drawings FRENCH: La Sainte Abbaye, etc. : miniatures and initials: circ. 1300. includes: ff. 1, 6, 29, 52 'J...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1300
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 50132

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Add MS 50132
Title:
LETTERS TO WILLIAM RICHARD HAMILTON (b. 1777, d. 1859), diplomat and antiquary; 1853-1859. Partly French and Italian. Partly (ff. 142-182b) printed. Alphabetically arranged. Followed (ff. 131-141) by notes by, or relating to, Hamilton and his family. Transferred from the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum. Paper; ff. 182.
Scope & Content:
William Richard Hamilton, antiquary and diplomatist: Letters to,: 1853-1859. includes: ff. 1-4 Reverend John Barlow, Secretary, Royal Institution: Letters to W. R. Hamilton,: 1857-1858. ff. 5-7 Mary Frances Howley, wife of W Howley, Archbishop of Canterbury: Letter to W. R. Hamilton,: 1857. f. 6b Wi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
1853-1859
Extent:
1 item

10. Yates Thompson MS 11

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Yates Thompson MS 11
Title:
Collection of moral tracts
Scope & Content:
This collection of moral tracts originally formed one volume with the Somme le Roy, Add. MS 28162. The manuscript includes: ff. 2r-7r: Traité de la sainte abbaye; incipit: 'La sainte abbaie e la religion doit estre fondee...' ff. 7r-28: Traité de l'amour de Dieu; incipit: 'Vous vouliez que je vous e...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
c 1290-c 1300
Extent:

1 volume