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Add MS 34120

Record Id:
032-002025094
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-002025094
MDARK:
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LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 34120
Title:

1. " THE ART OF LIMEINGE; an expert and compendious discourse concerning the art of Minatura or Limeinge " : the " Miniatura " of Daniel King (see other copies in Add. 12,461 and Harl. 6000, the former being King's presentation copy to Mary, daughter of Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax). f 1. At the end (f. 30) the scribe has written " Michaell Yffington fecit." Added are:-(a) Recipes for writing in gold, engraving, and making varnish. f. 31;-(b) " The practice of that famous Limmer Hippolito Donato, liuing in Rome, in a small picture of Christ." f. 34;-(c) " To make Indian inck " and other pigments. f. 35;-(d) " The manner of annealing and painting upon glasse." f. 37;-(e) Directions for making " Japan vernish," perfuming gloves and starch, and dyeing straws, and for making cement or coral, and wax-work figures. ff. 42-46. Reversing the volume:-

2. " Methodus Grammaticæ ": an essay on the study of grammar. Lat. f. 9 lb.

3. " Fictorum numinum et heroum historia a summary of Greek and Roman mythology. f. 88 b.

4. Medical recipes, chiefly for stone in the kidney. f. 74 b.

5. " Chronologia quædam ": brief annals of the world to A.D. 1660, preceded by an introduction on systems of chronology. Lat. f. 58 b. Paper; ff. 92. xviith cent. With the initials E. B. stamped on the covers; and with a modern book-plate containing the arms azure, a demi-lion rampant couped, surrounded by the motto " Sub robore virtus," from which is suspended the cross of a Knight Pensioner of Charles III. of Spain. Small Octavo.

Scope & Content:

E- B: Initials E. B. stamped on.

includes:

  • f. 1 Daniel King: Copy of his" Miniatura": 17th cent.
  • f. 1 Art. Treatises: TREATISES, etc. D. King's " Miniatura": 17th cent.
  • f. 30 Michael Uffington: Signature, as scribe: 17th cent.
  • ff. 31-46 Art. Treatises: Directions for making colours, etc.: 17th cent.
  • f. 34 Hippolito Donato: Practice of, in painting, described: 17th cent.
  • f. 58 b Chronology: "Chronologia quædam ": annals of the world to A.D. 1660;: 17th cent.: Lat.
  • f. 74 b Recipes: Medical,: 15th cent.; circ. 1655 - 1680.
  • f. 88 b Mythology: "Fictorum numinum et heroum historia": 17th cent.: Lat.
  • f. 91 b Grammar: "Methodus Grammaticæ": 17th cent.: Lat.

Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Additional Manuscripts
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Hierarchy Record Ids:
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Hierarchy:
032-002025094
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
1 item
Digitised Content:
Languages:
English
Latin
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
17th century
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Donato, Hippolito, miniature painter, fl before 1634
King, Daniel, of Add MS 34120
Uffington, Michael