Search Results: Authors starting with S from Littera Scripta

"Your praises reflect the music of my heart."
Recto: 18 lines of text in Latin written on vellum in black ink in a Gothic bookhand script. Ruled in red and rubrics in red. Two two-line Lombard style initials alternating in blue and red.
Verso: As Verso, with one two-line and three one-line coloured initials.
Source: Flanders.
Date: c.1475
Content: The text is from The Hours of the Cross. The rubric (in red script) above the two-line initial 'H' reads: De compassione virginis - On the compassion of the Virgin. The text mentions the embalmment of Christ's body and continues: Has horas canonicas maria mater pia. Tue laudi refero cordis simphonia (These canonical hours of the holy Mother Mary. Your praises reflect the music of my heart.)
Condition: The leaf is in excellent condition, with clear text on clean vellum and with brightly coloured initials. Light toning to the outside edge. The leaf is unconditionally guaranteed genuine.
Notes: The Hours of the Cross tell of Christ's Passion, with the… Read More

The "Song of the Three Children", also called "A Song of Creation" or simply The Benedicite, is a canticle taken from the book of Daniel in the Apocrypha. (The Greek translation of Daniel contained material not in the original Hebrew.) The three children, Shadrach, Meshack and Abednego recite or sing this song as they stand in the flames of Nebuchadnezzar's fiery furnace.
Recto: 11 lines of text in Latin written on vellum in a rounded Italian humanist script. Three Lombard-style coloured initials alternating in red and blue.
Verso:As Recto with another three coloured initials.
Origin: Italy.
Date: c.1480
Content: The text is from The Office of Our Blessed Lady at Lauds. It is a section of the "Song of the Three Children" (Daniel 3) on both Recto & Verso.
Recto begins:
[Benedicite montes et colles Domino: benedicite] universa germinantia in terra Domino.
Benedicite fontes Domino: benedicite maria, et flumina Domino.
Benedicite cete, et omnia quae moventur in aquis, Domino: benedicite omnes volucres… Read More

Verso: Twelve lines of text in Latin written in a rounded gothic bookhand on vellum. Ruled in red and rubrics in red. Two two-line illuminated initials 'F' and 'A' alternating in red with blue penwork and blue with red penwork. The penwork is particularly assured with several swirls ending in heart shapes.
Recto: As Verso, with one similar two-line initial 'U'.
Origin: Italy.
Date: c.1460.
Content: The text on Verso beginning at the red initial 'F' reads:
Fidelium Deus omnium conditor, et redemptor animabus famulorum, famularumque tuarum remissionem cunctorum tribue peccatorum:
O God the creator, and redeemer of all the faithful, give unto the souls of thy servants men, and women remission of all their sins:
The initial 'U' on Recto begins the prayer:
Ure igne sancti spiritus renes nostros et cor nostrum, Domine,
(Burn with the fire of the Holy Ghost our loins and our heart, o Lord,)
Condition: The Verso of this small leaf is in excellent condition, beautifully scribed and decorated on high quality… Read More

The leaf is from the Lumen Animae (Light of the Soul), a curious encyclopaedia compiled about 1300 by Berengarius de Landora (see Notes). It gathers together quotations on relevant themes from authors as diverse as Aristotle, Theophrastus, the elder Pliny, Ptolemy, Solinus, Ambrose, Augustine, Jerome, Isidore, Hugh of St Victor, and Avicenna to form a handbook of medieval knowledge of all sorts. It contains chapters on medicine & natural sciences, the human constitution, psychic and abnormal states of the mind, the choice of food, prescriptions for physicians, animals, herbs, minerals, etc. Berengarius' intention was to provide material for illustrative sermons by preachers, to explain the natural and moral world in terms of the all-pervading nature of God. It was immensely popular in the 15th century as a reference work, a late medieval bestseller.
Verso: 43 lines of text in Latin printed in two columns on laid rag paper in two sizes of a Gothic typeface. Headings, capital letters and paragraph… Read More

A "Passion Play" or "Passion Narrative" is a religious drama of medieval origin that is read on Palm Sunday and in Holy Week. It refers to the accounts given in the canonical gospels of the suffering and death of Jesus.
The readings are distinguished not only by their length and solemnity but also by being read by a group of people, each taking one or more 'parts' in the style of a dramatic reading.

The reading here is by the deacon and the priest and the roles are denoted by a cross for the priest and an 'M' (probably for "minister") for the deacon.
The deacon performed the role of the narrator, while the priest played Christ, which explains why the part is identified by a cross though sometimes this is indicated by 'S', for sacerdos, (priest).

Description:Single folio on vellum. The substrate reveals a spotted goat. Double column, 30 lines, very lightly ruled in diluted ink. Unfoliated. Alternating red and blue initials with contrasting penwork. A couple of corrections in the margins.… Read More

Verso: 18 lines of text in Latin written on vellum in black ink in a Gothic bookhand script. Ruled in red and rubrics in red. Three two-line Lombard style initials alternating in red and blue and one one-line Lombard initial in blue.
Recto: As Verso, with two two-line and five one-line coloured initials.
Source: Flanders.
Date: c.1475
Content: The text is from The Hours of the Cross. The second two-line initial 'H' in blue begins the text: Hora prima ducunt iesus ad pilatum. Falsis testemoniis multum accusatum. In collum percutiunt manibus ligatum Conspuentes faciem ut est prophetatum.
(In the first hour Jesus was led before Pilate. Many accused him with false testimony. They struck him in the neck, bound his hands and spat uoon his face, as was prophesied.)
Condition: The leaf is in excellent condition, with clear text on clean vellum and with brightly coloured initials. Light toning to the outside edge. The leaf is unconditionally guaranteed genuine.
Notes: The Hours of the Cross tell of Christ's… Read More

Recto:18 lines of text in Latin written on vellum in black ink in a Gothic bookhand script. Ruled in red and rubrics in red. One two-line Lombard style initial 'D' in blue and many one-line versal initials alternating in blue and red.
Verso: As Verso, with coloured versal initials.
Source: Flanders.
Date: c.1475
Content: The text is from The Seven Penitential Psalms. The two-line red initial 'D' begins Psalm 101 (KJV 102):
Domine exaudi orationem meam: et clamor meus ad te veniat.
Non avertas faciem tuam a me: in quacumque die tribulor, inclina ad me aurem tuam.
(O Lord hear my prayer: and let my cry come to thee.
Turn not away thy face from me: in what day soever I am in tribulation, incline thine ear to me.)
Condition: The leaf is in excellent condition, with clear text on clean vellum and with brightly coloured initials. Light toning to the outside edge. The leaf is unconditionally guaranteed genuine.
Size: Leaf: approx. 90x65 mm.
Notes: The Seven Penitential Psalms or Psalms of… Read More

Recto:15 lines of text in Latin written on vellum in black ink in a gothic bookhand. An intricate panel of illuminations runs the length of the text in a style known as rinceaux. The illuminated panel features acanthus leaves in blue and liquid gold outlined in red & orange, along with swirling tendrils bearing coloured flowers, foliage and gold bezants. Five one-line initials illuminated in burnished gold on grounds of red, blue and white outlined in black, and three line fillers.
Verso: As Recto, but with text in two sizes, two one-line illuminated initials and an equally fine panel of illuminations.
Source: Northern France, probably Paris
Date: c.1465
Content: The text on Recto is a section of Psalm 137 (KJV138). The illuminated initial 'I' on the second line begins verse 4:
In quacumque die invocavero te, exaudi me: multiplicabis in anima mea virtutem. Confiteantur tibi Domine omnes reges terrae: quia audierunt omnia verba oris tui. Et cantent in viis Domini: quoniam magna est gloria… Read More

Recto: Text in Dutch written in a rounded gothic bookhand in brown ink on heavy laid paper. Ruled in red and rubrics in red. One two-line initial 'W' in red and three one-line initials alternating in blue and red.Pricking marks in the right margin.
Verso: As Recto, with one coloured initial and extensive rubrics in red.
Origin: Netherlands
Date: c. 1500
Condition: The leaf is in very good/excellent condition. Apart from the expected edge browning, the leaf is in fine condition with clean paper and clear and bright text and decorations. It is unconditionally guaranteed genuine.
Size: Size of leaf: approx. 145x105 mm. Text and illuminated area : approx. 85x65 mm.
Notes:A breviary, etymologically a compendium or abridgement, is the liturgical work which contains the psalms and the hymns, the readings from Sacred Scripture and from the writings of the Fathers, the prayers and the responses, which are combined to form the canonical hours of the divine office of prayer recited daily throughout the world… Read More

This hardcover two volume set is a 1982 reprint and contains Charles Sturt's observations and illustrations from his Expedition Down the Banks of the Macquarie River, In 1828 and 1829 as well as his Expedition Down the Morumbidgee and Murray Rivers, In 1829, 1830, and 1831.
2 v. (lxxx, 219; v, 271 p., 12 p. of plates, 1 folded leaf of col. map) : ill., facsims., maps.
Excellent condition with excellent dustwraps.