Manuscript Leaf, Used (318 results)

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Fast Despatch Soft Covers - will send out 1 st class post within 12 hours of receipt of order.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Comes with short laid-in article.

No Binding. Condition: Good. Single 12mo size leaf with mss. text in biro on both sides. Padraic Pearse's are on one side & Willie's on the verses.

ZX185? Antique rare early souvenir from the British Museum approx?6" x 4" with full details of the exhibit underneath the photo that appears 1910-1920 published with some border ageing (darkening) around its edges that must be allowed otherwise this is excellent unused condition and this has great character.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Very good. No jacket. Text is in Sanskrit and English. Spine is sunned, but legibility is not impacted. Front and back covers are lightly stained, but readability is not affected. Cover edges are worn. Back cover edge is creased. Inside is clean and unmarked.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 390707761X. Foundation for Museum Rietberg Zurich, bright clean copy, no markings, Professional booksellers since 1981.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Orange card covers. Titles in black. Originally edited by Lord Charles Albert, Florian Wellesley Published by Sergeant Tree January 17th 1834. With illustrations. A very nice copy.

Softcover (booklet). Published in 1986. Newly transcribed and edited by Charles Lemon. This story was originally written in 1834 and typical of the imaginary world she created with her brother Branwell. Angria was an extension of Glass Town, while Emily and Anne invented their own private world of Gondal. They wrote in tiny script in handmade books which are difficult to read. Some extracts are included in this text. Includes black and white illustrations and the text is reproduced in legible text. Originally edited by Lord Charles Albert and Published by Sergeant Tree, January the 17th 1834. Good condition. Inscription on inside front cover.

Condition: Gut. Ersauflage. First edition. Bll. + 255 S. mit Textteil, Erklärungen, u. mit zahlr. s/w. u. farb Abb. der Blättern (50 Folios) u.a. Papier geringf. nach- oder randvergilbt. * Mit (auf 15 Seiten A4 + Klammer): GEFÄHRDETE LIEBSCHAFTEN - Fünfzig Liebesgedichte aus dem Amarushataka übersetzt von Friedrich Rückert - Ausgewählt für die Ausstellung von Palmblattillustrationen des Meisters von Shanarakula in Orissa. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1330 4°, OIll.-LeichtKarton./Paperback oder Broschur. Schnitt minimal nachvergilbt. Gut erhalten.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. A splendid original antique scene Mounted - matted - and ready to frame. Excellent condition . A facsimile leaf from an . illuminated manuscript leaf Shows . a page of illuminated illustration entitled .'Illuminator presenting Manuscript to Patron' the Harleian M.S.7026 British Museum.

Condition: Sehr gut. Original softcover binding, 87 pages, numerous illustrations, very good condition. Wonderful publication of an highly interesting manuscript, which is actually a forgery, but is nonetheless an absolute marvel. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

Softcover. 87 p. Good condition. Reading pages are clean and without marks. Retired library exemplar, with the usual marking. Book shows slight signs of storage and usage. Still good copy. 9783907077610 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1000.

The leaf measures 11x15 cm. The text of the prize (award) is: 'Athenaeum Mosae-Trajectinum. Ex Scholarum Curatorum decreto, Historiae et Geographicae praemium promeruit ingenuus adolescens Leopoldus Wenmakers ex Stockheim (prov. Limburgensis) e prima schola ad Academiam gradum faciens. Trajecti ad Mosam, 17 Augusti 1842, Praeses Curatorum (name illegible), Actuarius Ed. Capitaine, Rector Studiorum Kerzmann'. (Wenmakers was born in Stockheim, nowadays Stokkem, North of Maastricht) 100 gr.

Condition: Sehr gut. 255 p., quarto, brochure. Sprache(n)/language(s): enVery good condition.

FIRST EDITION; printed leaf & 13-leaf facsimile on blue paper; well preserved in lightly soiled & rubbed original cream & blue buckram folder. Aesthetics Art Criticism Literature.

Written on both recto and verso in black ink with red ink, burnished with gilt, the text within a gilt burnished frame outlined in double frames of red and black. 168 by 120mm, the text in a block measuring approximately 110 by 62mm, tipped into a gray mounting.

Condition: gebraucht; wie neu. Grossformat, Softcover, ungebraucht.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. MARTIN (Sir Theodore, 1816-1909). Autograph Manuscript Leaf Signed, quoting Heinrich Heine, dated June 1889. 1 p., 8vo, in ink on laid paper, the verso with old paper adhesions, crease and an old fold. Good.  From Heinrich Heine's Poems and Ballads in Martin's hand, written out and signed is this quotation: "The rose, the lily, the sun, and the dove, I loved them all with a passion of love. That is past; now one only is dear to me, My pretty, my witty, pure, peerless she; She herself, source of all that is worthy love, Is rose, and lily, and sun, and dove." From Heine, by Theodore Martin. June 1889. Sir Theodore's acclaimed English translation of Heine's Buch der Lieder (1854) introduced the German poet's lyrical romanticism to Victorian readers and influenced later Anglophone verse renderings. This autograph transcription?made thirty-five years later?shows Martin's lasting affection for Heine's poetry. Sir Theodore Martin was a Scottish poet, translator and man of letters, best known for his translations of Heine, Horace, and Catullus, and for his monumental Life of the Prince Consort. He was also the husband of the celebrated Shakespearean actress and author of On Some of Shakespeare's Female Characters, Lady Helen (Faucit) Martin. It is rare to find a manuscript leaf like this from him. . Signed by Author(s).

Condition: gut. 1989. A concordance of H. P. Sastri's Catalogue of the Durbar Library and the microfilms of the Nepal German Manuscript Preservation Project / A catalogue of palm-leaf and selected paper mss. belonging to the Durbar Library Nepal : vol. I and II In deutscher Sprache. pages.

1 vols. 4to. Condition: Folded, some browning. 1 vols. 4to. Electorial Conventions.

Based on the 1986 novel of the same name by John Skipp and Craig Spector. Apparently never produced. Very good. (#104784).

18 loose leaves from a Tibetan leaf manuscript, each 8.2 x 25cm, most with Tibetan script both sides, top edge of several leaves pierced, edgewear and browning, a few leaves wormed, in sound condition. An interesting assemblage from an unidentified Tibetan black ink leaf manuscript. Acquired in Tibet in the 1960s.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 4to. 8 x 6 inches. 78 leaves (156 pages), 41 leaves in manuscript, final 37 leaves blank. The first leaf includes the index for the first part (library) which is partially covered by medical clippings dated 1861. Leaves toned and foxed. In the original newsprint covered boards, leather spine. Binding shaken with burn marks on covers. Top edge of rear board burnt and gnawed, with loss of board and top blank margins of final 6-8 leaves. Deaccessioned institutional copy with bookplate on front pastedown. Housed in a clamshell box with ties, gilt lettered spine. Good. According to the 'American Libraries before 1876' database at Princeton University Library, the earliest known library in Killingly was established in 1745, as the 'United English Library for the Propagation of Christian and Useful Knowledge'. This was followed by 4 other social libraries beginning in 1801. There is, however, no other information regarding these libraries and the first and last references to them are recorded in the same year, suggesting perhaps a very brief existence or accounts that did not survive. This ledger contains the minutes of a meeting, held at School House District No. 1. In October 1830, for the establishment of a library in the North Parish of Killingly. It includes the resolves, constitution, list of members, (officers) librarians, committees of selection and inspection, amendments to the constitution, list of books purchased, prices, book numbers, names of members who borrowed books and dates and an account of damages and fines (Dec. 9, 1830, to Sept. 5, 1837). A Feb. 28, 1839, entry records the dissolution of the library, naming Calvin Warren as the auctioneer tasked with selling the library for cash (96 cents per book). The money was then returned to the subscribers by H.W. Hough. Some of the subscribers and officers include, Leonard Ballou, Jabez Amsbury, George Weatherhead, Mowry Amsbury, Dr. Robert Grosvenor, Dr. William Grosvenor, Waldo Eddy, Calvin Warren, Silas Tucker, Delight Moffit, Chandler Spaulding, and others. Nearly all were connected to Providence, Rhode Island, either by birth or trade. Killingly, CT is 25 miles west of Providence and was settled by a number of families from that city who were involved in the wool/cotton trade, establishing woolen and cotton mills on the banks of Quinebaug River, Whetstone brook and the Five Mile River. One such mill was established by Comfort Tiffany, the father of Charles Lewis Tiffany, the founder of Tiffany & Co. Leonard Ballou's daughter, Lydia, married Charles Lewis Tiffany's partner, John B. Young, whose sister, Olivia, married Charles Lewis Tiffany. They were the parents of Louis Comfort Tiffany. This modest library contained 40 titles which included several sets, bringing the total book count to 86. The most expensive purchase by far was a 6-volume set, The works of Franklin which cost the subscribers $12, Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, MacKenzie's 5000 receipts, Wilkins' Astronomy, Life of Washington by Bancroft, Silliman's Travels in Europe, etc. The second part includes a large number of curative recipes including cough mixtures, gastric remedies, laxatives, for habitual constipation, absorbent mixtures for children, for those with worms, Emplastrum Camphoratum, tinctures, pills, ointments, balsam for chapped nipples, smallpox, several for gonorrhea, etc. Few have the names of the authors while others were prescriptions for named individuals "Prescription for Mrs. Leavin". A U.S. Army Hospital paper prescription receipt (Rx), dated 7/4/1865, for a wounded soldier by name of Hughes, signed by the physician is pasted in. It is not clear how this travelled to Exeter, New Hampshire for Captain Nathaniel Gilman to sign, but it is possible that the prescriptions were the work of Dr. William Grosvenor (named above), who was a partner in the Grosvenor & Chace, a wholesale drug company in Providence, Rhode Island. [Killingly, Conn. - History] [Early American Libraries - History].

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. A fine illuminated leaf on vellum from a Latin Breviary of Book of Hours, containing part of the homily XXXIII on the Gospels by St. Gregory the Great, read during the Office for the Feast of Saint Mary Magdaline. Written in two columns of 27 lines in a handsome Gothic Textualis Quadrata ruled in red, in black and red ink with alternating blue and red initials heightened with delicate pen flourishing extending into the margins. Rubrics in red. The text opens "De sancta Maria Magdalena.", recounting Mary Magdalene's penitence and devotion, an evocative passage central to her medieval cult. Condition: Fine for its age. Vellum bright and clean with light natural cockling and a few faint handling marks. Inks unfaded, rubrication vivid. Handsomely matted and framed with gilt border. Visible area: 5 x 4 in. (127 x 102 mm), Frame size: 15 x 11 inches. An attractive and well-preserved example of 15th century devotional manuscript art.

No Binding. Condition: Good. Single parchment leaf (recto and verso), 245 x 182 mm, written in a fine, mature Caroline minuscule in dark brown ink, 29 lines per page, single column. Rubrics in red; simple pen-flourished initials in red and blue marking textual divisions. Pricklings and ruling faintly visible. The text comprises the Exorcism and Blessing of Water (Exorcismus aquae), with extended invocations against unclean spirits and prayers for purification, healing, and protection. These texts form part of the Roman ritual tradition as transmitted in Germanic regions during the 10th century and are characteristic of Rituals or Sacramentaries, rather than Missals or biblical codices. The hand is confident and regular, with well-proportioned Caroline letterforms and consistent word separation. Decoration is restrained and functional, reflecting a working liturgical manuscript produced for clerical rather than a luxury commission. Palaeographical and textual features point to production in the Alemannic sphere of the Upper Rhine, an area renowned for conservative preservation of Carolingian liturgical practice. In good bur well-used medieval condition. The parchment is supple but heavily toned at margins, with cockling and surface wear consistent with prolonged liturgical handling. There are tears at binding edge, with evidence of modern tape repair. Occasional later marginal notations present. Ink and decoration remain clear and legible. Early litugical manuscripts of this early date are increasingly scarce on the market. Leaves containing exorcistic and ritual texts are especially sought after for their historical and theological interest, offering insights into early medieval concepts of sanctification, healing, and spiritual protection. Ships unmatted and unframed.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Manuscript leaf from a Latin Vulgate Bible, produced in Paris in the mid-13th century. Illuminated manuscript on vellum, approx. 160 x 120 mm, written in two columns of 50 lines in a fine, compact Gothic textura characteristic of Paris university production. Contains the beginning of the Psalter, opening with Psalm 1: " Beatus vir qui non abiit in consilio impiorum." and continuing through the early verses of Psalms. Decorated with a large blue intitial "B" introducing Psalm 1, richly heightened with red and blue pen-flourishing extending into the margins. Additional red and blue paragraph marks throughout. Light ruling visible. Condition is very well preserved. Vellum clean and smooth; ink strong and unfaded; initials bright. Minor handling wear at edges; tiny tears at former binding edge, slight waviness as typical. Overall, a very good plus for a manuscript of this date. A handsome and well-decorated leaf from a classic Paris pocket Bible, representing one of the most iconic passages of the medieal Psalter. Ships unmatted and unframed.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Illuminated manuscript on vellum; 160 x 115 mm. Double column, 46 lines in minute Gothic Textualis. A fine leaf from a mid 13th-century Paris pocket Bible, written on thin, high-quality vellum in an exceptionally small and regular Gothic Textualis typical of the Paris university book trade. The text comprises part fo the Prologue to the Book of Isaiah (Incipit prologus in Ysaiam prophetam), a standard Paris recension prologue introducing the prophetic books. The layout is in two columns of 46 lines, ruled in very light plummet. The script is a highly compressed Parisian Gothic bookhand, with characteristic biting curves, diamond-shaped puncti, and minimal ascenders and descenders. The leaf is decorated with a handsome HISTORIATED intitial "I", the opening letter of the prologue, extending the full length of the column. The initial is painted in deep blue and ochre with white tracery, containing the half-length figure of a prophet, very likely Isaiah, holding a scroll. A full-height bar border extends into the lower and upper margins with foliate terminals in blue, red and gold. A delicate pen-flourished column divider in alternating blue and red runs between the text columns, a hallmark of Paris workshops active during the third quarter of the 13th-century. Several rubricated initials and guide letters in red and blue provide internal textural structure in accordance with Paris Bible standards. The leaf exemplifies the commerical production of small-format Bibles for students and mendicant friars, a format that spread from Paris throughout Europe after ca. 1225. Its combination of minute script, disciplined ruling, and elegant but economical decoration places it within the Paris book trade, comparable to work associated with Maitre du Psautier de Saint-Louis and other Paris ateliers. Vellum is lightly toned with expected handling wear; minor cockling at edges; outer margins slightly thumbed; mounting adhesive at the corners. Ink remains dark and legible, Pigments in the historicated intitial well-preserved. Overall, very good for a working leaf fro a 13th-century portable bible. Ships unmatted and unframed.