Box 3
Contains 13 Results:
English Legal Paper.
Laid paper, no watermark "To the Honorable the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas began and holden at Portland in & for the County of Cumberland on the third Tuesday of November A.D. 1807." Humbly show George James Oliver Pearce of Georgetown etc. This is a judgement for collection. An accounting is listed in the lower left at the bottom of the sheet.
Manuscript fragment.
2 sided (from a book-string remains in a hole). Drawings in the margins. 13 1/2" x 9 1/2". Parchment. Graining on the verso. Staining upper and side borders.
Proclamation.
Verso: 1743 and 1595, in pencil. Folded in three and then in half. Torn seals on the outside. 17" x c. 25". Heavy wove paper (fibers visible). Rector st PROFESSORES Academia. Ultrajectina lect: S.P. S B aerle ?md. Ultrajecti ad diem 9 Septembris A. MDCCXLIII (1743).
Illuminated Manuscript.
Illuminated page. 7" x 5". Floral and leaves red, blue and gold. Folded 4 times horizontally. Written on the outside quarter: Robt. White per and David Gosford and Eliz his wife D of L. Copy. Indres paper.
Quit-Claim.
Laid paper, see watermark. This is the final agreement made in the Court of our Sovereign Lord the King at Westminster in fifteen days of Saint Martin in the first year in the Reign of George the Third by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and etc., 1760.
Diploma.
Doctor of Canon Law. Pisa Grant of the degree of Doctor of Canon and Civil law to Jacopo de Mati of Florence. On a labe: Illuminated Manuscript on vellum. 4 leaves, names in gold, good italic hand, illuminated arms within a cartouche in gold and colors on title. 4 to. contemporary vellum wrappers, gilt borders and central fleurons, edges slightly frayed, lack ties. Pisa 16 April 1642 (1643).
Manuscript.
Label: Rome 1534 Formal humanistic. Note transition from Gothic script. Many holes in it. 8 1/2 x 10 1/2.
Illuminated Manuscript.
Italy 15th century. St. Isidore, Etymologies Lib iii(fol.55)ch.49-51). Humanistic miniscule. All of the above on a label. Top border "Liber" vellum. Center drawing 2 sided Verso: #44, written in the upper right.
Manuscript.
In pencil, lower border: France c. 1250. 2 sided. 8 x 5 1/2 in red, blue in some letters with border. ON the verso AOCRI & SARE, upper border like title.
Book plate.
5 3/4 x 8. vellum. Staining in the borders. Green smudge.