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Manuscript document on vellum with archbishop of Magdeburg's seal

Archbishop of Magdeburg, Document, 20 December 1462. Single leaf of parchment written in brown ink, preserved with the archbishop's seal, a lease from the archbishop to Clawsen Welmersdorff, a citizen of the town of Jueteborg for land at Rorbecke, noting the quantity of rye, oats, and barley that will be produced by the land; housed in a custom box, ex libris Count Carl Gustaf Bloomfield Eric von Rosen (1879-1948) with his bookplate, and that of Brian Douglas Stilwell, the document 7 1/2 x 9 3/4 in., the seal 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 innnFull pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A449942/datastream/PDF/view

Manuscript estate indenture.

A superb example of the signature of one of the great sailors of Elizabethan England, the first document showing him acquiring land at Chatham, established as a Royal Dockyard by Elizabeth I in 1567. Sir John Hawkins (1532-1595), merchant, privateer and naval commander, was cousin to Sir Francis Drake "but Hawkins arguably knew more about seamanship and did more for his country than Drake. During several voyages in the 1560s Hawkins demonstrated to his countrymen that good profits could be made trading in the Spanish ports of the West Indies. He also introduced his queen and his fellow merchants to the loathsome business of slave trading, where even greater profits could be made by men whose consciences were not of exceeding tenderness" (Harry Kelsey, Sir John Hawkins: Queen Elizabeth's Slave Trader, Yale 2003, p. xiii).

German Heraldic Manuscript

Armorial manuscript, comprising 5 double-page sheets on thick, good-quality paper and mounted at an early date. 96 shields per page (half a sheet), each finely drawn in pen and ink with original watercolour, names below in brown ink. Light age browning, old damp stain to foot of one sheet, small tearing to one lower corner. A unique volume in modern tan calf with gold tooling, spine with raised bands and double gilt-line decoration. 45 x 34.5 cm

Charter of Elizabeth Symmis

Document of Elizabeth Symmis, relict of John Symmis of Westhothleigh, Sussex, 26 January 1540, granting to her daughters Elizabeth Symmis and Katherine Fenner certain parcels of ground near Cocking, in confirmation of a grant of her late husband, in Latin on vellum, one membrane, 163 x 250mm, contemporary confirmation and later docket on verso, signet seal (letter 'C') in brown wax, pendant on a leather tag; in a wooden box.nnFull pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A449794/datastream/PDF/view

El perro del hortelano

Contributors:n-Vega, Lope de, 1562-1635 (Primary Contributor)n-Moreto, Agustín, 1618-1669 (Contributor)n-Rare Book Collection (University of Missouri--Columbia. Libraries) (Contributor)nnAlso attributed, wrongly, to Agustín Moreto. Cf. Palau y Dulcet (2nd ed.)nnImage capture notes:n-Some text goes near the gutter.n-Pages captured with white paper behind to better reveal holes and tears.n-Repairs were made to the last page, which obscured some text on the upper right side.nnFull pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A449315/datastream/PDF/view
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El texedor de Segovia

Contributors:n-Ruiz de Alarcón, Juan, 1580?-1639 (Primary Contributor)n-Rare Book Collection (University of Missouri--Columbia. Libraries) (Contributor)nnImage capture notes:n-Some text goes near the gutter.n-Pages captured with white paper behind to better reveal holes and tears.nnFull pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A449230/datastream/PDF/view
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Si no vieran las mugeres

Contributors:n-Vega, Lope de, 1562-1635 (Primary Contributor)n-Rare Book Collection (University of Missouri--Columbia. Libraries) (Contributor)nnAlternative titles:n-Comedia si no vieran las mugeresn-Si no vieran las mujeresnnImage capture notes:n-Pagination reads pg. 14 as pg. 4.n-Some text goes near the gutter.n-Some pages have pen markings in purple ink. n-Pages captured with white paper behind to better reveal holes and tears.nnFull pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A449187/datastream/PDF/view
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Diversche suycker-wercken; temperyngen en cerdyepyngent van colueren om te schilderen; en remedien om diversthe gebreken des mensche licchame.

Images of foldouts in the manuscript are included at the end of the book. nn"Manuscript in black ink on paper, with occasional headings or short passages of text in reddish-brown ink, ink drawings with coloured gouaches of birds, flowers, fruits, snails, insects, leaves, fish, etc. on most pages, some related to passages in the text and others largely decorative, all in a charming folk-art style. There are also a few uncoloured drawings more explicityly illustrating the text. The text and headings are neatly written in a Ducth gothic script. Contemporary p;imp vellum, sewn on 3 vellum supports, laced through the cover.nn[1], 76 II. plus 1 whole sheet folded in 4."nn"A rare and interesting example of an early 17th-century Dutch recipe book, covering not only recipes for cooking and otherwise perparing foods, but also with 3 pages (leaves 58-59) devoted to mixing and darkening artists' paints (about 25 recipes, some explicityly recommended for painting plants, fruits, skin tones and other subjects0 and 32 pages of medicinal recipes. This was the dawn of the Dutch golden age, nine years after the establishment of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) [Wikipedia: Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, VOC, "United East India Company"], so herbs and spices, both culinary and medicinal, and exotic pigments were beginning to reach the Netherlands from its rapidly expanding international trade. The manuscript therefrore offers a fascinating window into this changing world and the materials it provided, when Rembrandt wouldhave been five years old. The charming coloured drawings scattered through the entire manuscript, simple folk art, enliven the text and may have made use of some of the recipes for mixing pigments. The heading for the first two of the three pages devoted to paint reads, "Om coleuron te temberen om met te schilderen" (To temper (here meaning mix) colours for painting) and that for the third page reads, "Om coleuen te diepen" (To darken colours). The ingredients mentioned include white leat, red lead, vermilion, verdigris, lake, saffron, umber, azure,indigo, turnsole, potash, "orliana" and others.nnThe manuscript opens with recipes for sweet pastry: "Spaens beschuyt", "beschuyt de Naples", "Beschuyt de Milan", "Macrones", etc., followed by many recipes for conserving and preserving fruits, vegetables, nuts, herbs, etc., making them into jellies or jams, or caonying them in order to preserve them until Christmas or longer. IT also contains many recipes for pastries and pies, some with names unknown to us, and recipes to preserve fish (herring, sprat, lobster, crab). The folding sheet gives long lists of foods that can be preserved in the form of biscuit, pies, candies, jams, etc.nnThe manuscript ends (leaves 61-76) with medical recipes to treat constipation, jaundice, stomach-, tooth-, eye-, and headache, deafness, inflammation, stings and bites of snakes and other animals, a general recipe to treat plague, and recipes for plasters, elixers [sic] and balms, partly made from fruits, etc.nnThe author, Abraham de Bous (or Bouse? a letter may have been lost after the s), is wholly unkown, but the contemporary owner's inscription (see below) suggests the manuscript might have a Sephardic Jewish origin. The manuscript colates: [A]6 [chi]1 [B]2 [C]-[F]16 [G]=77 II, plus a folded sheet (37 x 30 cm). The singleton lea [chi] does not come from the same sheet as quire B and there isno evidence that it had a conjugate leaf. The first leaf (with only the year, author's name and lengthy contemporary owner's inscription) is unnumbered and leaves 4-14 were mistakenly numbered 5-15, so that 4 is omitted and leaf 15 unnumbered. The folding sheet falls betwen leaves "13" and "14".nnWith 9-line contemporary owner's inscription on the recto of the first (unnumbered) leavf beginning: "desen bouck behoert toe aen de weduwe d'heer vander planche commende van maseir olleviera...." (this book belongs to the widow of Mr. Vander Planche coming from Maser Oliveira?). Further with the ca. 1890 bookplate of Jean Baptista Vervliet, Antwerp bibliophile, author, and editor of la presse universelle. Generally in good condition, somewhat frayed and with occasional marginal chips or minor tears, the firstr and last few pages dirty and slightly stained, some of the reddish-brown ink slightly faded but still easily readable. BInding soiled and slightly curled, with a couple chips in the spine."nnMeasurements: 19.25 cm x 17 cmnnFull pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A448935/datastream/PDF/view

Sentencia y carta ejecutoria de hidalguia a pedimento de Cristobal Ruys

Stored in a case (On the spine: "Carta Ejecutoria de Hidalguia a favor de Cristobal de Ruys. Valladolid, 20.3.1575."). Original binding in leather with gilt decoration, with a coat of arms at the center, framed by animal motifs. Folio 1v illuminated, with decorated initial with portraits of the donors (Father, Mother and Child) with Virgin Mary and Christ Child. Coat of arms on the lower part of the page. Historiated initial with miniature of Saint James in folio 3v. Signature "Don Pio Gonzalez" on the illuminated folios. 32 x 23 cm

Gramota with grant of arms to Dmitrii Klementevich Tarasov

"[Wikipedia] Tsarskoye Selo (Russian: Ца́рское Село́, IPA: [ˈtsarskəɪ sʲɪˈlo] , ""Tsar's Village"") was the town containing a former Russian residence of the imperial family and visiting nobility, located 24 kilometers (15 mi) south from the center of Saint Petersburg."nn"illuminated manuscript on vellum, 4 leaves, first page written in gold and surrounded by imperial armorials, other pages with the crowned monogram of Nicholas I and vignettes in margins, third leaf with armorial of Tarasov, signed by Nicholas I at end, original green velvet binding with embossed floral border, watered silk guards between each page, sewn with a single thick gilt thread, thread fraying, spine frayed at ends, without sealnnA large and impressive gramota, providing a grant of arms to Dmitrii Tarasov (1792-1866), who was physician to Alexander I and Nicholas I. He wrote a memoir which included the last days of Alexander I who died in mysterious circumstances in 1825. The text of the document provides details of Tarasov's career."nnMeasurements: 47.25 cm x 33.5 cmnnFull pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A448604/datastream/PDF/view

Missal (?)

Manuscript on vellum. Text in single column, 17 lines. Most pages have wide blank margins. Many initials decorated in blue, red and gold, or with extensive penwork in the outer margin. Folio 1 recto with full border decoration of floral motifs with monogram of Christ, engraving paste-ins (Annunciation and Lamentation of the Virgin), and a historiated initial ("O" with patron portrait?). There is a miniature in folio 8r (Virgin Mary nursing the Child Jesus). Folio 29v has floral marginal decoration and a decorated initial (M). Folio 35v has border decoration and a historiated initial with a portrait of King David. Folio 42v: marginal decoration in penwork and decorated initial ("K"). Folio 52v: Decorated initial ("A"), with marginal decoration of floral motifs. Stiff-board binding with pressed leather.

Absdorf Rentbook.

"[Germany (Absdorf), 1529 and 1549] approximately 52 leaves, c.220mm. by 150mm., nn(a) 26 leaves of soft double-ply paper originally sewn in gatherings but now detached from binding, two columns, 11 lines, in a frame 170mm. by 118mm., written in red and black ink in various sizes of a large formal bookhand, notations in other hands, edges frayed and some leaves separating into their constituent layers, slight thumbing, wrapped in a stronger sheet of paper with the inscription 'Gruntpuech der Zins und Gult zu den Guet Abtstorf gehörig/Renovirt 1528 had der geleichen Hofmaister zu Abtsdorff', nn(b) 24 leaves of strong single-ply paper, collation: i–ii6, iii12, watermark: a gothic 'P' with a shield, close to Briquet, 'Filigranes', no. 8792 (Budweis, 1531), the last 8 leaves are cut away in a stepped fashion on the outer edge to make a thumb index, written in brown ink by various cursive hands, headings in an angular bookhand, some thumbing and signs of use, stitching broken, edges rather battered, wrapper of contemporary paper with inscription 'Grundtbuech Geen Intzlestorff, hern Jorgen Grabner zugehörig angefangen 1549', both loose in nineteenth-century bindingnnCATALOGUE NOTEnnThese documents are two extensive land-registers of the villages of Absdorf and Intzledorf, near St. Pölten in southern Austria, and while land-documents are common, ones of such size and scope are not. Both contain a mass of information on local rents and dues, and details of the produce of the area (mainly wine, cereal, saffron, hens, cheese, hay and garden produce). As well as an intrinsic historical value, these documents have some interest as two different approaches by two local officials to their record keeping. The 'Hofmaister zu Abtsdorff' who created the first book was principally concerned with creating a work of some beauty, allotting each individual landholder a whole page, having the pages ruled for only 11 lines, leaving wide margins, and writing the document (or employing a professional scribe to write it for him) in excellent German script, often with pen flourishes and cadels on the names of the individual landholders. The author of the second book (Jorgen Grabner) was under very different constraints, and produced a document that was functional rather than pleasing to the eye, with numerous additions of scribbled text and tables, crossing-outs, and erasures. This mass of information apparently left him in need of some organisation for his account, and so he added the alphabetical thumb-index. This is an early example of such a referencing system, and is notable for that fact alone."nnSome text & images were too far in the gutter to fully capture.nnFull pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A447642/datastream/PDF/view
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