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The letter is written on a wrapper for 'The Polygot Newsletter, a Summary in English, French, German and Spanish, for Transmission to Europe'. The Polygot was printed and published for the proprietors at the 'Punch' Office, Melbourne, October 1858. The wrapper has an etching of 'View on the Yarra near Dight's Mills' by F. Grusse on the front. The newsletter is an early example of a publication produced in several different languages; an indication of the 'multi-cultural' nature of the population of Victoria in the 1850s.
The following foliated pages were not captured as they were blank: Folio 41 / 53 / 291 / 293 / 295 / 297 / 299 / 301 / 317 / 319 / 321 / 329 / 337 / 381 / 426 / 439 / 514 / 522 / 533 / 547 / 556 / 590 / 656 / 733.
Title continues: "... Contenu aux antiquités & vieux droits & documents d'icelle cité, revû de nouveau pour memoire future & pour l'usage de la posterité, par les commis de la ditte cité de Lausanne, des 4 paroisses de la Vaux, que de la ville d'Avenche & autres lieux en dépendans, & approuvé par les nobles citoyens bourgeois & com[m]uniers des dits lieux presenté le vingtiéme d'avril mille six cent & treize, par les dits commis, a l'excellence des illustres & magnifiq[ue] seigneurs de la ville & canton de Berne, leurs souverains seigneurs & superieurs, et luës & confirmées en deux cent à Lausanne, le quinziéme de septembre 1618: comme il est écrit à la fin".
Pagination: volume 1: xxxii, 214 leaves, 24 blank leaves ; volume 2: 218 leaves, 24 blank leaves ; volume 3: 257 leaves, 30 blank leaves ; volume 4: 159 leaves, 33 blank leaves ; volume 5: 225 leaves, 31 blank leaves ; volume 6: 2 unnumbered leaves, 180 leaves, 28 blank leaves.
Volumes are numbered irregularly on spines and title pages. Numbering as follows: Volume 1: spine: VOL I; title page: vol. i. Volume 2: spine: VOL III; title page: vol. vi and vol. iii. Volume 3: spine: VOL IV; title page: vol. iiii. Volume 4: spine: VOL V; title page: vol. v. Volume 5: spine: VOL VI; title page: vol. vi and vol. vii. Volume 6: spine: VOL VII; title page: vol. vii.
Binding: Contemporary full leather binding, with gilt and possibly silver stamp featuring intricate strapwork, a pair of birds, and a central bust of a classical emperor surmounted by the letters "F I B" on the front and back boards. The front cover is also stamped with a presentation inscription: "Ihro Gnaden, dem Wohlgebohrnen Herrn Frantz Carl von Hollenstein &c. des Heil. Röm. Reichs-Rittern der Röm. Kaiserl. Majestät Raht, und wohlverordneten Ober-Kriegs-Commissario im Hertzogtum Schlesien. Meinem gnädigen Herrn. 1735."
Binding: Contemporary red leather over wooden boards; front and back covers have blind tooled rules and rolls, with a central figure of a female saint and the letters "M S B G" tooled in gold; spine with raised bands and a blind tooled flower in each compartment; front edge originally had two leather straps with brass clasps, and is now lacking one strap and clasp. Later (19th century?) paper spine label with manuscript inscription: "[illegible] S. Brigid. Cavate dei libri delle sue rivela[tion]. Opera di una monaca della ordine stisso[?] per comodite delle Sorelle 1626".
Note, in 19th century hand, pasted on front flyleaf: From Horace Walpole's letters to Sir Hor. Mann, Sept. 1st, 1750, "I have seen one [a pedigree] infinitely richer and better done, it is for my Lady Pomfret. She and my Lord both descend from King Edward I by his two Queens. The Pedigree is painted in a book; instead of a vulgar genealogical tree, she has devised a pine-apple plant, sprouting out of a basket on which is King Edward's head; on the leaves are all the intermediate arms." v. 2, p. 222. 1857 ed.
Dated conjecturally by the reference to the 'ingenious paper' which may have been, as Toynbee suggests, the 'essay' on Mrs Porter as Clytemnestra in James Thomson's Agamemnon, referred to in Thomas Gray to Horace Walpole 23 Feb. 1738 (GRAY i. 151 and n. 2). Mrs Porter played Clytemnestra at the first performance of Agamemnon 6 April 1738 at Drury Lane (London Stage Pt III, ii. 710). Walpole had apparently written to Gray on the subject while the play was in rehearsal. Address: To the Honourable Horace Walpole.
"Permit [Tho. Cooper Esq., Jermyn Street], to receive [one] casks of foreign [brandy, qty ten] gallons no., as under part of the stock of [goods condemnd], witness my hand this [twenty second] day of [July], 18[09]. This permit to be in force [two hours] for the goods being sent out of [Excise Office] stock & [two hours] more for the same being delivered and received into Mr [Cooper's] stock. [Tho. Ball]. The above goods sent by [coach]."
"Bot. of Elliston & Cavell, Ltd. drapers & silk mercers, costumiers, nilliners, ladies & children's outfitters, furriers, glovers, hosiers & haberdashers, trousseaux, layettes, Indian & colonial outfits. Cabinet makers, upholsterers, house furnishings, bedstead & bedding warehousemen, carpet factors, blind makers, portmaneau, bags, dress baskets & travelling requisites. Funeral directors.
"Bot. of W. Woods & Son, general fancy hardwaremen, and manufacturers of hooks & eyes, metallic pens, pen holders, pencil cases, ever pointed & Cumberland pencils, metallic holes, snaps, brace belt & stock buckles, elastic wire, steel locks, swivels, &c. chandelier pins, lamp chains, steel rings, buttons, thimbles, castor tops, guard chains, watch keys, &c. &c."
"Stephen Skynner, esqr., his bill. 1757 Decemr. [1] Drawing and engrossing lycence for Mr Skynnor and Lady to domise [i.e. demise] his copy hold estate held of the man of Marshalls £-13/4. [2] Stamps and parchment, -2/8. [3] Paid the Lord his fine as receipt, 1/1/-. [Total] £1/7/0."
The assessment includes taxes for "houses and windows" and "inhabited houses." In 1820, taxes assessed total £0/15/4; in 1823, £0/7/4. Other taxable items listed on the bill are: male servants, carriage with 4 wheels, carriage with 2 wheels drawn by 1 horse, carriage drawn by 2 or more horses, taxed carts, riding and carriage horses, other horses and mules, dogs, horse dealer's duty, armoial bearings, hair powder, game certificates.
"No. 10. Affixed taxes, 1st part for the year 1813. Ending 5th April 1814. To [Samuel Staneforth, Esq] of the [Township] of [Attercliff] [illegible] [Darnall]. Your assessment in my duplicate for the present year, delivered to me on the [12] day of [July] under the Acts relating to the Duties of Assessed Taxes amounts to the sum of [£33/19/10] the particulars of which are stated on the back hereof , and the Assessment may be seen at my house as under-mentioned. If you have any cause to appeal against the same you must give notice in writing 28 days after the said [12] day of [July] to the Surveyor or Inspector for this district orf to one of the assessors of the*. The day of appeal is fixed for the [23] day of [August]. Signed: [Wm Marriott] Collector, residing at "Attercliff'".
"N.B. These duties are payable by instalments quarterly, viz. the 20th of June, 20th of September, 20th of December, and 20th of March, or within 10 days after; and the full amount for the first half year, if not sooner paid as aforesaid, will be collected or levied on your goods and chatels on the 10t of October, and the full amount for the second half year, if not pad as aforesaid, will be collected or levied in line manner on the 5th of April, or within twenty-one days after those respective periods; in default of distress or payment you will be subject to process for the recovery thereof from the Court of Exchequer with cost; and if you remove from this parish without discharging the taxes due, or leaving sufficient goods whereon distress may be made, you will be liable to a penalty of twenty pounds".
Tax bill for C. Johnstone, Esq of Paddington, Middlesex totalling £10/9/11. Taxes to be paid include £4/10/0 for house tax, £1/11/6 for 3 male servants, £1/15/0 for 1 carriage with four wheels, £1/1/1 for 2 horses for riding or drawing carriage, £0/6/0 for 1 dog and £1/6/5 for 6 armorial bearings. Other taxable items include carriages with two wheels, hair powder, horse dealer's duty and land tax. Printed on blue paper. "Taxes" written on back.
"Land and assessed taxes, 1856-7-- First Moiety, County of Middlesex. Parish or place Paddington. No. [2418]. Received of Mr. C.. Johnstone, Esq. the [4] day [October] 185[6], the sum of [ten] pounds [nine] shillings and [eleven] pence, for two quarters' taxes due 20th September, 1856, the particulars of which are stated in the margin. [Geo. Reading] Collector".
"British Fire Office. Strand and Cornhill, March 1, 1808. [Sir], The next annual payment on your policy, no. [2617] becoming due at Lady-Day next, I beg to remind you, that if the same is not paid within fifteen days therefrom, you cannot claim any benefits from the insurance in case of accident. Please bring this letter or the number of your policy when you come to pay the insurance, and if any alteration in the place or property of the insurance, the policy itself. I am, [Sir], your most obedient servant, Robert Skelton, Sec.
Trustees and directors. Joseph William Baxendale, Esq., Walter Bird, Esq., Bristow Bovill, Esq., The Hon. James Byng, John Clutton, Esq., Geoge Arthur Fuller, Esq., Charles Emanuel Goodhart, Esq., The Rt. Hon. Sir John Lubbock, Bt., M.P., F.R.S., Charles Thomas Lucas, Esq., Charles Magnay, Esq., The Hon. Edwin Ponsonby, The Hon. E.B. Portman, M.P., The Right Hon, the Earl of Radnor, Dudley Robert Smith, Esq., William J. Thompson, Esq. John J. Broomfield Esq. (Hon. Director). Auditors: Joseph Francis Lescher, Esq., Thomas Douglas Murray, Edq., Col. Sir Walter George Stirling, Bart. Joint secretaries: William C. Macdonald, Francis B. Macdonald.
"Phœnix Fire Office. 19 Lombard St. and 57, Charing Cross, London. This policy of insurance witnesseth, that [Mr. Thomas Mason, of the Elmes. Longdon near Preston, Lancashire, Bank Manager] hereinafter call the Insured, having paid to the Phœnix Fire Office of London hereinafter called the Company, the sum of [four shillings and eight pence] for insuring against Loss or damage by fire or lighting, as hereinafter mention, the property hereinafter descripting in the several sums following, namely: on household goods, linen, printed books, wearing apparel, plate, watches, clocks, trinkets, wines, liquors, and mathematical and musical instruments [and] on china, glass, and looking=glasses [and] on pictures and prints (no one picture or print, case of loss to be valued at more than £[10]. In [his] private dwelling house, situate as above, Brick=built. [and stated].
[Memo: The person named Thomas Mason is now dead & it has been declared that the Interes law this policy is now vested in his widow Mrs. Jane Mason now residing at a house brick built of late. Known by the name Dryden Schawler at London aforesaid hereaftermore has declared that the property named herein is now [illegible] by this policy. Entered in the office books 20 Sept 1898. Dodgson Fire Agents Preston].
"The Company hereby agrees with the Insured, (but subject to the conditions at the back hereof, which are to be taken as part of this Policy), that if the property above described, or an part thereof, shall be destroyed by fire or lightning, at an time between the [30th April 1891] and the 2th June, 189[2], both inclusive, or at any time afterwards, so loss as the insured or [his] representatives, being successors in interest, shall pay to the company, and it shall accept the sum required for the renewal of this policy, such loss or damage, to an amount not exceeding in respect of the several matters above specified the sum set opposite thereto respectively, and not exceeding in the sum of [two hundred pounds]. In witnesss whereof, one of the Directors of the said Company has hereunto set his hand, the [9th] day of [May 189[1]. Total premium: £0/4/8 to Midsummer, 189[2]. Annual premium: £0/4/8 payable 23th June. [Edwin B. Portman]. Examined, [illegible]
"To form a proper estimate of the great advantage and elegant appearance of our improved metallic window, shutters, doors & fastenings for which we have obtained his Majesty's Royal Letters Patent they must be seen in operation as any description which could be incorporated within the limits of a circular would fall indefinitely short in conveying to your mind an adequate idea of he inportance utility and taste, which upon inspection would be found to be associated in these improvements ... 24 High St. St. Giles'. We remain your mos obedt. servts, [Harris & Kitchen]"
"Barron & Co. Patent Venetian Fan Blind. No. 4,5,6, represent Barron & Cos. improved spring bonnet blind. No. 4 is shewn drawn up, no. 5 let down & no. 6 extended. M. Barron has obained a patent for machinery for feeding fire with fuel, his object is chiefly for self-supplying hot houses on an economical & regular principles. Manufatory 72 & 73 Wells Strt. Oxford Srt. London & 25 Lower Temple Strt, Birm."
The primary item (4 pages) records expenses for the second term, 1884 for Miss Mason at St. Helens, The Avenue, Clifton, Bristol. Expenses listed are for music lessons, singing, drawing lessons, riding school, china painting, dancing, sanatorium, lectures, stationery, laundress, seat in church, medical attendance, and tradesmen's bills, totaling £45/10/1. Written on page 2: "The 3rd term 1884 will begin on September 15th." Bill for books on second page totals £0/2/6.
Expenses include: tuition, washing, dance, French and geography, writing and arithmetic, pens, ink &c., use of library and seat at chapel, French & English class books, threads, tapes, &c., shoe maker's bill, apothecary's bill, gloves, mantua maker's bill, coach hire, mending shoes, pocket money, hair cutting, soap, pair of scissors, repair of linen, family medicine, and gratuity to servants, totaling £20/4/10. Receipt of payment not recorded.
"This ticket is available till April 1856. It admits the proprietor to the palace and park whenever they are open to the public, but not at other times. The proprietor must sign his name on the face of the ticket before presenting it and also in a book at the door whenever required so to do. The ticket must be shewn whenever he enters the palace and when asked for by the savants of the Crystal Palace Company. If presented by another than the person who signed it it will be forfeited. Ticket lost cannot be replaced. The bearer of this ticket is bound to observe all the rules made from time to time by the directors for the regulation of visitors."--Verso.
"This Hotel is erected amidst the wildest and most magnificent scenery, on a precipice contiguous to the Devil's Bridge, commanding a view of the Grand Cataract of the Rhydol, and within hearing of the tumultous Fall of the Mynach. Distance from the Hafod 5 miles ; from the Ruins of Strataflorida Abbey 9 ; from Aberystwith 12 ; from London 199 miles."
Written in a humanist script influenced by roman typeface. In his commentary on the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection's Horae Beatae Mariae ad usum Romanum (Octavo Editions, 1999), Christopher de Hamel notes that this script is associated on “very little evidence” with Geoffroy Tory (c.1480-c.1533), printer to King Francis I of France. The script occurs in manuscripts from the centers of court patronage in northern France.
Decorated with seven two-line initials, on alternating blue and gold grounds. The initials on blue grounds are gold and the blue grounds are highlighted with white penwork. Three of the initials on gold grounds are blue and one is white. Gold grounds are decorated either with white flourishes or with foliage and berries. There are also six one-line paraphs and one one-line initial, in alternating gold and white. The gold initials are on blue grounds, highlighted in white penwork, and the white initials are on gold grounds decorated with black dots and white pearls. Headings are rubricated. The line-fillers alternate between gold branches and gold boxes filled with buds and white flourishes. The leaf has gilding on the fore- and top-edges.
This leaf may be from the same manuscript as the leaves from an untraced Pontifical sold by King Alfred's Notebook in 2014 as items 1B and 49 in the catalogue Enchiridion 19: Medieval Fragments for University Teaching & Research. According to Scott Gwara, those leaves once belonged to Otto F. Ege (1888-1951), the manuscript and book collector famous for cutting leaves out of his manuscripts to sell them individually.
The same sequence of prayer appears in a series of instructions for prayers before mass at ff.32v-33v in the Pontifical of Yves de Mayeuc (Rennes, Bibliothèque de Rennes Métropole MS 1278), which is written in a very similar hand. It also appears in two Parisian printed missals considered in Robert Lippe, Missale Romanum Mediolani, 1474: a collation with other editions printed before 1570 (London: Henry Bradshaw Society, 1899-1907) vol. II, 378-9, one printed in 1530 by Fr. Regnault, the other in 1540 by vidua Th. Kerver.
On folio 1a: Kitāb Aṭbāq al-dhahab lil-ʻAllāmah al-muḥaqqiq Muḥammad Shufurwah raḥimahu Allāh. Aṭwāq al-dhahab lil-ʻAllāmh al-Zamakhsharī raḥimahu Allāh.
On folio 1a an ownership note: "Min minaḥ al-fayyāḍ al-muṭlaq ladá ʻabdihi al-mudhnib Aḥmad ibn Ḥusayn al-Kīwānī al-Shāmī bi-Qusṭanṭīnīyah al-maḥmīyah sanat 1147 [1734/1735]." (Probably the melancholic and aloof poet from Damascus, Syria, d. 1173 H/1759 or 1760. Cf. Ziriklī, al-Aʻlām, 1:118)
On folio 77a: "Muʼallif hādhā al-kitāb Shams al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Muʼmin ibn Hibat Allāh al-Iṣfahānī al-maʻrūf bi-Shufrūh taghammadahu Allāh bi-raḥmatih wa-anālahu buḥbūḥat jannatih bi-Muḥammad wa-ʻitratih wa-ṣaḥbihi ajmaʻīn. Wa-yatlūhu al-Aṭwāq lil-Zamakhsharī raḥmat Allāh ʻalayh."
On folios 77a-77b: "ʻAbd al-Muʼmin ibn Hibat Allāh Muḥammad ibn Hibat Allāh ibn Ḥamzah al-maʻrūf bi-Shawrwah bi-al-Shīn al-muʻjamah wa-al-wāw wa-al-rāʼ al-sākinah baʻdahā wāw wa-hāʼ, Sharaf al-Dīn ibn Nūr al-Dīn ibn Wajīh al-Dīn al-Iṣbahānī, kāna jadduhu qāḍī Iṣbahān, wa-kāna wāliduhu Nūr al-Dīn wāʻiẓan ḥāfiẓan. Waṣala Shawrwah ilá Dimashq akhira ayyām Nūr al-Dīn al-Shahīd wa-ʻaqada majlis waʻẓ ḥaḍrata Nūr al-Dīn wa-aslama ʻalá yadihi awwala yawm ṣaghīr Naṣrānī fa-qāla badīhan: 'Naṣabnā fikhākhan fa-iṣṭadnā farkhan ..."
Colophon of Aṭbāq al-dhahab: "... Wa-al-ḥamud lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn. Wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad wa-ālihi al-ṭāhirīn wa-aṣḥābihi al-fāḍilīn wa-anṣārihi al-Muhājirīn, wa-sallam taslīman. Najazat hādhihi al-nuskhah al-mubārakah fī yawm al-Sabt al-ʻishrīn min Ramaḍān al-muʻaẓẓam li-sanat arbaʻah wa-khamsīn wa-sabʻimiʼah Hijrīyah."
Translation of the colophon of Aṭbāq al-dhahab: "Praise be to God Lord of the Universe. May God pray on our Master Muḥammad, his virtuous family, his honorable companions and his supporters, the Muhājirīn, and grant them abundant peace. This blessed copy was completed on Saturday, the 20th of honorable Ramaḍān, 754 of the Hijrah [19 October, 1353]."
Colophon of Aṭwāq al-dhahab fī al-mawāʻiẓ wa-al-khuṭab: No colophon. Text ends with "al-Maqālah al-miʼah" (Sermon 100), as follows: "Lam tarḍa li-sharābika illā an yurawwaq wa-an yuṣaffá wa-yuṣaffaqa, wa-illā ramayta bi-mujājatihi, wa-rubbamā anḥayta ʻalá zujājatihi, fa-kayfa raḍīta li-dīnaka bi-al-qadhá, wa-al-muʼminu lā yarḍá li-dīnihi bi-dhā? Wa-Allāh aʻlam bi-al-ṣawāb wa-ilayhi al-marjiʻ wa-al-maʼāb."
With autograph note tipped in front: "Bequeathed to my very dear friend, Mr. A. E. Ward, in grateful appreciation of the knowledge that these mss. of W. J. Linton's, together with some of the author's books, which were treasured by my revered father (1825-1893) in memory of their great friendship, will find a welcome home in his library. Geo Robt Vine 1927."
Decoration: Rubricated. Some banners with texts in margins. Six illuminated initials with gold or silver decoration: decorated silver initial (3v); birds, silver decoration (14v); Jonah, gold decoration (24v); monk with textual banner, gold decoration (35v); Virgin Mary and child, textual banner, gold decoration (43r); animal blowing instrument, silver decoration (50v); trumpeter, textual banner, gold decoration (80v).
Decoration: 13 large full-color miniatures in architectural frames illustrating various events in the allegorical pilgrimage of the author's soul, guided by Dame Inspiration. The opening miniature is full-page and depicts the author asleep beneath a tree hung with her coat of arms. Other subjects include: the soul, accompanied by Dame Inspiration, begins her pilgrimage to the Fontaine de Penitence f.9; Inspiration explains to the soul what needs to be done in order to reach the Fontaine de Penitence f.11, the soul, carried on the back of Inspiration, flies to the Château de Contention diabolique f.17, Inspiration and the soul meet Raison f.20; the soul enters the Chemin de Crainte de Dieu f.35; souls are cleansed in the Fontaine de Penitence f.47; the soul sets off on her journey to the Terre de Promission f.50v; the company journey to the coast where they find boats awaiting them f.53; the company embark f.58; the company sets off on the Navire de Penitence f.61; the company is attacked by seven other boats f.63; the company is swept up by the Vent de Hypocrisie f.69v.
Second parchment front flyleaf recto contains a note on the death of "myne uncle Oliver Godfraye" on 2 September 1550. Parchment bifolium (8 x 6 mm.) containing entries on events from 1297 to 1341 sewn onto flyleaf below the note. Verso contains ownership inscription of John Burns dated September 24, 1921 with slip recording auction sale 19 July 1928 pasted in below.
Decoration: rubricated. Five half-page miniatures and one arch-topped miniature, accompanied by full-page borders. The subjects of the miniatures are as follows: f.3 A lady kneeling before St. Jerome, seated, with the lion at his feet. f.10 The same lady presented to the Annunciate Virgin by the Archangel Gabriel, whose scroll greeting the Virgin curls up behind the lady's head as if she too uttered the words. f.19 Coronation of the Virgin with hovering angels on either side with scrolls oriented for them to read 'Hec est regina virginum' and 'Ave maris stella'. f.30v Christ standing in a lush landscape teaching the kneeling apostles and disciples the Lord's Prayer, the words on his scroll coming from Matthew 6:9. f.48 The lady, with her patron St. Jerome, kneeling and offering her soul, in the form of a naked child, up to God above, illustrating the opening words of Psalm 24 (Vulgate) on her scroll; to the right a young man kneeling with his patron saint, a deacon martyr, and the second verse of the psalm continuing on his scroll. f.101 Crucifixion flanked by the lady with the Virgin and the young man with St. John the Evangelist.
Decoration: two full-page borders accompanied by three-line foliate initials on a gold ground (ff.1, 40); three three-sided borders (ff.32, 35, 92v), four- and five-line initials in gold on a ground of blue and red with white ornament and leafy sprays extending into the margin (ff.20v, 90v, 92v), one three-line foliate initial on a gold ground with extensions forming a two-sided border (f.81), two-line and three-line initials alternately in gold with blue penwork, or blue with red penwork, usually forming reserved leafy designs within the body of the initial and extending up and down the left margin, one- to six-line paraphs in the text and margins alternately gold with blue penwork or blue with red penwork,
Decoration: Limited decoration. Paragraph marks by the scribe in the ink of the text. A few 1-line versals in red. A few larger primitive flourished initials, red or blue, with penwork in the opposite colour. The text of art. 1 begins with a 4-line littera duplex “M” in red and blue colour. Art. 2 opens with a 10-line primitive dentelle initial “I” in gold on a blue and red background, which is heightened with white penwork design. The initial is shown resting on the back of a small bent male figure, coloured red and gold.