Italic type, Printers' marks, Early printed books, Silvae (Statius, P. Papinius), Rare books, Achilleis (Statius, P. Papinius), Colophons, Works (Statius, P. Papinius), Bookbinding, Epic literature, and Thebais (Statius, P. Papinius)
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Resource Type:
Text
Identifier:
Call Number: PA6697 A2 1502
Extent:
592 unnumbered pages ; 4 x 6 cm
Additional Physical Characteristics:
Italic type. Printer's device, sig. ep8s (last group of small letters), recto: anchor and dolphin, with name Aldus, and dots. Spaces with guide letters left blank for initials.
Physical Repository:
University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Collection:
Early Printed Books and Book Arts Collection
Provider:
University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Genre:
poetry, books, and epic poetry
Date Digitized:
2024-01
Technical Note:
Scanned on Betterlight/TTI (1/20; 263; copy 4 stops; camera 800) by LG. Metadata by KD.
Works. and Ex Plauti Comoediis. XX. Quarum carmina magna ex parte in mensum suum restituta sunt M.D.XXII. Index uerborum, quib. paulo abstrusiorib. Plautus utitur. Argumenta singularum Comoediarum. Authoris uita. Tralatio dictionum graecarum.
Subject:
Colophons, Drama, Printers' marks, Italic type, Latin drama (Comedy), Comedy plays, Latin drama, and Bookbinding
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Resource Type:
Text
Identifier:
Call Number: PA6568 A2 1522
Extent:
14 unnumbered pages, 284 leaves ; 15 x 21 cm
Additional Physical Characteristics:
Errors in foliation: leaves 39 misnumbered as 32, 104 as 108.
Physical Repository:
University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Collection:
Book Arts Collection and Early Printed Books
Provider:
University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Genre:
books and comedy plays
Date Digitized:
2024-01
Technical Note:
Scanned on Betterlight/TTI (1/20; 263; copy 4 stops; camera 800) by LG. Metadata by KD.
Nouvelles observations sur les différentes méthodes de prêcher : avec un recueil de tous les prédicateurs qui ont prêché l'avent & le carême devant Leur Majestés Louis XIV & Louis XV, qui ne se trouve nulle part. and Antiphonal (Fragment)
Subject:
Music--Manuscripts, Bookbinding, Manuscript fragments, and Parchment
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Resource Type:
Text
Identifier:
Call Number: BV4213 A55 1757
Extent:
1 cover ; 17 x 10 cm
Geographic Coverage:
Additional Physical Characteristics:
Bound in vellum music manuscript fragment; spine label has title: Method de precher. and Script type: Northern Textualis. Liturgica: Antiphonar. Very worn parchment, discoloured to a dark brown, serves a outer cover of binding boards and spine. Missing letters on left side (front cover of host volume) indicate original leaf was considerably wider. Main text and decorative letters are in black ink, liturgical instructions in red, additional details in green. Black ink is still very visible, but coloured ink (red and green) is fading. -- Ella Reedman, University of Victoria, 2023
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Resource Type:
Text
Extent:
9 pages ; 21 x 28 cm
Geographic Coverage:
Ontario--Toronto, Alberta--Calgary, Alberta--Edmonton, Saskatchewan, Québec--Montréal, Québec, British Columbia--Vancouver, and British Columbia--Victoria
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Resource Type:
Text
Identifier:
Shelf Mark: MS.Fr.2 and Call Number: BV246 L58 1886
Extent:
58 pages ; 17 x 14 cm
Geographic Coverage:
France--Lyon and France
Coordinates:
45.74846, 4.84671 and 46, 2
Chronological Coverage:
13xx/15xx
Additional Physical Characteristics:
Illustrated book on silk; [4] 6 + 44 + [4] = 58 pp, small in 4o, 43 numbered pages, plus 6 printed preliminary pages, plus 4 pages front and back of mounted silk, unprinted, text block 168 x 138 mm., one half-page, three full-page illustrations, in addition to various styles of decorative borders and initials throughout on every page, woven entirely in silver-gray and black silk. and Fine binding of dark brown levant morocco by Kaufmann Petit, art nouveau Parisian binders, brown silk doublures, in pristine condition, with a marbled slipcase and chemise, brown morocco spine, elaborately gilt.
Physical Repository:
University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Collection:
Book Arts Collection
Provenance:
Purchased from Les Enluminures, Ltd. on the MSSF Fund, 2018.
Provider:
University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Genre:
books, specimens, and prayer books
Is Referenced By:
From Les Enluminures website: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/documents/MsFr2_full.pdf and Special Collections Inventory: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/collections/medieval/inventory.php
Date Digitized:
2019-08-06/2019-08-07
Technical Note:
600 dpi TIFF. Scanned on Betterlight TTI (camera height 600; 1/15; 283; Bent5) by PD. Cover and slipcover scanned atop buff coloured paper for contrast. Slipcover images at end of sequence. Ribbon bookmark placed at end of book throughout scanning. Metadata by KD.