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  • Pro rege infirmo

    Alternative Title:
    Book of hours : a decorated prayer book
    Subject:
    Catholic Church, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Prayers and devotions, Fidelis, of Sigmaringen, Saint, 1577-1622, Manuscripts, Latin, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Gothic, Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Sacred music, Joseph, of Leonessa, Saint, 1556-1612, Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern), Devotional literature, Felix, of Cantalice, Saint, 1515-1587, Louis IX, King of France, 1214-1270, Books of hours, and Christian saints
    Creator:
    Contributor:
    Location:
    Language:
    fre and lat
    Date Created:
    1600s
    Rights Statement:
    No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
    Resource Type:
    Text
    Identifier:
    Shelf Mark: Ms.Lat.10 and Call Number: BX2080 P76 1610
    Extent:
    27 unnumbered pages : colour illustrations, music ; 26 cm
    Geographic Coverage:
    France
    Coordinates:
    46, 2
    Additional Physical Characteristics:
    In near-contemporary leather and paper binding. Coat of arms affixed to front board depicts a knight's helmet above a green-painted shield, presenting a rooster resting atop a castle flanked by two lions and three f...
    Physical Repository:
    University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
    Collection:
    Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Collection
    Provenance:
    Purchased from Hindman on the Medieval Manuscripts Fund.
    Provider:
    University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
    Genre:
    manuscripts (documents), leather bindings (bookbindings), scores (documents for music), illuminated manuscripts, decorated initials, religious texts, and books of hours
    Is Referenced By:
    Special Collections Inventory: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/collections/medieval/ms-lat-10.php
    Date Digitized:
    2023-03-10
    Technical Note:
    Scanned on Betterlight/TTI 600 DPI TIFF (1/20; 263; copy4 tone; camera height 1200) by PD. Metadata by KD.

  • Shakespeare's Second folio, 1632

    Alternative Title:
    Mr. William Shakespeares comedies, histories, and tragedies. Published according to the try Originall Copies. The Second Impression.
    Subject:
    Tempest (Shakespeare, William), Othello (Shakespeare, William), King Henry IV (Shakespeare, William), Titus Andronicus (Shakespeare, William), Measure for measure (Shakespeare, William), Love's labour's lost (Shakespeare, William), All's well that ends well (Shakespeare, William), Troilus and Cressida (Shakespeare, William), Timon of Athens (Shakespeare, William), Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare, William), Coriolanus (Shakespeare, William), King Richard III (Shakespeare, William), Hamlet (Shakespeare, William), King Richard II (Shakespeare, William), King Lear (Shakespeare, William), Two gentlemen of Verona (Shakespeare, William), King John (Shakespeare, William), Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare, William), Henry V (Shakespeare, William), Comedy of errors (Shakespeare, William), As you like it (Shakespeare, William), Winter's tale (Shakespeare, William), Julius Caesar (Shakespeare, William), Twelfth night (Shakespeare, William), Merry wives of Windsor (Shakespeare, William), Midsummer night's dream (Shakespeare, William), Cymbeline (Shakespeare, William), Macbeth (Shakespeare, William), Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare, William), Taming of the shrew (Shakespeare, William), King Henry VIII (Shakespeare, William), and Much ado about nothing (Shakespeare, William)
    Creator:
    Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
    Contributor:
    Droeshout, Martin, 1601-, Milton, John, 1608-1674, and Cotes, Thomas, -1641
    Publisher:
    London, Printed by Tho. Cotes, for Robert Allot, and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Blacke Beare in Pauls Church-yard. 1632.
    Location:
    Language:
    eng
    Date Created:
    1632
    Rights Statement:
    No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
    Resource Type:
    Text
    Extent:
    1 volume (419 pages)
    Edition:
    Second edition and Second impression
    Geographic Coverage:
    Additional Physical Characteristics:
    Includes an engraved title page portrait of the author signed: Martin Droeshout, sculpsit, London.Contemporary clippings describing auctions selling the first Shakespeare folio among other details and a card with "...
    Physical Repository:
    British Columbia. Legislative Library
    Collection:
    Early Printed Books
    Provenance:
    From the Legislative Library of British Columbia's collection.
    Provider:
    University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
    Genre:
    drama (literary genre), plays (performing arts compositions), books, collected works, folio (book format), and fiction (general genre)
    Date Digitized:
    2017-02-27/2017-03-13
    Transcript:
    Contents _archival-image-number/title/(printed page number):_005 title page with portrait_006 dedication_007 To The Great Variety of Readers_014 Contents / Tempest (1)_024 Two Gentlemen of Verona (20)_033 Merry Wives of Windsor (39) _044 Measur...
    Technical Note:
    Received from Legislative Library late February 2017. Scanned from 27 Feb - 13 Mar. 600 dpi TIFFS. Edge of book approx 10 1/4" from front edge of scan deck. 1/20; 263 ISO; Bent 5 tone. Size 10.33 x 12.69 (adjusted to 12.95) @ 450 camer...

  • Ad physiologum

    Alternative Title:
    Tou hagiou patros hēmōn Epiphaniou, Episkopou konstanteias Kyprou, Eis ton physiologon; tou autou eis ta Baia logus = Sancti Patris nostri Epiphanii, episcopi Constantiae Cypri, Ad Physiologvm. Eiusdem in die festo palmarum sermo. D. Consali Ponce de Leon Hispalensis, S...
    Subject:
    History, Sermons, Physiologus, Bestiaries, Sermons, Greek--Manuscripts, Sermons, Greek, Bible, Palm Sunday, and Early works
    Creator:
    Epiphanius, Saint, Bishop of Constantia in Cyprus, approximately 310-403
    Contributor:
    Ponce de León, Gonzalo, 1530-approximately 1590
    Publisher:
    Antverpiae : Ex officina Christophori Plantini, architypographi Regis, 1588.
    Location:
    Language:
    gre and lat
    Date Created:
    approximately 1588
    Rights Statement:
    No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
    Resource Type:
    Text
    Identifier:
    Call Number: BR65 E653H3 1588
    Extent:
    16 unnumbered pages, 124 pages, 11 unnumbered pages ; 18 cm
    Geographic Coverage:
    Additional Physical Characteristics:
    Includes index. Illustrations.
    Physical Repository:
    University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
    Collection:
    Early Printed Books Collection
    Provenance:
    Gift of Beryl Rowland estate.
    Provider:
    University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
    Genre:
    books
    Is Referenced By:
    Indexed in: Plantin press 1126
    Date Digitized:
    2001-01-22
    Technical Note:
    600 dpi tiff. Metadata by KD.

  • Armorial Manuscript

    Subject:
    Genealogy, Manuscripts, Medieval, Heraldry, Courts and courtiers, and Devices (Heraldry)
    Creator:
    Contributor:
    Location:
    Language:
    enm and lat
    Date Created:
    approximately 1580
    Rights Statement:
    No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
    Resource Type:
    Text
    Identifier:
    Shelf Mark: Ms.Brown.Eng.2
    Extent:
    272 leaves; quarto, 180 x 133 mm (approximately 13 x 18 x 4.5 cm)
    Geographic Coverage:
    England
    Coordinates:
    52.16045,-0.70312
    Additional Physical Characteristics:
    Attractive illuminated late sixteenth-century manuscript in ink, with many coloured armorial illustrations within shields, bound in later red morocco gilt.
    Physical Repository:
    University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
    Collection:
    Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Collection
    Provenance:
    Donated by Bruce and Dorothy Brown.
    Provider:
    University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
    Genre:
    illuminated manuscripts
    Archival Item Identifier:
    1989-070-5
    Fonds Title:
    Bruce and Dorothy Brown Collection
    Fonds Identifier:
    SC017
    Is Referenced By:
    Archival finding aid: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/findaids/brown_collection_manuscripts.pdf and Special Collection Inventory: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/collections/medieval/inventory.php.
    Date Digitized:
    2019-10-24
    Technical Note:
    Scanned on Betterlight/TTI at 600 dpi TIFF (1/20; 303 (some at 283); copy 4 stops; camera height 500). Mylar used to hold pages down during scans as needed. Metadata by KD.

  • Shahnameh, Fragment

    Alternative Title:
    Šāhnāme, شاهنامه, Fragment of Shahnameh (Dastan-ɘ Bæhram ba Kɘshavarz َ داستانَبهرامَباَکشاورز ), and Abu al-Qasim Ahmad, Fragment
    Subject:
    Calligraphy, Persian, Persian poetry, Shāhnāmah (Firdawsī), Epic poetry, Epic literature, Persian, and Persian literature
    Creator:
    Firdawsī
    Contributor:
    Location:
    Language:
    per
    Date Created:
    1551 to 1650
    Rights Statement:
    No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
    Resource Type:
    Text
    Identifier:
    Shelf Mark: MS Victoria 1998-034
    Extent:
    1 leaf ; 345 x 222 mm
    Geographic Coverage:
    Iran
    Coordinates:
    32, 53
    Additional Physical Characteristics:
    Indigenous Iranian paper in Nasta’liq script.
    Physical Repository:
    University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
    Collection:
    Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Collection
    Provider:
    University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
    Genre:
    manuscripts (documents), poetry, epic poetry, and fragments (object portions)
    Fonds Title:
    Arabic Manuscripts Collection
    Fonds Identifier:
    SC119
    Is Referenced By:
    Fragmentarium: https://fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-ypcz and Special Collections Inventory: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/collections/medieval/ms-victoria-1998-034.php
    Date Digitized:
    2022-10-12
    Technical Note:
    Metadata by KD.
    Keyword in Context:
    Transcript available
    1 Term Project for English 503: Introduction to Manuscript Studies and Archival Methods Summer 2022 Sohrab Mosahebi Dr. A.W. Boyarin Table of Contents 1. Ms-Victoria-1992-037-1: ....................................................................................

  • James I, Document

    Subject:
    Manuscripts, Medieval and Court records
    Contributor:
    James I, King of England, 1566-1625
    Language:
    lat
    Date Created:
    1600s
    Rights Statement:
    No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
    Resource Type:
    Still Image
    Identifier:
    Shelf Mark: Doc.Lat.2
    Extent:
    1 page; with seal
    Geographic Coverage:
    England
    Coordinates:
    52.16045, -0.70312
    Physical Repository:
    University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
    Collection:
    Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Collection
    Provider:
    University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
    Genre:
    seals (marks) and manuscripts (documents)
    Archival Item Identifier:
    1993-022
    Fonds Title:
    Medieval Studies Collection
    Fonds Identifier:
    SC070
    Is Referenced By:
    Archival finding aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/medieval-studies-collection and Special Collection Inventory: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/collections/medieval/inventory.php.
    Date Digitized:
    2012-02-23
    Technical Note:
    Metadata by KD.

  • Statutes of the Order of the Garter

    Alternative Title:
    Statutes of the Order of the Garter, in Thirteen Chapters
    Subject:
    Charters, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Order of the Garter
    Creator:
    Edward VI, King of England, 1537-1553
    Contributor:
    Location:
    Language:
    eng
    Date Created:
    1500s
    Rights Statement:
    No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
    Resource Type:
    Text
    Identifier:
    Shelf Mark: Ms.Brown.Eng.1
    Extent:
    32 pages; vellum; plus frontspiece; 23 x 17 x 205 cm (pages 220 x 158 mm) 272 leave s, quarto [180x133mm], bound in later r ed morocco gilt.
    Geographic Coverage:
    England
    Coordinates:
    52.16045,-0.70312
    Additional Physical Characteristics:
    26 lines to a page, ruled in red, written in dark brown ink in a calligraphic secretary hand with some flourishes, forty-seven illuminated initials (one 4-line, three 3-line, the rest 2-line) in gold, red and blue with...
    Physical Repository:
    University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
    Collection:
    Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Collection
    Provenance:
    Donated by Bruce and Dorothy Brown.
    Provider:
    University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
    Genre:
    illuminated manuscripts
    Archival Item Identifier:
    1989-069-8
    Fonds Title:
    Bruce and Dorothy Brown collection
    Fonds Identifier:
    SC017
    Is Referenced By:
    Archival finding aid: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/findaids/brown_collection_manuscripts.pdf and Special Collection Inventory: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/collections/medieval/inventory.php.
    Date Digitized:
    2019-10-23/2019-10-24
    Transcript:
    Transcription and description by Sydney Terepocki and Luke Oldfield, as part of coursework for a manuscript studies class with Dr. Adrienne Williams Boyarin (ENGL), April 2015, is available here : https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spco...
    Technical Note:
    Scanned on Betterlight/TTI at 600 dpi TIFF (1/20;303 (some at 283);copy 4 stops; camera height 500) Item scanned in acrylic cradle and mylar used to hold pages down during scans. Work completed 23-24 Oct 2019 - PD. Metadata by KD.

  • Indenture, 1629

    Subject:
    Women, Land tenure, Manuscripts, and Landowners
    Creator:
    Contributor:
    Location:
    Language:
    eng
    Date Created:
    August 20, 1629
    Rights Statement:
    No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
    Resource Type:
    Text
    Identifier:
    Shelf Mark: Doc.Eng.3
    Extent:
    1 sheet ; 35 x 45 mm
    Geographic Coverage:
    England--Lostwithiel and England
    Coordinates:
    50.41217, -4.67521
    Additional Physical Characteristics:
    Writing is in a late Elizabethan secretary hand with a distinctly flowing, messy quality, likely the result of an overloaded pen., Main text in black ink on on...
    Physical Repository:
    University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
    Collection:
    Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Collection
    Provider:
    University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
    Genre:
    signatures (names), legal documents, manuscripts (documents), seals (marks), and indentures
    Archival Item Identifier:
    Accession Number: 2019-070, Item: 4
    Fonds Title:
    Early Modern Manuscripts collection
    Fonds Identifier:
    SC599
    Is Referenced By:
    Special Collections Fonds: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/early-modern-manuscripts-collection and Special Collections Inventory: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/collections/medieval/doc-eng-3.php
    Technical Note:
    Scanned on Betterlight/TTI at 600 dpi TIFF (1/15; 263; bent5 tone; height 700) by PD. Metadata by KD.

  • Aldus Manutius the Younger, De Antiquis Numerorum Notis

    Alternative Title:
    Interpraetatio numerorum quibus in ratione pecuniaria veteres utebantur; Concerning ancient writing of numbers; Meaning of numbers which the ancients used in monetary reckoning; De antiquis numerorum notis. Interpraetatio numerorum quibus in ratione pecuniaria veteres ute...
    Subject:
    Money, Coins, Italian, Numerals, Writing of, Coins, Roman, and Sestertius (Coin)
    Creator:
    Manzuio, Aldo
    Contributor:
    Location:
    Language:
    ita and lat
    Date Created:
    approximately 1550 to approximately 1575
    Rights Statement:
    No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
    Resource Type:
    Text
    Identifier:
    Shelf Mark: Ms.It.1 and Call number: P211 M275 1550
    Extent:
    6 folios; paper; 211 x 60 mm (21.1 cm)
    Geographic Coverage:
    Italy
    Coordinates:
    42.83333, 12.83333
    Additional Physical Characteristics:
    Modern foliation in pencil, top outer recto, 1-6, complete (collation, i6), ruled with full-length vertical bounding lines produced by folding the leaves lengthwise into quarters, text written in brown ink in an elegant...
    Physical Repository:
    University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
    Collection:
    Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Collection
    Provenance:
    Purchased from Les Enluminures (reference number 794), October 2014.
    Provider:
    University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
    Genre:
    manuscripts (documents)
    Fonds Title:
    Medieval Studies Collection
    Fonds Identifier:
    SC070
    Is Referenced By:
    From Les Eluminures website: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/documents/MsIt1.pdf and Special Collection Inventory: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/collections/medieval/inventory.php.
    Date Digitized:
    2017-01-17
    Technical Note:
    Scanned by CDeWolfe using the Betterlight TTI @ 600dpi. Cropped, no colour correction or size editing. Metadata by KD.

  • Elizabeth I, Privy Council Letter

    Alternative Title:
    Elizabeth I (1533-1603), Queen of England
    Subject:
    Manuscripts, Medieval, Great Britain. Privy Council, Politics and government, and Tyrone's Rebellion (1597-1603)
    Creator:
    Contributor:
    Banbury, William Knollys, Earl of, 1547-1632, Nottingham, Charles Howard, Earl of, approximately 1536-1624, Dorset, Thomas Sackville, Earl of, 1536-1608, Dorset, Charles Sackville, Earl of, 1638?-1706, North, Roger, Baron, 1530-1600, Ellesmere, Thomas Egerton, Baron, 1540?-1617, Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603, Salisbury, Robert Cecil, Earl of, 1563-1612, Popham, John, Sir, 1531?-1607, and Fortescue, John, Sir, 1531?-1607
    Location:
    Language:
    lat
    Date Created:
    January 15, 1599
    Rights Statement:
    No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
    Resource Type:
    Text
    Identifier:
    Shelf Mark: Doc.Brown.8
    Extent:
    2 pages folio ; 336 x 463 mm
    Geographic Coverage:
    Ireland and England--Norfolk
    Coordinates:
    52.66667, 1 and 53, -8
    Additional Physical Characteristics:
    Folded once, letter on the two sides of one of the resulting leaves, the address on one side of the other leaf. Seal tear professionally repaired. With integral address leaf.
    Physical Repository:
    University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
    Collection:
    Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Collection
    Provenance:
    Donated by Bruce and Dorothy Brown.
    Provider:
    University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
    Genre:
    correspondence and manuscripts (documents)
    Archival Item Identifier:
    1989-069-11
    Fonds Title:
    Bruce and Dorothy Brown Collection
    Fonds Identifier:
    SC017
    Is Referenced By:
    Archival finding aid: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/findaids/brown_collection_manuscripts.pdf and Special Collection Inventory: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/collections/medieval/inventory.php.
    Date Digitized:
    2012-02-23
    Technical Note:
    Metadata by KD.