Manuscripts -- 16th century
Subject
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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
La.III.440: Esther Inglis, "Livret traittant de la grandeur de Dieu et de la cognoissance qu’on peut avoir de luy par ses oeuvres", 1592
Item
Identifier: La.III.440
Scope and Contents
This manuscript is a decorative copy of Pierre Du Val’s De la grandeur de Dieu et de la cognoissance qu’on peut avoir de luy par ses oeuvres, first published at Paris in 1553. Written by Esther Inglis in 1592, when she was around 22 years old, it forms part of a group of manuscripts produced between 1586 and 1592 which show her early experiments calligraphy and print imitation. The other manuscripts in this group are now British Library, MS Sloane 987 (...
Dates:
1592
Prayer book in Latin and Dutch
Item — Box CLX-A-131
Identifier: Coll-1939
Scope and Contents
Devotional volume in Latin and Dutch dated 1555, written possibly for a religious community in the diocese of Bruges.
ff. 1r-11v: Calendar in red and black, probably of the Bruges area. Entries in red include SS. Basilius ( 14 June), Eligius (25 June and I Dec.), Egidius ( l Sept.) and Donatianus (14 Oct.). F.12 blank.
ff. 13r-14r: St John I. 1-14...
Dates:
1555