Harry Levin calligraphy collection, ca.1250-1891.
Collection Number: 4884
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Harry Levin calligraphy collection, ca.1250-1891.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
4884
Abstract:
Primarily medieval and early modern documents representing different styles of handwriting.
Creator:
Levin, Harry, b1925
Quanitities:
20 items.
Language:
Collection material in English
Primarily medieval and early modern documents representing different styles of handwriting.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Harry Levin calligraphy collection, #4884. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections,
Cornell University Library.
Subjects:
Calligraphy.
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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| Box 4 | 1-2 |
Illuminated manuscript.
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Scope and Contents
Letters patent. Vignette drawing (lion on blue). On parchment, 3 pages, 2 sides. Illumination
in Dei Noie Amen (written in gold). Gloriosa Studior: Alumna Macerata. Qua sities
amoenitate, aaeris salubriate. Last page: cut out paper in a fleur-de-lis shape glued
down to back page. Drawing added. Cover (see watermark), letter patent October 18,
1667 (handwritten in sepia ink), Patent della Laures Dottorate in Filographia e Geologia.
Water mark on paper which makes up the front cover and the backing of the book. Inside
is parchment. 5/8 x 6 3/4".
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| Box 2 | 3 |
Manuscript.
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Scope and Contents
Typed label in package: Italy 1492 Early humanistic cursive. Folds on two sides. Staining
upper part of 2" fold. 12 3/4 plus 4 1/2 fold at the bottom x 8 x 2" fold over the
right side.
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| Box 3 | 4 |
English Legal Paper.
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Scope and Contents
Laid paper, no watermark "To the Honorable the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas
began and holden at Portland in & for the County of Cumberland on the third Tuesday
of November A.D. 1807." Humbly show George James Oliver Pearce of Georgetown etc.
This is a judgement for collection. An accounting is listed in the lower left at the
bottom of the sheet.
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| Box 2 | 5 |
Manuscript.
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Scope and Contents
Oratio habita in Domo Conucatiomis. Oxon: Maij XXIX Anno Domim. PLDCXX cum seremssimus.
Rex Jacobus Opera Sua. Academioe dono daret. 11 1/2" x 8". 1 page, 2 sides. 3rd page
1/2 written (see below). Endi Diuidite merios et mama pendite circum Dacra canant
Wates. Sic nos Felix Palladium sacrata sistimum Arce./ Names include: Richard Gardiner,
ex Ade Christi. Laid paper, see watermark. Monarchy James I.
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| Box 2 | 6 |
Manuscript.
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Scope and Contents
Fragment-sepia ink. Latin. 7 1/2" x 3 1/2" (at the longest points).
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| Box 3 | 7 |
Manuscript fragment.
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Scope and Contents
2 sided (from a book-string remains in a hole). Drawings in the margins. 13 1/2" x
9 1/2". Parchment. Graining on the verso. Staining upper and side borders.
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| Box 3 | 8 |
Proclamation.
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Scope and Contents
Verso: 1743 and 1595, in pencil. Folded in three and then in half. Torn seals on the
outside. 17" x c. 25". Heavy wove paper (fibers visible). Rector st PROFESSORES Academia.
Ultrajectina lect: S.P. S B aerle ?md. Ultrajecti ad diem 9 Septembris A. MDCCXLIII
(1743).
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| Box 3 | 9 |
Illuminated Manuscript.
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Scope and Contents
Illuminated page. 7" x 5". Floral and leaves red, blue and gold. Folded 4 times horizontally.
Written on the outside quarter: Robt. White per and David Gosford and Eliz his wife
D of L. Copy. Indres paper.
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| Box 3 | 10 |
Quit-Claim.
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Scope and Contents
Laid paper, see watermark. This is the final agreement made in the Court of our Sovereign
Lord the King at Westminster in fifteen days of Saint Martin in the first year in
the Reign of George the Third by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France and Ireland
King Defender of the Faith and etc., 1760.
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| Box 3 | 11 |
Diploma.
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Scope and Contents
Doctor of Canon Law. Pisa Grant of the degree of Doctor of Canon and Civil law to
Jacopo de Mati of Florence. On a labe: Illuminated Manuscript on vellum. 4 leaves,
names in gold, good italic hand, illuminated arms within a cartouche in gold and colors
on title. 4 to. contemporary vellum wrappers, gilt borders and central fleurons, edges
slightly frayed, lack ties. Pisa 16 April 1642 (1643).
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| Box 2 | 12 |
Mortgage Letter.
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Scope and Contents
Ippolyte D'Este (Cardinal of Ferrera, son of Alfonso I & Lucrezia Borgia (1509-1572):
Letter signed to my chief and dearest friends the Priors of Matelica, Tivoli 17 July
1568, concerning the affairs of the community & recommending the choice of the lesser
evil because of the advantage which would come of it; subscribed "Tutto Vostro Hip.
Carli. di Ferrara, 1 page 4 to., & addressed conjugate leaf, small hole where seal
has been removed. From the coll: Lord stor Hever Castle Paper, watermark: small fleur
de lis in circle. diam.c. 1 1/4"". 11 x 8. For 35 British sterling pounds. Mortgage.
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| Box 3 | 13 |
Manuscript.
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Scope and Contents
Label: Rome 1534 Formal humanistic. Note transition from Gothic script. Many holes
in it. 8 1/2 x 10 1/2.
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| Box 3 | 14 |
Illuminated Manuscript.
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Scope and Contents
Italy 15th century. St. Isidore, Etymologies Lib iii(fol.55)ch.49-51). Humanistic
miniscule. All of the above on a label. Top border "Liber" vellum. Center drawing
2 sided Verso: #44, written in the upper right.
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| Box 3 | 15 |
Manuscript.
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Scope and Contents
In pencil, lower border: France c. 1250. 2 sided. 8 x 5 1/2 in red, blue in some letters
with border. ON the verso AOCRI & SARE, upper border like title.
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| Box 4 | 16 |
Indenture.
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Scope and Contents
23" x 34". With complete wax seal along lower border, upper: Three Pounds. Signed
and sealed in the left corner on fold "James Hatch." Vellum. 11th Oct. 1816 Betw.
James Hatch of Ulrouie and Edward Hope of Harrietstown.
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| Box 3 | 17 |
Book plate.
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Scope and Contents
5 3/4 x 8. vellum. Staining in the borders. Green smudge.
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| Box 4 | 18 |
Seal.
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Scope and Contents
On laid paper in ink on envelope. 3/4" in diameter in light orange. Very small. Tilra
550. c. 333. dLigjillo orignale. di Lijouardo for Nporraro. prov. del Sano di Syuonie.
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| Box 3 | 19 |
Green intro sheet.
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Scope and Contents
Title and Abstract with introduction. April 28, 1891. 5 1/2 pages. Dated. Cover page
(blue) State of Minnesota, County of Ramsey. 12 1/2 x 8 1/4.
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| Box 3 | 20 |
Manuscript.
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Scope and Contents
In pencil along the lower edge: France 1500. A page from a book (sewed holes along
with left edge paper). On paper 7 1/4" x 15". Stained in the borders. Printed/written.
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| Box 3 | 21 |
Paper.
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Scope and Contents
6 x 5 1/4. Hold upper right side.
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| Box 1 |
Additional unnumbered items.
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| Box 2 |
Additional unnumbered items.
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