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14060Original Vintage19th century albumen photograph of the Golden Gate in Jerusalem. Shows great details of Jerusalem's walls. The Golden Gate is the oldest of the current gates in Jerusalem's Old City Walls. According to Jewish tradition the Shekhinah used to appear through this gate and will appear again when the Messiah comes. 11" by 8.5" Unmounted. Very good condition with only minor loss of contrast and minor creasing. unknown books
18132548Lisbon: Royal Press 1813. Broadsheet 434 x 325 mm. Printed text in two columns fulfilled in manuscript; surmounted by a row of three woodcuts at bottom the seal of the Portuguese Commissary General of the Holy Land. Fine condition untrimmed minor creases at folds. An illustrated printed form granting induction into the Confraternity Irmandade of Jerusalem also called the Confraternity of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem one of a number of lay confraternities sponsored by the Franciscans. The document was promulgated by Fr. Manoel do Espirito Santo Santo Minde in the Franciscan Convent in Madrid on 10 February 1774 as stated in the text. The latter's xylographically reproduced signature is printed at the foot of the text as is the woodcut block-stamped seal with the Jerusalem cross of the Portuguese General Commissary of the Terra Sancta. The name of the inductee Antonio Xavier Ribeiro and the date 17 September 1814 are supplied in manuscript in spaces left blank for that purpose. The woodcuts show the Madonna on the Crescent the arms of the Confraternity and St. Francis; archaic in style they all show signs of wear. Originally a pilgrimage society the Confraternity of Jerusalem became one of the most prominent lay confraternities for slaves and freed slaves in eighteenth-century Brazil cf. Higgins "Licentious Liberty" in a Brazilian Gold-mining Region 1999 p. 104. Princeton holds a different edition of a similar broadside without imprint and apparently unillustrated and with a different official's printed signature. Royal Press unknown books
156416959Cologne: Apud Maternum Cholinum 1564. First Latin edition. Hardcover. Very good. Folio. xx205pp. Printer's device on title; woodcut initials. First Latin edition translated by John Grodecius. The dedicatory matter is followed by a Life of St Cyril a discussion of his works and an index. Early 19th century marbled paper boards later lettering label gilt; page edges stained yellow. The text block is generally clean and crisp with an ownership name on the title and two stamps from Domkapital Munchen; the title page is lightly soiled and short marginal tears no loss to the final 11 leaves. The binding has wear at the spine tips and edges later free endpapers else is very good. Apud Maternum Cholinum hardcover books
14310Vintage photo album of 232 photographs mounted on 24 leaves. Also includes several ephemera pieces including a Certificate of Pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 1945. The album belonged to a British Military officer who documents his tour of the Middle East from 1943 to 1945. Photos show different metropolitan areas and small villages. Some photos have captions. "SMCA Jerusalem" "Church of Holy Scripture" "Damascus Gate" "Judean House" "Bethlahem Streets" "Mother of Pearl Workers" "Church of Nativity" "Grotto of Nativity" "Haifa and Mount Carmel" "Sunset Over Carmel" "Crusaders Castle Acre" "King's Way-Haifa" "Girls Grinding Wheat with Hand-mill" "Water Carrier" "Shepherd and Flock" "Camel Caravan" "Dead Sea" "Bethany" "Judean Hills" "River Jordan" "Jericho" "Old Synagogue of Nazareth" "Boxing Day Jerusalem Mess 1944" "Swimming in lake Tiberias" "Sea of Galilee" "Egypt" "Arab Dancing Girl" Pyramids" "Irrigation from Nile" "Old Cairo" "Pyramids and Sphinx" "Beirut 1944" The Bizarre" "Main Square" "Saint George Hotel" "Clock Tower Square" "Leave Camp Beirut July '44" "Damascus" "Barada River" "Mecca of Ommanades" "Tomb of Saint John" "Persian 1943 43 44" "Shush" "Daniel's Tomb" "Wild Boar Shot" "The 8th Wonder of the World" "North Persia" "Freightor Carrying Ammunition for Russia" "Teheran Station" "Caspin" "Sultan Abad" "Mosque" "Carpet-making" "Vineyards" "Telegraph Staff" "Mountain Village Luristan" "Tehran 1943" "Darband" "Lalazar" "Shah's Palace" "Road to Caspin" "Winter Tehran" "Mosque Tehran" "Polish Refugees from Russia in Tehran" "Arab Women Unloading Baskets" "Ahwaz South persi 1943" "Camel Train" "Donkey Derby Xmas 1943" "Doroud" "The Bazaar" "Isphahan" "Shatt-el-Aran" "Bombay January 1942". 100 Photos of Iran 75 from Palestine 8 from Egypt 20 from Syria 17 from Beirut 4 small and 4 large from Bombay 1 from Basra and 3 military photos. Varied sizes but most photographs approximately 3.5" x 2.5." Vintage Oblong folio album leather tie bound and blindstamped with copper plate on cover. Some light wear and soiling to leaves but images generally clean and crisp. A fascinating album of striking images that capture the architecture the landscape the people and animals from three countries mostly Iran during WWII. The images show scenes of daily life villages holy places camels and wild animals men and women as well as views from the countryside cities and railways. It was likely assembled by a British Railway Transportation officer as the album includes some Iranian railway paperwork. Many of the images are captioned in English. An altogether fascinating look at life in Iran and the Middle East during a pivotal decade. In very good condition. unknown books
TM 656ILLUMINATED MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT IN LATIN ON PARCHMENT Northern Italy c. 1440-1470. 203 x 153 mm. 70 folios complete collation i-vii10 remnants of quire and leaf signatures flourished vertical catchwords written in a humanist minuscule on 30 long lines justification 147-149 x 95-100 mm horizontal lines ruled very lightly in ink single vertical bounding lines ruled in lead prickings remain in top and bottom margins on some leaves rubrics and paragraph marks in pale red two-line red or blue initials with contrasting pen flourishes in violet or red two five-line blue initials ff. 29v and 35 infilled and on square grounds of elaborate penwork; f. 64v seven-line polished GOLD INITIAL with white vinestem decoration extending along twenty lines of text and into the upper margin infilled and edged in deep red and blue with numerous tiny silver dots; f. 1 five-line polished GOLD HISTORIATED INITIAL of St. Jerome bearded and dressed in red standing before a Crucifix with a hilly landscape in the background on a white vinestem ground extending into a FULL WHITE VINESTEM BORDER infilled and edged in deep red and blue with tiny silver dots and an erased coat of arms in lower margin with modern F.A. BINDING: Early almost certainly contemporary reddish-brown leather over wooden boards flat spine with three slightly raised bands head and tail bands clasp and catch fastening front to back with brass catch lettered ave front cover decorated most likely in the nineteenth century with an attractive painted border in green orange and gray connecting four brass studs and the title De laudibus et miraculis divi Hieronymi with initials F.C. at the bottom back pastedown is leaf from a late fourteenth-century Italian copy of Donatuss Latin grammar front pastedown shows offset script from removed pastedown from a fourteenth-century Italian text in Latin verse. TEXT: This manuscript is a vivid witness to the importance of St. Jerome in fifteenth-century Italy and includes the foundational texts for his cult: three letters regarding his death miracles and titles to glory and veneration and purporting to be written by three contemporaries of St. Jerome c. 347-420 namely St. Eusebius of Cremona d. 423 St. Augustine of Hippo 354-430 and Bishop Cyril of Jerusalem c. 313-386 but probably written in Rome at the end of the thirteenth or beginning of the fourteenth century; a life of St. Jerome by an unknown author probably writing in Italy in the twelth century; and Jeromes own life of St. Paul the Hermit written in 374 or 375. These texts were widely disseminated in both Latin and in vernacular translations and they influenced the work of numerous writers and visual artists. ILLUSTRATION: The iconographical choice in the historiated initial f. 1 to depict the ascetic Jerome contemplating the Crucifixion dates from c. 1400 in Italy and can be particularly associated with Hieronymite congregations in Tuscany. PROVENANCE: Copied in Northern Italy in the middle years of the fifteenth century as suggested by the evidence of the script and decoration; the penwork initials in particular seem to point to Northern Italy. The manuscript almost certainly once included the coat of arms of its original owner in the lower margin of the illuminated border on f. 1. Three sets of initials are inscribed in three different hands all possibly initials of owners: within the roundel on f. 1 a modern owner inscribed an outline of a shield in pen and the initials F.A.; inside front cover white embossed seal with the initials L.F.; on front cover as part of the added decoration F. C. CONDITION: Slight loss of the leather at the back top of the spine and over the lower band of the binding; top of the painted border on f. 1 is very slightly trimmed; f. 1 is darkened; and there is some soiling throughout but overall in very good condition. Full description and photos available TM 656. hardcover books
