Three Centuries of a City Library: an Historical and Descriptive Account of the Norwich Public Library Established in 1608 and the present Public Library opened in 1857 — John Shaqi
Three Centuries of a City Library: an Historical and Descriptive Account of the Norwich Public Library Established in 1608 and the present Public Library opened in 1857Stephen, Geo. A. (George Arthur)
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Three Centuries of a City Library: an Historical and Descriptive Account of the Norwich Public Library Established in 1608 and the present Public Library opened in 1857
Stephen, Geo. A. (George Arthur)
Norwich (England). Public Libraries
MEDICA. XIIIth century.
Vellum, 7.5 x 5.5 inches, ff. 62, double columns of 40 lines, in a small
clear hand which Dr. James thinks may be South French. Initials in green
and red and blue. There is no binding; the first page is much soiled.
Contains thirteen items: medical tracts, list of materia medica, etc.
MANUALE. XVth century.
Vellum, 9 7/8 x 7.25 inches, ff. 1 + 62 + 1, double columns of 27 lines,
early XVth century, well written.
Original binding, white skin with circuit edge over wooden boards
bevelled at the edges; remains of two strap and pin fastenings.
On the fly-leaf: John Kirkpatrick, Sept. 12, 1704. An old pressmark: 4to
K 147. An illegible (not early) note of price.
The covers are lined with four half-leaves of a folio XVth century Missal
in double columns, with parts of the Offices for St. Thomas of Canterbury
and Sundays after Epiphany. At the end are bound in 7 smaller leaves of
paper on which Kirkpatrick (?) has carefully facsimiled alphabets and
abbreviations, and arranged the latter in alphabetical order.
Contents: The occasional offices to be used by a priest, according to
Sarum use. The first page has a rather rough border in gold, red, and
blue, and an initial of the same. Other like initials head the principal
offices.
BIBLE: GENESIS TO PSALMS. WYCLIFFE'S TRANSLATION. XVth century.
Vellum, 17 2/10 x 12 inches, ff. 208 + 1, double columns of 59 lines.
Original sides of brown leather have been laid down on modern binding;
ornamented in blind with rectangular panel formed by two roll stamps,
enclosing another panel formed by the same stamps. Illuminated page at
beginning of each book.
It belonged to Sir James Boleyn of Blickling Hall, who died in 1561, and
was presented to the Library in 1692 by Richard Ireland.
ASTROLOGICAL TRACTATES. XVth century.
Paper, 5 3/4 x 4.5 inches, ff. 120, 32 lines to a page. In three hands;
clearly written.
Original binding, wrapper of skin lined with linen. Contains thirteen
items: astrological treatises, tables, etc.
PRECEDENTIA TEMPORE REGNI HEN. VIII. Circa 1500.
Vellum, 11.5 x 8.5 inches, ff. 124 (imperfect, commences at f. 10), 37
lines to a page. Rough calf binding.
Book of Precedents of Royal Writs.
SEARCH BOKE FOR LYNN, SWAFFHAM, WALSYNGHAM, AND FAKENHAM. XVIIth
century.
Paper, 11 x 7.5 inches, ff. 81. Vellum binding.
Alphabetical index of offenders at various sessions courts held at
Fakenham, Walsingham, Lynn and Swaffham, from 1651 to 1669.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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