Thank you for your post! That breviary has a bizarre format. My Psalterium was ment for church choirs to sing from, so the large size was a plus,...
Yes the quality of these pictures is very high.
In this book there are several art works from different ages. The oldest I have found so far is this large Capital C (84x84mm). Stylistically this...
I’d like to share some details about a recent acquisition in my collection: a richly bound Psalterium Romanum printed in 1713 by the Officina...
I do not think the reverse reveals extra information in this case.
The smaller letters are a bit mangled up unfortunately because of your “enhancement”.
This is a handwritten page of a so called Graduale in a musical notation called neumes. It is written on vellum , likely made of cowhide (actually...
Ah ok! Like this one then [ATTACH]
Those are the author of the book (Turretti) and (a part) of the title: Clausulae Codicillaris
I believe the fore edge title is Turret: de Cla: Codi:
For the Seneca print it is almost impossible to find the right edition, because this book was so common (every student Latin had probably one)....
First the book with the title Tractatus de Effectibus et Defectibus Clausulae Codicillaris. It is printed in Torino, Italy in 1609. (Google...
Yes it can. There was no fixed font, so there are many variations.
It looks to me as a late 19th or early 20th century baroque revival style. Very nice!
This is Gregorian chant indeed called neumes and there are a lot of these pages on the market. The ones you show are probably from southern...
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This only works with older books of course. I think 90% of the older books are scanned already.
To give a small example: Here is a specific text onbthe reverse of one of my illustrations: [ATTACH] I have highlighted the two phrases I would...
Most of the time I try it both ways: with a “u” or a “v” and a “s” or an “f”. I think this is because of the different OCR (Optical Character...
Yes, it is quite common that books were rebound in more of less volumes. Your books is part of a series and is not complete (at least it lacks...
Separate names with a comma.
