https://hdl.handle.net/2123/211 2026-06-06T19:21:01Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/24278 Poissy processional Catholic Church A written and illuminated book of plainchant music that contains the liturgical processions used by nuns at the Dominican convent of Saint-Louis de Poissy at the beginning of the sixteenth century, between 1500 and 1510. Major feasts (Purification, Easter Sunday, Ascension, Corpus Christi, St. Thomas Dominic, Assumption, St. Louis, Nativity of the Virgin) open with large ivy-leaf initials, while prayers and important chants begin with smaller ivy-leaf initials in blue and red with white penwork on rectangular grounds of burnished gold. 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/18352 [Officium tenebrae] An entirely handwritten psalter which seems to be of Spanish origin. This book of plainsong was used to celebrate the Office of Darkness during Triduum Pascal (Feria V in Coena Domine, lectione IX-Feria VI in Parasceve, lectione IX-Sabbato Sancto, lectione IX) and it begins with the Lamentations of Jeremiah which are sung on Maundy Thursday. The text is rubricated. The antiennes are decorated with 70 ornamental letters, 35 are written in red, 3 in black and 21 in red and blue. 1 choir book (96 unnumbered pages), bound : vellum ; 41 cm. Bound in contemporary full brown morocco over wooden boards, with stamped decoration of triple fillets and fleurons around the sides with 4 brass studs, and a brass boss in the centre surrounded by stamped fleurons. The edges are decorated with 28 brass nails and reinforced with brass corners. 1580-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/18353 [Officium de septem dolorium Hebdomade] A manuscript on paper with 12 lines per page. To p. 168 it is by the same hand. The last gathering of 10 leaves is from an older manuscript, also on paper, with 16 lines per page. Bound with old oak boards with metal bosses and an old title placque. Spine is banded in leather with a vellum spine cover, torn. There are leather closing straps. The first part of the manuscript contains 35 large coloured initials with flowers, animals and decorative features, most in red and yellow with grey highlights. One has been cut out of leaf 112. There are many red initials and the text is in black bookhand. The second part contains 8 large initials, many initials in red or blue and the text is black gothic bookhand. leaves 196-206 pages, 102-177 [that is 22 pages, 150 pages], bound. ; 56 cm 1500-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/18354 [Spanish antiphonal] Written in red and black on 18 leaves of vellum with rubricated initials, with a mid 16th century full calf binding with gilt rules and decorations. Light worming on last 2 leaves. 36 unnumbered pages, bound : vellum ; 36 cm 1575-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/18101 Processional (without musical notation), with prayers and responsories for the dead. Contents of the responsories focus on liturgical processions for the dead. The book is designed for personal use, with 8 lines per page, small in size and large in script, and without music notation. With its several Spanish rubrics it may be a complementary book to a contemporary Spanish processional used in Seville Cathedral in the first half of sixteenth century.In Iberian Gothic with some rubrics in Spanish, with 24 two lines initials and 7 three lines initials with half borders. Illuminations in Italian and Flemish styles. Bound in late nineteenth century vellum. 56 folios parchment : illuminations ;18 cm 1530-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/18102 Processional and responsorial. This is a comprehensive Processional includes the processions for the Sundays throughout the liturgical year and for special feast days and Rogation days. Technical details indicates as one of the most widely disseminated types of Processionals dated after 1500, in Basque region in Spain. Foliation in red Roman numerals, In rounded liturgical script, square musical notation on five-line staves. Rubrics in bright red, initials one stave high in blue or red, with red or purple calligraphic pen flourishing, a few with human profiles. Bound in late nineteenth or early twentieth century vellum. [81] folios parchment : illuminations, music ; 20 cm 1525-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/17789 RB Add.Ms. 40 Orthodox Eastern Church. Variant title:"Codex Angus". Provenance: Greek Church in Bulgaria; Professor Diessman, Berlin University, 1935; Professor Samuel Angus, St. Andrew's College, University of Sydney. 122 unnumbered leaves : manuscript 1199-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/17355 Florilegium Anthology of quotations from Cicero, Seneca, Apuleius, Macrobius and later Christian authors.Manuscript written on vellum in littera prae-gothica textualis. Sinclair 100. Ownership: Frater Lawrence; Sir Charles Nicholson. 32 unnumbered leaves, bound : vellum, manuscript ; 158 x 130 mm. Bound in board covers. 1100-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/17323 RB Add.Ms. 339 This leaf from the Office of the Dead begins with the last two lessons and the final responsory 'Libera me domine de viis inferni' for Matins followed by Lauds and Vespers. Collects relating the crucifixion of Christ to the hours of Terce, Sext and None have been added in a 12th century hand in the blank second column of the verso. This additional material also includes three versicles with musical notation and the Lord's Prayer. 1 leaf (2 columns, 41 lines) : vellum ; 33 cm 1075-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/17309 Antiphonarium Latin text written in Iberian gothic, black square music natation on red five-line staves. Six staves and six lines of text each page. Decorated initials in red and blue. Based on the text, though pasted under a slip of paper, on the verso of the last leaf this is a copy of an older manuscript for a convent of the Dominican Order near Valladolid, but left the convent during or after the 1835-1837 confiscation prosecution. 1 choir book in vellum (222 leaves) : illuminations, music ; 56 cm. Missing leaf 189.Bound in calf over 1 cm thick wooden boards, corners of wooden boards strengthened with iron bands and board protected by 5 iron studs.Some leaves have small holes, however most rip or tear had been repaired using needle and thread. 1603-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/17312 Processional Cistercian This processional consists of three sections, in the first it has the characteristic of Cistercian processionals for brothers of an abbey, however the other two mention sisters and abbess, thus suggest this book was copied for liturgy used in a convent. The details of music notation are also of interest as it includes modifications in the square notation, that black notation on four-line staves and white notation on five-line staves. Overall rubrics in red, initials in gold infilled on ground of green, red and blue, infilling often divided in two with two colours, and has floral borders on forty-five pages. 1 volume (40 leaves) : illuminations, music ; 19 cm. Bound in 17 century brown leather over pasteboard, tooled in blind forming an outer border and gold-tooled with floral pattern with fleurons at four corners. Centre medallions lettered D.M/DIACI/NTA at the front, PAVOL/SANTI at the back. 1525-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/17311 Antiphonal Augustinian This is an antiphonal for the day offices copied for Augustinian use. It is decorated with seventeen illuminations which were individually cut out from earlier manuscripts of various origin and pasted in. In addition to cut decorations this is a palimpsest manuscript, that is the text is copied on leaves from earlier manuscripts with texts erased or washed away for re-use, but on the back flyleaves the previous text is still visible. Written in bold late gothic bookhand, square music notation on red four-line staves, five staves and five lines of text each page. Catchwords are on bottom inside margin on verso of previous leaf. Jules Bonhomme’s signature in ink on flyleaf i dated 1876, his pencil note also dated 1876 on flyleaf iii. At top of same flyleaf signature in ink of l’Abbé Lefèvre, Brussels 1842. On leaf 1 in tiny script: Bene qui le fait/Bene [dixit?] 1579. 1 volume (89 leaves) : illuminations, music ; 19 cm 1457-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/17112 Regla de las Monjas de Santa Clara, comunmente llamadas Urbanistas : constituciones generales de las dichas, hechas en el Capitulo g[ene]ral celebrado en Roma à 1 de Juno de 1638 : i publicadas por el Rmo. Padre Mntro. Gral. Fray Juan Merinero. The Order of Poor Ladies, also known as the Order of St. Clare, the Poor Clares, the Poor Clare Sisters, the Clarisse, the Minoresses, or the Second Order of St. Francis, Urbanists is an order of nuns in the Roman Catholic Church. It was the second Franciscan order to be established, founded by Saints Clare of Assisi and Francis of Assisi in 1212. Manuscript of XVII century, copied by various nuns (small quarto, contemporary vellum, 124 p.). 124 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 22 cm. Manuscript is supposedly lacking t.p.; catalogued from the prefatory letter.Supplied in slipcase (17x 23 cm.); the stamp on the prefatory letter is stated: "La biblioteca del convento de S. Antonio de Padua, Cuzco (Perú)" . This is a digital copy of original manuscript which is held in Rare Books & Special Collections, Fisher Library (Shelfmark Add. Ms. 364) 1638-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/16788 [Gradual, proper of time]. Mediaeval manuscript choirbook on vellum. Binding of wooden boards covered with leather binding with brass bosses and clasps; 7 lines of text in a rounded Gothic hand and of music on a five-line red stave, rubric in red, some capitals in yellow; many large calligraphic initials throughout, often with elaborate penwork infill. Text much used with many pages thumbed and worn (some defective and repaired). Original foliation and litirgical contents implies the volume has been compiled from three different manuscripts. The first 83 folios (numbered xcv to ccxlvii) contain chants for the Mass for Corpus Christi (folios xcv-xcviii), the commons of the saints (clxi-ccxxx) and a troped Kyriale (ccxxxiiij-ccxllvii). The second section continues, after the mass proper for the feast of St. Mary Magdalen, with mass ordinaries (Gloria, Credo, Sanctus and Agnus Dei), some of which are troped. The third section, which has many folios palimpsested, contains mass chants for Christmas, and is decorated with crude grotesques and other pictorial decoration. 125 leaves, bound : vellum ; 51 x 35 cm 1599-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/16738 Account book for household expenses and private purse Clifford, Anne, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomerey, 1590-1676. Original: RB Supp. Ms.074. Holograph Ms. Signed (17 February 1676). On paper, vellum binding with ties.Handwriting is that of Edward Hazell, Steward. Marginal notes by Anne Clifford. 1676-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/16419 Antiphonal on vellum Title supplied by cataloguer. Large folio manuscript antiphonary on vellum, containing the text of numerous psalms, with requiem mass. Original wooden boards with studs, very worn. Signed and dated by the calligrapher on verso of leaf 97: "Scripsit frater Nicolaus Parets ... die xxii mesis Julii, 1642". 97 leaves of text and musical notation, staves ruled in red; numerous large initial capitals in various colours, decorative flourishes, rubrication throughout. 1 choir book (97 unnumbered leaves), bound : vellum ; 66 cm. Digital copy of original held in Fisher Rare Books & Special Collections (RB Add.Ms. 377) 1642-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/15429 [Diary of a voyage from England to Australia on the ship "Asia", 1871-1872] Jenner, Louisa Title supplied by cataloguer; description based on information supplied by bookseller. Caption title: Ship "Asia". Diary written by Louisa Jenner and sent to Mrs. Hart in Brighton, England.--Kay Craddock antiquarian bookseller website. Verso of front cover: Mrs Hart, 10 Chatham Place, Brighton. Sussex. England. 1 volume (unpaged) : manuscript. "Holograph diary comprising all but 3 of 72 unruled pages in a small (narrow crown 8vo) dark green textured limp cloth booklet, which is lightly worn".--Bookseller's description. 1872-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/14302 Gradual, ordinary and proper of time Handwritten Gregorian gradual executed on vellum. 2 vols.: (1) 51.5 x 36 cm., writing template of 40 x 24 cm. 148 folios, numbered XVIII to CLXVI. (II) 51.5 x 36 cm., writing template of 42.5 x 26 cm. ( First part) [Ordinary chants of the mass.] 1 folio not numbered plus 28 folios numbered 68 to 95. (Second part) [proper chants of the mass.] Writing template of 40 x 24.5 cm.108 folios numbered CLCVIII to CCLXXVI (and beside, in arabic numerals, from 1 to 108) that continue the work of the first volume. Musical notation in black on a red stave. Decorated initial letters in black and red and one in colour. Two vols. leather bound, embossed boards with raised bands on spine, metallic clasp and lower square, documentary pastedowns (probably of the same chantbook, but without continuity on page numbering), re-backed. The making of certain folios, just as the difference in the use of inks, shows a later production. Old restorations and parchment sewed up in some folios, without affecting content. 2 v., bound : vellum ; 5.51 x 36 cm. 1600-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/14031 Spanish Antiphonal Responses and antiphons 25th April-29th August. 174 vellum leaves numbered 1-346, misnumbered at leaves 270 and 317 but continuous (numbering probably post dates the manuscript). The colophon leaf translates as: 'The book is finished, praise and glory to Christ. It was finished at three days gone by of the month of August in the year of the Lord 1493. It was ordered to be written by Senora Dona Costanza Gutierres Abbess of the Monastery of San Bernado De Guadalajara' (year may be 1494 as the final number is slightly smudged). 174 leaves, bound : vellum ; 43 cm. Manuscript antiphonal on vellum. Original reversed calf over wooden boards with some of the original wooden rests. Manuscript text and music is decorated with numerous calligraphic swirls and coloured initials. Some flaking of the text and fading, some marginal holes in the vellum and a few tears and variable toning to the vellum. 1493-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/14023 The Four Passions [music] : Matthew, Mark, Luke and John Medium size manuscript containing four Passions and at the end the Mandatum. In the colophon the scribe is identified as Petrus Colom (?Colomares) In civitate Burgensis anno Domini 1599 Para la Yglesia de Santa Maria del Campo. This colophon comes at the beginning of the final gathering in which appears the Mandatum.Text in Latin. 3 lines of the colophon in Spanish. [138] p., bound : vellum.Leather covered wooden boards with five elaborate centre and corner brass bosses (on both front and rear covers) with filigree designs. The calligraphy adheres to the dictates of Juan de Yciar. Five line staves in red ink, lettering in black ink. 1599-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/14007 Pro choro abbatissæ Handwritten antiphonary. Placebos are Vespers of the Dead. Named from the beginning of the first Antiphon (Ps. 116:9, after the Vulgate version: 114:9). Music noted with anthems written in red and black. Page 23 and its new unnumb. verso are in a later hand and on different papers obscuring p. [23-24] of the original. Each of the antiphonary's folios has a small cloth tab to facilitate turning, all but one of which have torn off with use. Title from f.f.e.p. framed within a decorated stamped ornamental border. Cover title blocked onto vellum within scolloped circular frame. Binding is of vellum with originally two brass clasps and catches, one of which is now completely missing. Water damage affects the binding and endpapers at head of volume. 1 choir book (23 p.) ; 43 cm. Holograph, written on both sides of leaf. 1776-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/13985 Antiphonarium ordinis [Spain?,; 1781?]. Well preserved and carefully written late 18th century antiphonary with 7 staves per page. The staves, and initials and subtitles, are in red ink, the text in black ink. Bound in contemporary full brown leather, with a raised back. The antiphonary, a song book for use in a liturgical choir in the Roman Catholic liturgy, was mainly used for singing Mass or the canonical hours. This antiphonary was compiled and written for use in a nunnery of the Servants of Mary (Order of Servites) 1 choir book (148 p.) ; 38 cm. 1781-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/13977 Antiphonarium ordinis 1781 "Soli Deo et sanctis eius exhlbeatur omnis laus et gloria" Ornamental t.p. with chronogram in red and black ink. Bound in contemporary full brown leather, with some wear. There are 7 staves per page. The staves are in red ink and notes and text in black ink. This antiphonary was compiled and written for use in a nunnery of the Servants of Mary (Order of Servites). 1 choir book (140 p.) ; 38 cm. 1781-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/13978 Antiphonarium ordinis Seven staves per page. The staves are in red ink, the notes and text in black ink. Bound in contemporary full brown leather with a raised gilt back. This antiphonary was compiled and written for use in a nunnery of the Servants of Mary (Order of Servites). With index. 1 choir book (148 p.) ; 38 cm. 1780-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/13937 [Gradual, proper of time] Handwritten Gregorian gradual on vellum(c 16--). 48 x 36 cm., writing template of 41.5 x 26.5 cm. 203 folios, with double numbering: period Roman and later Arabic. Lacking folios 176 and 192, loss of parchment in the lower corner of folios 5, 143 and 159. Old restorations in folio 191. Musical notation in black on a red stave. Decorated initial letters in black, blue or red. Leather bound on wooden boards (rear board with restoration) with raised bands on spine, metal clasp, documentary pastedowns comprising leaves from another manuscript, re-backed. Folios 1-3 of later manufacture (recto of folio 1 includes table of contents). 203 leaves , bound : vellum ; 48 x 36 cm. 1600-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/13822 Catalogue of books of N.D. Stenhouse Stenhouse, Nicol Drysdale Catalogue list of the books of Nicol Drysdale Stenhouse (1806-1873). 42 leaves. 8 vo, Sydney: [nd]. Includes index. 2015-09-18T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/13750 Neighbours : writings of Lady Mary Montagu, Mary Wortley (Lady) [Created between 1700 and 1799?] . 2015-09-03T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/13387 Gradual, proper of time, from the first Sunday of Advent to Passion Sunday Holograph, written on both sides of leaf. Mediaeval manuscript choirbook on vellum (ca. 53 x 36 cm.); executed ca. 1580 in Salamanca, Spain; massive binding of thick wooden boards covered with tanned leather, ruled in blind and fitted with 5 (of 8) pierced brass metal bosses to covers; leather/metal clasp (imperfect) and catch; binding slightly damaged but very large and impressive; much used with many pages thumbed and worn (12 defective but not affecting text) and repaired); some evidence of damage due to damp. "... seven very large initials the height of two or three staves in red and blue, with red and blue pen-flourishing and marginal extensions; numerous large initials the height of one stave in red and blue pen-flourished in the other colour, or calligraphic initials in black ink partially filled with green and yellow with oblique catchwords at right sides of lower margins on last versos; ten [i.e. 12] leaves with portions of blank margins cut away, approx. 12 leaves torn and sometimes with old repairs but with out loss of text, approx. 10 leaves creased in margins ..."--Bookseller's description. Text contains chants for the proper of the Mass: introits, graduals, tracts, alleluia, offertory and the communion verses, and sequences for special feats. The manuscript extends from the first Sunday of Advent to Passion Sunday (bookseller's description). Title supplied by cataloguer (from bookseller's description). 1 choirbook (cc+ leaves) : vellum ; 57 cm. 22 (of 200) leaves missing in numb. sequence: 1, 11, 12, 31, 33, 40, 58, 67, 68, 70, 87, 98, 102, 109, 114, 116, 117, 132, 140, 141, 157 [but 158 supplied twice], 178, 190, [201] and later leaves. 1580-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/13386 [Antiphonarium : a collection of 30 leaves from an antiphonal] A collection of 30 leaves from an antiphonal. [Spain? ; ca. 1480]Title supplied by cataloguer. Six staves per page. The staves are in red ink with square musical notes and the text in black. Decorated initials in red and blue (1 in gilt, green, red & blue). Modern binding in stamped brown leather with leather ties. 1 choir book ([30] leaves), bound : vellum ; 60 cm. 1480-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/13388 Antiphonarium ordinis [manuscript] "Soli Deo sanctisque eius sit perpetuo omnis laus atque gloria"--T.p. [Spain? ; 1781]. 18th century antiphonary, with 7 staves per page. The staves, and initials and subtitles, are in red ink, the notes and text in black ink. Ornamental t.p. with chronogram in red and black ink. Letter height approx. 8 mm. 7 blank leaves at the end of the pages' sequence. The antiphonary, a song book for use in a liturgical choir in the Roman Catholic liturgy, was mainly used for singing Mass or the canonical Hours (antiphonarium officii). This antiphonary was compiled and written for use in a nunnery of the Servants of Mary (Order of Servites). 1 choir book (140 p.) ; 37 cm. Well preserved and carefully written late 18th century antiphonary, bound in contemporary full brown leather binding, raised back. The binding with considerable wear, upper joint fully cracked. 1781-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/13358 Hebrew manuscripts and rare printed books held in the Fisher Library of the University of Sydney Crown, Alan David Bibliography of Hebrew manuscripts and rare early printed works held in Rare Books & Special Collections at the University of Sydney Library. Series: Studies in Australian Bibliography, No.20 Description: ii, 32 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm. 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/13209 Marian Antiphonal Handwritten antiphonal totally executed on vellum, most probably produced for use in a convent of Hieronymite nuns, under the advocation of Our Lady of the Snows (c 17th or 18th century). Text in 5 parts: (I) 48 folios, (II) 29 folios, (III) 29 folios, (IV) 3 folios, (V) 12 folios, some not numbered, containing the proper and ordinary chants asssociated with the different feasts of the Holy Virgin, including that of Our Lady of the Snows, and ending with the chants devoted to Saint Jerome. Decoration of capitals in red, blue and black. Rubricated throughout. Square musical notation on five line staves. Five parts leather bound, raised bands, remains of metallic closures, metallic rims, documentary rear pastedowns, re-backed. Text opens with a dedication: "Este libro dio al Convento, una Esclava de la Virgen Maria y pide humilmente a las Religiosas desta Casa, la encomienden a Dios" (A Virgen slave gave this book to the Convent, and she humbly asks the members of our Order to entrust her to God). 121 leaves, bound : vellum ; 53.5 x 35.5 + writing template 42 x 23.5 cm. 1600-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/12481 [Antifonario Códice "Libro de Coro"] The antiphonary, a song book for use in a liturgical choir in the Roman Catholic liturgy, was mainly used for singing Mass or the canonical Hours (antiphonarium officii). This antiphonary was compiled and written for the use of St. Augustine. Contains the variable (Proper) items from the Office-- antiphons, hymns, responsories. Starts with Vespers Introit Rex pacificus. 1 choir book ([i], 272, [3] p.) : vellum ; 59 cm. Title from bookseller's description. Holograph, written on both sides of leaf. Includes index (last 3 pages). Format of parchment: Gregory's Rule. The text is written in Gothic characters with some in different hands indicating that it was added to over time. Mostly black square notation but some mensurally notated hymns. Both text and music are in black or red with initial letters in blue or red. It contains 24 large illuminated initials in a fine artistic style with vegetable, floral, and zoomorphic (bird) motifs as well as musical instruments and human figures. The state of the leaves vary both to heavy wear and occasional water damage (at the front) and the different quality of the vellum used. Pastedowns are from a different <antiphonary?>. Bound in leather with 2 brass and leather clasps, 8 heavy brass corners (4 each on front and back) and 10 brass bosses (5 each on front and back). 1700-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/12272 [Late 17th-century Spanish antiphonal] [Spain], ca. 1675. This volume contains multiple settings of several sections of the Mass, including the Asperges, Kyrie, Gloria (including one setting with additional clauses praising the Virgin Mary), Credo and Sanctus. [75] leaves [i.e. 150 p.], bound : vellum ; cover 52cm x 38cm; writing field 40cm x 27cm. [Title supplied by cataloguer.] Bound in contemporary full calf over thick wooden boards with protective brass skids and studs, and with remnants of the original leather ties. Illuminated with musical staves in red, square musical notes in black, text in red and black, and decorated initials in red and blue. 1675-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/12251 [Illuminated Spanish responsorial] [Spain, ca. 1535-1540] This responsorial contains a remarkable depiction of an American turkey, one of the earliest extant illustrations of American fauna to appear in Europe and certainly the earliest illustration of a turkey. The illustration appears on the verso of the first leaf as part of the border, on the lower left corner. The manuscript contains the responses for feasts, starting with Christmas, which appears on the same leaf as the turkey illustration. It also contains those for the Feast of the Crown of Thorns, a feast mainly celebrated in Spain for which there are few surviving manuscripts. 1 choir book ([66] p.), bound : vellum ; 24cm x 17cm; text 23cm x 16cm. [Title supplied by cataloguer.] With decorated border on verso of first leaf and 26 illuminated initials in liquid gold and green on backgrounds of mauve and blue with white leafy tracery. Text in red and back. Staves ruled in red, musical notes are square & black. Bound in 17th century brown morocco. Spine restored. 1535-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/12231 RB Add.Ms. 327 Text comprises settings of the Sanctus and Agnus Dei, including 6 pages of polyphonic notation (leaves 25? to 27?, a setting of the Patrem omnipotentem factorem celi) and the offices from Christmas Day to Epiphany, the 12th day of Christmas. Contains an incomplete bifolium as rear paste-down: Catholic Church. Breviary (Ms. University of Sydney. Library. Rare Books and Special Collections Library. Add. Ms. 327). [Breviarum]. [11--]. [c. 15--]. [Title supplied by cataloguer.] Cover 50 x 36cm. Writing field 39 x 25cm. Text on both sides of leaf. Mediaeval manuscript choirbook on vellum; executed 16th century in Spain; massive binding of thick wooden boards covered with tanned leather, ruled in blind and fitted with 5 pierced brass metal bosses to each cover; metal strengthening to corner with metal clasps and catches; binding slightly repaired but very large and impressive; much used with many pages thumbed and worn (some defective and repaired). Gatherings mostly of eight leaves with sideways catchwords; leaf [32] inserted from a slightly smaller copy (ca. 41 x 26 cm.); 7 lines of text in a rounded gothic hand and of music on a five-line red stave, rubric in red, some capitals touched in yellow; many large calligraphic initials throughout, often with elaborate penwork infill in yellow; includes 43 large plain red initials, 102 large black initials in various styles (some celtic), 44 large red and blue initials with penwork infilling and surround, plus 2 similar, but very large and fine, red and blue initials (leaves 2? and 35?). 1500-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/12232 [Processionarius ordinis] "Latin music manuscript for a monastery of the Hieronymites on vellum, complete. Written in Spain probably in or for Guadalupe (a municipality located in Las Villuercas comarca, province of Cáceres, Extremadura) in the first quarter of the 16th century.With four music systems (first page three) on each page with square notes on five red staves (each 16 mm). Numerous initials in red and blue and decorated letters in black. Few later corrections and additions. This Processional contains hyms and liturgy prescribed for processions on feast days. On fol. 92 ff. are hyms in honour of St. Jerome. This indicates, that it was written for the Order of St. Jerome, and- as an ownership entry suggests- for their monastery in Guadalupe." -- Bookseller's description. [Spain : s.n.], 1526, 1568. 105mm x 150mm; text 70mm x 100mm. 1 v., bound : vellum. 1526-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/9784 RB Nich.Ms. 22 Boccaccio, Giovanni A copy, on paper in littera humanistica cursiva, of Boccacio's little known dictionary of the mountains, forests, rivers, etc. of the world in his time. The copy was completed in 1457. The volume was once in the collections of the Librarian of the Chetham School, Manchester, J.H. Hindley (d. 1827), of John Lee (d. 1866), and Sir Charles Nicholson, Bart. Description: [161] leaves, bound : manuscript ; 215 x 145 mm. Note: Script is littera humanistica cursiva. Binding: calf over boards, covers with panel of stylized florets in blind, spine with title in gilt and top half removed. Sinclair 120. Ownership: John Haddon Hindley, d.1827; John Lee, d.1866; Sir Charles Nicholson. 2013-12-05T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/8649 Photograph of Donald Wood in the Paraguayan Army in the Chaco War. Donald Wood served in the Regimento Ita Ybate No. 9. Black and White Photograph scanned at 300 dpi. Donald Wood was one of the sons of William Wood. 2012-08-29T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/7553 Transfer of a Mortgage by Bargain & Sale by Nicholas Draper to William Draper of 2 pices of marsh [comprising] 15 acres, at Erith, Kent. 4th March, 1602. Conveyancing Notes: The deed recites that : (1) Thomas Draper, by deed dated 19th July 1594, had sold the land to John Dumowle. (2) John Dumowle had by deed dated 28th June 1596 sold the land for 109 pounds to James Wolveridge. (3) James Wolveridge had by deed dated 23rd April 101, bargained and sold the land to Nicholas Draper by way of Mortgage to secure 150 pounds and interest. Nicholas Draper then bargains and sells the propert to William Draper, and appoints William his attourney to secure the Mortgage money. Manuscript on vellum. 39.5 x 35.5 cm. Remains of seal attached. Stamp . H.W.Knocker, Ex Libris. 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/7386 Journal of a voyage from Sydney, New South Wales to London on board the barque Triad. Captain Lyell by G.M. Mackie, Georgina Georgina Mackie's journal of her journey on the barque, Triad, from Sydney (departing 29 June, 1846) to London (arriving 24th December, 1846). 2011-05-20T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/5927 Photograph of Lilian Honiss Photograph of Lilian Honiss, undated. Photocopy of the original supplied by Nigel Honiss, New Zealand, 2009. Caption on back of photograph reads, "Lilian Honiss (alias "Liliansky Honisoff") in Russian "boyarski" costume". Image scanned at 400 dpi 2010-03-03T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/5926 Glimpses of bygone Russia. 1913-1918. Honiss, Lilian Account of Lilian Honiss' experiences and travels in Russia, 1913-1918 and other countries, including China, 1918-1921. Honiss Collection, Rare Books and Special Collections. Typescript, 154 pages. Images scanned at 400 dpi. 2010-03-03T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/4148 Nobel Prize certificate awarded to Sir Robert Robinson Nobel Prize certificate. From the Robert Robinson Collection, Rare Books and Special Collections, University of Sydney Library. The Nobel Prize medal is not included in this collection. Certificate awarded to Sir Robert Robinson, 1886-1975, for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1947, "for his investigations on plant products of biological importance, especially the alkaloids". 2009-04-06T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/2800 Alex and William (Bill) Wood Alex (left) and Bill (right) Wood, sons of William and Lillian Wood, in Jerusalem, 1919. Both returned to Cosme Colony after World War I. Lane Family photograph album, page 18. Photograph scanned at 300 dpi. 2008-09-03T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/2796 Cosme Evening Notes, Vol 4 No 169, 18th December 1898 Cosme Evening Notes was a hand-written bulletin which was read aloud each evening. John Lane's handwriting. Includes the poem "Wedded" by M.J.G. (Mary Gilmore). Photographic reproduction of part of one page. Image scanned at 300 dpi. 2008-09-03T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/2799 Lillian Wood Lillian Wood, wife of William Wood, arrived at Cosme Colony in May 1895 with her husband and child. She and William spent all their lives at Cosme Colony and she died in July 1961 at the age of 89. Lane Family photograph album, page 18. Photograph scanned at 300 dpi. 2008-09-03T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/2797 David (Dave) Russell Stevenson No date. Dave Stevenson and his wife Clara left Cosme in 1927 and went to Britain. They spent the rest of their lives in Guernsey, Channel Islands. Lane Family photograph album, page 14. Photograph scanned at 300 dpi. 2008-09-03T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/2762 New Australia Co-Operative Settlement Association Certificate of Membership Membership certificate issued to John Lane, undated. Cloth covered certificate with printed information regarding the association inside, 123 mm x 82 mm 2008-08-27T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/2553 Cosme Co-Operative Colony (Paraguay), Illustrated Handbook of General Information Illustrated booklet of information about the structure and management of Cosme Colony, 15 pages, 140mm x 212mm. Printed in Adelaide, South Australia, January 1902. Photographic reproduction. 15 pages. Cosme Colony Collection Box 4 Folder 50. Images scanned at 300 dpi. 2008-07-02T00:00:00Z