Browse the Western Manuscript Collection: C - F

Carew, Elizabeth
Two leaves, 31 cm x 20 cm.
Ms. Lansburgh LS_29

Letter, January 27, ca. 1590, to her father. A long letter of a young lady in Chipping Ongar, Essex, to her father, Sir Nicholas Carew, describing the kind of dress she would like to have made for her. Gift of Mark Lansburgh.

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500-1558
Four leaves, 21 cm x 14 cm.
Ms. Lansburgh LS_11

Caroli Cesaris augustissimi ad Hispanos de suo discessu oratio, ca. 1529. A response of the emperor to his Spanish subjects concerning his absence to receive the imperial crown from the pope. The text is on paper with a particularly fine title vignette. Gift of Mark Lansburgh.

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500-1558
One leaf, 59 cm x 44 cm.
Ms. Lansburgh LS_15

Grant of arms by Charles, as king of Spain, to Nicholas de Almacan of Arequipa, Peru, May 14, 1452. The manuscript is finely illumnated and contains portraits of Charles, Julius Caesar, and perhaps the only known life portrait of Francisco Pizarro in roundels at the top of the leaf. Gift of Mark Lansburgh.

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500-1558
33 leaves, 32 cm x 21 cm.
Ms. Lansburgh LS_18

A memoriall of a discours. The text, on paper, of Charles's memorial to his son Philip II as Philip becomes King of Spain. The text is in an English translation. Gift of Mark Lansburgh.

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500-1558
170 leaves, 29 cm x 19 cm.
Ms. Lansburgh LS_19

Ricordi dell' Imperator Carlo Quinto per suo figliuolo fatti in Augusta l'anno di ma salute 1548. Bound with: Parlamento di Carlo v Imp. al Re Filippo suo figliuolo nella consig.del governo de suoi stati. Texts of two sets of instructions given by Charles to Philip as he became King of Spain. Both texts are on paper and are in Italian. Gift of Mark Lansburgh.

Choir book
One leaf, 67 cm x 30 cm.
Ms. 002094

Single leaf of a sixteenth-century Spanish choir book. The text is in Latin, written in a round Gothic hand with square musical notation. The leaf contains a large illuminated initial and a fine floral border.

Chrysostomus, Joannes, Saint, patriarch of Constantinople. d. 407
69 leaves, 21 cm x 14 cm.
Ms. Codex 001966

De sacerdotio libri sex. Text of this standard work on the offices written in Italy in the fifteenth century. The first leaf is decorated with vine scrolls and the entire text is rubricated. Gift of Arthur L. Gale.

Cicero, Marcus Tullius
One leaf, 28 cm x 22 cm.
Ms. Lansburgh 22

Oratio de Imperio Gn. Pompeii. Single leaf of this oration, also known as the Pro lege Manilia, written in a clear Roman humanist hand, ca. 1450. Text includes a portion of Cap. I, all of Cap. II-IV, and a portion of Cap. V. Gift of Mark Lansburgh.

Cicero, Marcus Tullius
55 leaves, 28 cm x 19 cm.
Ms. Codex 001911

De officiis libri iii. The text is written in a fine Italian humanist hand of the late fifteenth century with alternating red and blue initials throughout. The first fourteen leaves have underlinings and marginal notations in a late sixteenth or early seventeenth-century hand.

Correggio, Niccolo da, 1450-1508
One leaf, 27 cm x 20 cm.
Ms. Lansburgh 32

Letter, October 1, 1490, to his honored friend. Letter written in Ferrara to an unnamed friend in Florence describing his ambassadorial duties. Text is in a fine cursive humanist hand. Gift of Mark Lansburgh.

Cronica del mundo, la destructione de Troia
226 leaves, 23 cm x 14 cm.
Ms. Codex 002355

A world history, begun on October 1, 1458 and completed on November 14, 1460. The text is in Italian, in at least three hands, and contains historiated initials and bizarre drawings. The binding is contemporary. Gift of the heirs of George Ticknor.