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1. 8 Medical recipes

Published / Created:: [between 1450 and 1460]
Call Number:: Beinecke MS 1085
Image Count:: 2
Resource Type:: unspecified
Abstract:: Manuscript on parchment
Description:: In Middle English. and Schøyen Collection MS 1085.
Subject (Geographic):: Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):: Formulas, recipes, etc, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Medicine, Medieval
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > 8 Medical recipes

2. A brass term sold at Ld. Hallifax sale [art original] : made for one of the ...

Creator:: Vertue, George, 1684-1756, artist
Published / Created:: [between 1720 and 1756?]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3581 v.1
Collection Title:: Volume 1, page 53. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Alternative Title:: Brass term sold at Lord Halifax sale
Description:: Title from ink inscription in lower right corner., Date supplied by cataloger., With a "scale of feet" drawn to the left of image, and the note "brass- gilt- with gold" written to the right of image., and Mounted on page 53 in a volume of ca. 50 drawings that was assembled from works purchased by Horace Walpole at the Vertue sale of 1757. Now bound in red morocco, this volume has Walpole's manuscript title-page: Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others.
Subject (Topic):: Sculpture
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A brass term sold at Ld. Hallifax sale [art original] : made for one of the ...

3. A bulla of Pope Boniface the 9th licence & appropriation of the rectory of Gresham in Norfolk to the priory of the Holy Sepulchre in Thetford, 1399 or 1400. [art original]

Creator:: Vertue, George, 1684-1756, artist
Published / Created:: [between 1720 and 1756?]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3581 v.1
Collection Title:: Volume 1, page 77. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Alternative Title:: Bulla of Pope Boniface IX
Description:: Title from ink inscription below image., Date supplied by cataloger., and Mounted on page 77 in a volume of ca. 50 drawings that was assembled from works purchased by Horace Walpole at the Vertue sale of 1757. Now bound in red morocco, this volume has Walpole's manuscript title-page: Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others.
Subject (Name):: Boniface IX, Pope, approximately 1355-1404.
Subject (Topic):: Seals (Insignia)
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A bulla of Pope Boniface the 9th licence & appropriation of the rectory of Gresham in Norfolk to the priory of the Holy Sepulchre in Thetford, 1399 or 1400. [art original]

4. A circular brick-tower at Tottenham 16-f. diameter, about 40 f. high in all : in the fore-part or court-yard at Lord Colerane's house, which has been built time out of mind / [art original]

Creator:: Vertue, George, 1684-1756, artist
Published / Created:: [between 1720 and 1756?]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3581 v.1
Collection Title:: Volume 1, page 71. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title from ink inscription at top of image., Signed by the artist in ink in lower right, using his monogrammatic initials., Date supplied by cataloger., With a scale in feet drawn to the right of image. Also with the note "x this part pulld. down by the late Lord -", referring to an "x" marked on the top portion of the depicted structure., and Mounted on page 71 in a volume of ca. 50 drawings that was assembled from works purchased by Horace Walpole at the Vertue sale of 1757. Now bound in red morocco, this volume has Walpole's manuscript title-page: Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others.
Subject (Geographic):: Tottenham (London, England)
Subject (Name):: Coleraine, Henry Hare, Baron, 1636-1708
Subject (Topic):: Homes and haunts, Buildings, structures, etc, and Towers
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A circular brick-tower at Tottenham 16-f. diameter, about 40 f. high in all : in the fore-part or court-yard at Lord Colerane's house, which has been built time out of mind / [art original]

5. A collection of Georgian-era gaming counters issued by London clubs and gaming houses

Published / Created:: [approximately 1790-1820]
Call Number:: 66 790 C697 Shelved in Object Room C:A
Image Count:: 12
Resource Type:: three-dimensional form
Abstract:: A collection of six gaming counters or monetary tokens from the gambling houses and clubs of Georgian London. Four were made by John Milton (signed "J. Milton f." or "J.M" on the smaller pieces) with an ace of spades encircled with the quote "Honi soit qui mal y pense", wreathed and crowned. The two others by Milton have on the obverse the initials "S.F." (S. Fiuri, in Bury Street St. Mary Axe) and the date "1 May 1792" and a value of "XII" or "VI". The two other Milton counters are marked "S&L" indicating Smith & Lockwood and the other "JL" for John Lister in Haymarket. Another small token in white metal issued by the "Cocoa Tree" with the value on the obverse "One guinea". The last counter in gilt-brass issued by "Free Mason Tavern" and marked "462' in the center and on the obverse "M. Richold Guina." with laurels above and below
Description:: For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):: England and London.
Subject (Topic):: Gambling, Roulette, and Clubs
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A collection of Georgian-era gaming counters issued by London clubs and gaming houses

6. A collection of Georgian-era tokens for London theaters

Published / Created:: [between 1762 and 1820?]
Call Number:: 66 762 C697 Shelved in Object Room C:A
Image Count:: 14
Resource Type:: three-dimensional form
Abstract:: A collection of seven copper theater passes or tickets for London theatres dating between 1762 and approximately 1820, all blank on the obverse sides except for the token for the Box Prince's Side (BPS 1796) which is decorated with a chain of small linked circles around the perimeter. The 1788 token for a box at Covent Garden is the only token with a hole in the center
Description:: Title devised by cataloger. and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):: Theater
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A collection of Georgian-era tokens for London theaters

7. A collection of alchemical texts attributed to Lull, with some additional matter

Creator:: Llull, Ramon, 1232?-1316
Published / Created:: [ca. 1450; between 1500 and 1510]
Call Number:: Mellon MS 12
Image Count:: 650
Resource Type:: unspecified
Abstract:: Manuscript on paper of a collection of pseudo-Lullian alchemical writings, translated from the French and Catalan originals, with a little additional matter. The codex underwent a transformation in the early 16th century when considerable new matter was added by another English hand on different, thinner paper; leaves have been inserted throughout the original codex
Description:: In Latin., Watermarks: Original paper: 1) an extremely primitive-looking unicorn with very short horn and long tail somewhat like Briquet 9962 and 10176; 2) a less primitive unicorn rather similar to Briquet 9985; 3) bullshead with defined eyes and nostrils and with cross above, rather like Briquet 15054. Inserted leaves: a very elegant unicorn mark, more developed than Briquet 10104; and some leaves with a gothic "P" with cinquefoil above, rather like Briquet 8809., Script: The original portion written by a single English gothic cursive hand with heavy standard abbreviation. The inserted leaves (first 4 ff. now extant, ff. 88-96, 163-169, 268-274, and 307-319 [of which f. 167 is a blank and f. 315 is a parchment leaf]) written in another gothic cursive habitually employing writing of different sizes., Original text: Headings in red, rubricated. Some pages with diagrams or drawings. The illustrations include Lullian alphabets and tables in the form of wheels, an Arbor philosophorum, a group of flasks, and a good, large drawing of a furnace. Inserted leaves: Red headings, and capitals with slight decoration., and Binding: Eighteenth century, English. Dark calf, sides paneled in blind with a roll tool of vine pattern, leafy sprays at the corners, back with six plain compartments and five raised bands, probably original parchment label on second compartment from top bordered with ink rule and lettered in ink: "RAYM. LULLII | OPERA | MANUSCRIPTA". The binding considerably repaired and some leather renewed. Original plain edges, the top blackened.
Subject (Geographic):: Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):: Llull, Ramon, 1232?-1316.
Subject (Topic):: Alchemy and Manuscripts, Medieval
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A collection of alchemical texts attributed to Lull, with some additional matter

8. A collection of his alchemical works

Creator:: Fabre, Pierre-Jean, -approximately 1650
Published / Created:: [ca. 1700]
Call Number:: Mellon MS 76
Image Count:: 580
Resource Type:: unspecified
Abstract:: Manuscript on paper containing 1) Propugnaculum alchymiae, the Defence of alchymy. 2) The first (second, third, fourth) booke of universall wisedome. 3) Hercules piochymicus. 4) Myrothecium spagyricum, or A chymicall dispensatory
Description:: In English., Script: Written in a clear cursive hand with some secretary elements., Watermarks: Paper with rather faint large watermark of a fleur-de-lys within a cartouche, surmounted by staff with cross and letter "M," not certainly identified., Very moderate abbreviation, headlines and marginalia throughout by the scribe., Anonymously translated into English., Accompanied by: By the King's letters patent. A machine on a new principle. Shelved as Mellon MSS 76a., and Binding: Early eighteenth-century English binding of parchment over pasteboards, somewhat unglued and with defects, the backstrip divided into eight compartments by raised bands, the compartments gold-tooled with floral motifs; binder's endpapers watermarked with a fleur-de-lys mark, countermarked "VI," closely related to Heawood 1544, 1552, and 1554.
Subject (Name):: Fabre, Pierre-Jean, -approximately 1650.
Subject (Topic):: Alchemy and Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A collection of his alchemical works

9. A collection of notes for admission to the House of the Lords for the trial of Queen Caroline

Published / Created:: [1820-1832]
Call Number:: Folio LWL Mss Vol. 286
Container / Volume:: Box 1 / Folders 1-17
Image Count:: 34
Resource Type:: still image and text
Abstract:: Mounted on 34 leaves, a collection of 197 hand-written notes addressed to "the door keeper of the House of Lords" or specifically to Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt, requesting that the bearer of the ticket or the person named be admitted to the House of Lords in August 1820 for the trial of Queen Caroline, all signed and with wax seals. The collector has mounted on some of the tickets cropped portraits from prints, some trimmed from a mezzotint by John Charles Bromley published in 1832 after the painting of the trial by Sir George Hayter, View of the House of Peers During the Trial of Queen Caroline 1820 (now in the National Portrait Gallery, London). Other portraits have been trimmed from an engraving by John Murray and John Porter also after the same Hayter painting. Still other portraits have been trimmed from the engraving "View of the interior of the House of Lords, during the important investigation in 1820" after the painting by J. Stephanoff and engraved by John George Murray. The collection also includes later tickets for admission to the House of Lords in October and November 1822 and on the final leaf, a collection of autographs of other persons associated with the trial of Queen Caroline, such as Thomas Denman, the Lord Chief Justice or William Vizard, Solicitor to the Queen and Also mounted on the sheets are nine subscription forms for various prints published by R. Bowyer, with the signatures of many of the persons associated with the trial of Queen Caroline. Some of the subscription cards have been annotated to indicate a request for a print other than the one indicated on the form. All of this suggesting that the creator of this collection was associated with Robert Bowyer’s business as they had access to the subscription tickets
Description:: In English., Title devised by cataloger., The subscription ticket for "View of the interior of the House of Lords during the trial" signed by "Stafford" with two trimmed portraits., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):: England
Subject (Name):: Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Bowyer, Robert, 1758-1834., and Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords.
Subject (Topic):: Publishers and publishing
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A collection of notes for admission to the House of the Lords for the trial of Queen Caroline