Inzet: [1.] Vondels park ; [2.] Plan van uitbreiding der stad, vastgesteld in 1874., Verso: Gids voor de bezoekers van Amsterdam., and Verso: Lijst van straten, grachten enz.
Embassy from the East India Company of the United Provinces to the Grand Tartar Cham, emperor of China. and Gezantschap der Neerlandtsche Oost-Indische Compagnie aan den grooten Tartarischen Cham, den tegenwoordigen Keizer van China. English
Description:
Added engraved t.p., Errors in paging: 185-204 omitted in numbering., and Imperfect: t.p. trimmed and mounted.
Publisher:
Printed by John Macock for the author,
Subject (Geographic):
China--Description and travel., China--History--Early works to 1800., and China--Politics and government--Early works to 1800.
Subject (Name):
Goyer, Pieter de., Keizer, Jacob de., Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680. China monumentis qua sacris qua profanis. English., Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie., Ogilby, John, 1600-1676., and Schall von Bell, Johann Adam, 1592?-1666.
Kerckhoven, Abraham van den, ca. 1618-1701 Liberti, Henricus, ca. 1600-1669 Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon, 1562-1621
Published / Created:
[circa 1650s]
Call Number:
Osborn Music MS 533
Image Count:
166
Resource Type:
Music (Printed & Manuscript)
Description:
Anglo-Flemish organ music, written in manuscript on paper, in several unidentified hands, known as the Novello Organ Book. The manuscript contains over one hundred works, including organ masses and other Roman Catholic liturgical music, possibly used by English recusants in the Low Countries. Also present are preludes and fugues, variations, fantasias, and other secular music. Composers include Abraham van den Kerckhoven, Henricus Liberti, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, and Jacobus de Cherf. A few works are dated 1651., Annotations in English, French, Latin, and Flemish., Binding: vellum boards, rebacked., Cover: Presented to the library of the Musical Antiquarian Society by Vincent Novello, April 1844., Formerly owned by John Watts, Vincent Novello, the Musical Antiquarian Society, Camille Saint-Saens, Eugene Gigout, and Leon Boellmann., Inside front cover: Vincent Novello...kindly presented to me by my old friend John Watts, Feby 19, 1841., p. 105 tipped in., Pages [330-364] blank, unscanned., Pages 90-99 omitted from pagination, numerous errors., Preliminary page: signatures of Camille Saint-Saens and Eugene Gigout., and Title from cover.
Subject (Name):
Kerckhoven, Abraham van den, ca. 1618-1701, Liberti, Henricus, ca. 1600-1669, Saint-Saens, Camille, 1835-1921, provenance, and Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon, 1562-1621
Subject (Topic):
Catholics -- England -- 17th century, Organ music -- 17th century, and Organ music -- Netherlands -- 17th century
Siegfried Sassoon's copy of the first, unexpurgated issue of Robert Graves's Good-bye To All That (1929), annotated and with clippings. Sassoon's annotations include personal comments, many critical, and factual corrections, most relating to Graves's account of his service in the war. Clippings, pasted in and loose, include reviews, illustrations, and letters to the editor. With one typescript reply to Sassoon from publisher Jonathan Cape, dated November 1929, identifying corrections to be made, at Sassoon's request, to the remaining, undistributed copies of the first issue.
Description:
Chiefly in English; some clippings in Swedish, Dutch, and French., Purchased from Christie's on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection Fund, 2007., Robert Graves (1895-1985), English author., and Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967), English author.
Subject (Name):
Graves, Robert, 1895-1985. Good-bye to all that., Graves, Robert,--1895-1985., Jonathan Cape (Firm), and Sassoon, Siegfried,--1886-1967.
Subject (Topic):
World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives, English.
Manuscript roll, on parchment, in a single hand, illuminated, containing the "Arma Christi" poem and other prayers, in Dutch, including prayers ascribed to Popes Sixtus IV and Alexander VI. The prayers are preceded by a rubric instructing readers to kneel as they recite the prayers in order to obtain an indulgence.
Description:
Binding: section of leather sewn to top of scroll. Accompanied by seventeenth-century? fabric case with fabric and metal appliqués., Decoration: Rubricated. Initials in red or blue. Large miniature at head of roll containing a bust of Christ wearing a crown of thorns, displaying his stigmata, and surrounded by the "arma Christi" (also known as the Instruments of the Passion). On a blue ground in gold frame. One large decorated initial immediately below miniature. Text accompanied by decorated borders on both sides., Layout: single column of text., Purchased from Richard Linenthal (Sotheby's London sale, 2014 July 8, lot 48) on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2014., and Script: gothic.
Subject (Geographic):
Netherlands--Religious life and customs--Early works to 1800
Subject (Name):
Alexander VI, Pope, 1431-1503, Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions--Dutch, Jesus Christ--Passion--Art, Jesus Christ--Passion--Prayers and devotions, Jesus Christ--Passion--Prayers and devotions--Early works to 1800, and Sixtus IV, Pope, 1414-1484
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Indulgences--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Accurate aftekening hoe de twee Legers geleegen hebben voor Belgrado, ent bomberderen en kanonneeren op malkanderen van den 2 tot den 14 Augustus anno 1717 and Nieuwe accurate kaart van de marse der Keyserlyke armee van Peter Wardien en Futak.
Description:
Backed with paper. Ms. no. in upper right corner [illegible due to trimming]. Sheet measures 53.8 x 62.4 cm. No. 74 of 87 maps bound together., On sheet with 1 other map ("Nieuwe accurate kaart van de marse der Keyserlyke armee van Peter Wardien en Futak ... tot voor Belgrado ... 9 tot den 19 Iuny anno 1717") and 7 bird's-eye views ("Belgrad," "Temeswar" [with map "De Stadt Temeswar"], "Temeswar" [2], "Wardien," "Offen v. Pest," "Sigeth," and "Citta e porto di Constantinopoli")., Relief shown pictorially., and With inset bird's-eye view of Belgrade in upper left corner.
"Cum privil.", Appears in Schenk's Atlas contractus ... [Amsterdam : Peter Schenk, ca. 1700]., Imperfect: Mutilated, with some loss of text. Sheet measures 53.5 x 62 cm. Verso: "19" (?) in ink ms., Insets: Batavorum colon, and Relief shown pictorially.
Publisher:
Peter Schenk?
Subject (Geographic):
East Indies--Maps--Early works to 1800, Netherlands--Maps--Early works to 1800, and New Netherland--Maps--Early works to 1800
The Osborn collection of 12 fragments of illuminated manuscripts from the 14th to the 16th century
Image Count:
22
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
There is a feast for every day. The computistical data are Golden Number and Day Letter. Among the saints in red: Pontianus (14 Jan.), Pancratius (12 May), Servatius (13 May), Boniface (5 June), Odulphus (12 June), Lebuinus (25 June), Hieron (17 August), Lambert (17 Sept.), Maurice (22 Sept.), Remigius (1 Oct.), Victor and Gereon (10 Oct.), Willibrord (8 Nov.!), Lebuinus or Livinus (12 Nov.).
Description:
On parchment., Red heightening of the majuscules and red and blue plain initials., The calendar is written continuously, without beginning a new page for each month. Ruled in light brown ink for one column of 18 lines below top line (type 15 with two additional vertical lines for the computistical data, 83 x 61 mm.). Pricking visible in the upper or lower margin., and Written in black and red ink in Northern Gothica Textualis Libraria.
The Osborn collection of 12 fragments of illuminated manuscripts from the 14th to the 16th century
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Description:
f. 1r-v // Sinte Iacob, b. Sinte Philips, b. Sinte Bartholomeus, b. ...Alle heilighe apostelen ende ewangelisten, biddet voer ons. Alle heilighe discipulen Ons Heren, biddet voer ons. Alle heilighe Onnosele Kijnderen, b. ... Sinte Ponciaen, b. Sinte Sebastiaen, b. Sinte Fabiaen, b. //, On parchment., Red heightening of the majuscules and red and blue plain initials., The b's of "b[idt voer ons]" are heightened with red. The invocations begin with alternately red and blue plain initials S., The presence of Pontianus before Sebastian among the martyrs points to Utrecht., and Written in black and red ink in Northern Gothica Textualis Libraria.