Hortense, Queen, consort of Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland, 1783-1837
Call Number:
Folio 75 B935 805 folder 53 Box 5
Collection Title:
[Scrapbook of drawings].
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript poem, in an unidentified hand, consisiting of four numbered stanzas of four lines each. Possibly composed by Queen Hortense of Holland and addressed to Napoleon Bonaparte
Description:
In French., Title from manuscript note in English at bottom of sheet., Possibly from 1806, the year that Hortense became Queen of Holland and the year of death for Richard Bull, who owned and likely assembled the album in which this poem was found., Formerly laid in at page 196 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806]., Housed in mylar sleeve matted to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.
Manuscript on paper containing 1) J. G. Toeltius, Coelum reseratum chymicum, translated into English by F.H. (?), together with fifty-four Secret Keys to the understanding of the work. 2) Concerning divine magic, or Cabbalistic mysteries, an anonymous translation from a German original
Description:
In English., Script: Written probably by a single hand in a clear copper-plate cursive larger and less formal from the beginning through p. 226, the remainder in a smaller, neater version of the same hand., Watermarks: On machine-made preruled paper with watermark "HAGAR & Co 1824." not recorded in the literature consulted., Illustrations in the text; some illustrations on inserted pieces of tracing paper, copied from an unidentified source and intended for insertion into the manuscript but left unfinished., and Binding: Rebound about 1900 in dark blue buckram with leather title label gold-stamped "COELUM RESERATUM CHYMICUM.," edges mottled red, with binder's ticket of George Redway, 15 York St., Covent Garden, London, on first pastedown.
Manuscript on paper of a substantial sixteenth-century English alchemy attributed in the text to a certain Sir John Barkly, and some additional matter said to have been derived from conversation with him. Also containing abbreviated works by Samuel Norton, as well as a varitey of other texts, some of them not at all identified, others extracted from various English and continental sources noted in the description, including a discourse of the minerall stone, medical recipes, and an abstract from Polemann and Helmont on the sulphur of the philosophers
Description:
In English., Script: Written by one English hand writing a legible cursive with some secretary forms, sloping to the right., Watermarks: Paper with watermark of a hunting horn in a cartouche very like Churchill 315 (in use 1623-1695), but without countermark, not identified., and Binding: Modern binding of marbled boards, polished calf back with title label, original uncut edges.
Manuscript on paper containing 1) Lapis philosophorum, seu tinctura phisica, in Latin, followed by an English version. 2) Alchemy, in English and Latin. 3) Astrology, including events predicted for the year 1655. 4) Walter Charleton, Notes extracted from his book. 5) Alchemy, medical recipes, and aphorisms. 6) George Rives, goldsmith, Account of the making of gold from lead at Bath by a certain Mervin in 1651. 7) Dr. Start, Notes taken from his experiments, and other matter. 8) Letter of a divine philosopher
Description:
In Latin and English., Script: Written by a single English hand writing a good cursive sloping slightly to the right., Watermarks: Paper watermarked with a flag with two pennants on a pole, no initials visible, similar but not identical to Heawood 1371-1372., and Binding: Original or possibly slightly later binding of brown calf rebacked, covers with double gold rule at edges, back divided into four compartments by five bands, old (but not original) red morocco label with double border of gold dots and gold rule in second compartment from top, stamped in gold, "ALCHEMY MSS." All edges gilt.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy, Transmutation (Chemistry), Formulas, recipes, etc, and Astrology
Manuscript, in a single hand, signed by the four appraisers: John Marsingale, Theo. Nesfield, Thomas Helm, and John Skelton. Below the eight-line inventory and thier signatures is a list of 13 other persons receiving either a guineas or half guinea, persumably gifts from her estate
Description:
In English., Title from first page., and For further information, consult library staff.
Manuscript in a single hand with a room-by-room inventory of the contents of Castle Hill Lodge which was owned by Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent. The inventory was taken presumably shortly after his marriage, and the contents listed reflect the high Regency taste of the owner. The Duke had purchased the Lodge in 1801 from his sister-in-law Mrs. FitzHerbert and had spent thousands of pounds for improvements commissioned from James (?) Wyatt. In addition to the detailed listing of the Duke's private rooms and the formal rooms, the inventory includes servants' quarters, outhouses, barracks, and concludes with an inventory "of sundry articles not comprised in the foregoing inventory."
Description:
Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent, was the fourth son of Great Britain's King George III and Queen Charlotte and father of Queen Victoria (1819-1901). He married Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld on 29 May 1818., The firm Tatham & Baily was founded in the 1780s and had premises at 14 Mount Street. The original parnership was between George Elward and William Marsh with Edward Baily joining the firm in 1793 and Thomas Tatham in 1798., In English., Title from item., Some blank pages and numbering irregularities., Binding: reversed calf., Paper watermarked: C. Ball 1816., Stationer's label on inside front cover: Robert Hoffman, Stationer to the Dukes of Kent and Gloucester., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Middlesex (England)
Subject (Name):
Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent, 1767-1820, Wyatt, James, 1746-1813., and Castle Hill Lodge (Middlesex, England)
A manuscript copy in an unidentified hand, with a tentative attrribution to A.F. Fytters in upper left corner of first page
Description:
Title from first four lines of inscription. Caption title continues: ... Addressed to Mr. John Home author of Douglas, a tragedy on his leaving London in 1749., In English., Binding: three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards., and Laid in a volume, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 3.
Manuscript on vellum prepared by Sir Gilbert Dethicke for Queen Elizabeth I includes colorful drawings of the arms of all the knights elected or installed during the reigns of Richard III and Henry VII
Description:
Sir Gilbert Dethick (1499/1500-1584), herald and diplomat. Dethick became Garter king of arms on 20 April 1550 and was knighted on 14 April 1551. He was genealogist and heraldist, and a member of the original Society of Antiquaries., In English, with one French phrase., Bound in red velvet, the arms are beautifully balzoned in color., and Bound in red velvet. Bookplate 2 early state. Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763.
Manuscript, on paper, in cursive script, produced in England during the late sixteenth century and The text claims to be the Book of Virtue which the Angel Raphael gave to Adam, with Solomon's Hebrew additions. The work consists of seven treatises: 1) Clavis, 2) virtues of stones, herbs and beasts, 3) Tractatus thimiamatum, 4) Treatise of time, 5) Treatise of Cleanness, 6) Samaym, and 7) Book of Virtue
Description:
In English., Includes two staffs of music on f. 1r., Incipit: "In the name of allmyghtie God livinge trewe & everlasting and without all end, wch ys said Cephar razyell with all his portenaunce in wch be 7 treatises complete.", With astrological signs in margins., and Binding: limp vellum.