Manuscript, on paper, in the hand of the author, of Walter Cromer's treatise on medicine and surgery in Latin. First page in English explains contents of the work; incipit: The contents of this littell boke be the followinge: fyrste the originall beginning of phisike and churgery... First 7 and final 38 leaves are frame-ruled, but blank
Alternative Title:
[Treatise of medicine and surgery / signed] Walt. Cromer
Description:
In Latin and English., Title devised by cataloger., Script: humanist cursive., Layout: 1 columns of 31 lines., Binding: armorial brown leather binding over pasteboard, with coat of arms of Edward VI gold-tooled on both front and back covers., and Signed (f. 8v): Walt. Cromer.
Depiction of the elaborate canopy of the tomb of William of Louth, Bishop of Ely, in Ely Cathedral
Description:
Title from dedication in Latin etched below image., State before "Plate XVII" added in upper left corner., Date of publication from that of the volume in which a later state of the plate was issued., Early state of a plate from: Bentham, J. The history and antiquities of the conventual and cathedral church of Ely ... Cambridge [England] : Printed at the University Press by J. Bentham ..., 1771., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 171 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
William, of Louth, -1298., Cole, William, 1714-1782., and Ely Cathedral
Three manuscript documents concerning grants of rights and rents by and between Maystoke Convent; Thomas de Beauchamp, Count of Warwick; and William de Clinton, Earl of Huntingdon
Description:
In Latin., Housed in twentieth-century case, quarter red morocco over black cloth boards. Title on spine., and Title transcribed from spine of case.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain., Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Beauchamp, Thomas de, Count of Warwick., Clinton, William de, Earl of Huntingdon., and Maystoke Convent.
Subject (Topic):
Land tenure, Landlord and tenant, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper of a collection of material copied primarily by William Camden, antiquary and historian (1551-1623), from documents, 14th-16th centuries, that were in the Tower of London and in the College of Arms. Some selections are from official records, others are from private papers that were deposited in the Office of Arms. The manuscript is composed of four parts, the first two of which are laid in.
Description:
In English and Latin., Watermarks: unidentified design, Part I; Briquet Lion 10555 and similar to Briquet Pot 12736, Part II; unidentified grapes and Briquet Lion 10555, Parts III, IV., Script: Written primarily by William Camden in several styles of cursive., Edges of some leaves crumbled and torn, with loss of text., and Binding: Date? Broken limp vellum case.
Page 198. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
William Cole of Milton near Cambridge, A.M.
Description:
Title and statement of responsibility from note in ink on verso, in William Cole's hand., Mounted below on the same page is a pencil drawing by Lady Diana Beauclerk: [Portrait of a young lady]., and Mounted on page 198 in a volume containing Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his Description of the villa of Horace Walpole (Hazen 2523) and his Catalogue of pictures and drawings in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry-Hill (Hazen 2619.4). Part of the collection: Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss Sebright, Miss Knight, Mrs. Damer, John Gooch, Samuel Lysons, Sir Edward Walpole, and Thomas Walpole (Hazen 3641).
Sociemus animos pignus hoc fidei cape continge dextram and Estote concordes
Description:
Title devised by curator; alternative titles from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 153 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
Title from dealer's catalog., Initialed by artist., and Around the edge is the inscription: "Robertus. Walpole, Ord. Periscellidis. Eques." On the reverse is a full length figure which Horace Walpole mentions in his letter of 15 October 1788 to John Pinkerton: "One [medal of my father] I think was struck by Natter, who was much patronized by my brother, Sir Edward...the consular figure on the medal I meanintended for Cicero; but I believe was copied from a statue belonging to the late Earl of Leicester at Holkham, and which, if I do not mistake at this distance of time, is called Lucius Antonius..." Under the figure the initials MTC [Marcus Tullius Cicero] under which are the initials L.N.