Title inscribed in ink at lower left., John Thurtell was a notorious murderer who, as part of his sentence, was dissected the day after he was hung., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Subject (Topic):
Criminals, Physicians, Dissections, and Thurtell, John, 1794-1824
The small figure of a man rides a bicycle as he blows a horn from which hangs a banner decorated with the words of the title
Alternative Title:
Exhibition of pigmy revels
Description:
Title from text within image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed to image., Image from a title page?, and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Manuscript on paper of The Life, Araignment, and Death, of the famous learned, Sir Thomas More Knight: Somtymes Lord Chauncellor of England. On f. iii verso, engraving of Sir Thomas More, half-length, to right, standing, pointing to scroll in right hand
Description:
In English., Watermarks: Heawood, Coat of Arms 481., Script: Written in neat chancery script., Illuminated title-page, f. iii recto: double blue frame with sprigs of berries and leaves on both sides and gilt designs above and below. Gold initial on f. 1r marks the beginning of text., and Binding: 17th-18th centuries. Part of a book rebound in limp vellum, gold-tooled, with holes for two ties.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
More, Thomas, Saint, 1478-1535. and Roper, William, 1496-1578.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
Manuscript on paper composed of two parts. Part I: The Mirrour of the Blessed Lyf of Jesu Christ (Meditationes vitae Christi), tr. Nicholas Love. Includes Adam of Dryburgh (Adam Scotus) O. Praem, later O. Carth. (d. 1212), De instructione animae; ends incomplete in I.4. Part II: The Thirty-Nine Articles (doctrinal formulas accepted by the Church of England), articles 1-19 only, in diagram form, all pages being organized in three sections titled "the truth", "the creed", and "errors".
Alternative Title:
Meditationes vitae Christi. English
Description:
In English and Latin., Script: Part I: Written by two scribes in Gothica Cursiva Libraria (Secretary very close to Anglicana). Part II: Written in careful Gothica Cursiva (Secretary)., Majuscules are heightened in red (?) up to f. 8v. Red paragraph marks (?). Plain red 2- to 4-line initials. A 4-line red (?) flourished initial with rather coarse penwork in (?), including a human head and a fish, on f. 1r., and Two parchment fly-leaves of the original binding are inserted after f. 100: they have been taken from a 13th-century manuscript and contain fragments of Codex Iustiniani, VI.3.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Church of England.
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, English (Middle), Manuscripts, Medieval, and Theology, Doctrinal
Arundel, Philip Howard, Earl of, Saint, 1557-1595 Hanslopp, Nicolas
Published / Created:
ca. 1600
Call Number:
Osborn a5
Image Count:
70
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
For more information on the text, see notes to Osborn a6. and Manuscript, on paper, in italic script, produced in England around 1600. The text is a devotional poem, also known as The Fourfold Meditation. After the introduction of 216 lines, the poem begins "O wretched man which louest earthlie thinges..." Manuscript, on paper, in italic script, produced in England around 1600.
Alternative Title:
The fourfold meditation. and The pathe to paradise, [circa 1600].
Description:
Also known as The Foure-Fould Meditation., Bequest of James M. Osborn, 1976., Binding: nineteenth-century paper boards., Pasted in before the title page is a slip which reads, "The Rev. Charles Churchill, Halifax, Nova Scotia, requests your acceptance of this manuscript found on board a vessel wrecked off the coast of Bermuda.", and The title page has crosses in gold ink surrounding the name of Mary Yeate.
Subject (Topic):
English poetry--16th century and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Title from item., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Quaker meetings -- Costume: Quakers., and Mounted to 17 x 12 cm.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[ca. 1792]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 15 Box D175
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two rows of sketches of six women quarter length and mostly in profile with captions inscribed in pencil near each figure. Captions include: I lost a diamond ring in the struggle I assure you; Lord [?] how can you be so rebellious; Success to the French I say from the bottom of my soul; The queen of France has lost her head to a certainty; There are I hope an hundred thousand Frenchmen now ... ; Terrible times ...
Description:
Title from pencil inscription within image., Date supplied by cataloger., Attributed to Woodward., Possibly trimmed from a larger design for a border., and For further information, consult library staff.
Title from item., Date derived from pencil note in lower right margin: 1859., Place of publication supplied by curator., Building is now part of Birmingham Accident Hospital., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Queens Hospital, Birmingham; Hospitals, Great Britain.
Title from item., Date based on Richard Derby's death date., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 148 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.