Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of notes on primarily biological, scientific, mathematical, and historical subjects, as well as recipes and humorous anecdotes and verses. The volume begins with notes on parrots, crocodiles, the oxfly, parallel rulers, the concept of proportion, and Niagara Falls, followed by a collection of tables of coins and their worth in cities and countries around the world, including England, Ireland, Flanders, Hamburg, Russia, Portugal, Persia, Japan, and Morocco. The volume also contains a list of symbols for chemicals; diagrammatic drawings of ovals, elipses, arches, and squares; humorous epigrams, anecdotes, epitaphs, and riddles; and several entries in shorthand; as well as historical notes on Catherine of Russia, Ostend; Brussels; and St. Petersburg. The last section of the volume is composed primarily of household and veterinarian recipes, including one to cure scabs in sheep; blacking for harnesses; to destroy fleas in dogs; and to cure foul water in cows. A recipe for stuffing birds is annotated, "Best. See my scrap book given by Mr Ashew a stuffer of birds." and The volume also contains several pen drawings, including one to illustrate a mite and another to illustrate parallel rulers.
Description:
Binding: contemporary vellum. Written on cover: William Henry Wayne. Gift of ALS 19 August 1800 Cavendish Bridge., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., In English., Partial index at beginning of manuscript., Pasted inside front cover: dealer's description of manuscript., and Pasted inside front cover: receipt dated 1792.
Subject (Geographic):
Russia--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Catherine--II,--Empress of Russia,--1729-1796 and Wayne, William Henry
Subject (Topic):
Agriculture--Great Britain--19th century, Chemistry--Handbooks, manuals, etc, Coins, English poetry--19th century, English wit and humor, Epigrams, English, Mathematics--Handbooks, manuals, etc, Recipes--Great Britain, and Veterinary medicine
Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, containing about 43 entries including religious meditations; Biblical notes; religious poems and verse paraphrases on Biblical subjects; sermon extracts; a play titled "The Tragedye of Jepthas daughter;" a treatise on dueling "according to the unjustifiable Custome of this age by a true Lover of honnour;" and a collection of medicinal recipes. Elsewhere, a brief description of "the nature of the irish, who are cal'd naturall Irishe, out of Campion's History" is annotated, "This being a booke of Commmon place this comes not out of order." The volume begins with a letter addressed to the author's son, in which the author describes the contents of this manuscript as "the fruits of my solitude whilst under restraint" as a royalist prisoner at Exeter, ca. 1651-53.
Description:
Binding: full sheep., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., In English., Pasted into front cover: newspaper clipping which describes the manuscript., and Phillipps MS 18904.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Politics and government--1642-1660 and Great Britain--Religious life and customs--17th century
Subject (Name):
Campion, Edmund,--Saint,--1540-1581
Subject (Topic):
Dueling--Great Britain, English drama--17th century, English poetry--17th century, Medicine, Popular, Medicine--15th-18th cent, Meditations (Religious), Religious poetry, English, and Sermons, English--17th century
Holograph manuscript diaries kept by John G. Bell during his participation in John James Audubon’s Missouri River expedition in 1843. This volume also contains longer entries, possibly drafts, for August 2-7, with additional accounts, lists, and notes.
Description:
Contains several pages at end, in reverse orientation, badly rubbed and mostly illegible. and Some blank pages throughout not digitized.
Subject (Geographic):
Missouri River Valley --Description and travel and Yellowstone River Valley --Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Audubon, John James, 1785-1851
Subject (Topic):
American bison hunting, Natural history --Missouri River Valley, and Natural history --Yellowstone River Valley
Arnaldus, de Villanova, d. 1311 Carpenter, Richard, d. 1670? Ripley, George, d. 1490?
Published / Created:
circa 1570
Call Number:
Mellon MS 41
Image Count:
15
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper roll of George Ripley (?), Alchemy, in English verse, with additional verses attributed to Richard Carpenter. With Arnold of Villanova, Visio mystica, anonymously translated into English.
Alternative Title:
Ripley scroll
Description:
One roll with multiple illustrated sheets. and Paper rotulus consisting originally of thirteen folio sheets and half-sheets of differing lengths glued together, averaging 540 mm. in width (lateral margins and broad bordering line in black ink partly trimmed away), slightly defective with small losses at beginning and end; now cut into thirteen sections measuring about 435 x 540 each, except for the last which measures 625 x 540.
Holograph. and Traditions and prayers relating to the fast of Ramaḍān.
Description:
Good naskhī, in red and black. and The author signs himself on leaf 1 recto as: Aḥmad ibn ʻUmar al-Anṣārī; "Ibn al-Mulaqqin" was supplied on the Landberg card (son of ʻUmar ibn al-Mulaqqin, Brockelmann, II, 92).
Constitution for the dinghof or cologne of Ingersheim in Alsace, consisting of 16 articles ... Parchment roll consisting of 2 irregularly trimmed membranes stitched together ... Written in neat gothic hand by a single scribe who placed a paragraph mark before each article. and Manuscript on parchment roll consisting of 2 irregularly trimmed membranes stitched together, of Constitution for the dinghof or colonge of Ingersheim in Alsace, consisting of 16 articles.
Description:
Binding: Boxed., Paragraph mark before each article., Purchased in 1958 from Roux-Devillas, Paris, by L. C. Witten, who sold it in 1959 to Thomas E. Marston., Roll shows considerable use., and Script: Written in neat gothic hand by a single scribe.
Subject (Geographic):
Alsace (France)
Subject (Topic):
Legal documents, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript, on parchment, containing copies of several treatises: 1) Tractatus de Sacramento Corpus Christi, by Baldwin, Archbishop of Canterbury (ff. 1-26); 2) De Vero Sapientia, Dialogus I and II, attributed here to Petrarch (now believed to be by Nicholas of Cusa) (ff. 27-50v); 3) De Invidia, Niccolò Perotti's translation of a sermon by Basil the Great, with a preface addressed to Pope Nicholas V (ff. 51-63); 4) De invidia et odio, Niccolò Perotti's translation of a work by Petrarch, with a preface addressed to Pope Nicholas V (ff. 63v-68v); 5) De fortuna virtute ve nominum: ad Nicolaum quintum pontificem maximum, by Niccolò Perotti (69-73v); 6) Epistle LXVII to Simplician, by St. Ambrose (ff. 74-79v); 7) Ex sermonibus quadragesimalibus: Sermone de correctione fraterna, by Leonardo di Utino, O.P. (80-86v); 8) Speculum regis Edwardii tercii, attributed here to Simon Islip, Archbishop of Canterbury (now recognized as the work of William Pagula) (ff. 87-148, with skip from 89 to 100); 9) De tenenda obedientia et evitanda superbia, by St. Augustine (ff. 148-152).
Overland journey across the Plains to Oregon /by William H. Frush, 1850-1852
Image Count:
4
Abstract:
In 1850 Frush traveled from Missouri to Oregon by way of St. Joseph, Blue River, the North Platte, and Fort Laramie, where he met his brother John and Kit Carson. They continued by South Pass, Bear River, Soda Springs, Fort Hall, Fort Boise, the Dalles, and Portland. He records graves, the names and homes of other travelers, and ends his account with events in Oregon. The diary contains drawings of Chimney Rock, Court House Rock, profile of the Snake River, and a map of the Burnt River.
Subject (Geographic):
Oregon --Baker County --Maps, West (U.S.) --Description and travel, and West (U.S.) --Maps
Black, gold, and green designs and calligraphy on brown paper, including gilded floral designs in borders, verses from Psalms, menorahs, hamsas and other symbols. Center menorah contains Psalm 67. The rectangles on each side of the menorah contain kabbali