Extra-illustrations in James M. Beck's The Constitution of the United States
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 13
Image Count:
3
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Extra-illustrations in James M. Beck's The Constitution of the United States (New York: George H. Doran, 1924), including portrait engravings of the presidents of the United States (George Washington through Calvin Coolidge) bound in the volume and, foldered separately, eighteen autograph manuscript letters written by the delegates to the Constitutional Convention. The delegate letters are from Pierce Butler to Robert Griffith (1819); Jonathan Dayton to Andrew Kirkpatrick (1822); Thomas FitzSimons to James Searle (1787); Benjamin Franklin to Joshua Babcock (1763); Alexander Hamilton to John Jay (1798); Jared Ingersoll to Henry Drinker (1796); John Jay to Henry Remsen Jr. (1788); Thomas Jefferson to John Page (1780); John Langdon to Meshech Weare (1783); James Madison to Samuel Johnston (1789); Robert Morris to John Nicholson (1797); William Paterson to Euphemia White Paterson (1787); Charles Pinckney to Jacob Read (1807); Charles Cotesworth Pinckney to F. D. Petit de Villers (1814); Edmund Randolph to Mann Page Jr. (1799); George Read to the trustees of the loan office for the County of Kent (1777); Roger Sherman to Benjamin Stiles (1788); and George Washington to an unidentified recipient (1787). Two of the letters were written from Philadelphia during the convention, those by William Paterson to his wife Euphemia and by George Washington.
Description:
Gift of Edwin J. Beinecke (Yale 1907) and Frederick W. Beinecke (Yale 1909S), 1965., James Montgomery Beck (1861-1936), American lawyer and politician., and Number 3 of an edition of 6 copies. In binding and slipcase by Riviere and Son, with autograph manuscript inscriptions by Calvin Coolidge and Eldridge R. Johnson on front free endpaper, and autograph of James M. Beck on edition page.
Subject (Name):
Read, Jacob, 1752-1816 and United States--Constitution
Subject (Topic):
Constitutional conventions--United States and Politicians--United States
Five manuscript charters, including land grants and indentures, produced in England between 1352 and 1599. On parchment in cursive charter hand, Chancery script, and Secretary script.
Description:
Ex libris Sir Thomas Phillipps (MS 32220). Purchased and Four of the charters have partially or fully preserved wax seals.
Subject (Geographic):
England--Charters, grants, privileges
Subject (Name):
Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872
Subject (Topic):
Charters, Legal manuscripts--England, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Contains: Ssora, Ianvar', Slon i Marus'ka, Sentiabr', Letniaia muzyka, Pirat, V 6 chasov pod novyi god, Obeshchaniia puteshestvennika, Tri boltuna, Chistoe utro, Iul', and Koshach'i budni.
Subject (Topic):
Authors, American--20th century--Archives, Authors, Russian--20th century--Archives , Nobel Prize winners, Poets, American--20th century, Poets, Russian--20th century, and Translators
American fiction--20th century, American literature--20th century, Americans--France--History--20th century, and Authors, American--20th century--Archives
Manuscript fragment, on parchment, of a choir breviary, containing part of the offices for Epiphany.
Description:
Decoration: Rubricated. Initials in blue with red penwork. Large illuminated initial "A" with full border on verso, gilt., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: double columns of 51 lines., Musical notation on four-line red staves., References to Thomas Becket struck through on verso., and Script: gothic liturgical hand.
Subject (Topic):
Breviaries--Early works to 1800., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Musical notation--Early works to 1800.