Title from text at top of sheet., A decree of the Common Council of Bristol signed: Cann., The wood-engraved of the Bristol city arms is between "Civitas" and "Bristol.", and For further information, consult library staff.
Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on parchment, including a collection of texts on medical and astrological topics, calendars and horoscopes
Alternative Title:
Medical and astrological texts : in English
Description:
In English., Title devised by cataloger., Script: Gothic cursiva., Decoration: 4 anatomical figures, 12 colored drawings of occupations of the months, 7 colored drawings of signs of the planets, 4 of the temperaments, 12 of the signs of the zodiac, 12 of their astrological abbreviations, and 12 large paintings of the signs of the zodiac. Also included: base of an astrolabe cut from a musical ms., ca. 1500 (f. 36r). Copious rubrication throughout., Layout: 1 column of around 40 lines., Binding: modern white leather binding over pasteboards., and Date of creation must be after 1552 and before 1554; the table on f. 6r runs from 1553 to 1590 and the chronicle notes on f.25r run to the beheading of the Duke of Somerset in 1552.
Subject (Topic):
Astrology, Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, and Manuscripts
Manuscript, on paper, containing a collection of medical treatises and recipes. Includes: medical recipes and charms (ff. 1-57), gynaecological treatise (ff. 60-71), catalogue of plants and their medical properties (ff. 73-99), and an astrological treatise (ff. 103-114).
Alternative Title:
Medical recipes and charms : followed by a gynaecological treatise, catalog of plants and their medical properties, and an astrological essay ; in English, with the astrology text (leaves 103-114) including Latin headings
Description:
In English with Latin headings., Title devised by cataloger., Script: secretary hand., Layout: single column of around 30 lines., Binding: bound in contemporary vellum. Severely damaged., and Also available on microfilm.
Subject (Topic):
Gynecology, Manuscripts, Medical, Medicine, Practice, Manuscripts, and Medicine, Medieval
Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on paper, containing a collection of texts on astronomy and medicine: contains a treatise on uroscopy (ff. 1-48r), an index of the significations of the colors of urine (ff. 48v-50v), a table of astrological symbols and their explanations (f. 51r), an astrological figure "The circle of 16 angles" (ff. 51v-52r), a table of the days of the moon (f. 52v), a series of astronomical tables from Aries to Pisces (ff. 53v-57r), a medical treatise describing illnesses and medical recipes (ff. 58r-85v), an stronomical treatise (ff. 87r-119v), a text on the twelve astrological signs (ff. 122v-123r), a number of tables and figures on the planets, the aspects of the moon, and uroscopy (ff. 123v-126r), a series of astrological prognostic texts related to theft (ff. 129v-132v), a weather prognostication (ff. 133r-134r), a series of electionary texts (ff. 134v-137v), a treatise on bloodletting (f. 137v), a series of questionary texts (ff. 138r-146r), a collection of brief astrological proverbs (147r-147v), a series of explanations about astrology (148r-148v), and a questionary text on finding a thief (f. 149r).
Alternative Title:
Commonplace book in English: on miscellaneous subjects, chiefly astrology
Description:
In English., Title devised by cataloger., Script: English secretary hand., Layout: single column of between 36 and 45 lines., Binding: 18th- or 19th-century binding in marbled boards with brown leather spine. Spinal note "M.S 1551" in gold-tooling., Decoration: rubrication throughout., Date of creation from f. 122: "Wryten anno domini 1551.", and Also available on microfilm.
Subject (Topic):
Astrology, Medicine, Manuscripts, and Medicine, Medieval
Caption title, on either side of woodcut showing a naked woman holding the hand of a child, also naked., Place and date of publication based on provence: formerly bound in a collection of chapbooks published in Lichfield in the 1770s., First line: The diversions of this meeting is expected to be very splendid; and, for the better information of the votaries at the shrine of Venus ..., Five lines of verse on either side of woodcut: [The] sportsmen who are free and willing, To feel, you're welcome for a shilling ... This is what we call a trade., A broadside advertising the services and skills of woman and brothels, with some prices., Not in ESTC., and Broadsides printed on laid paper and mounted in an album bound in red, quarter-leather morocco with Cockerell-marbled boards and vellum corners, with black-leather, gilt-stamped spine label. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England, England., and London.
Subject (Topic):
Brothels, Prostitutes, Prostitution, Children, and Unmarried mothers
Art of painting and Short account of the most eminent painters both ancient and modern
Description:
Signatures: [pi]² a-h⁴ B-2Y⁴ 2Z²., Translation of: De arte graphica., Added title-page, engraved by S. Gribelin., Title page in red and black., Includes the original poem in Latin; translated from the French version of R. de Piles., 'A short account of the most eminent painters ... ' [by R. Graham] has special title-page., Errata: p. [356], Original panelled calf; it was quite probably a copy kept in the house in town and bequeathed to Lady Waldegrave. Mr. Harris Prior of Geneva, N.Y., also owns a copy of the edition of 1695, in which Horace Walpole's bookplate has been inserted., and Laid in is the lining paper of a copy of this edition in which Horace Walpole's bookplate had been inserted, owned by Harris Prior. No press mark was found. With four architectural sketches in pencil on front flyleaf.
Publisher:
Printed by J. Heptinstall for W. Rogers, at the Sun against St. Dunstan’s Church in Fleetstreet
Manuscript on paper of Joannes de Sacro Bosco, Sphaera, translated into English and supplemented by Anthony Ascham. With calendar for the years 1529-35; "The Complaynt Off Sanct Cipriane, The Grett Nigromancer," a poem by Anthony Ascham. Includes individual zodiac volvelles with descriptions in Latin (several volvelles attached to the incorrect month).
Description:
In English and Latin., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Lettres et Monogrammes 9890 and Pot 12863., Script: Text written in English secretary script., Numerous explanatory drawings and tables appear throughout the manuscript, including 40 drawings of constellations; nineteen maps, accompanied by tables of longitude and latitude; nine devices that explain the movement of the heavenly bodies. All drawings are carefully drawn in brown ink, tinted with washes of green, yellow, black, brown, pink, and labelled in red or brown ink., Many leaves pasted together, some of which have become unglued. Cropped, resulting in loss of some marginalia., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Brown sheepskin, blind-tooled with central panel and outer border colored dark brown. Pink spattered edges.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, fl. 1230.
Subject (Topic):
Astrology, Astronomy, Medieval, Calendars, English poetry, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Early maps
Humphreys, James Y., 1783?-1850, playing card maker
Published / Created:
[1800?]
Call Number:
USA204
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
text and still image
Description:
BEIN USA204: From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards., Title from Ace of Spades., French suit system., Type: Historical., Composition of deck: 52 [A, K, Q, J, 10-2]., Aces: AS: [eagle] / E. PLURIBUS UNUM / [pip] / J.Y. HUMPHREYS., and CourtCards: KS: Andrew Jackson; QS: Athena; JS: King Phillip; KH: George Washington; QH: Venus; JH: Red Jacket; KD: John Quincy Adams; QD: Justice; JD: Gy-ant-wachia; KC: Thomas Jefferson; QC: Ceres; JC: Joseph Brant.
LWL 55 G25 738: Bookplates: Charles Languet Higgins, Turvey Abbey, 1874 (pictorial); Philip Hofer., LWL 55 G25 738: Gift of Mr Hofer [to Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis, 9 July 1964], with the 4th ed. of volume I., BEIN Ik G252 727f Copy 1: No. 2 of 2 works bound together with binder's title: Gay's Fables., In verse., All published?, The illustrations are by G. Scotin, after H. Gravelot., and Signatures: pi² a² B-K⁸ L⁴ M².