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1. A collection of his works
- Creator:
- Locques, Nicolas de, active 17th century
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1700]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 77
- Image Count:
- 798
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of a collection of texts by Nicolas de Locques, in which practical laboratory procedures are mingled with speculative and mystical alchemy
- Description:
- In French., Script: Written in a practiced scribal hand in a flowing cursive sloping to the right with infrequent standard abbreviation; a second similar, but finer hand on p. 358 only., Watermarks: Paper with unidentified watermark of a griffin rampant (?), the hind paws on a staff incorporating letters and numbers "Y49" (?), countermarked with 2 lines of capitals, the first word perhaps "JUVIMAL" (sic)., and Binding: Original French binding of mottled calf, the sides plain, the edges of the covers gilt-stamped a la grotesque, back (repaired and restored at foot) with seven bands, the compartments gilt-stamped to a rectangular pattern, a lozenge of leafy sprays in the center of each, with triangular elements of the same at the corners, original title label in the second compartment from the top, marbled endpapers, edges speckled red.
- Subject (Name):
- Locques, Nicolas de, active 17th century.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy and Science
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A collection of his works
2. Etat actuel des affaires generalles concernant les finances du Royaume de France, [ca. 1762].
- Call Number:
- LWL Mss Vol. 124
- Image Count:
- 164
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in a single hand, providing charts, summaries, and personal observations on French finances during the Seven Years' War and the French and Indian War. The volume includes a list of the ordinary revenues and expenses of the king; ordinary military expenses; and an extensive section addressing war finance, including yearly summaries of money raised in France between 1756 and 1762, with notes of royal edicts, such as a lottery in 1756, and other edicts levying extraordinary taxes to pay for the war. The volume also contains sections on the finances of the clergy and the court of Rome; and occasional references to the American colonies and the Compagnie des Indes
- Description:
- In French., Table of contents at beginning of manuscript., On title page: Etat actuel des affaires Generalles Concernant les finances du Royaume de france. Qui constate Les Revenues et Deperses ordinaires du Roy avec Les affaires extraodinaires faittes en france depuis et comprisant 1756 jusqu'a la fin de 1762 au sujet de la guerre..., Binding: full calf. In gilt on spine: Mss. Finances de France., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Geographic):
- France and United States
- Subject (Name):
- Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774. and France. Sovereign (1715-1774 : Louis XV)
- Subject (Topic):
- Appropriations and expenditures, Finance, History, Royal households, Economic aspects, Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, and Politics and government
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Etat actuel des affaires generalles concernant les finances du Royaume de France, [ca. 1762].
3. Journal of Magellan's Voyage
- Creator:
- Pigafetta, Antonio, approximately 1480-approximately 1534
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1525]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 351
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 218
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (fine) of A journal of Ferdinand Magellan's voyage around the world in 1522, written by Antonio Pigafetta (ca. 1480/91 - ca. 1534), an Italian gentleman from Vincenza who survived the trip. Beinecke MS 351, the text of which is divided into 57 numbered chapters, is the most complete and most handsomely produced manuscript of the four surviving witnesses to the text; the original, probably in Italian, is now lost
- Description:
- In French., Script: Written in elegant humanistic bookhand with script often resting above the rulings; marginal notes and headings in a more cursive script that inclines toward the right., Twenty-three beautifully drawn and illuminated maps, mostly full-page, surrounded by gold frames, and with scrolls superimposed that contain the identifying legends for islands and land masses. Decorative initials, 4- to 3-line, rose or blue highlighted with white, on gold rectangular grounds edged in black, contain flowers in contrasting colors or strawberries and green and chartreuse leaves. Gold initials, 2-line, on red rectangular grounds or on red and blue grounds (divided diagonally or horizontally) with gold highlights. Gold paragraph marks, 1-line, on rectangular grounds that alternate red and blue, with gold highlights; rectangular line-fillers in red and gold, also highlighted with gold. Headings for chapters and titles for maps within text, as well as notes in margin entered by same scribe, in red or blue., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Red goatskin, gold-tooled. Bound by Duru in 1851. Disbound and mounted for photographic reproduction for the facsimile edition by Harold Tribolet at the Extra Bindery of the Lakeside Press. Rebacked with extraordinary skill.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Magalhães, Fernão de, 1480-1521. and Pigafetta, Antonio, approximately 1480-approximately 1534.
- Subject (Topic):
- Discoveries in geography, Portuguese, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Early maps, and Voyages around the world
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Journal of Magellan's Voyage
4. Livre de la tres sainte trinite
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1700]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 74
- Image Count:
- 492
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper and parchment of a version in French of the German text, Das Buch von der Heiligen Dreifaltigkeit, with close copies of the illuminations in two fifteenth-century manuscripts. Contains illustrations that mix Christian symbolism, especially the Passion of Christ, with alchemical symbolism, and also depict some apparatus
- Description:
- In French., Script: Calligraphically written in brown ink in a very clear, large cursive hand., Watermarks: Paper watermarked with large fleur-de-lys with a cartouche, surmounted by a crown, the letter "W" below, perhaps identical to Heawood 1845., With illustrations added about 1875., and Binding: Nineteenth-century French citron polished calf, sides bordered with triple gold rules, gold-stamped fleurons at the corners, back in compartments gold-stamped with small tools, red morocco title label, marbled pastedowns and flyleaves, the latter glued to parchment flyleaves which appear to have come from an earlier binding of this volume; mottled edges.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy, Religious aspects, Christianity, and Trinity
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Livre de la tres sainte trinite
5. Recueil de lettres choisies de differentes personnes, 1739-1780
- Creator:
- Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, marquise, 1697-1780
- Call Number:
- LWL MSS 11 Box 7
- Image Count:
- 211
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Description:
- Bound in vellum., Includes an index., Formerly classed as: 49 2545 V., and Annotated by Horace Walpole.
- Subject (Name):
- Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, marquise, 1697-1780.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Recueil de lettres choisies de differentes personnes, 1739-1780