Manuscript on paper of a substantial sixteenth-century English alchemy attributed in the text to a certain Sir John Barkly, and some additional matter said to have been derived from conversation with him. Also containing abbreviated works by Samuel Norton, as well as a varitey of other texts, some of them not at all identified, others extracted from various English and continental sources noted in the description, including a discourse of the minerall stone, medical recipes, and an abstract from Polemann and Helmont on the sulphur of the philosophers
Description:
In English., Script: Written by one English hand writing a legible cursive with some secretary forms, sloping to the right., Watermarks: Paper with watermark of a hunting horn in a cartouche very like Churchill 315 (in use 1623-1695), but without countermark, not identified., and Binding: Modern binding of marbled boards, polished calf back with title label, original uncut edges.
Manuscript on paper containing 1) Lapis philosophorum, seu tinctura phisica, in Latin, followed by an English version. 2) Alchemy, in English and Latin. 3) Astrology, including events predicted for the year 1655. 4) Walter Charleton, Notes extracted from his book. 5) Alchemy, medical recipes, and aphorisms. 6) George Rives, goldsmith, Account of the making of gold from lead at Bath by a certain Mervin in 1651. 7) Dr. Start, Notes taken from his experiments, and other matter. 8) Letter of a divine philosopher
Description:
In Latin and English., Script: Written by a single English hand writing a good cursive sloping slightly to the right., Watermarks: Paper watermarked with a flag with two pennants on a pole, no initials visible, similar but not identical to Heawood 1371-1372., and Binding: Original or possibly slightly later binding of brown calf rebacked, covers with double gold rule at edges, back divided into four compartments by five bands, old (but not original) red morocco label with double border of gold dots and gold rule in second compartment from top, stamped in gold, "ALCHEMY MSS." All edges gilt.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy, Transmutation (Chemistry), Formulas, recipes, etc, and Astrology
Manuscript, in a single hand, signed by the four appraisers: John Marsingale, Theo. Nesfield, Thomas Helm, and John Skelton. Below the eight-line inventory and thier signatures is a list of 13 other persons receiving either a guineas or half guinea, persumably gifts from her estate
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In English., Title from first page., and For further information, consult library staff.
A manuscript copy in an unidentified hand, with a tentative attrribution to A.F. Fytters in upper left corner of first page
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Title from first four lines of inscription. Caption title continues: ... Addressed to Mr. John Home author of Douglas, a tragedy on his leaving London in 1749., In English., Binding: three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards., and Laid in a volume, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 3.
Manuscript on paper in two parts. Part I (ca. 1700): 1) Treaty between Edward the Elder, King of England and Guthrun II, King of the Danes in East Anglia, 905-906. 2) Leges Edouardi regis, the Laws issued by King Edward the Elder (ca. 902-ca. 924) or Edward the Confessor (d. 1066). Part II (ca. 1650): 3) Annals of Iceland, 636-1394, with partial Latin translation in the margins. Here ascribed by another 17th-century hand to the Icelandic humanist Arngrimur Jonsson (1568-1648).
Description:
In Latin (Part I) and Icelandic (Part II)., Script: Part I (ff. 1-16): Written by one hand in Humanistic Cursive script. Part II (ff. 17-89): Gothica Cursiva for the Icelandic text, Humanistic Cursive script for the English text written in the margin., The acidity of the ink of the Icelandic text has damaged the paper., and Binding: Modern white parchment over cardboard.
Manuscript on paper (sturdy; staggered thumb holes at bottom of leaves) of Antiphons for suffrages. With liturgies and offices for various occasions. Written during the 16th century presumably for Franciscan use and supplemented during the 17th century; the second portion may have been added for use of the Reform Congregation of the Spanish Discalceates of which Peter of Alcantara was the founder
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In Latin., Script: Written by two scribes in a large round gothic bookhand. 1) ff. 1r-43v (16th century); 2) ff. 44r-50r (17th century). Scribe 2 attempts to replicate the work of Scribe 1, but uses 5-line staves rather than 4-line., Decoration for ff. 1r-43v: initials, with foliage designs, in rectangular frame, often with ground uncolored; colors range from vibrant blue, yellow, and orange to olive green and dark purple. Initials for ff. 44r-50r, of similar design, with more subdued shades, and no frames., and Binding: Seventeenth century. Vellum stays, contemporary paper flyleaves and pastedowns. Original sewing on five supports attached to very thick, square wooden boards. Beaded and colored endbands. Red edges. Covered in brown calf (cow?) reinforced at spine with additional leather and straps nailed to the boards. Traces of a strap and pin fastening. Vellum label with notation "Antiphonar. Com. sanctorum" nailed to lower board. The badly warped upper board is reinforced with two strips of wood placed vertically on the upper surface.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church and Franciscans.
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Antiphonaries, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper of an experimental alchemical compilation, devoted to laboratory procedures
Description:
In German and Latin., Script: Partly written by F.F. Weichenhaan in a clear, sometimes hasty cursive sloping to the right, in Fraktur for the passages in German; the remainder written by Anna Susanna Lieber in a rather loose and pointed Fraktur sloping to the right., Watermarks: Watermarks of the smaller papers at edges and cut, not identified; the paper folded in quarto with a decidely brownish tint and a large, faint watermark in the folds, not identified., Light to very dark brown inks, no color, a few sketches of apparatus in the text. No catchwords, no signatures., Compiled about 1743 by F.F. Weichenhaan, partly from materials written about 1705 by Anna Susanna Lieber., and Binding: Old paper boards with parchment back, a title lettered in brown ink by a modern hand in gothic letters on the backstrip, plain edges.
Manuscript on vellum prepared by Sir Gilbert Dethicke for Queen Elizabeth I includes colorful drawings of the arms of all the knights elected or installed during the reigns of Richard III and Henry VII
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Sir Gilbert Dethick (1499/1500-1584), herald and diplomat. Dethick became Garter king of arms on 20 April 1550 and was knighted on 14 April 1551. He was genealogist and heraldist, and a member of the original Society of Antiquaries., In English, with one French phrase., Bound in red velvet, the arms are beautifully balzoned in color., and Bound in red velvet. Bookplate 2 early state. Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763.
Manuscript on paper (unidentified armorial watermarks) of Basilici tyranni umbra, a Latin tragedy with a list of characters drawn partly from Byzantine history, including Umbra Basilici tyranni (d. 497), Zeno Imperator, Longinus eius frater, Gazeus Rhetor, Euphemianus, Castor tribunus militum, and various pupilli and ephebi. With a collection of poems in Horatian meters on early Jesuits, e. g., St. Francis Xavier (1506-52), Brother Rudolph Acquaviva (1550-83), St. Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556), St. Aloysius Gonzaga (1568-91), and Edmund Campion (d. 1581). Includes other miscellaneous texts
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In Latin., Script: Written by several cursive hands, some clearly later additions. A few headings in square capitals., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Vellum case, blind-tooled. Bookblock almost detached. Front pastedown may be part of art. 2 of text, but is too badly mutilated to be certain.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Byzantine Empire
Subject (Name):
Jesuits
Subject (Topic):
History, Jesuit poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern), Latin drama (Tragedy), and Manuscripts, Medieval