Four engraved admission cards for Elijah W. carpenter of Vermont to attend the first set of lectures given at the Medical Institution of Yale College in 1813. The cards are signed by Nathan Smith, Eli Ives, Jonathan Knight, and Benjamin Silliman. Carpenter attended the medical school for one year and did not receive an M.D. (which was not required to practice medicine). The card are part of the Elijah W. Carpenter papers.
Subject (Geographic):
United States
Subject (Name):
Carpenter, Elijah W., 1778-1855, Ives, Eli, 1779-1861, Knight, J. (Jonathan), 1789-1864, Silliman, Benjamin, 1779-1864, Smith, Nathan, 1762-1829, and Yale University. School of Medicine
Engraved admission ticket for Edward Leffingwell to attend Smith's lectures at the University of Vermont. Smith lectured at the University of Vermont while on the faculty of the Medical Institution of Yale College.
Subject (Geographic):
United States
Subject (Name):
Leffingwell, Edward, 1803-1888, Smith, Nathan, 1762-1829, University of Vermont. College of Medicine., Yale College (1718-1887). Medical Institution., and Yale University. School of Medicine
Manuscript on paper of a collection of extracts from various alchemical and medical writers. Includes John of Rupescissa, Liber de confectione veri lapidis; and Arnold of Villanova, De perfectione operis alkimie. Compiled by one Johannes Baptista F., along with Mellon MSS 34 and 36.
Description:
Binding: Original parchment over pasteboards with remains of thong ties; probably a home-made binding utilizing used parchment (show-through of writing visible) from a document, plain edges. Labeled in ink in the hand of the compiler on the backstrip: "Medicina astrologia." Loose in cover and wormed., Denis Duveen; Mellon MS 23, acquired with the Duveen collection. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965., In Latin, Italian, and Spanish., and Script: Written by one or perhaps two hands in mid-16th-century italic, sometimes of excellent, professional quality, but often ranging from fairly good to extremely bad and careless.
Subject (Name):
Arnaldus, de Villanova, -1311. and Johannes, de Rupescissa, ca. 1300-ca. 1365.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy--Early works to 1800., Italian poetry--16th century., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.