A photograph of the plaque dedicating the Farnam Building. It reads: This building has been erected by Mrs. Henry Farnam as a memorial to her son George Bronson Farnam, M.D. who faithfully served this hospital as attending physician and surgeon from 1873 to 1877 and through out off from professional activity during the remainder of his life by painful illness never ceased to further its interests and to minister to the sufferings of others. He was born Aug. 21, 1841 in New Haven where he died Dec. 22, 1886.
Subject (Geographic):
United States
Subject (Name):
Farnam, George Bronson, 1841-1886 and Yale University. School of Medicine
Manuscript on parchment of a Book of Hours for the use of a convent.
Description:
Binding: Seventeenth century. Damaged brownish pigskin over bevelled wooden boards, the covers blind-tooled with frames of fillets and rolls; the central rectangle on the front cover, otherwise free, is decorated with a large oval stamp, heavily worn but probably picturing the Virgin in the Sun. Spine with three raised bands. Remnants of two brass clasps attached to the rear cover. Marks of a chain attachment at the bottom of the rear cover. Red edges., Headings and rubrics in red. Heightening of majuscules in red. 1-line red versals; 2-line plain initials (sometimes slightly decorated) in red. Intricate large flourished cadels in black filled with red in the texts accompanying musical notation. Art. 4 opens with a 6-line littera duplex in red and brownish red with red penwork. Guide letters for all initials. On f. 29v full-page picture of the crowned Virgin and Child, Mary presenting a flower to the Child, on a flowery pink background in a green and red rectangular frame., On some pages the ink is very faded., and Script: Copied mainly by one hand writing Northern Textualis Formata in two sizes with Central European features. A second less formal hand copied ff. 29r, lines 11-18 and 30r-31v, i.e. the beginning of art. 2. Musical notation in Nota Quadrata.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions
Subject (Topic):
Books of hours, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Monasticism and religious orders
The President and fellows of Yale University request the honor of your presence at the dedication of the Sterling Hall of Medicine, Monday February the twenty-third, nineteen hundred twenty-five at four o'clock. A reply is requested by February ninth.
Geishū Itsukushima zue, Itsuku-shima dzu-ye, Itsukushimazue, 厳島図会, and 嚴島圖會.
Description:
"Description of Itsukushima (Miyajima)." (K. Asakawa. "Gifts of the Yale Association of Japan," 1945)., "Itsukushima Jinko zōban.", "Zōhanshu, Hiroshima Ginzan-chō Miyazaki Kojūrō"--Colophon., "巌島神庫藏版.", "藏版主・廣島銀山町宮崎小十郎"--Colophon., 507.5-chō, in a case., On double leaves, East Asian binding (fukurotoji)., and Yale Association of Japan Collection original call number: Bf5.
Publisher:
Kawachiya Gisuke,, Taruya Sōzaemon, and Yonamiya Ihē
Subject (Geographic):
Itsukushima Jinja (Miyajima-cho, Japan)--Description and travel, Miyajima-chō (Japan)--Description and travel, Miyajima-chō (Japan)--Pictorial works, 宮島町 (Japan)--Description and travel, and 宮島町 (Japan)--Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Itsukushima Jinja (Hatsukaichi-shi, Japan) and Itsukushima Jinja (Hatsukaichi-shi, Japan)--Pictorial works