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- Creator:
- Alabaster, William, 1567-1640
Brooke, Samuel, d. 1631
Hacket, John, 1592-1670
Hawkesworth, Walter, d. 1606 - Published / Created:
- [16--].
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS VOL 214
- Image Count:
- 80
- Abstract:
- Volume containing manuscript transcripts in an unidentified hand of 5 plays written in Latin for performance at Cambridge University in the 17th century. Includes Walter Hawkesworth's Leander and his Labrynthus (printed 1636); John Hacket's Laiola (printed as Loiola, 1648); Samuel Brooke's Scyros; and William Alabaster's Roxana (printed 1632).
- Description:
- From the library of Shipdham Church in Thetford, Norfolk County, England. and Some pagination is erroneous.
- Subject (Name):
- Shipdham Church (Thetford, England) Ownership
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > University plays written for performance at Cambridge : [Cambridge], [16--].
- Creator:
- Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
- Published / Created:
- undated
- Call Number:
- Ip St48 Zz889H
- Collection Title:
- A naturalist in north Celebes a narrative of travels in Minahassa, the Sangir and Talaut Islands
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Books, Journals & Pamphlets
- Collection Created:
- London, J. Murray, 1889
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Front flyleaf with manuscript inscriptions by Robert Louis Stevenson]
- Call Number:
- Ij W175 Zz609D
- Collection Title:
- The civile wares betweene the howses of Lancaster and Yorke / corrected and continued by Samuel
- Image Count:
- 1
- Subject (Name):
- Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683
- Collection Created:
- Printed at London : by Simon Watersonne, 1609
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Front flyleaf with manuscript notes]
- Creator:
- Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
- Published / Created:
- undated
- Call Number:
- Ip St48 Zz889H
- Collection Title:
- A naturalist in north Celebes a narrative of travels in Minahassa, the Sangir and Talaut Islands
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Books, Journals & Pamphlets
- Collection Created:
- London, J. Murray, 1889
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Front pastedown with manuscript inscriptions by Robert Louis Stevenson]
- Creator:
- Magalotti, Lorenzo, conte, 1637-1712
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1667-1690]
- Call Number:
- Osborn fb85
- Image Count:
- 83
- Abstract:
- Autograph (in part) manuscript, consisting of papers in Italian, English and other languages concerning the contemporary political history and the intellectual and social life of England (f. 1-262), Holland (f. 265-422), Denmark (f. 424-476) and Poland (f. 477-503). The collection includes autograph rough notes and drafts of memoranda, often with extensive revisions, copies and translations of political papers, a few original letters and a few printed papers. The English section includes "Memorie del'ingresso del Duca d'Oranges in Inghilterra e dell'uscita de Giacomo;" sketches of the careers and characters of politicians, courtiers, etc.; memoranda concerning English domestic and foreign politics; a list of "le donne piu belle di Londra;" lists of publications concerning the Popish plot (1679-83) and other books published in England; translations of parliamentary speeches and 11 letters from a Tuscan diplomat in London to Magalotti's secretary, May to July, 1678.
- Alternative Title:
- Danimarca e Pollonia
- Description:
- Title on spine: "Inghilterra Oland Danimarca Pollonia."
- Subject (Geographic):
- Denmark--Politics and government, Great Britain--Court and courtiers, Great Britain--Politics and government--1603-1714, Netherlands--Politics and government, and Poland--Politics and government
- Subject (Name):
- Great Britain.--Parliament
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Papers], [ca. 1667-1690].
- Published / Created:
- 1623
- Call Number:
- Ig D226 609
- Collection Title:
- The civile wares betweene the howses of Lancaster and Yorke / corrected and continued by Samuel
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Books, Journals & Pamphlets
- Alternative Title:
- A letter from Octavia to Marcus Antonius
- Subject (Name):
- Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683
- Collection Created:
- Printed at London : by Simon Watersonne, 1609
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Two pages including manuscript annotation]
28.
- Creator:
- Valerius Maximus
- Published / Created:
- s. XV^^in [ca. 1400-1425]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 221
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Valerius Maximus, Factorum et dictorum memorabilium ad Tiberium cesarem.
- Description:
- Binding: 15th-16th centuries. Resewn on four tawed, slit straps laced through the edge of wooden boards and nailed in channels which are filled in with plaster. There is a piece of leather at the exit from one tunnel and what may be the tips of nails just inside the channel so earlier supports may have been of leather, nailed twice. The endbands, sewn on twisted leather cores laid in grooves, were tied down through a leather spine lining, the embroidery with three beads. The edges are gilt with a design scratched on them, the spine square. Covered in dark brown goatskin with corner tongues, blind-tooled with a star in a circle with wide rope interlace panels above and below, inside concentric outer borders. Small diamonds and dots on the spine. Four brass catches on the lower board and stubs of velvet straps nailed to the upper. One joint cracked and repaired and one endband added., On f. 3r, a good historiated initial, 7-line: the author in armor, holding his book; thick, curling foliage forms, pink, orange, blue, and green, on an irregular gold ground, edged in black. Nine illuminated initials (ff. 16r, 29v, 43r, 57r, 72r, 85v, 98r, 111v, and 126r) to open Books 2-10, composed of foliage, as above, and striated color strips, in vibrant blue, orange, crimson, mauve, green, and occasionally yellow, highlighted in white and variations of the same basic hues. 4-, 2-line initials, blue with red penwork or vice versa. Book numbers at top of page, red and blue; rubrics throughout. Remains of guides for rubricator., and Script: Written by a single scribe in fere-humanistic script. Marginal and interlinear notes in several contemporary and later hands.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Rome--History--Tiberius, 14-37
- Subject (Name):
- Valerius Maximus
- Subject (Topic):
- Didactic literature, Latin, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Valerij maximi factorum et dictorum memorabilium ad Tiberium cesarem liber primus incipit. j. de religione]