Sericulture--Pictorial works--Early works to 1800, Silkworms--Pictorial works--Early works to 1800, and Women--Employment--Pictorial works--Early works to 1800
Sericulture--Pictorial works--Early works to 1800, Silkworms--Pictorial works--Early works to 1800, and Women--Employment--Pictorial works--Early works to 1800
Appears in the author's Grosser atlas ... [between 1734 and 1750?], Covers North America from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico, and to New Mexico in the west., In French, with title in Latin., and Includes decorative cartouche, historical notes and inset of "Les cos
"Partes magis Septentrionales, quae hic desiderantur, vide in tabula Aethiopiae Superioris.", From the author's Theatre, Includes col. ill. of animals and ships, and decorative cartouche., Map text in Latin. Text on verso in French., and Relief shown pictorially.
Publisher:
Chez Iean Blaeu,
Subject (Geographic):
Africa, Southern--Maps--Early works to 1800
Subject (Name):
Blaeu, Joan, 1596-1673 and Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638. Theatrum orbis terrarum. French
Includes col. ill. of ships, monsters, etc., Possibly from the 1639, 1641, or 1642 ed. of the author's Noveau theatre du monde ou nouvel atlas, or from the 1646, 1647, or 1649 ed. of J. Jansson's Nouvel atlas ou theatre du monde., and Relief shown pictorially.
Manuscript on paper in two parts. Part I (late 15th century): 1) John of Rupescissa, De consideratione quinte essentie. 2) Aqua solempnissima, atque mirabilis. Part II (copied in 1775): 3) George Ripley (?), Touchant le grand magistere des sages, translated from English into French
Description:
In Latin and French., Script: Part I: Written by a single hand in a semigothic cursive. Part II: Written in a cursive hand sloping to the right., Part I: Headings in red., and Binding: Nineteenth century, English. Tan buckram boards, brown morocco back and corners, flat backstrip with gold-stamped title, plain edges.
Manuscript on paper of the following mystical or speculative alchemies translated into French: Arnold of Villanova, Rosarius; Albertus Magnus, Compositum de compositis; and Ramon Lull, Clavicula. Alchemies in Latin by Raymundus Gaufridi, Roger Bacon (?), Nicholas, Johannes Pauper, John of Rupescissa, and the Duc de Berry (?). Also includes a long series of wholly practical procedures and recipes
Description:
In French and Latin., Script: Written by one scribe in a remarkably small and neat cursive gothic hand., No headlines, no color, no decoration, spaces left for some capitals with guide letters, a few drawings in the text or in margins., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Marbled paper boards with diced calf back, the backstrip in compartments with horizontal gilt fillets, lines of gilt small tools bordering the false bands, title label in the second compartment from the top gilt-lettered "REGNAULT". Early, probably original green edges. Hinges of the binding repaired.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy, Formulas, recipes, etc, Glass painting and staining, Technique, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Blank pages not digitized. and Imperfect: some pages mutilated with loss of text.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy--Early works to 1800, Formulas, recipes, etc, Herbs--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library