Mappa Aestivarvm insularum, alias Barmvdas dictarum
Description:
Below map, list of proprietors in 12 columns flanked by coats-of-arms., Borders are hand colored., and Not hand colored. With watermark. Sheet measures 46 x 55 cm.
From the Collection: Hanbury-Williams, Charles, 1708-1759
Published / Created:
1731–1743
Call Number:
LWL MSS 7
Container / Volume:
box 45, folder 20
Image Count:
111
Description:
Autograph manuscript poems cover 94 leaves (the full volume), with poems arranged/dated chronologically from 1731 to 1743. Most of the material was published in his Works, and the album pages were annotated in pencil in the twentieth century with those citations.
The volume is in a stiff board binding covered with marbled paper with a calf spine. It has printed CH-W and Phillipps number labels on the spine. The Hanbury-Williams volume number is 69; the Phillipps number is 10930.
From the Collection: Hanbury-Williams, Charles, 1708-1759
Published / Created:
1743–1744
Call Number:
LWL MSS 7
Container / Volume:
box 45, folder 21
Image Count:
71
Description:
Autograph manuscript writings cover 57 leaves (about half of the volume) in an otherwise blank book, with poems arranged/dated chronologically from 1743 to 1744. Most of the material was published in his Works, and the album pages were annotated in pencil in the twentieth century with those citations.
The volume is in a stiff board binding covered with marbled paper with a calf spine. It has printed CH-W and Phillipps number labels on the spine. The Hanbury-Williams volume number is 70; the Phillipps number is 10930.
From the Collection: Hanbury-Williams, Charles, 1708-1759
Published / Created:
1717–1719
Call Number:
LWL MSS 7
Container / Volume:
box 52, folder 25
Image Count:
84
Description:
Charles Williams was a native of Caerleon, and had a successful career in Smyrna when he fled Wales after killing his cousin in a duel. He returned to London as a financier in the 1690s and befriended John Hanbury. When he died in 1720 he left his estate to Hanbury, who entailed it for his son Charles, who then took the name Hanbury-Williams. For further information, see The Hanburys of Monmouthshire by Richard Hanbury Tenison (1995), chapter 4. and A volume of letters bound in gold-tooled and stamped green vellum, with a printed CH-W number label (and evidence of a Phillipps label, now missing) on the spine. The Hanbury-Williams volume number is 46; the Phillipps number is 10893.
Inserted folding leaf : ""Effigies tabvlae smaragdinae."" : 2 representations of the emerald tablet of Hermes. In Hebrew on the left and an exotic tongue (representing Chaldean?) on the right.
Description:
Engraved plate, 185 x 235 mm., tipped in inside front cover., MS consists of 3 loose quires in cover., On paper., and Single columns 175 x 120 mm. bordered in pencil, without ruling.
Subject (Name):
Hermes, Trismegistus. Tabula smaragdina
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy and Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis
Binders leaves : ff. 4-16, 18, 20, 22, 24-25, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35, 38, 39-40, 43, 45, 47, 49, 51-83 mostly blank with several modern annotations in pencil., ff. 42 : anonymous additions written in England, ca. 1700 (missing from volume)., and On paper with modern foliation in pencil including binder's blanks.