Manuscript on paper of 1) Preface. 2) Paulus Pergulensis (Venetian scholar, d. 1451), Compendium logicae. 3) Logical texts. 4) Marinus de Castignano, Tractatus syllogismorum. 6) Marinus de Castignano, Tractatus de inventione medii
Description:
In Latin., Script: Artt. 1-5 written by a single hand in a small and highly abbreviated Humanistica Cursiva Currens. Art. 6 is added in red ink on unruled pages by another contemporary hand writing Humanistica Cursiva Currens close to Humanistica Textualis., The decoration is uneven (parts are undecorated) and consists of chapter headings, plain initials and paragraph marks in red. Heightening in red of some capitals. Logical diagrams on ff. 7v, 8r, 8v, 9r, 9v. Titles are missing on ff. 2r, 59r (?), 65v (?), 69r (?)., and Binding: Twentieth century. Marbled paper over cardboard. In the Rosenthal typewritten description the binding was still described as "old boards".
Manuscript, in Walpole's hand, containing primarily the beginnings and endings of various sections of the memoirs of political characters and events during the reign of King George II. The focus of the collection, however, is on the drawings and engraved headpieces and tailpieces which appear on these pages. These include a pen drawing by Richard Bentley of Walpole presenting the work to Democritus, with his villa at Strawberry Hill behind him; the head of George II by Johann Muntz, set in a headpiece designed by Bentley; and engravings of William Murray; Henry Pelham; Thomas Pelham-Holles; and Archibald Campbell, many also set in pieces drawn by Bentley. The collection also contains a pencil drawing of Henry Lord Holland, with the annotation, "Sr H. Reynolds pinxt"; an appendix explaining the engravings; and a newspaper notice of the death of William Stanhope, Earl of Harrington
Alternative Title:
Memoirs of King George II.
Description:
In English., Available on microfilm, and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Bentley, R. 1708-1782. (Richard),, Campbell, Archibald, 1691-1756., George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760., Harrington, William Stanhope, Earl of, approximately 1690-1756., Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774., Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793., Müntz, Jean-Henri, 1727-1798., Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768., Pelham, Henry, 1695?-1754., and Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Manuscript on paper (thick) containing 1) Basilius Valentinus, Porta sophica, sive duodecim claves. 2) Marcellus Palingenius, Alchemical invocation. 3) George Ripley, Liber duodecim portarum, the prologue only. 4) Hermes, Tabula smaragdina. 5) Basilius Valentinus, Practica cum duodecim clavibus. 6) Lambsprinck, De lapide philosophico libellus. 7) Michael Maier, and others, Emblematical alchemical paintings, without text. 8) Riginio Danielli, Canzone
Description:
In Latin and Italian., Script: Painstakingly but not very skillfully written by a single hand imitating different typefaces., In brown ink with some red headings and capitals., and Binding: Probably original binding of plain brown calf, back with four raised bands, remains of early paper title label at top of backstrip on which the compiler's name is written partly defectively, "Gregori ... [sic] ... llmri ..." Badly wormed and repaired in modern times, with modern leather title label on backstrip.
Aḥmad bin ʻAlī Saʻīd, -1717 أحمد بن علي سعيد، -1717
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 428
Image Count:
652
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Commentary on Manār al-anwār (principles of law) of ʻAbd Allāh al-Nasafī. and Beginning and end missing. Probably with lacunae
Description:
Leaves misbound; the concluding part of the incipit, with the title, appears on leaf 278 recto., Fair modern (18th century?) naskhī., and Islamic binding, in black.
Subject (Name):
Aḥmad bin ʻAlī Saʻīd, -1717. and Nasafī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad, -1310.
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of 24 records of rosters, pay, allowances, and provisions for the 2nd Regiment of Light Dragoons under Col. Elisha Sheldon. The volume includes an account of the clothing delivered to each member of the troops, along with their names and ranks; the amounts of provisions of food and drink received for the use of General John Glover; soldiers' pay as directed by Congress; allowances of subsistence money supplied to the officers in lieu of rations for themselves and their servants; as well as muster rolls for each troop in the 2nd Regiment, listing each member's name, rank, term of enlistment, and "casualties." The collection also includes a copy of a letter which requests permission to hire tailors to make clothing for the Army
Description:
Elijah Janes was paymaster of the 2nd Regiment of Light Dragoons, where he served under Col. Elisha Sheldon. He began his military career as a cornet on November 16, 1779 and was promoted to Lieutenant eight days later. He was wounded by a horseman's sword on the right wrist on November 20, 1780, and became Paymaster in 1782. The friendship that developed between Janes and fellow lieutenant in Sheldon's regiment James Dole continued after the war and their move to Lansingburgh (now Troy), NY, where Janes became godfather to Dole's daughter. In 1811 Elijah Janes became one of the original directors of the Farmers Bank of Troy. He died February 22, 1823 at the age of 64 and is buried in the Old Lansingburgh (Troy) Cemetery., On December 12, 1776, Congress constituted the 2nd Continental Light Dragoons at Wethersfield, CT, also known as Sheldon's horse after its commander, Elisha Sheldon of CT, for service with the Continental Army. Congress authorized George Washington to appoint the other officers of the regiment, but he gave the duty to Sheldon. In accordance with General Washington's instructions, the new regiment was to have one other field officer, a major; a regimental staff of an adjutant, a surgeon, and a surgeon's mate; and 6 troops. Each troop was to consist of a captain, a lieutenant, a cornet, a quartermaster, 2 sergeants, 2 corporals, a trumpeter, a farrier, and 34 privates. The regiment saw action at the Battle of Brandywine, Battle of Germantown, Battle of Crooked Billet, and the Battle of Yorktown. The regiment was furloughed June 9, 1783 at Newburgh, New York and disbanded on November 20, 1783., In English., and Binding: half cloth over marbled covers. Pasted on cover: Manuscripts of Lieut. Elijah Janes Paymaster of the Second Regiment of Light Dragoons, 1779-1783. Elisha Sheldon Col.
Subject (Geographic):
United States and Connecticut.
Subject (Name):
Glover, John, 1732-1797., Janes, Elijah 1759-1823., Sheldon, Elisha, 1740-1805., and United States. Continental Army. Light Dragoons Regiment, 2nd.
Subject (Topic):
Military administration, History, Equipment and supplies, Finance, Regimental histories, and Politics and government
Manuscript kennel book listing "whelps bread" from 1708 to 1727, giving sire, dam, and placement for each. A few pages at the back of the book list hounds given by Orlebar to John Biggs, the Duke of Grafton, and the Earl of Halifax between 1716 and 1726
Description:
Richard Orlebar (1671-1733) attended Trinity College, Oxford and was a member of the Middle Temple and a dedicated hunter. He married the heiress Diana Astry in 1708 and the couple built Hinwick Hall in Bedfordshire between 1709 and 1714. Orlebar served as High Sherriff of Bedfordshire in 1720, and died childless at Hinwick Hall in 1733., In English., Accompanied by a twentieth-century typescript carbon, "The Oakley Hunt.", and Binding: contemporary paper, stitched.
Subject (Geographic):
England, Bedfordshire., and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Orlebar, Richard, 1671-1733.
Subject (Topic):
Dogs, Breeding, Hunting, Hunting dogs, Bedfordshire (England), and Social life and customs
Mahfanī, al-Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad مهفني، الحسين بن أحمد
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 156
Image Count:
36
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Short manual of the law of marriage, Preceded by 1 page of notes, and Copied in A.H. 1223 (A.D. 1808).
Alternative Title:
Arkān al-nikāḥ and أركان النكاح
Description:
Also known as: Arkān al-nikāḥ (Brockelmann, S II, p. 628, taken from Ahlwardt, 4681, where it is made up)., The author is a Javanese, and is presumably of the Shafiʻi persuasion (cf. Brockelmann, II, 422)., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm ... al-Ḥamdu lillāh al-Malik al-Dayyān ... Qāla ... Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad al-Mahfanī ... Ammā baʻd, fa-qad saʼalanī baʻḍ aḥibbāʼī ... an uṣannifa lahum kitāban mukhtaṣaran nāfiʻan fī arkān al-nikāḥ ...", Fair naskhī, in red and black., With: 1 other title., Colophon: "Tammat al-kitāb, taʼrīkh yawm al-Khamīs, al-khāmis min shahr Jumād al-Awwal, min sanat thalāth wa-ʻishrīn wa-miʼatayn baʻd al-alf.", and Translation of the colophon: "The book is completed on Thursday, 5 Jumād al-Awwal of the year 1223 [of the Hijrah = 29 June 1808]."
Shihāb al-Ḥijāzī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 1388 or 1389-1470 or 1471
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 49a
Container / Volume:
Box
Image Count:
204
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
A literary anthology in prose and verse and Beginning and end missing, also lacunae elsewhere in the text
Description:
The author's name and the title are written in a later hand on leaf 40 recto., Heading of faṣls (as listed by Brockelmann): 4). Fī al-nathrīyāt (leaf 20 recto); 5) Fī al-ḥikāyāt (leaf 51 verso)., Leaves probably in part out of order., Fairly old (16th century?) naskhī, in red and black., and Loose in Islamic binding, paper covered.