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- Creator:
- Fabre, Pierre-Jean, -approximately 1650
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1700]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 76
- Image Count:
- 580
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper containing 1) Propugnaculum alchymiae, the Defence of alchymy. 2) The first (second, third, fourth) booke of universall wisedome. 3) Hercules piochymicus. 4) Myrothecium spagyricum, or A chymicall dispensatory
- Description:
- In English., Script: Written in a clear cursive hand with some secretary elements., Watermarks: Paper with rather faint large watermark of a fleur-de-lys within a cartouche, surmounted by staff with cross and letter "M," not certainly identified., Very moderate abbreviation, headlines and marginalia throughout by the scribe., Anonymously translated into English., Accompanied by: By the King's letters patent. A machine on a new principle. Shelved as Mellon MSS 76a., and Binding: Early eighteenth-century English binding of parchment over pasteboards, somewhat unglued and with defects, the backstrip divided into eight compartments by raised bands, the compartments gold-tooled with floral motifs; binder's endpapers watermarked with a fleur-de-lys mark, countermarked "VI," closely related to Heawood 1544, 1552, and 1554.
- Subject (Name):
- Fabre, Pierre-Jean, -approximately 1650.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy and Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A collection of his alchemical works
- Call Number:
- LWL Mss Vol. 48
- Image Count:
- 93
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in a single hand, of a diary of a journey from Dublin to England and then to Cork, written in a lighthearted and sometimes satirical manner. Traveling with his father, his friend Valerius, and a servant, the Irish author records his impressions in England of churches he visits; where he takes his meals; and the inhabitants he meets. After describing several churches in Liverpool, he writes, "I am broke of in this Part of my Description, as I think by some simpering or laughing; but on Enquiry I am supris'd to find it's some of my Female Acquaintance," which causes him, he writes, to lose the spirit to continue with his description. Elsewhere, he visits silk mills and describes the cost and workings of the machinery. At Nottingham, he notes that "most of the Inhabitants here are Presbyterians and I really believe I was in five different Meetings which I mistook for Churches, and at Length was so much vexed at being so often disappointed that I protested against looking further for one." Throughout, he records numerous encounters with women, including a landlord's daughter with whom he carries on a flirtation. The narrative is prefaced by an introduction addressed to "Madam," in which he speaks disapprovingly of women's coquetry, and mocks "our country-women who have been abroad," who "commonly return Home with Variety of odd Pronunciations, particular Gestures, & new Fashions, perhaps never known in any Part of the World, but the Production of their own fertile Brain."
- Description:
- Author of the manuscript is an unknown Irishman., In English., Index at end of manuscript., Leather oval bookplate inside front cover: Ex Musaeo Huthii., and Binding: full morocco; gilt decoration. Printed on spine: Narrative of a journey through England. MS. 1752.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England, Liverpool (England), London (England), and Nottingham (England)
- Subject (Topic):
- English wit and humor, Travelers' writings, English, Women, Conduct of life, Description and travel, and Buildings, structures, etc
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A journey through England, 1752 May 8.
- Creator:
- Bell, Henry, Captain
- Call Number:
- Osborn fb139
- Image Count:
- 78
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, in a single secretary hand, of a tour guide of Italy, including descriptions of notable sights as well as directions from "London to Rome as also from one Citie to another in all Ittaly." The text is organized by city, and "translated out of the high Germane into the English tongue by Captayne Henry Bell." Includes some verses in Latin and English
- Description:
- Phillipps MS 16427. and Binding: cloth covered boards.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Italy
- Subject (Name):
- Bell, Henry, Captain.
- Subject (Topic):
- English poetry, Latin poetry, Travel, Description and travel, and Religious life and customs
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A paradice of ye delights of Italy, [late 17th century].
- Creator:
- Yale, Elihu, 1649-1721
- Call Number:
- Eliz +05
- Image Count:
- 5
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Description:
- A business letter. Accompanied by a copy of Yale's statement of account with Pitt, 1701. A transcript of this letter is in Osborn Files, Beinecke Library.
- Subject (Name):
- Pitt, Thomas, 1653-1726., Chardin, Daniel., and East India Company.
- Found in:
- Elizabethan Club > ALS to Thomas Pitt and Daniel Chardin, 1700 Nov 1, London
- Creator:
- Sturges, Joseph
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS FILE 503
- Container / Volume:
- File
- Image Count:
- 8
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript current account, signed, detailing financial transactions between the Massachusetts whaler Joseph Sturges and his Native American employee, Jacob Zakry (or Zachary) over a three-year period ending on March 4, 1719. Items charged to Zachary include payments to a relative and for clothing; 45 shillings a year for "3 whale seasons dyet;" and another charge for "3 years expense at Cape Cod." Items in Zachary's favor include "your share of the oyle of 3/4s of a whale" and "your share of a shark." Account signed by Joseph Sturges
- Description:
- In English., Date given in original as: "March 4th 1718/9.", and Accompanied by partial transcript and bookseller description.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Massachusetts. and Massachusetts
- Subject (Name):
- Sturges, Joseph. and Zachary, Jacob.
- Subject (Topic):
- Indians of North America, Master and servant, Whaling, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Accompt made up with Joseph Sturges and Jacob Zakry indian, 1719 March 4.
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- Creator:
- Bacon, Nathaniel, 1547-1622
- Published / Created:
- 1576-1579/80.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 195
- Image Count:
- 87
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper tablet of Account book, being a record of Stiffkey mill belonging to Nathaniel Bacon (1546?-1622) for the time period 8 December 1576-1579/80. Contains weekly statements of George Brigges, John Wilson, Thomas Shorten, William Fether, Robert Merkyn, and Henry Corye
- Description:
- In English., Watermarks: unidentified pot., Script: Written by several individuals in informal cursive scripts., Most folios are wrinkled, torn; some have been mended., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Half green goatskin with green cloth sides, gold- and blind-tooled. Leaves of a didactic theological text (Germany, ca. 1250) bound at beginning and end; probably a bifolium. Parchment; 291 x 196 (220 x 155) mm. Written above top line in a small gothic bookhand. Initials in red or green with penwork designs of the other color. Stained, but with little loss of text.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Bacon, Nathaniel, 1547-1622.
- Subject (Topic):
- Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval, and Economic conditions
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Account book
- Published / Created:
- 1849
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 145
- Image Count:
- 369
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper containing 1) J. G. Toeltius, Coelum reseratum chymicum, translated into English by F.H. (?), together with fifty-four Secret Keys to the understanding of the work. 2) Concerning divine magic, or Cabbalistic mysteries, an anonymous translation from a German original
- Description:
- In English., Script: Written probably by a single hand in a clear copper-plate cursive larger and less formal from the beginning through p. 226, the remainder in a smaller, neater version of the same hand., Watermarks: On machine-made preruled paper with watermark "HAGAR & Co 1824." not recorded in the literature consulted., Illustrations in the text; some illustrations on inserted pieces of tracing paper, copied from an unidentified source and intended for insertion into the manuscript but left unfinished., and Binding: Rebound about 1900 in dark blue buckram with leather title label gold-stamped "COELUM RESERATUM CHYMICUM.," edges mottled red, with binder's ticket of George Redway, 15 York St., Covent Garden, London, on first pastedown.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy and Cabala
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Alchemical and cabbalistic miscellany
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1660]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 63
- Image Count:
- 160
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of a substantial sixteenth-century English alchemy attributed in the text to a certain Sir John Barkly, and some additional matter said to have been derived from conversation with him. Also containing abbreviated works by Samuel Norton, as well as a varitey of other texts, some of them not at all identified, others extracted from various English and continental sources noted in the description, including a discourse of the minerall stone, medical recipes, and an abstract from Polemann and Helmont on the sulphur of the philosophers
- Description:
- In English., Script: Written by one English hand writing a legible cursive with some secretary forms, sloping to the right., Watermarks: Paper with watermark of a hunting horn in a cartouche very like Churchill 315 (in use 1623-1695), but without countermark, not identified., and Binding: Modern binding of marbled boards, polished calf back with title label, original uncut edges.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy, Formulas, recipes, etc, and Medicine
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Alchemical miscellany
- Published / Created:
- [after 1651, but before 1655 (?)]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 62
- Image Count:
- 324
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper containing 1) Lapis philosophorum, seu tinctura phisica, in Latin, followed by an English version. 2) Alchemy, in English and Latin. 3) Astrology, including events predicted for the year 1655. 4) Walter Charleton, Notes extracted from his book. 5) Alchemy, medical recipes, and aphorisms. 6) George Rives, goldsmith, Account of the making of gold from lead at Bath by a certain Mervin in 1651. 7) Dr. Start, Notes taken from his experiments, and other matter. 8) Letter of a divine philosopher
- Description:
- In Latin and English., Script: Written by a single English hand writing a good cursive sloping slightly to the right., Watermarks: Paper watermarked with a flag with two pennants on a pole, no initials visible, similar but not identical to Heawood 1371-1372., and Binding: Original or possibly slightly later binding of brown calf rebacked, covers with double gold rule at edges, back divided into four compartments by five bands, old (but not original) red morocco label with double border of gold dots and gold rule in second compartment from top, stamped in gold, "ALCHEMY MSS." All edges gilt.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy, Transmutation (Chemistry), Formulas, recipes, etc, and Astrology
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Alchemical miscellany