Also present in Box 2 is an unrelated printed indenture with manuscript annotations, dated September 2, 1799, transferring 100 acres of land in Ontario County, New York, from Oliver Phelps of Hartford, Connecticut, to Oliver Ellsworth of Windsor, Connecticut. and The records contain approximately 300 manuscript papers including, in Box 1, correspondence, contracts and agreements, financial statements, toll both records, lists of stockholders, records for 12 scheduled dividends paid out between 1805 and 1826, dividend orders and receipts, and in Box 2, vouchers (invoices and receipts) for building, maintaining, and repairing the road. Most of the correspondence is addressed to Simeon Baldwin, but letters were also sent to James Hillhouse and Jeremiah Wadsworth.
Alternative Title:
List of money paid on a/c of Turnpike
Description:
Gift of the estate of Delia Lyman Porter, 1934. and The Hartford and New-Haven Turnpike Company was formed in 1798 with the purpose of surveying and laying out "a direct road from New Haven to Hartford through the town of Berlin and through such towns and in such places as will best promote the public travel." The treasurer of the company was New Haven lawyer Simeon Baldwin (1761-1851).
Subject (Geographic):
Hartford and New-Haven Turnpike (Conn.)
Subject (Name):
Ellsworth, Oliver,--1745-1807, Hartford and New-Haven Turnpike Company, Hillhouse, James,--1754-1832, Phelps, Oliver,--1749-1809, and Wadsworth, Jeremiah,--1743-1804
Subject (Topic):
Roads--Connecticut, Toll roads--Connecticut, and Transportation--Connecticut
Manuscript, in an unidentified hand. The original manuscript dated Genbun 4 [1739]. and Manuscript, in an unidentified hand. The original manuscript dated 元文4 [1739].
Manuscript on parchment (very stiff) of a Book of Hours; With Calendar in French.
Description:
An inscription (s. xvii) on f. 25r, below the Coquille arms, reads: "Dame Charlotte Garnier, vefve de feu Gilbert Coquille, Sieur des espoisses, pere de Maitre Anthoine Coquille, a fait faire ces heures-cy dieu leur face Misericorde".
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions
Subject (Topic):
Books of hours, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
An illuminated talismanic scroll, begins with the basmalah formula (Bismillahi al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm), followed by Sūrat al-Fātiḥah (Qurʼān, Chapter one), followed by twenty-nine of the ninety-nine of al-Asmāʼ al-Ḥusná (Most Beautiful Names of God), written in a horizontal fashion. Each name is written in gold on black background, in circular shape, each circle is surrounded by tiny script, known as ghubār script in the form of a dome. The tiny script begins with Sūrat al-Fātiḥah (Qurʼān, Chapter one), followed by the Throne verse (Qurʼān, Sūrat al-Baqarah: verse 255), followed by prayers, quotations from the Qurʼān, and other often repeated Islamic phrases. All these verses and invocations are meant to protect the owner of the scroll.
Description:
435 x 19 cm., In different scripts and styles of writing, in black, gold, silver and other colors on thick paper., Incipit: Starts with the Basmalah: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm ...", Romanization supplied by cataloger., and Title supplied by cataloger.
Subject (Topic):
Arabic manuscripts., God (Islam)--Name., Prayer--Islam., Qurʼan.--Sūrat al-Baqarah., Qurʼan.--Sūrat al-Fātiḥah., and Talismans.
Manuscript on parchment of Thomas Aquinas, In tertium librum Sententiarum Petri Lombardi. Copied from an exemplar vended by Guglielmus Senonensis, stationer on the rue St. Jacques.
Alternative Title:
Comment on the 3rd book of sentences of Peter Lombard
Description:
Binding: 1899. Quarter leather over wooden boards, blind-tooled, with a gold-tooled label and brass clasps. Bound by Douglas Cockerell (stamp with date inside back cover)., Script: Written in neat gothic textura by a single scribe secundum pecias (notations along bottom of leaves, mostly trimmed)., Small decorative initials in red and/or blue with penwork designs of either or both colors; notes for illuminator in margins. Paragraph marks alternating red and blue throughout; running headings in red and blue., and Some folios mended with chartreuse thread.
Subject (Name):
Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris, ca. 1100-1160
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Pecia, Scholasticism, and Scholia
Folder titled Indian Rights Association 1974-1980 completely digitized. Folder titled National Congress of American Indian Materials completely digitized. This box includes correspondence relating to the following organizations: Indian Rights Association,
Subject (Topic):
Civil rights workers--United States--20th Century, Civil rights workers--United States--Archives, Indians of North Americ, Indians of North America -- Civil rights, and Indians of North America--Government relations