Holograph commonplace book containing excerpts from books, magazines and newspapers on a variety of subjects, including antiquities; recent history and politics; voyages of discovery; agriculture and agricultural improvement; natural history; methods of selecting books; and medical and household recipes. Bailye’s reading included Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France, Burney’s History of Music, Gibbons’ Decline and Fall, and Boswell’s Life of Johnson, from which he extracted two pages of "Dr. Johnson’s Remarks and Observations." There are five pages of quotations from Rousseau’s Emile. A number of entries concern Lichfield antiquities and monuments, including descriptions of Lichfield Cathedral and information on the cost of James Wyatt’s repairs to the choir. Bailye also copied documents related to the administration of the estate of David Garrick, with which he was involved. Pages 98-100 contain "Mr. Wallis’s Acct. of the Effects of the late D. Garrick Esq. 1783," which includes statements of revenue from properties and investments as well as payments on legacies and annuities and is followed by a quotation from a 1785 letter by Wallis apologizing for the partial distributions. A more detailed account of Garrick’s Hendon property is found on page 114.
Books and reading --Great Britain, Distribution of decedents’ estates --Great Britain, Learning and scholarship --Great Britain, and Recipes --Great Britain
"Amsteledami, Io. Blaeu exc.", Hand col. Sheet measures 50.5 x 58.5 cm. Stamp on verso: Horace Brown 1900S., Plate 2 in French editions of Blaeu's Atlas major, vol. 12, published 1663 and 1667 (Burden 474)., Relief shown pictorially., S, and Signature on verso: A.
Aureum contra impudice scribentes opusculum, Contra impudice scribentes opusculum, Contra poetas impudice loquentes, F. Baptiste Matuani Carmelite theologi, Aureum contra impudice scribentes opusculum, and Fratris Baptist[a]e Ma[n]tuani Carmelit[a]e theologi, Aureum contra impudice scribentes opusculum
Description:
Commentary by Jodocus Badius Ascensius., Imprint from colophon. Georges Wolf named as additional printer in Proctor, GW, Goff, and ISTC (RLIN)., Includes index., Marginal ms. annotations. Bound with a contemporary ms.: De Orgiis corporis Christi, Signatures: 2A⁸ 2B-2C⁶., and Verso of final leaf blank.
Publisher:
Impressum ... Thielma[n]ni Keruer Teutonis, expensis ... Ioa[n]nis Co[n]flue[n]tini & Ioan[n]is Pusilli, id est ... pour M. Hanse de Coblencz ... & Iehan Petit ... a Paris,
Subject (Topic):
Incunabula in Yale Library and Poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern)
A coat of arms containing a eagle at center, three rings, and a double star above. At the top is an eagle holding another ring. Below is the motto Semper Virtute Constans.
Four oval portraits, one occupying each quadrant of the plate, of the 41st through 44th Grand Masters of the Knights Hospitaller (Knights of Malta). The sitter's name is engraved within the surrounding border of each portrait. A decorative cross fills the space in the center, as do the Roman numerals XLI-XLIV, which number the portraits
Alternative Title:
F. Guido de Blanchefort ; F. Fabritius de Carretto ; F. Philippus de Villers Lisle Adam ; F. Perinus de Ponte
Description:
Titles from text within the borders of the portraits., Publication information from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved., Plate from: Statuta Hospitalis Hierusalem. Rome : [Populus Romanus], [1586-]1588., Imperfect; only the portrait in the lower left quadrant is present, with the rest of the plate trimmed away. Description based on a more perfect impression., Mounted on page 148 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., Mounted beside a sheet (5.5 x 15.2 cm), trimmed from the bottom of a different portrait plate, with the engraved title: Philippe Villiers de L'isle-Adam, Grand Prieur de France ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Populus Romanus
Subject (Name):
Blanchefort, Guy de, 1446-1513, Carretto, Fabrizio del, 1455-1521, Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Philippe, 1464-1534, and Ponte, Piero del, 1462-1535
A pile of books forming a frame around a scroll featuring a shield party per fess with an or field and a lion rampant counter charged. At the helm, upon a torse is a demi lion rampant. The shield is surrounded by a long, leafy vine. Below, on the bottom curl, is the motto Veritas Vincet. Further above the frame of books is a violin, a recorder, a fife, and some sheet music. Enclosed card reads: This is the plate of FRANCIS ORPEN, A. B. reworked. Note the musical instruments above books.
Subject (Name):
Orpen, Francis H. S.
Subject (Topic):
Armorial, Armorial bookplates, Books, Lion, Lions, Physicians, and Shields
A coat of arms, with an argent field and azure fess with a boar's head above, and three downward-pointing arrows in the forefront. The shield is surrounded by fancy leafing, flowers, and grasses. Below is the motto Sollicitæ Jucunda Oblivia Vitæ.
Subject (Name):
Hutcheson, F.
Subject (Topic):
Armorial, Armorial bookplates,, Arrow, Dragon, Physicians, Shield, and Shields
Binding: 19th-20th centuries. Greyish green paper case with a black gold-tooled label: "Aesopus. Sec. XIV"., Rubrics on ff. 2r-6v by same scribe who copied text; another hand added rubrics on f. 1r-v. Spaces for initials left unfilled; guide letters for decorator., and Script: Written in gothic bookhand by a single scribe, below top line.
Subject (Topic):
Fables, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on paper of Poggio Bracciolini, Facetiae.
Description:
Binding: Sixteenth century, Italy. Backs of quires cut in V's. Brown goatskin case faintly blind-tooled with concentric frames and spiralling dragon motifs that incorporate flowers and long beaked birds. Rebacked., One illuminated initial on f. 1r, 6-line, gold against deep red, green, and blue cusped ground with white filigree and white dots. From left corners penwork sprays issuing forth into inner margin, with blue and red blossoms and green leaves. Plain initials, placed between vertical rulings, alternate blue and red, some omitted., Script: Written in a round humanistic bookhand by a single scribe, below top line., and Watermarks: similar to Briquet Lettre S 9050; watermark on back pastedown similar to Briquet Fleur 6596-97, 99 and 6602.
Subject (Topic):
Fabliaux, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin poetry, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
