Album containing 73 pressed botanical specimens compiled by an unidentified collector in Norfolk, England, 1793. Each specimen has notes indicating its Latin name, common name, and Linnaean classification. Some notes also include the date of collection, the location of collection, and medicinal uses of the plant
Description:
In English and Latin., The album was created in a blank accounts book, and the pages have printed red rules., and Binding: contemporary vellum over boards, with blind tooled ruling; the arms of King George III stamped in gilt on the front and back covers.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, England, and Norfolk
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820.
Subject (Topic):
Botanical specimens, Collection and preservation, Flowers, Herbs, and Plants
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
Manuscript fragment on paper of extracts from Laudabile sanctum. There follows on ff. 1r-7v an extended series of longer and shorter alchemical recipes and procedures, probably including excerpts from standard sources, a passage on transmutation, a brief account of the planets, etc., often with marginal captions. With a poem in English.
Description:
Binding: Parchment wrapper made from a bifolium of a late 13th-century French (or possibly English?) canon law manuscript written by two hands, one of them using a classical Littera parisiensis, the other slightly more rounded, the writing partly scraped away on what is now the front cover of the wrapper, the outer side of the lower cover with an inscription in a very large hand which has not been read., Script: Written by a single hand, very small (sometimes minute) and mostly very neat, using a good cursive italic for the Latin passages, and a secretary hand for the English, both sloping somewhat to the right., and Watermark: an extended hand with a five-pointed star extending on a stem from the middle finger, a quatrefoil (?) at the wrist, which is sharply cut off, the fingers partly articulated, of the type of Briquet 11341 and following, but more refined.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy--Early works to 1800, English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700, Formulas, recipes, etc, Latin poetry, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Appears in various eds. of Atlas geographicus maior., Includes German text relating to English and French territorial claims., Neat lines measures 45.8 x 50.8 cm. on sheet 50 x 57.5 cm. Ms. note on verso: No. 151, Nord America nach d'Anville. Franklin Collection no. 131 1756-9., Place names and descriptive notes in English., Prime meridian: Ferro and London., and Relief shown pictorially.
Publisher:
[Homann Erben],
Subject (Geographic):
North America--Maps--Early works to 1800 and United States--History--French and Indian War, 1755-1763--Maps--Early works to 1800
Subject (Name):
Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d', 1697-1782 and Homann Erben (Firm). Atlas geographicus maior
Appears in various eds. of Atlas geographicus maior., Includes German text relating to English and French territorial claims., Place names and descriptive notes in English., Prime meridian: Ferro and London., Relief shown pictorially., and Sheet measures 47.5 x 51 cm.
Publisher:
[Homann Erben],
Subject (Geographic):
North America--Maps--Early works to 1800. and United States--History--French and Indian War, 1755-1763--Maps--Early works to 1800.
Subject (Name):
Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d', 1697-1782. and Homann Erben (Firm). Atlas geographicus maior.
755 1756E: Mounted on paper. Neat line measures 45.9 x 51 cm. on sheet 46 x 51.2 cm. Ms. no.: 54., Includes German text relating to English and French territorial claims., Prime meridian: Ferro and London., Relief sh, and Sheet measures 49.5 x 57.2 cm.
Publisher:
[Homann Erben],
Subject (Geographic):
North America--Maps--Early works to 1800 and United States--History--French and Indian War, 1755-1763--Maps--Early works to 1800
Subject (Name):
Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d', 1697-1782 and Homann Erben (Firm). Atlas geographicus maior
Appears in various eds. of Atlas geographicus maior., Includes German text relating to English and French territorial claims., Mounted on paper. Neat line measures 45.9 x 51 cm. on sheet 46 x 51.2 cm. Ms. no.: 54., and Place names and descriptive notes in Englis
Publisher:
[Homann Erben],
Subject (Geographic):
North America--Maps--Early works to 1800 and United States--History--French and Indian War, 1755-1763--Maps--Early works to 1800
Subject (Name):
Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d', 1697-1782 and Homann Erben (Firm). Atlas geographicus maior
Appears in various eds. of Atlas geographicus maior., Includes German text relating to English and French territorial claims., Place names and descriptive notes in English., Prime meridian: Ferro and London., Relief shown pictorially., and Sheet measures 47.1 x 52 cm. Ms. no. on verso: No. 5. Cross Collection no. 194.
Publisher:
[Homann Erben],
Subject (Geographic):
North America--Maps--Early works to 1800 and United States--History--French and Indian War, 1755-1763--Maps--Early works to 1800
Subject (Name):
Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d', 1697-1782 and Homann Erben (Firm). Atlas geographicus maior
Appears in various eds. of Atlas geographicus maior., Includes German text relating to English and French territorial claims., Place names and descriptive notes in English., Prime meridian: Ferro and London., Relief shown pictorially., and Sheet measures 49.5 x 61.7 cm. Title in ms. on verso. Franklin Collection no. 131 1777-1.
Publisher:
[s.n.],
Subject (Geographic):
North America--Maps--Early works to 1800 and United States--History--French and Indian War, 1755-1763--Maps--Early works to 1800
Subject (Name):
Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d', 1697-1782 and Homann Erben (Firm). Atlas geographicus maior