Figure of Moses, on a pedestal in a niche; sitting, looking away to right, right hand twined in his long beared with the wrist resting on a book propped beside him. On the pedestal are three lines of text beginning: Moysis ingens ex marmore simulacrum ...
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Printmaker, place of production, and date range for production from the Victoria and Albert Museum online catalogue, museum no.: DYCE.1169., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text from bottom right., and Mounted on page 124 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: 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 12.
A Flemish or Dutch drawing of a female saint in a Poor Clare habit and with a crown of thorns (probably Catherine of Siena) kneeling before a crucifix, arms crossed over her chest, as she resists the temptation of riches, power, and pleasure. Riches are represented by three well-dressed men on the left offering her treasure, including an open chest filled with coins and valuables. Power is represented by a crown suspended in the cloud above, while pleasure represented on the right by two female musicians, one playing a flute and another a lute, while a third woman offers a bouquet of flowers. Above and behind the figures on the left is the ruin of a building. In the clouds on the right above the musicians, the triumph of faith over temptation is represented as the grim reaper with a scythe cutting down three kings whose crowns topple from their heads
Alternative Title:
Female saint worshipping a crucifix
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Date of the drawing is questionable. Possibly a much later drawing, 17th-century?, On verso, in unknown (possibly W.S. Lewis's) hand: "A Flemish drawing of a female saint worshipping a crucifix.", On verso: "Probably not Horace Walpole's. W.S. Lewis 7 Feb. '73.", On verso: "'Late 15th or early 16th century. Probably Dutch. Anne-Marie Logan, BAC, Sept. 30, 1996.", Lower right corner of image, ownership stamp initial 'D' encircled., Numbered on mount in upper right corner in ink '83' and in a different hand in pencil '63'., Formerly shelved as part of the SH Drawings collection., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Catherine, of Siena, Saint, 1347-1380
Subject (Topic):
In art, Grim Reaper (Symbolic character), Crucifixes, Musicians, Prayer, Saints, Temptation, and Wealth
Titles supplied by curator., Date from item., Place of publication derived from printmaker's place of residence., Sheet trimmed., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Dentistry, Teeth, Extraction, Quacks and quackery, Medical equipment & supplies, Pickpockets, and Pain
Title and date supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from language of text., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Obedience of a Christen man : and how Christen rulers ought to governe
Description:
Colophon: At Marlborow in the läde of Hesse The seconde daye of October Anno M.CCCCC.xxviij by me Hans luft., Imperfect: cropped with some loss of text., and Signatures: A-X⁸.
Title and date supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from language of text., Bible illustration, Exodus 9., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Plagues of Egypt, Plague, Prophets, Dead animals, Dead persons, Sick persons, and Cities & towns
Title supplied by curator., Date from item., Place of publication derived from printmaker's place of residence., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Surgeons & Surgery., and Stamp verso.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Surgery, Medicine, Rural, Knives, and Basins (Containers).
Manuscript, on parchment, in a single secretary hand, of a copy of the will of Sir John Fitzjames. The will opens with an appeal to "the most blessed Mother and virgyn Marie St. Anthony and St. Chr[ist]ofer" for their intercession for his soul; arrangements for funeral and intercessory Masses and for a Month's Mind service. and The extremely detailed lists of personal and estate bequests that follow comprise a virtual household inventory of the manor house at Redlynch in Somerset. His widow, Eleanor Draycott, receives liferent of Redlynch and Knoll as well as use of the household furnishings, including the beds, hangings, "carpettes, cusshyons, dysshes, potts, and pannes," as well as tablecloths, jewelry, and various articles of plate. Fitzjames also leaves "my greate book of Statutes in vellum or parchment" to his cousin Nicholas Fitzjames, the nearest male heir and successor to Redlynch; silver cups to various other relatives; and ten shillings for "every mayden of good and honest conversation" in his household.
Description:
Ex libris Sir Thomas Phillipps. Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2000., In English and Latin., With: 3 documents on parchment concerning James Fitzjames. (1) Indenture transferring revenues and fees inherited from Sir John Fitzjames in the county of Somerset, signed and dated 26 June 1568. (2) Indenture concerning the same, signed and dated 26 June 1570. (3) Attestation of probate of a will for a member of the Fitzjames family in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, signed by the Clerk Thomas Argall and issued in the name of Archbishop Cranmer, n.d. (damaged)., and With: volume of manuscript transcripts of three of the documents made for Sir Thomas Phillipps, with genealogical notes on the Fitzjames family; not digitized.
Subject (Name):
Draycott, Eleanor, Fitzjames family, and Phillipps, Thomas,--Sir,--1792-1872--Ownership
Subject (Topic):
Catholics--England, Decedents' estates--England, Inheritance and succession--England, Manors--England, Material culture--England, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Prayers for the dead, Saints--Cult, and Wills