A typed prospectus (21 p.) for the Aspen Smelting Company accompanied by a stock certificate for 600 shares of the company, issued on July 14, 1924, to G. D. Sutton. The prospectus includes a fold-out chart of mineral production in Pitkin County from 1880 to 1924; a record of mining leases and royalty schedules; a financial statement dated August 31, 1925; airlift data; and operating costs. Seven photographs, including one of company president R. P. Sharpe and six of various mining properties, are tipped onto pages of the prospectus.
Description:
Purchased from Brian Levine on the Arthur Corbitt Hoskins Memorial Fund, 2005. and The Aspen Smelting Company was organized in Delaware in 1924. The company owned and leased several properties in the Aspen Mining District of Pitkin County, Colorado, including the Cowenhoven Tunnel, the Durant Mine, and the Smuggler Mine.
Subject (Geographic):
Aspen Mining District (Colo.) and Pitkin County (Colo.)
Subject (Name):
Aspen Smelting Company and Sharpe, R. P.
Subject (Topic):
Mineral industries--Colorado--Pitkin County and Mines and mineral resources--Colorado--Pitkin County
Manuscript on parchment of astrological texts drawn largely from Arab astrology of the early Middle Ages, and transmitted in medieval Latin translations; in addition Ptolemy's Centiloquium is present, transmitted not in Greek but through the Arabic, along with a single contemporary component, the Astrolabium planum of Johann Engel.
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century, English. Marbled paper boards, green calf back with six heavy (false?) bands, the compartments with patterns of small tools impressed in gold and with gold-stamped titles, a small rectangular label with the printed number 1037 and a small round label with the inked number 894 glued to the bottommost compartment. All edges gilt. Preserved in a modern green cloth folding box, probably French, with leather label., Collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps. Mellon MS 155, acquired from C. A. Stonehill, Inc. (bookseller), New Haven. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965., Rubrics, and occasional headlines in red, diagrams in the text in brown and red inks. Full illuminated border, outlined in red, on f. 1r of leafy sprays in colors and gold, the white spaces filled up with black dots and small burnished gold circles each with three or four small tendrils; a large initial in burnished gold and colors at the beginning of the text in the first column, with gold band extending downward and then around three sides of the page forming an inner border, completed by a red line at top; a lozenge at the center of the lower band of the border containing a pattern of platelike discs, quatrefoils, and a leafy spray on a dull gold ground, this segment almost certainly a later replacement of an original coat of arms which has been erased. Elsewhere in the manuscript smaller illuminated initials in the style of the first frequently occur, and larger ones with descenders to partial borders at the foot of the page occur. Each of the ninety-six pages from f. 191r through 238v has four drawings in colors (six on those pages which open each of the signs of the Zodiac), placed within diagrams accompanied by slight text., and Script: Written by a single scribe in a large and clear hand in Gothica textualis formata and Bastarda.
Subject (Name):
Ptolemy,--2nd cent
Subject (Topic):
Astrology, Arab, Astrology--Early works to 1800, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on paper of Michael Maier, Atalanta fugiens, translated into English from the 1618 German edition.
Description:
Binding: Recent binding of marbled paper boards, polished calf back, top edge cut and gilt, other edges plain and original., First two and last four leaves are of different, probably eighteenth-century, paper, probably binder's sheets used in an earlier binding of the volume., In English., Mellon MS 88, acquired with the Duveen collection. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965., Script: Written by a single copyist in English secretary and italic hands., and Watermarks: 1) Strasbourg lily with initials "WR" and countermarked "IHS" with a cross ascending from the horizontal of the central letter, very similar to Churchill 401 (dated 1625), but without initials on the countermark. 2) A large, crowned fleur-de-lys and with a countermark "VI," not identified.
Subject (Name):
Maier, Michael,--1568?-1622
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy--Early works to 1800, Chemistry--Early works to 1800, and Natural history--Pre-Linnaen works
Bible.--Latin--Versions, Bible--Paraphrases, Christian poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on parchment, composed of three parts, of Petrus Riga, Aurora, Biblia Versificata (a Latin verse translation of the Bible). Parts I and III in the same format and possibly from the same manuscript.
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century, Belgium. Tan calf over wooden boards, blind-tooled with the Arenberg arms on the sides. Title on spine: "Sacrae Scripturae excerptae/ Circa 1225-50". Remains of old fore-edge tabs., Parts I and III: Red initials, plain or with modest designs throughout. Headings in red often added to right of text. First letter of each verse stroked in red or ochre, often by drawing a single line the length of the written space. Part II: Plain initials and headings in red throughout., Presented by Otto Rauschberg in 1956 to Thomas E. Marston., and Script: Parts I and III (ff. 1-72 and 113-136): Copied by multiple scribes in small gothic bookhand, with first letter of each verse usually aligned on the second vertical bounding line. Part II (ff. 73-112): Written by multiple scribes in a larger module and a neater gothic script than that in Parts I and III; each verse is justified by the placement of the final letter along outer vertical ruling. Script has often been retraced.
Subject (Name):
Peter Riga,--ca. 1140-1209
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--Latin--Versions, Latin poetry, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
African American civic leaders, African American social workers, Civic leaders--United States, Civil Rights movements--United States--20th Century, and Social workers--United States
Joseph Badger's holograph manuscript memoir gives a short history of his ancestors in America, his participation in the Revolutionary War, education at Yale, ministry at Blandford, Massachusetts, journey to the Western Reserve in 1800, and his work with Native American tribes and settlers in the Western Reserve. At the end of his account is a history of the settlements in the Western Reserve.
Alternative Title:
Memoir of Rev. Joseph Badger
Description:
Ex libris Frank T. Siebert. Purchased from Sotheby's on the Arthur Corbitt Hoskins Memorial Fund, 1999., Joseph Badger, one of the earliest Christian missionaries to Ohio., and The manuscript was later published, with many omissions and revisions, as A Memoir of Rev. Joseph Badger (Hudson, Ohio: Sawyer, Ingersoll, 1851).
Subject (Geographic):
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Personal narratives, Western Reserve (Ohio)--Biography, Western Reserve (Ohio)--History, and Western Reserve (Ohio)--Religion
Subject (Name):
Badger, Joseph, 1757-1846 and Siebert, Frank T. Ownership
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life--Ohio, Indians of North America--Ohio, Indians of North America--Religion, and Missions--Ohio--Western Reserve