You Searched For
« Previous
| 1 - 10 of 19 |
Next »
Search Results
- Published / Created:
- 1615-1656.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 716
- Image Count:
- 349
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper
- Description:
- In Latin and Italian.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Commonplace-books
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commonplace book
- Creator:
- Lenon, Romain
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1499]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1148
- Image Count:
- 370
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper.
- Subject (Name):
- Lenon, Romain
- Subject (Topic):
- Commonplace-books
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commonplace book
- Creator:
- Gellius, Aulus
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1430, 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 83
- Image Count:
- 212
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae (abridged).
- Description:
- Binding: Fifteenth century, Italy. Sewn on three tawed skin, kermes pink slit straps nailed in channels on the outside of the wooden boards. Yellow edges. The plain wound endbands may have been resewn. The spine is lined with cloth. Covered in brown, originally tan, sheepskin with corner tongues. Blind-tooled with two rope interlace stars in a central panel bordered with concentric frames. Spine: bands outlined with double fillets; panels diapered with triple fillets. Two truncated diamond fastenings, the catches on the lower board (one wanting), the upper board cut in for straps attached with star-headed nails., Folio 1r with partial border in inner and lower margin (rubbed). Inner margin has scrolling vine, yellow, on parchment ground with red dots, with stylized foliage, flowers and fruit in green, red, purple and dove grey. Illuminated initial, 3-line, purple on dark green ground, is incorporated into border. In lower margin, wreathed medallion (unidentified mutilated arms: per pale, or and sable?) on pink ground, supported by two heraldic dragons, parchment colored (unfinished) against red ground. All of this decoration appears to be a later addition. Plain initials and headings in red., and Script: Written in fere-humanistic script by a single scribe, below top line.
- Subject (Name):
- Gellius, Aulus
- Subject (Topic):
- Commonplace-books
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Noctes Atticae
- Creator:
- Marsham, John, Sir, 1602-1685
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1670]
- Call Number:
- Osborn b420
- Image Count:
- 61
- Abstract:
- Holograph notebook on paper, in an Italic hand, containing detailed reading notes in English and Latin on John Selden’s History of Tithes and Uxor Hebraica, as well as notes in Latin toward a revision of Marsham’s own Chronicus Canon.
- Subject (Name):
- Cotton, Robert, Sir, 1571-1631 --Library, Marsham, John, Sir, 1602-1685, Selden, John, 1584-1654. Historie of tithes, and Selden, John, 1584-1654. Uxor Ebraica
- Subject (Topic):
- Antiquarians, Chronology, Historical, and Learning and scholarship --Great Britain
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commonplace book
- Creator:
- Johnson, Maurice, 1688-1755
- Published / Created:
- [early 18th century]
- Call Number:
- Osborn c229 1/2
- Image Count:
- 80
- Description:
- Osborn Collection has volumes II and III. and Written on fore edge: P III.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Miscellaneous poems and translations &c. Johnson’s collection of poems, MSS. Most of which were never printed...by several hands & on various subjects, many of them by gentlemen of his acquaintance, some about his relations, [early 18th century].
- Published / Created:
- 1694
- Call Number:
- Osborn fb143
- Image Count:
- 47
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of several hundred short verse epitaphs on both famous political and historical figures and unnamed citizens. The epitaphs are often humorous or satirical, as in On A Hocus-Pocus; On A Tallow-Chandler; and On A Gentleman Falling Of His Horse & Broke Hs Neck. An epitaph titled On A Collier declares, "Here Lies the Collier John of Nashes, By whome Death nothing Gaind he swore, For living he was dust & Ashes, And being dead he is no more." More serious elegies include On Sr. Philip Sidney; On King Charles Martyr; and On One Willm. Messe Grocer & His Wife. and P. 9, 33, and 36 digitized at high resolution.
- Description:
- Imperfect: mutilated with some loss of text. and Two blank pages not digitized.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain --Politics and government and Great Britain --Social life and customs --17th century
- Subject (Name):
- Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649 and Sidney, Philip, Sir, 1554-1586
- Subject (Topic):
- Courts and courtiers --England, Elegiac poetry, English --17th century, English poetry --17th century, English wit and humor, Epitaphs --England, and Verse satire, English
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Epitaphs collected 1694
- Published / Created:
- [late 17th century]
- Call Number:
- Osborn b115
- Image Count:
- 91
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Dos-a-dos are several dozen primarily cooking recipes, for such dishes as barley broth, cherry wine, and lemon cream; as well as instructions on fishing. At the beginning of the manuscript are recipes for making ink and treating chilblains. and Manuscript, in a single secretary hand, of a collection of several dozen satirical poems and, dos-a-dos, several dozen household recipes. The poetry is mainly political, anti-Catholic, and academic, and includes works of Henry Denne of Trinity College and Joshua Barnes, as well as such titles as On a papist's ghost; On the queen being with child; The man of honour; England's triumph at sea in Sept. 1691; and The prologue to the music speech spoken in the Theatre July 8, 1693, being the time of the act, by Mr Smith of University College. Other items include an epitaph on Thomas Shadwell and a list of anagrams on the word "Parliament."
- Description:
- Armorial bookplate inside front cover., Binding: full calf; gilt decoration., Marbled endpapers., and The compiler was evidently a member of Cambridge University.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain --Intellectual life --17th century and Great Britain --Politics and government --1603-1714
- Subject (Name):
- Barnes, Joshua, 1654-1712 and Shadwell, Thomas, 1642?-1692
- Subject (Topic):
- Anti-Catholicism --England, Cooking, English, English poetry --17th century, Fishing --England, Latin poetry, Political poetry, English, Traditional medicine --Great Britain --Formulae, receipts, prescriptions, and Verse satire, English --17th century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Commonplace book]
- Creator:
- Johnson, Maurice, 1688-1755
- Published / Created:
- [early 18th century]
- Call Number:
- Osborn c229 1/2
- Image Count:
- 150
- Description:
- Osborn Collection has vols. II and III. and Written on fore edge: MSS Poems II.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Miscellaneous poems and translations &c. Johnson's collection of poems, MSS. Most of which were never printed ... by several hands & on various subjects, many of them by gentlemen of his acquaintance, some about his relations
- Published / Created:
- [between 1350 and 1400]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 327
- Image Count:
- 148
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper. Includes notes on arithmetic and accounting for merchandise; a romance of Tristan; list of spices; astronomical and astrological information; charms and prayers; recipes; extracts in Venetian; and poems
- Description:
- In Italian and Latin., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Fruit 7372-76, Briquet Cheval 3564, and Briquet Fruit 7341., Script: Written by a single scribe in a neat notarial hand, through f. 67v. Notes added by various hands of 14th-15th centuries., Drawings of ships, towers and merchants in ink, with added yellow, brown, green, red and blue; many diagrams. Crude 2- and 1-line initials in red, with guide-letters for rubricator showing beneath; headings in red., Repair of f. 1 with later paper; some loss of text. Repairs at outer edges on this and other folios do not affect text., and Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Rigid vellum case with paste paper back endleaf and pastedowns. Central fold of each bifolium has been reinforced with a strip of parchment.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Venice (Italy)
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Merchant's commonplace book