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822.
- Creator:
- Flamel, Nicolas, d. 1418
- Published / Created:
- ca. 1680
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 100
- Image Count:
- 70
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Description:
- Imperfect: sections of manuscript wanting.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy --Early works to 1800
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Treatise ...]
- Creator:
- Biblesworth, Walter de
Bozon, Nicole, fl. 1300-1320
Grosseteste, Robert, 1175?-1253
Hues, de Tabarie - Published / Created:
- [circa 1300-1349]
- Call Number:
- Osborn a56
- Image Count:
- 154
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in two Gothic bookhands, containig copies of Walter of Biblesworth (Bibbesworth), Le tretiz ff.1-27v; Nicholas Bozon (c.1280-1320), Les proverbes de bons enseignements, here called Liber de proverbiis sapientie, ff.28-40v; Hue de Tabarie, Ordre de la chevalerie ff.42-53v; Le mariage des ix filles du diable, often attributed to Robert Grosseteste (1170-1253), bishop of Lincoln but here described as St Maurice, bishop of Paris's translation from the Latin, ff.54-67. The text of Le tretiz contains numerous interlineations and side notes in Middle English.
- Description:
- Binding: contemporary chemise binding of white leather over corded boards., Decoration: some rubrication of initials., From the library of Lacock Abbey. From the library of Sir Henry Sharington. Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd. (Christies sale 8002, lot 12) on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund and the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2011., In Anglo-Norman French with Middle English glosses and annotations., Ownership inscriptions of Sir Henry Sharington (d. 1581)., and Script: Gothic bookhand.
- Subject (Name):
- Biblesworth, Walter de, Lacock Abbey (England)--Ownership, and Sharington, Henry,--Sir,--d. 1581--Autograph
- Subject (Topic):
- Administration of estates--Early works to 1800, Anglo-Norman dialect, Chivalry--Early works to 1800, Conduct of life--Early works to 1800, French language--Study and teaching--Early works to 1800, French language--To 1500, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Treatises in Anglo-Norman verse].
- Published / Created:
- 1562
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 40
- Image Count:
- 147
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of an untitled Kunstbuechlein containing hundreds of recipes for a variety of alchemical processes, chiefly metallurgical.
- Description:
- Foliation in first section almost entirely illegible, Foliation of volume is difficult due to both mutilated and missing leaves., On first flyleaf recto: an elaborate pen-drawing of a double coat of arms, probably of a husband and wife of minor German noble families, which may be seen in the photographic reproduction. Above the left coat are the letters ""I.W.G.W."" and above the right, ""I.W.D.G.,"" while the date ""1.5.6.2."" is written below and between the letters., On the first end flyleaf recto (numbered f. 155) is a table of alchemical symbols possibly by the original copyist., Paper codex., and Standing in a slight landscape with ruined buildings below and between the two coats of arms is a female figure seen in left profile wearing a long dress; in her lowered right hand she holds a banner which bears an inscription: ""Mich beisst der Floch"" [sic], apparently for ""Floh"", i.e., ""The flea bites me""; her left hand has raised the skirt of her dress and is concealed beneath it.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Untitled Kunstbuechlein]
- Published / Created:
- 1822
- Call Number:
- Osborn d398
- Collection Title:
- Notes made during a journey thro' part of France, Switzerland, &c, 1822 Jul-Sep
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder 6
- Image Count:
- 2
- Description:
- For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator.
- Subject (Name):
- Vincent, George
- Subject (Topic):
- Tourism--France
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Vincent George's passport for travel in France]
- Published / Created:
- [194-]
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-2651
- Collection Title:
- Mary Burford Courage papers related to the Poston Relocation Center, Arizona, 1943-1992.
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder 17
- Image Count:
- 2
- Description:
- Mary Burford Courage (born circa 1897) taught English language classes at Poston II High School at the Poston Relocation Center, Arizona, 1943-1945. After World War II she taught at the Kahuku High and Elementary School in Hawaii. and The Poston Relocation Center in Arizona was the largest of the ten Japanese American internment camps operated by the United States War Relocation Authority during World War II, 1942-1945.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Poston (Ariz.) and Poston (Ariz.)--Pictorial works
- Subject (Name):
- Courage, Mary Burford, Poston Relocation Center (Ariz.), Poston Relocation Center (Ariz.)--Pictorial works, and United States.--War Relocation Authority
- Subject (Topic):
- Concentration camps--Arizona, Concentration camps--Arizona--Pictorial works, Concentration camps--United States, Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945, Japanese--United States, World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Arizona--Poston, World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Arizona--Poston--Pictorial works, and World War, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Watercolor painting Christmas card]
827.
- Creator:
- Fitzjames, John, Sir, 1470?-1542?
- Published / Created:
- 1539 October 23
- Call Number:
- Osborn a35
- Image Count:
- 8
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Will], 1539 Oct 23.
828.
- Creator:
- Ilyās ibn Fakhr, fl. 1697-1751
- Published / Created:
- [17--?]
- Call Number:
- Arabic MSS 349
- Image Count:
- 46
- Abstract:
- Followed by two letters by Silvester, patriarch of Antioch to an English merchant, 1733 (leaf 12 recto) and 1732 (leaf 13 recto), and an edict of the synod (majmaʻ) of Constantinople against Euthymius Ṣayfī, bishop of Tyre and Sidon, 1718 (leaf 18 verso). and Polemical correspondence with an English merchant named Sherman (?), in 1734.
- Description:
- Fair 18th century naskhī, in red and black., For the author see Graf, Geschichte der christlichen arabischen Literatur, III, 134., Islamic binding, in black., No. 4 of 5 titles bound together., On Euthymius Ṣayfī see Graf, III, 179., and Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949.
- Subject (Name):
- Euthymius Ṣayfī,--Bishop of Tyre and Sidon, Sherman, and Silvester, Patriarch of Antioch, d. 1766
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian literature and Islamic binding.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > al-Mukātabāt : bayna ... Ilyās al-Ṭarābulusī Lūghūtātī al-kursī al-rasūlī al-Anṭākī wa-bayna aḥad al-ʻulamāʾ al-Inklīz yusammá Sharman min al-tujjār. -- [17--?].
829.
- Creator:
- Nawawī, 1233-1277
- Published / Created:
- [18--?]
- Call Number:
- Landberg MSS 501
- Image Count:
- 332
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Explanation of the difficult words in al-Tanbīh fī al-fiqh (handbook of Shafiʻi law) of Ibrāhīm al-Shīrāzī., Preceded and followed by 1 leaf of notes., and The work ends on leaf 130, and is followed by Nukat al-Tanbīh, by the same author, on the same subject.
- Alternative Title:
- Taḥrīr fī sharḥ alfāẓ al-Tanbīh
- Description:
- Islamic binding, paper covered, with flap., Modern (19th century) naskhī, in red and black., Modern pagination employed., and Same as Berlin catalog 6969.
- Subject (Name):
- Nawawī, 1233-1277. Nukat al-Tanbīh and Shirāzī, Ibrāhīm ibn ʻAlī,--1003-1083.--Tanbīh fī al-fiqh
- Subject (Topic):
- Arabic language and literature--Lexicography, Islamic binding., and Theology--Law--Shafiʻi
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > ʻUmdat al-muftī wa-al-ṭālib al-nabīh fī tahdhīb taṣḥīḥ al-Tanbīh / Yaḥyá ibn Sharaf al-Nawawī. -- [18--?].