Glimpse of the Valley of Mexico and Halls of Montezuma
Description:
Holograph draft
Subject (Geographic):
Mexico
Collection Created:
William Watts Hart Davis, attorney, editor, military officer, and historian, was born on July 28, 1820 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He served in the Mexican War and Civil War and as a government official in the Territory of New Mexico (1853-1857)
Manuscript on paper of 1) Martinus Oppaviensis OP (Martinus Polonus, Martin of Troppau, d. 1278), Chronicon pontificum et imperatorum, with continuations up to pope Clemens VI (1342-1352). 2) Accounts and other documents from the years 1385-1403, dealing with farms in Germany.
Alternative Title:
Chronicon pontificum et imperatorum
Description:
Binding: Fifteenth century. Quarter red leather (pigskin) and oak boards with rounded edges; the leather fixed on the boards with iron nails; sewn on three split leather thongs. Remnants of one strap attached to the rear board, with a brass pin in the front board. Part of the iron attachment for a chain preserved at the top of the rear board. Yellowish leather pastedowns, now detached., In art. 1 the headings have not been executed (instructions for the rubricator in the lower margins in the first quire). Neither have the 2-line initials been executed, for which there are guide letters; the first initial only (a 3-line plain initial in black), f. 1r, has been made. Art. 2 is undecorated., Many pages water-stained and damaged, especially the lower margins. F. 1 and art. 2 badly spoilt by the use of a reagent., and Script: Art. 1 is probably copied by one hand writing Gothica Cursiva Libraria becoming more rapid towards the end. Art. 2 is written at various moments by one hand writing Gothica Cursiva Antiquior Currens in compressed and irregular lines, sometimes difficult to decipher.
Subject (Geographic):
Holy Roman Empire--History
Subject (Name):
Martinus,--Polonus,--d. 1279
Subject (Topic):
Accounts, Farms--Germany, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Papacy--History
Manuscript, on paper, in a single hand, containing Louis Vaslet's transcriptions of lectures in natural philosophy delivered by Jean-Robert Chouet at the University of Geneva. The text is followed by an index.
Description:
Binding: contemporary mottled calf, rebacked; marbled endpapers., Ex libris British Medical Association Library. Purchased from Roger Gaskell Rare Books on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2010., Jean-Robert Chouet studied Cartesian philosophy at Nîmes and theology at Geneva. He was professor of philosophy at Geneva from 1669 until 1686., Louis Vaslet (1666-1731) was a French Hugenot refugee who became master of Fulham School., and Title page gives place of production as "Salmurii" (Samur).
Subject (Name):
Chouet, Jean-Robert.
Subject (Topic):
Physics--Early works to 1800. and Physics--Study and teaching--Early works to 1800.