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2.
- Creator:
- Lockman, John, 1698-1771
- Published / Created:
- 1740
- Call Number:
- Osborn c268
- Image Count:
- 10
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of approximately 105 poems divided into "Miscellaneous Pieces," "Songs," "Cantatas," "Odes," Satirical Pieces," "Mock-Pieces relating to the Stage," and "Imitations." The first "Imitation" is a sonnet concerning an abortion scandal surrounding Mademoiselle de Guerchi in 1660, and is addressed in her voice to her aborted "embrio;" other poem titles include "An Ode, Inscrib'd to his grace the Duke of Buckingham, on his Embarking for France," "The paper Bonnets worn by Ladys," "On seeing lewd Women refus'd Admittance," "Fungus," "The poor & Rich Rogue," "Prologue to a Puppet-Show," and "The Shipwrack'd Sailors." The collection is prefaced by a dedication to Viscount Nessuno in the voice of an "orphan Muse" who writes, "should she beg your Lordship...to favour her with a corner of the Green-house in delightful Groves of Utopia; there to correct at Leisure, the numberless Reams she has scribbled within these twelve years: And should she afterwards implore your Lordship to assist the publication of her labours, by raising a handsom subscription among your friends for that purpose...she is certain your Lordship would not deny her one of them." Many additional poems, in a smaller hand and with numerous corrections, appear in the margins.
- Description:
- Additional poems, in a smaller hand and with numerous corrections, appear in the margins., Binding: full sueded calf., Laid in at the beginning of "Imitations": a piece of paper with an engraving in red ink., and Pasted onto pages at beginning at end: printed poems by Lockman, with handwritten corrections.
- Subject (Name):
- Lockman, John, 1698-1771
- Subject (Topic):
- English drama--18th century, English literature--18th century, English poetry--18th century, Epigrams, Occasional verse, English, and Verse satire, English
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A miscellany of poems
3.
- Published / Created:
- [1664]
- Call Number:
- Osborn b324
- Collection Title:
- A voyage of Italy: or, A compleat journey through Italy; with the characters, and description of
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Description:
- Imperfect: small tear at bottom center with no loss of text.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Italy --Description and travel --Early works to 1800
- Subject (Name):
- Chaney, Edward
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A voyage of Italy: or, A compleat journey through Italy ...
4.
- Published / Created:
- 1789
- Call Number:
- Osborn fc20 1/2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript accounts of expenditures and receipts related to the children of King George III, king of Gt. Brit. (1730-1820), including Frederick Augustus, duke of York (1763-1827), and ""the younger princes"" William, Edward, Ernest, Augustus, and Adolphus, but not including George, Prince of Wales (later King George IV), nor the princesses and youngest two princes.
- Description:
- Two leaves, cut separately, joined in digital facsimile.
- Subject (Name):
- George, III, King of Great Britain--Family
- Subject (Topic):
- Princes--Great Britain--Salaries, etc and Princes--Great Britain--Salaries, etc.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Accountants' state of the receipts and payments made for Their Royal Highnesses the younger Princes. Quarter ending 5th January 1789
5.
- Creator:
- American Horse, Dakota Chief, 1840-1908
Foster, Charles, 1828-1904 - Published / Created:
- 1880-1896
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-903 (folio)
- Image Count:
- 56
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Letters written for American Horse regarding early customs of the Sioux, their cultural advancement, and the tragedy at Wounded Knee Creek. Accompanied by a letter about Charles Foster's position on Indian affairs and a letter from Mrs. James Landy to Daniel E. Soper. There are 76 folio drawings depicting Sioux life and three photographs of American Horse.
- Subject (Name):
- American Horse, Dakota Chief, 1840-1908--Portraits, Foster, Charles, 1828-1904, Landy, Edwin F, and Landy, James
- Subject (Topic):
- Dakota Indians--Pictorial works, Dakota Indians--Social life and customs, Indians of North America, and Wounded Knee Massacre, S.D., 1890
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > American Horse papers
6.
- Creator:
- Post, George E. (George Edward), 1838-1909
- Published / Created:
- 1869 April
- Call Number:
- JWJ MSS 185
- Collection Title:
- Omar ibn Said letter : manuscript.
- Container / Volume:
- Folder 3
- Image Count:
- 5
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Autograph letter, in Arabic Maghrabi script, conveying a greeting to Major John Owen in Raleigh, and consisting chiefly of quotations from the Qur'an and from treatises on Arabic grammar. Quotations from the Qur'an include: Sūrat al-Najm (21-23); Sūrat al-Masad (1-2); Sūrat al-Baqarah (285-286); Sūrat Fuṣṣilat (46); Sūrat 'Abasa (34-37); Sūrat al-Infiṭār (19); Sūrat al-Nabaʼ (40); Sūrat al-Mulk (1-13). Quotations from grammatical treatises include verses from Mulḥat al-iʻrāb (Ḥarīrī) and Alfīyat Ibn Mālik (Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh). In the center of the first page, a geometric drawing encloses the Arabic text "Shaykh General Jim Owen," along with two unidentified words. In addition to the text relating to John and James Owen and the quotations, Said expresses a wish to see a place [Kaba?] in Africa. and With cover letter, in English, from John Louis Taylor, Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, dated Raleigh, North Carolina, 1819 October 10, to Francis Scott Key, George Town [Washington, DC]. Taylor describes Said's history and relationship with his owner James Owen, and requests Key's assistance in obtaining a translation of the enclosed manuscript. He also asks for Key's advice in obtaining an Arabic Bible for Said, and discusses his hope that Said could be persuaded to return to Africa with "the Colonization Society," likely the American Colonization Society, of which both Taylor and Key were members.
- Alternative Title:
- The Missionary herald / American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
- Description:
- Accompanied by a copy of The Missionary Herald (Boston: American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, April 1869) which includes an article, in English, "Arabic-Speaking Negro Mohammedans in Africa," by George E. Post, that discusses Said's manuscript, Taylor's letter, and subsequent events and writings by Said., Gift of Moses Stuart to Andover Theological Seminary Library, 1837. Acquired as part of the establishment of the Andover Newton Seminary at Yale Divinity School, 2017., Notes on Taylor letter: "Letter from Judge Taylor - enclosing an Arabic Amulet" ; "Judge Taylor's letter and mss to be sent to Dr Stuart, Andover" ; "To the Library of the Theol. Seminary from M. Stuart, 22 April 1837." Moses Stuart was Professor of Biblical Studies at Andover Theological Seminary from 1810 to 1848., Omar ibn Said, also known as Moro or Moreau, was a West African Muslim born and educated in the Futa Toro region on the Senegal River. He was sold into slavery in approximately 1807 and transported to the United States. From approximately 1810 until the end of his life, Said was owned by politician James Owen of Bladen County, North Carolina, brother of North Carolina Governor John Owen., and Title devised by cataloger.
- Publisher:
- Published for the Board by Samuel T. Armstrong,
- Subject (Geographic):
- Cape Fear River Region (N.C.)--Race relations. and United States--Race relations.
- Subject (Name):
- American Colonization Society., Andover Newton Theological Seminary Ownership., Key, Francis Scott,--1779-1843., Owen, James, --1784-1865., Owen, John, --1787-1831., Said, Omar ibn,--1770?-1863 or 1864., Stuart, Moses,--1780-1852--Ownership., and Taylor, John Louis,--1769-1829.
- Subject (Topic):
- African American Muslims--North Carolina., African Americans--Colonization--Africa., African Americans--North Carolina--Cape Fear River Region., Arabic manuscripts., Arabic--Grammar., Qurʼan--Quotations., Slavery--North Carolina--Cape Fear River Region., Slavery--United States., Slaves' writings, American., and Slaves--North Carolina.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Arabic-Speaking Negro Mohammedans in Africa
7.
- Published / Created:
- 16th century
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 558
- Image Count:
- 17
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Collection of short texts including a manual on the astrolabe, treatises on the zodiac, several horoscopes, and a map of England.
- Description:
- 1 map; parchment, some col.; 20.5 x 31 cm. and The manuscript is a composite of many separate treatises, some on paper,others on vellum, of varying sizes bound together. Bound in brown calf, gilt.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England --Maps, Manuscript --Early works to 1800
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Astronomical and astrological treatises
8.
- Published / Created:
- 1776
- Call Number:
- Osborn c101
- Collection Title:
- Remarks on Sr. J. Hawkins's 'General history of music', 1776.
- Image Count:
- 36
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in a single hand, with numerous corrections, of notes on "A General History of the Science and Practice of Music" by Sir John Hawkins. Citations from Hawkins' work are followed by often disparaging commentary upon them; Burney remarks that "Ch. V. Bk. IV is chiefly made up of dry dictionary articles of Biography, loosely littering his Book as if he had been in want of a needle & thread to tack them together," and "Vol. III p. 262 He calls Jno. Okenheim the disciple of Jusquin whereas it is well known he was the master." He includes a list of "Omissions of Composers & Performers who died long before Sr. Jno. published his History & therefore had fair Claims to a Niche in it." The work is interspersed with commentaries on various pieces and composers, accompanied by fragments of musical notation, and followed by a piece on "Dancing," a history of opera and theater titled "Progress of the Musical Drama or opera, at Venice," and another titled "Progress of the Musical Drama at Rome."
- Description:
- Binding: contemporary parchment., Index on flyleaf., Page numbers written in ink have been crossed out and replaced by different page numbers written in pencil., and Section ends with a note written in pencil: "Here insert an engraving of the transcript" although the engraving is not included.
- Subject (Name):
- Burney, Charles, 1726-1814 and Hawkins, John, Sir, 1719-1789
- Subject (Topic):
- Music--18th century--History and criticism, Musical analysis, Music--Europe--History and criticism, Music--History and criticism, Opera, and Opera--Italy
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > At the same theatre ...
9.
- Creator:
- Bates, Catherine MacDonald.
- Published / Created:
- 1859-1862
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS VOL 333
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Printed volume titled "The Landscape Album" (New York: Leavitt & Allen), with engraved illustrations, containing manuscript entries and signatures written by friends of Catherine MacDonald Bates.
- Description:
- Gift of Elizabeth D. Boggs, Library Associates, 1935.
- Subject (Name):
- Bates, Catherine MacDonald.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Autograph album
10.
- Creator:
- Rice, Ellen P.
- Published / Created:
- 1824-1827
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS FILE 256
- Image Count:
- 3
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Autograph album containing entries written in manuscript and signed by friends of Ellen P. Rice, including contributions by Lucretia G. Dickinson and Mary Dickinson, dated 1824, at Amherst, Massachusetts.
- Description:
- Gift of Roger S. White, 2nd, 1913. and Some leaves contain writing on verso.
- Subject (Name):
- Dickinson, Lucretia G., Dickinson, Mary, fl. 1824., Dickinson, Mary,--fl. 1824., and Rice, Ellen P.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Autograph album