- Published / Created:
- [1785?]
- Call Number:
- GER38
- Image Count:
- 10
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Description:
- BEIN GER38: Imperfect: AH; K, QS, K-JD; Q, JC; 8, 3S; 5, 2H; 10, 3C, trumps II-VI, VII-XXI, Fool wanting. From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards., Title devised by cataloger., French suit system., Composition of deck: 78 [A, K, Q, C, J, 10-2, trumps I-XXI, Fool]., Aces: AS was made by eradicating two of the pips on the 3S., CourtCards: JS with leaping dog; KH with orb, sword, crowned eagle; KC holds sceptre., and Trumps: Single figure trumps.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Germany
- Subject (Topic):
- Playing cards, Tarot (Game), and Animals
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Animal Tarock deck
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- Published / Created:
- between 1400 and 1499.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 60 vault
- Image Count:
- 190
- Resource Type:
- text
- Alternative Title:
- Receipt book; German text on materia medica : written on vellum and paper in two different hands, with original wooden boards
- Description:
- Manuscript, in parchment, in unidentified hand, containing a collection of medical recipes in German (ff. 1-11 and 18-67), materia medica in German and Latin (ff. 11-18), and more recipes added between the late 15th century and the 18th century (ff. 67-88). Includes a 15th-century prayer against the falling sickness on the back flyleaf., In German and Latin., Title devised by cataloger., Script: gothic minuscule., Layout: single column of varying length., Decoration: medical receipts (ff. 1-67) rubricated., and Binding: bound in wooden boards; no backing. Traces of clasps. "Sermones" visible on the wood.
- Subject (Topic):
- Materia medica, Medicine, Manuscripts, and Recipes
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Collection of medical receipts
- Published / Created:
- approximately 1500-1550.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 712.250
- Container / Volume:
- File
- Image Count:
- 25
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Two small manuscript fragments said to have been removed from a sixteenth-century German binding. Bound with a speculative partial transcript, typed, which interprets the fragments as having formed part of a "love letter" (Liebesbrief). The transcript is preceded by an account of the removal of the fragments from the binding of an unidentified sixteenth-century volume held by an unidentified German library
- Description:
- In German., Bookseller description available., Script: German cursive., and Binding: bound with a typed partial transcript/reconstruction of the text of the fragments in twentieth-century half machine-grained morocco over marbled calf. "Liebesbriefe. Handscrift, Um 1528" in gold tooling on upper morocco.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Germany, Connecticut, and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Love-letters and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Love letter fragments
- Published / Created:
- [1820?]
- Call Number:
- GER3S
- Image Count:
- 70
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Alternative Title:
- Reviviscere cupiunt
- Description:
- BEIN GER3S: From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards., Title from Daus of Hearts., German suit system., Composition of deck: 36 (D, K, O, U, 10-6)., Aces: DH: REVIVISCERECVPIVNT; DB, loving couple discovered by third person; DA: LEIPZIG / [lion and heraldic device]; DL, initials on shield., CourtCards: KH, B, L seated. KA, black, stands; UB holds bird in right hand; OL holds suit sign., Pipcards and Jokers: 10s indicated by "X"; vignettes., and Saxon type. Four witty lines of verse comment on the value of each card.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Germany
- Subject (Topic):
- Playing cards
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Reviviscere cvpivnt
- Published / Created:
- [1871?]
- Call Number:
- GER380
- Image Count:
- 7
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Description:
- BEIN GER380: From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards., Title devised by cataloger., German suit system., Composition of deck: 32 [D, K, O, U, 10-7]., Aces: DH, head of Napoleon III; DA, Napoleon II sits on barrel., CourtCards: Napoleon III appears in ridiculous positions on all courts., Pipcards and Jokers: 10s indicated by "X"; comic vignettes of Napoleon III., and Each card contains two lines of satirical verse. The posture of the court figures and the general composition of the vignettes show the influence of the Bavarian pattern.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Germany
- Subject (Name):
- Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1808-1873
- Subject (Topic):
- Playing cards
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Caricature playing cards].