- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1575]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 43
- Image Count:
- 28
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on paper of extracts from Laudabile sanctum. There follows on ff. 1r-7v an extended series of longer and shorter alchemical recipes and procedures, probably including excerpts from standard sources, a passage on transmutation, a brief account of the planets, etc., often with marginal captions. With a poem in English.
- Description:
- Binding: Parchment wrapper made from a bifolium of a late 13th-century French (or possibly English?) canon law manuscript written by two hands, one of them using a classical Littera parisiensis, the other slightly more rounded, the writing partly scraped away on what is now the front cover of the wrapper, the outer side of the lower cover with an inscription in a very large hand which has not been read., Script: Written by a single hand, very small (sometimes minute) and mostly very neat, using a good cursive italic for the Latin passages, and a secretary hand for the English, both sloping somewhat to the right., and Watermark: an extended hand with a five-pointed star extending on a stem from the middle finger, a quatrefoil (?) at the wrist, which is sharply cut off, the fingers partly articulated, of the type of Briquet 11341 and following, but more refined.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy--Early works to 1800, English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700, Formulas, recipes, etc, Latin poetry, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Alchemical miscellany.
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- Creator:
- Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294
Freelove, Robert
Jean, de Meun, d. 1305?
Khālid ibn Yazīd al-Umawī, 7th cent - Published / Created:
- [ca. 1550]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 33
- Image Count:
- 277
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of 1) Unidentified alchemy. 2) Jean de Meung, Liber Lapidis mineralis, Book II only, translated into English by Robert Freelove, 1522. 3) The Practys of Lyghtes. 4) Roger Bacon or Johannes Sawtre, Radix mundi, translated into English by Robert Freelove, 1550. 5) Rudianus, Liber trium verborum, translated into English. 6) Khalid ibn Yazid, Liber secretorum philosophorum, translated into English, 1542. 7) Unidentified alchemy.
- Description:
- Binding: Sixteenth century, English. Brown calf over pasteboards, the covers paneled in blind fillets, much deteriorated and the backstrip missing, preserved in a cloth case., No color or rubrication; occasional headlines or headings in large writing., Script: At least three scribes writing English cursive vernacular hands; the first, whose initials were probably "T.R." as written on f. 18r, 20, wrote ff. 1-18; the second wrote ff. 19-53, 67-94, and perhaps ff. 115-128; the third wrote ff. 54-65., and Watermarks: 1) a pot similar to Briquet 12801; 2) a similar one with a gothic "3" on the pot; 3) a hand with flower like Briquet 11347, all datable about 1550.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy--Early works to 1800, English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Alchemical miscellany.
- Creator:
- Algren, Nelson, 1909-1981
- Published / Created:
- 1939-45
- Call Number:
- JWJ MSS 3
- Collection Title:
- Richard Wright papers
- Container / Volume:
- Box 93 | Folder 1167
- Image Count:
- 57
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Alternative Title:
- [Letter from Mrs. Abraham]
- Description:
- Last letter from Nelson Algren's mother to Richard Wright.
- Subject (Topic):
- African American authors --20th century --Archives and Authors, American --20th century --Archives
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Algren, Nelson
- Creator:
- Ogle, Richard, Sir, ca. 1554-1627
- Published / Created:
- 1586
- Call Number:
- Osborn a40
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of a commonplace book. The work contains four sections. (1) "Loci animadvertendi in legendi epistolis, ad quos etia[m] om[n]ia quae annotaderis referenda sunt." This lists types of epistles under eight headings, or "libri," but the extensive framework is very incompletely annotated. (2) "Here are written divers notes phrases words & sentences collected out of severall bokes. 15 Novembr 1586. A[nn]o Reg.ie Eliz. 28." This is actually a seventeen-page selection from the "A Touchstone for the Time" section of George Whetstone's A Mirrour for Magistrates.... (London, 1584). It is preceded by a two-line entry quoting Mary Queen of Scots as saying at Fotheringay, "I come not as a criminal." (3) "Epistolae commendatiae Praecepta," summarizing extracts from the Epistolae of Paulus Manutius. (4) "Quaedam collecta ex liber The Breviarie of Health, compiled by Andrew Boorde." Eight pages of various entries in English from Boorde's work, including descriptions of and remedies for "scurffe," greensickness, "sikness of the prisones, "chappe," and nosebleed.
- Description:
- Binding: 18th century full calf, blind stamped, spine banded with gilt decorations., Bookplate: Maurice Johnson of Spalding, 1735., Bound with: 17th century manuscript on paper of legal precedents in a chancery hand. Most are from the reign of James I. The name "Richarde Wolfe" appears in an Italic hand on the last page., Ex libris Maurice Johnson. Purchased from Arthur Freeman on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2002., In English and Latin., Several copies of prayers throughout in a later hand., Spine title reads, "M.S.S. 1586.", and Title page for volume (supplied by Johnson) in red and black lettering attributes the commonplace book to "Richardum Ogle Eq. Aur."
- Subject (Name):
- Manuzio, Paolo,--1512-1574 and Whetstone, George,--1544?-1587?
- Subject (Topic):
- Law--Great Britain, Medicine, Popular, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Rhetoric, Renaissance
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commonplace book, 1586.
5.
- Creator:
- Trudeau, G. B., 1948-
- Published / Created:
- 1994 November 20
- Call Number:
- d930325-a
- Collection Title:
- Garry Trudeau archive+F2:F205 papers
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1993-95
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Description:
- Screentone shading film added to various elements.
- Subject (Topic):
- Cartoonists --United States --Archives and Comic books, strips, etc.--United States
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Doonesbury
6.
- Creator:
- Trudeau, G. B., 1948-
- Published / Created:
- 1996 August 7
- Call Number:
- d930325-a
- Collection Title:
- Garry Trudeau archive+F2:F205 papers
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1996
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Subject (Topic):
- Cartoonists --United States --Archives and Comic books, strips, etc.--United States
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Doonesbury
7.
- Creator:
- Trudeau, G. B., 1948-
- Published / Created:
- 1996 June 29
- Call Number:
- d930325-a
- Collection Title:
- Garry Trudeau archive+F2:F205 papers
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1996
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Subject (Topic):
- Cartoonists --United States --Archives and Comic books, strips, etc.--United States
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Doonesbury
8.
- Creator:
- Trudeau, G. B., 1948-
- Published / Created:
- 1996 April 24
- Call Number:
- d930325-a
- Collection Title:
- Garry Trudeau archive+F2:F205 papers
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1996
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Subject (Topic):
- Cartoonists --United States --Archives and Comic books, strips, etc.--United States
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Doonesbury
9.
- Creator:
- Trudeau, G. B., 1948-
- Published / Created:
- 1997 January 9
- Call Number:
- d930325-a
- Collection Title:
- Garry Trudeau archive+F2:F205 papers
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1997
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Subject (Topic):
- Cartoonists --United States --Archives and Comic books, strips, etc.--United States
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Doonesbury
10.
- Creator:
- Trudeau, G. B., 1948-
- Published / Created:
- 1998 August 15
- Call Number:
- d930325-a
- Collection Title:
- Garry Trudeau archive+F2:F205 papers
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1998
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Description:
- Screentone shading film added to various elements.
- Subject (Topic):
- Cartoonists --United States --Archives and Comic books, strips, etc.--United States
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Doonesbury