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1. Chaos of the Sages, anonymously translated into English, with much additional matter, partly in French and Latin
- Creator:
- Locques, Nicolas de, active 17th century
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1765]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 112
- Image Count:
- 404
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Description:
- In English., Script: Written in a careful cursive hand sloping slightly to the right in a single column 170 x 110 mm without bordering lines or ruling. the text has been partly corrected by another hand and with significant marginalia throughout by this hand in inks of different hues., Watermarks: Paper watermarked with a crowned coat of arms, probably a Dutch paper not certainly identified., Binding: English binding of diced brown Russia leather, a border of gilt dots around the edges of the covers, inside and out, the backstrip in compartments similarly treated, original title label on second compartment from top gold-lettered: "Anonimo Manuscritto di un Vero Adepto." Plain edges. Hinges and corners repaired., Tome 1: 1 smaller leaf 220 x 140 mm inserted after first leaf of index., and Tome 2: 1 smaller leaf 190 x 112 mm inserted after page 157.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Chaos of the Sages, anonymously translated into English, with much additional matter, partly in French and Latin
2. Historia scholastica, with other works
- Creator:
- Petrus, Comestor, active 12th century
- Published / Created:
- circa 1225-1249.
- Call Number:
- Osborn fa75
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 322
- Abstract:
- Manuscript volume, on paper, containing the complete text of Peter Comestor's Historia scholastica, with marginal glosses and later annotations. This work is preceded in the volume by the Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi of Peter of Poitiers, with complex genealogical diagrams in color. It is followed by the Prophesies of Pseudo-Methodius and the Allegoriae of Hugh of St. Victor
- Description:
- In Latin., Two original flyleaves. Manuscript preceded by three paper leaves to which bibliographical and historical notes about the texts contained in the volume have been affixed., Script: small gothic book script., Decoration: chapter headings in red; red and blue penwork initials., and Binding: twentieth-century full red morocco.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Jesus Christ and Petrus, Comestor, active 12th century.
- Subject (Topic):
- Genealogy, History Bibles, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Historia scholastica, with other works
3. London and its environs about 1750 [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [between 1750 and 1792]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 L847 750
- Image Count:
- 81
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A collection of sixty-four prints (mostly engravings and etchings) showing views of London and its vicinity, including views of Chelsea with Ranelagh, Hampstead, Highgate from Upper Halloway, Old Bedham with the gardens in front, Whitehall with the gatehouse, Grosvenor Square, St. Mary's Church on the Strand with old Somerset House, The Royale Mews in Charing Cross, St. James's Square with the Round Pond, Covent Gardent, Royal Gardens of Somerset, Hampstead, and scarce views of Barnes and Richmond as well as views of Twickenham, and many other scenes in and around London in the later half of the 18th century
- Subject (Geographic):
- England, London., Thames River (England), Saint James's Park (London, England), Twickenham (London, England), and London (England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Parks, Gardens, and Hospitals
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > London and its environs about 1750 [graphic].
4. No. [blank]. Excise-Office, at [blank] in [blank] Distt. [blank] Colln. [blank] 1748
- Published / Created:
- [1748]
- Call Number:
- File 66 748 R297
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- text
- Alternative Title:
- No. Excise-Office, at in Distt. Colln. 1748 and Receipt for payment of carriage tax
- Description:
- Title transcribed from item., Body of text: Received of [blank] of [blank] in the County of [blank] the sum of [blank] Pounds for [blank] four-wheel carriage, and [blank] two-wheel carriage, of which [blank] has this day given notice, according to the Statute of the Twentieth Year of His present Majesty. In full for one year., Printed in red ink., Form completed in ink by the Excise Office at Methwould in Lynn, Swaffham District, 30 May 1748. The completed receipt reads: Received of Cyril Wycke Esqr. of Hockhold [Hockwold] in the County of Norfolk the sum of four Pounds for one four-wheel carriage ... Also annotated on the verso., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- Excise Office
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain and Great Britain.
- Subject (Topic):
- Taxation and Carriages and carts
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > No. [blank]. Excise-Office, at [blank] in [blank] Distt. [blank] Colln. [blank] 1748
5. Philomena
- Creator:
- Bradmore, John, -1412
- Published / Created:
- approximately 1530 - approximately 1535.
- Call Number:
- Osborn a85
- Image Count:
- 490
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript (incomplete) on paper and parchment of Philomena, a treatise on surgery written by John Bradmore, here in Middle English translation. Text discusses anatomy, apostumes (abscesses), wounds and ulcers, fractures and dislocations, other diseases treatable by surgery, and includes an antidotary and a summary of contents. Book I on anatomy and the opening of book II on surgery are wanting; another leaf wanting between fols. 59 and 60. Present manuscript begins in book II, chapter 4. Includes an account of how Bradmore saved the life of the young Prince of Wales (Prince Hal, the future King Henry V) after the Battle of Shrewsbury in 1403 and Also includes a short text on bloodletting, fols. 85r-87v; an unidentified "tretys of mynd," about mind and memory, fols. 234r-239r; and recipes for ointments, plasters, etc., ending imperfectly, fols. 239v-241v
- Description:
- John Bradmore (d. 1412) was a surgeon based in London from at least 1377. He was appointed an overseer of surgery in the City of London by the mayor in 1390. From at least 1399 he was associated with the royal household. Bradmore married twice, first to Margaret, with whom he had a daughter named Agnes, and second to Katherine. John Bradmore died on 27 January 1412 and was buried in the church of St. Botolph without Aldersgate., In Middle English., Title assigned by cataloger., Layout: single columns of 14-28 lines., Script: several secretary hands., Binding: modern blind-tooled morocco., Secundo folio: Plaster., Leaves are foliated in a modern hand starting with the first leaf as fol. 3, the second as fol. 4, and so on. This modern foliation is followed here., and Bibliographical file available.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and England
- Subject (Name):
- Bradmore, John. and Henry V, King of England, 1387-1422.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval, Medicine, Medicine, Medieval, and Surgery
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Philomena
6. The order for the installation of the Ladies of the most noble Order of the Needle instituted in 1761 ; The rules of the most Noble Order of the Needle instituted on July the 25th 1761 : manuscript
- Creator:
- Frankland, Miss, author
- Published / Created:
- 1761.
- Call Number:
- LWL Mss Vol. 282
- Image Count:
- 5
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Two works in two separate hands, recording the orders and rules of a fictitious noble order created for ladies' amusement, presumably by someone well acquainted with the customs and using her knowledge to arrange a masque for the amusement of her circle of friends in the months leading to the coronation of George III, possibily at her home in Yorkshire. The first work entitled "The Order for the installation of one of the Ladies of the most noble Order of the Needle instituted in 1761" (pages 2-4) is followed by "The Rules of the most Noble Order of the Needle Instituted on July 25th 1761" (pages 4-8), both written in black ink
- Description:
- Miss Frankland remains unidentified but is likely a descendant of the family of Lady Elizabeth Russell Frankland (1666-1733), the granddaughter of Oliver Cromwell, and her husband Sir Thomas Frankland (1665-1726) of Thirkleby Park, North Yorkshire. Lady Frankland was the sister of John Russell (-1735), the stepfather of Mary Joanna Russell., Mary Joanna Cutts Revett Russell (1707-1764) was the daughter of Colonel Edmund Revett (-1709) and Joanna Thurlbarne Revett (-1764), the step-daughter of John Russell (-1735), and the wife of Lieutenant Colonel Charles Russell (1701-1754). The Russell family acquired Chequers, their family home in Buckinghamshire, through John Russell's 1715 marriage to Joanna Revett., In English., Titles from captions at the head of each of the two works., "By Miss F-nkl-d" on first page, upper right corner, suggests the author of the first manuscript, "The Order for the installation," as a member of the Frankland family., The second work is attributed to Mary Joanna Russell based on a manuscript also entitled "The rules of the most Noble Order of the Needle" in the British Library (Add MS 69390). The online record for that copy states that it was drawn up by Mrs. Russell for her daughter and nieces and their friends., One signature, sewn and unbound, with watermarked laid paper, horizontal chainlines; crowned watermark with lion rampant, countermark 'EH'. Pages with text are unnumbered; final 8 pages are blank., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
- Subject (Topic):
- Coronation, Amateur theater, Masques, and Satire, English
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The order for the installation of the Ladies of the most noble Order of the Needle instituted in 1761 ; The rules of the most Noble Order of the Needle instituted on July the 25th 1761 : manuscript
