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1. Animal Tarock deck
- Creator:
- Dorff, E.F., playing card maker
- Published / Created:
- [1790?]
- Call Number:
- GER42
- Image Count:
- 3
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Description:
- BEIN GER42: Imperfect: lacking C, trumps. 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]., CourtCards: Abundant fleurs-de-lis on courts; KS with harp and sceptre; QS in left profile, holds flower; JS with leaping dog; KH with orb, sword, crowned eagle; KD: E.F. DORFF; KC with sceptre, lion: EFD; QD with fan; JC: C .C. LEMMELS WITWE. Kings and queens occupy the full card area; jacks are slender., Stamp on Ace of Hearts, black: ED / A / [crown and shield]., and The taxation stamp may be Saxon. See also D. Hoffmann and E. Kroppenstedt 1967, p. 51, no. 291.
- Publisher:
- E.F. Dorff
- Subject (Geographic):
- Germany
- Subject (Topic):
- Playing cards, Tarot (Game), and Animals
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Animal Tarock deck
2. Animal Tarock deck
- 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
3. De animalibus
- Creator:
- Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 77
- Image Count:
- 785
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, with parchment bifolios at beginning and end of each gathering, of Albertus Magnus, De animalibus
- Description:
- In Latin., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Lettre P 8606 and 8625., Script: Written by a single scribe in a neat running script for the text and a more formal style for rubrics., First initial on f. 1r, 10-line, painted blue, on red and green ground, yellow highlights. Many small plain initials in red and/or blue. Major headings lacking; minor rubrics and red initial strokes throughout., and Binding: 15th-16th centuries. Sewn and wound on five slit, tawed straps laced into oak boards and pegged or nailed. Kermes pink, braided endbands attached to primary ones sewn on hempen (?) cores laced into boards. Covered in brown calf, blind-stamped in a diamond pattern filled in with roses, fleurs-de-lis, eagles, and lions (?). Traces of five round bosses on each board and of three nails to attach a chain at the head of the lower board. Tongue-turn-ins. Two clasps on the upper board and stubs of pink, tawed straps held to the lower with metal plates. Remains of a title on parchment on the upper board. Numerous place markers, some vermilion leather, some very small Turk's head knots of leather or tawed skin. Rebacked.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280.
- Subject (Topic):
- Animals, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholasticism
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De animalibus
4. Tu me cede malis sed contra audentior ito [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1602]
- Call Number:
- Print10077
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Seeking truth through alchemy, philosophical speculation, mysticism
- Description:
- Title from text in image., Alternate title supplied by curator., From: Henricus Khunrath, Amphitheatrum sapientiae aeternae., Pencil notation verso: [Illegible] Dr. H Khunrath 1602., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Khunrath, Heinrich, 1560-1605.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy, Animals, Scientists, Symbols, and Demons
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Tu me cede malis sed contra audentior ito [graphic].
