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162.
- Creator:
- Crafts, Hannah
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1853-1861]
- Call Number:
- JWJ MSS 29
- Image Count:
- 315
- Abstract:
- Bound holograph draft, revised, of a fictional or semi-fictional autobiography of a former slave. It details her experiences as a maid in several households in Virginia, Washington, D.C., and North Carolina, and her subsequent escape to the North, where she settled in New Jersey. and The narrator also tells the stories of other slaves she knows or comes into contact with, and to some extent the histories of the families she works for, identified as the De Vincents, the Henrys, and the Wheelers. A large portion of the narrative concerns the pursuit of Mrs. De Vincent by a slave trader who discovers that she is of mixed race. Another substantial section describes the Wheeler's political fortunes in Washington.
- Description:
- "C. A. Alma [I?]" inscribed in pencil on verso of last l and Probable date range from Nickel, Joe, "Authentication Report: The Bondwoman's Narrative." In The Bondwoman's Narrative / Hannah Crafts, edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. New York: Warner Books, 2002.
- Subject (Geographic):
- North Carolina--Fiction, Virginia--Fiction, and Washington (D.C.)--Fiction
- Subject (Name):
- Crafts, Hannah
- Subject (Topic):
- African American women--Fiction, Fugitive slaves--Fiction, Passing (Identity)--Fiction, Plantation, Racially mixed people--Fiction, Slavery--Southern States--Fiction, and Women slaves--Fiction
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The Bondwoman's narrative / by Hannah Crafts, a fugitive slave recently escaped from North Carolina
- Creator:
- Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809
- Published / Created:
- undated
- Call Number:
- WA MSS 303
- Collection Title:
- Lewis and Clark Expedition maps and receipt, ca. 1803-1810
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder 2
- Image Count:
- 2
- Description:
- References:Thwaites 3
- Subject (Topic):
- Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806) and West (U.S.)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The Upper Mississippi system, and the Missouri system as far as the Mandans
164.
- Creator:
- Brett, Dorothy, 1883-1977, artist
- Published / Created:
- undated
- Call Number:
- YCAL MSS 999 (Art)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- A portrait of an unidentified woman of the Taos Pueblo draped in a mulit-color shawl and holding a sleeping infant. The painting is oil on board and is inscribed at lower right: "D. E. Brett/Taos/1928." On the verso is an inscribed title, "The Eternal Mother," and a paper exhibition label from the Imperial Gallery of Art, London, with inscribed title: "The Eternal Mother." A plate mounted on the front of the frame gives a second title: "Madonna in Taos/The Honorable Dorothy Eugenie Brett/English/Born 1883."
- Description:
- Dorothy Brett, British-American painter. Brett was born in England and studied at the Slade School of Art and University College, London. In London, she was close friends with notable authors such as Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence. In 1924, Brett went to Taos, New Mexico, with Lawrence and his wife Frieda von Richthofen Lawrence to visit Mabel Dodge Luhan. She settled there permanently and became a United States citizen in 1938. Known as "Brett" by friends and family, she was deaf for the majority of her life. Brett died in Taos in 1977., Gift of Fania Marinoff Van Vechten, 1970., and Title devised by cataloger.
- Subject (Name):
- Brett, Dorothy,--1883-1977
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists--New Mexico--Taos
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The eternal mother.
- Creator:
- Mary, princess, duchess of Gloucester, 1776-1857
- Published / Created:
- [1812 or earlier]
- Call Number:
- Osborn Music MS 19
- Image Count:
- 227
- Resource Type:
- Music (Printed & Manuscript)
- Abstract:
- 119 pieces copied by the Duchess of Gloucester, the daughter of George III. Composers include: Thomas Moore (1779-1852), Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari (1763-1842), William Shield (1748-1829), Samuel Arnold (1740-1802), William Lawes (1602-1645), Charles King
- Description:
- Blank pages not scanned., Holograph MS., and With indexes.
- Subject (Name):
- Arne, Thomas Augustine, 1710-1778, Arnold, Samuel, 1740-1802, Bianchi, F. (Francesco), ca. 1752-1810, Cocchi, Gioacchino, b. ca. 1720, Ferrari, G. G. (Giacomo Gotifredo), 1763-1842, and Handel, George Fri
- Subject (Topic):
- Glees, catches, rounds, etc.--19th century, Songs--England, Songs--Italy, Vocal duets--19th century, and Vocal trios
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Collection of English and Italian songs, vocal duets, trios, and catches]
- Creator:
- Mary, princess, duchess of Gloucester, 1776-1857
- Published / Created:
- [1812 or earlier]
- Call Number:
- Osborn Music MS 19
- Image Count:
- 276
- Resource Type:
- Music (Printed & Manuscript)
- Abstract:
- 119 pieces copied by the Duchess of Gloucester, the daughter of George III. Composers include: Thomas Moore (1779-1852), Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari (1763-1842), William Shield (1748-1829), Samuel Arnold (1740-1802), William Lawes (1602-1645), Charles King (1687-1748), William Hayes (1705-1777), Henry Harington (1727-1816), George Friedric Handel (1685-1759), Giovanni Paisiello (1740-1816), Thomas Augustine Arne (1710-1778), Francesco Bianchi (1752-1810), Giocchino Cocchi ([1715]-1804), Pietro Antonio Domenico Buonaventura Metastasio (1698-1782).
- Description:
- Holograph MS. and With indexes.
- Subject (Name):
- Arne, Thomas Augustine, 1710-1778, Arnold, Samuel, 1740-1802, Bianchi, F. (Francesco), ca. 1752-1810, Cocchi, Gioacchino, b. ca. 1720, Ferrari, G. G. (Giacomo Gotifredo), 1763-1842, Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759, Harrington, Henry, 1727-1816, Hayes, William, 1708-1777, King, Charles, 1687-1748, Lawes, William, 1602-1645, Metastasio, Pietro, 1698-1782, Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Paisiello, Giovanni, 1740-1816, and Shield, William, 1748-1829
- Subject (Topic):
- Glees, catches, rounds, etc.--19th century, Songs--England, Songs--Italy, Vocal duets--19th century, and Vocal trios
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Collection of English and Italian songs, vocal duets, trios, and catches]
- Published / Created:
- [16th Century]
- Call Number:
- Osborn Music MS 13
- Image Count:
- 123
- Abstract:
- Known as the Braye Lutebook, after Adrian Verney-Cave, 6th Baron Braye, (1874-1952), the volume consists of a collection of lute music, by, or in the style of, John Dowland ([1563] - [1626]). A number of dances such as pavans, galliards, a saltcell, and the Antike, also the only contemporary source for Benedick�s song in the last act of Much Ado about Nothing.
- Description:
- Accompanied by transcription of verses, and some cookery recipes.
- Subject (Topic):
- Lute music--16th century, Recipes--Early works to 1800, and Songs--16th century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Commonplace Book]: anonymous musical MS
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1704]
- Call Number:
- Arabic MSS suppl. 143
- Image Count:
- 13
- Publisher:
- n.p
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Notes on reading the Qur'an.]
- Creator:
- Doran, Edmund.
- Published / Created:
- 1586
- Call Number:
- Art Storage 30cea 1586
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Maps, Atlases & Globes
- Description:
- Contains eleven compass roses., Decoration: city views with banners, figures sitting on thrones, holding swords and armorial shields; animals; three fleur-de-lis., Imperfect: chipped along bottom edge, with some loss of map., Includes degrees of latitude along left edge: 25°N to 65°N., Pen-and-ink in black, red, blue and green., Portolan chart with seaport names given for all coastlines., and Title devised by cataloger.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Black Sea--Maps--Early works to 1800., Mediterranean Sea--Maps--Early works to 1800., and North Atlantic Ocean--Maps--Early works to 1800.
- Subject (Topic):
- Nautical charts--Black Sea--Early works to 1800., Nautical charts--Mediterranean Sea--Early works to 1800., and Nautical charts--North Atlantic Ocean--Early works to 1800.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Portolan chart of the Mediterranean Sea, the North Atlantic Ocean, the Baltic Sea, and the northwestern African coast].
- Creator:
- Ibn al-Jazari, Muhammad ibn Muhammad, 1350-1429
- Published / Created:
- 1704
- Call Number:
- Arabic MSS suppl. 143
- Image Count:
- 29
- Publisher:
- n.p
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [al-Durrah al-mudi'ah fi qira'at al-a'immah al-thalathah al-mardiyah]