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2.
- Creator:
- Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375, author
- Published / Created:
- [20 June 1492]
- Call Number:
- Zi +7046 1
- Image Count:
- 253
- Resource Type:
- text
- Alternative Title:
- Decamerone
- Description:
- BEIN Zi +4524: For fuller description see collation slip in volume. Variant copy. [7], 2-137, [1] leaves, illustrated, 30 cm (fol). Leaf 2 numbered with a broken numeral "2"; leaf 29 so numbered (misprinted 26 in the preceding). Imperfect copy. Bookplate of A. H. (monogram AH)., BEIN Zi +7046: Imperfect copy: missing leaves pi1-3, pi6, a1, a5, a8, b6, f3, i1, n3, o4, s1, t1, u4, and z4 (blank) wanting. Leaf [4] (first count) bound at end of volume., BEIN Zi +7046: Provenance: Bookplate of Antoine Pol of Paris. Early manuscript ownership note of a certain Ad. de Beauchamp on front pastedown. Modern manuscript note regarding publication in French on first leaf. Gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, May 1964., BEIN Zi +7046: Binding: brown leather binding. Red sprinkling on all edges. Gold-tooled title on spine: Opera Politian / Decame., BEIN Zi +7046: Number 2 of 3 titles bound together., Title from leaf [1]/1r., Colophon (leaf z3r): Finisce lo elegantissimo Decamerone: cio e le cento novelle detto: dello excellentissimo poeta Giova[n]ni Bocchaccio da certaldo. Impresso i[n] Venetia per Giova[n]ni & Gregorio de gregorii fratelli. Impera[n]te Augustino Barbarigo felicissimo principe: nellanno della humana recuperatione. MCCCC. Lxxxxii. ad di .xx. de Giugno., Printed in type 23:82R., Signatures: pi⁶; a⁸ b-y⁶z⁴., Leaves pi6 and z4 blank., 113 woodcuts., and Printed guide letters.
- Publisher:
- Johannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis
- Subject (Geographic):
- Europe
- Subject (Topic):
- Plague, History, and Love
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Decamerone o ver cento novelle del Boccaccio
3.
- Published / Created:
- [1830?]
- Call Number:
- PLAYING CARDS GEN 132
- Image Count:
- 28
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Description:
- BEIN PLAYING CARDS GEN 132: Title card pasted to sleeve. Formerly owned by Julia Parker Wightman. From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards. and Title card and 25 numbered cards depicting inhabitants of various countries.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- France, Asia, Europe, Africa, and America
- Subject (Topic):
- Playing cards and Description and travel
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Grand jeu de la géographie avec costumes coloriées.
4.
- Creator:
- Deeker, James
- Call Number:
- LWL Mss Vol. 50
- Image Count:
- 168
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in a single hand, of a description of the author's tour through France and Italy in 1770, traveling with his master Robert Fellowes and Thomas Durrant, and recording his interactions with the inhabitants, curious sights, local hygienic practices, and traveling conditions. At one point he writes that he fell 14 times from his horse, while in Aquapendente he witnesses a postboy beating the horses "in a most unmerciful manner." In Bologna, he records news of banditti "which infested this part of the Country consisting of upwards of 40 men." He also climbs Mount Vesuvius "about two years since there was a dreadful eruption," where he walks on rough lava and ashes "in many places knee deep." Elsewhere, he notes the practice in Italy of hanging ladies' negligees out of coach windows and the presence of lice on the Italian nobility; and expresses his regret at the lack of diversions during this season of the year, as he should have been "very glad to have been here at the time of the Carnival when all kinds of diversions are allowed, such as Plays, Operas, Maskings, Horseraces &c." and At the conclusion of the manuscript, the author describes his return to England in excellent health and his gratitude to his "indulgent master" Mr. Durrant; addresses the manuscript to his father; and signs it "J Deeker London March 12th 1770." Bound in throughout the manuscript are 13 maps, colored in red and green representing stages of the author's journey, and 11 pen and wash drawings of such scenes as Trajan's pillar at Rome; Remains of three taverns where St Paul met his friends; and the Palace of the duke of Tuscany at Florence. A wash drawing entitled "Mons. D-r [Deeker] riding post", probably copied from Henry William Bunbury's print "Courier francois", is also bound in.
- Description:
- James Deeker was one of the first aeronauts in England. His hot-air balloon ascent in Norwich in June, 1785, was witnessed by Horace's nephew, George, the 3rd Earl of Orford., In English., Index of places visited at end of manuscript, as well as a mileage chart and a "List of Painters &c." which lists artists' names and brief biographies., On flyleaves, two pages in pencil recording "Interesting Remarks" and their page numbers., Autograph in pencil on flyleaf: ER Pratt. April 1812., Bookplate of Roger Pratt. Written in pencil on bookplate: Ryston Hall. Norfolk., and Binding: full reverse calf. Marbled endpapers. Stamped on spine: Deeker's Journal. Written on spine: 1770.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Europe., Europe, France, Italy, and Vesuvius (Italy)
- Subject (Name):
- Deeker, James.
- Subject (Topic):
- Grand tours (Education), Tourism, Travelers' writings, English, Ruins, Social life and customs, and Description and travel
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Journal, 1770
5.
- Creator:
- Fairfax, Thomas?
- Call Number:
- Osborn d345
- Image Count:
- 139
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript diary describing a European tour, principally of Eastern Europe, Russia and Italy. Fairfax devotes much attention to works of art and historical buildings
- Description:
- Binding: contemporary half-morocco, marbled boards.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Europe and Russia
- Subject (Topic):
- Travelers' writings, English, Travel diaries, and Description and travel
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Travel diary, 1830 May-Sep
