Manuscript on paper, in a single secretary hand, of a tour guide of Italy, including descriptions of notable sights as well as directions from "London to Rome as also from one Citie to another in all Ittaly." The text is organized by city, and "trans...
Description:
Phillipps MS 16427.
Subject (Geographic):
Italy
Subject (Name):
Bell, Henry, Captain.
Subject (Topic):
English poetry, Latin poetry, Travel, Description and travel, and Religious life and customs
2 Amulets, manuscript, ink and paint on paper. Calligraphic Italian hand. Written on both sides of the leaf, with borders and vignettes in colors. One side of the leaf has an predominantly orange border, and on top are two putim holding a crown, with ...
Description:
In Hebrew.
Subject (Geographic):
Italy. and Italy
Subject (Topic):
Amulets (Judaism), Religious articles, Religious life and customs, and Jewish art and symbolism
Amulet, manuscript, ink on vellum. This amulet includes the names of the angels Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel in each corner and prayers for protection from the many dangers that threaten life such as childbirth, fire and water. What is of part...
Description:
In Hebrew.
Subject (Geographic):
Italy. and Italy
Subject (Topic):
Amulets (Judaism), Religious articles, Religious life and customs, and Jewish art and symbolism
Manuscript roll, on parchment, in a single hand, illuminated, containing the "Arma Christi" poem and other prayers, in Dutch, including prayers ascribed to Popes Sixtus IV and Alexander VI. The prayers are preceded by a rubric instructing readers to k...
Description:
In Dutch.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Netherlands
Subject (Name):
Jesus Christ and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Passion, Dutch, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Indulgences, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Religious life and customs
Manuscript, on parchment, incomplete, containing the remains of a book of hours, probably Use of Rome. All illuminations have been excised and there are few complete sections except for the Penitential Psalms (63r-75v) and the Office of the Dead (82r-...
Description:
In Latin and Middle French.
Subject (Geographic):
France., France, Connecticut, New Haven., and Autun (France)
Subject (Name):
Oisellet, Collette d'., Lazarus, Saint (Poor man from the Gospel of Luke), Cathedral of Saint-Lazare (Autun, France), Hospices civils de Beaune., and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Relics, Books of hours, Manuscripts, Medieval, Miracles, Nuns, Women, Religious aspects, Catholic Church, and Religious life and customs
Manuscript on parchment containing Ceremonials for a nuns' convent and related texts. Contents: 1) Ceremonial for the vestment of a nun. 2) Ceremonial for the communion of a sick nun. 3) Ceremonial for administering the extreme unction. 4) Ceremonial ...
Description:
In Latin and Dutch.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Flanders (Belgium)
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Convents, Manuscripts, Medieval, Monastic and religious life of women, Nuns, Processionals (Liturgical books), and Religious life and customs
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of genealogies of families of Curtiss, Barnes, Newell, Potter, Woodruff, and Hart in Connecticut, particularly from the towns of Southington and Farmington. The volume includes copies of wills; land deeds...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and Missouri
Subject (Name):
Andrews, Gad, b. 1803., Barnes family., Curtis family., Hart family., Newell family., Potter family., Woodruff family., and Yale College (1718-1887)
Subject (Topic):
Alumni and alumnae, Genealogy, History, and Religious life and customs
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of about 390 entries in verse and prose, which present satirical as well as sentimental and elegiac perspectives on the subjects of love, women, religion, and death. Titles include A reflection on death; ...
Elegiac poetry, English, English wit and humor, Epigrams, Epitaphs, Occasional verse, English, Sentimentalism in literature, Verse satire, English, Women authors, Women, Conduct of life, and Religious life and customs
Photocopy of a typescript memoir by Margarita López y Galarza containing over 20 brief chapters reflecting on her life and identity as a Mexican American, 1983. López y Galarza recounts her family history in Jalcocotán, Mexico and describes her pa...
Description:
Margarita López y Galarza de la Vega Linsley (1916-2000) was born in Jalcocotán, Mexico and immigrated to Sacramento, California with her family in 1920. She earned her bachelor's degree from University of California, Los Angeles and master's degre...
Subject (Geographic):
California., West (U.S.), California, Jalcocotán (Mexico), and Sacramento (Calif.)
Subject (Name):
López y Galarza, Margarita, 1916-2000. and Los Angeles County General Hospital.
Subject (Topic):
Americanization, Education, Elementary, Elementary schools, Health counselors, Immigrant children, Education, Immigrants, Mexican American children, Mexican American women, Mexican Americans, Religion, Railroads, Employees, Ranchers, Women, Race relations, Religious life and customs, and Social life and customs
Printed on paper, dated 697 (1936 or 1937). At the top of the document are the words "Jerusalem" in Hebrew and in English. In the center is the word "Mizraḥ". At the center of the document is an oval enclosing a biblical map of Israel with the trib...
Description:
In Hebrew, Yiddish and English.
Subject (Geographic):
Jerusalem. and Jerusalem
Subject (Topic):
Prayer, Judaism, Religious articles, Jewish art and symbolism, and Religious life and customs
