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- Creator:
- B. C.
- Published / Created:
- 1697-1699
- Call Number:
- Osborn b262
- Image Count:
- 3
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, in multiple hands, containing copies of letters written by an unidentified merchant trading in the West Indies to his business associates in England
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain --Commerce and West Indies --Commerce --Great Britain
- Subject (Topic):
- Merchants --Correspondence and Merchants --Great Britain
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Letterbook], 1697 Jul 3 - 1699 Aug 18
- Creator:
- Cavendish, Jane, Lady
- Published / Created:
- [mid 17th century]
- Call Number:
- Osborn b233
- Image Count:
- 32
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of 78 poems by Jane Cavendish. Many are addressed to family members, including one titled "On my sweete brother Charles," another called "On my Noble Uncle Sr Charles Cavendish Knight," and several to her father, as well as others addressed to her sisters, mother, grandparents, and the King and Queen. There are also poems on passion, the "chamber-mayde," and "A noble lady." The manuscript includes a poetic dialogue by her sister, Lady Elizabeth Brackley Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater, titled "A Pastorall," with a cast of witches, country wives, and shepherds, and which is preceded by a verse dedication to their father, William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle. The manuscript as a whole is prefaced by a dedication by Jane Cavendish to him.
- Description:
- Binding: full black morocco; gilt decoration.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England--Social life and customs--17th century
- Subject (Name):
- Cavendish family, Cheiney, Jane Cavendish, Lady, Egerton, Elizabeth Cavendish, 1626-1663, and Newcastle, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1592-1676
- Subject (Topic):
- English literature--17th century, English poetry--17th century, English poetry--Women authors, and Nobility--Great Britain
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Poems], [mid 17th century]
174.
- Creator:
- Botesdale Book Society.
- Published / Created:
- 1778 Oct 6 - 1789 Jul 6
- Call Number:
- Osborn c173
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in multiple hands, of a collection of entries related to the regulation and administration of the Botesdale Book Society, a subscription library. The volume contains members' names, minutes of meetings, the results of the elections of the society president, lists of books purchased,and lists of books borrowed and of books to be sent for. The books mentioned in the volume include novels; plays; memoirs; histories, including "Revolution in America"; comedies; and periodicals.
- Description:
- Binding: contemporary vellum. Title written on cover: Botesdale Book Club, Began 1778. Ended 1789. and For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain--Intellectual life--18th century. and Great Britain--Social life and customs--18th century.
- Subject (Topic):
- Books and reading--Great Britain., Collection development (Libraries)--Great Britain., Library circulation and loans., Library rules and regulations., and Subscription libraries.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Record book]
- Creator:
- Collins, William, 1721-1759
- Published / Created:
- [after 1781]
- Call Number:
- Osborn c380
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Interleaved copy of this printed edition, copiously annotated in two or more unidentified 18th-century hands.
- Publisher:
- J. Langhorne
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [The poetical works of Mr. William Collins with memoirs of the author and observations in his genius and writings]
- Creator:
- Anselm, Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1033-1109
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1500]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 256
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of 1) Life and miracles of the Virgin Mary. 2) Litanies of the Virgin, of Christ on Ascension Day, of St. Jerome on his feast day. 3) An account of the visions of St. Magnus, and the story of St. Magnus's burial and subsequent translation to the church of San Geremia in Venice. 4) Legend of the three monks in Paradise. 5) Exhortation to suffer illness patiently citing three exempla from St. Gregory's Dialogues. 6) Lists of the 7 works of spiritual mercy, the 7 works of corporal mercy, the 7 sacraments, the 7 virtues, the 7 mortal sins, the 5 senses, the 7 gifts of the Holy Spirit. 7) Unidentified sermon. 8) Anselm of Canterbury, Commendatio animae. 9) Short unidentified text attributed to Gregory I.
- Alternative Title:
- Life and miracles of the Virgin Mary, etc.
- Description:
- Binding: Sixteenth century, Italy. Original sewing on three tawed skin, kermes pink, slit straps laced through tunnels in the edge to channels on the outside of beech boards and pegged twice. Yellow edges. Plain wound endbands are sewn on tawed skin cores laid in grooves on the outside of the boards. Spine is lined with leather between supports. Covered in brown goatskin, blind-tooled with a triple cross in a central rectangle in concentric frames. Two fastenings; holes from pins on the lower board, the upper one cut in for straps which are fastened with star-headed nails. Spine: supports defined with double fillets; an X of triple fillets in the panels which are bordered with double fillets on the sides., Crudely executed initials red with blue and/or red penwork designs and vice versa; initials on ff. 7v-8v have green added. Blue headings accompany red initials and red accompany blue. Initial letters stroked with red throughout. Line filler in red, blue and yellow on f. 6r., and Script: Written in small round gothic bookhand, below top line.
- Subject (Name):
- Gregory--I,--Pope,--ca. 540-604, Magnus,--of Anagni, Saint,--d. 254, and Mary,--Blessed Virgin, Saint
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian legends, Christian literature, Italian, Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Unidentified sermon or exhortation, in Italian, addressed to a woman]
177.
- Creator:
- Caruso, Luciano
- Published / Created:
- 1969
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS 1527
- Collection Title:
- Luciano Caruso artist's books
- Container / Volume:
- Box 9
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Formed by long sheets of paper featuring hieroglyphic-like characters written in ink by Caruso over existing teletyped text.
- Description:
- Luciano Caruso (1944-2002) was an Italian experimental poet, editor, and art critic based in Naples until 1976 and in Florence thereafter. He was a prominent practitioner of Italian visual poetry ("poesia visiva").
- Subject (Name):
- Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry
- Subject (Topic):
- Experimental poetry, Italian--20th century, Poets, Italian--20th century, and Visual poetry, Italian--20th century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Untitled]
178.
- Creator:
- Valerius Maximus
- Published / Created:
- s. XV^^in [ca. 1400-1425]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 221
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Valerius Maximus, Factorum et dictorum memorabilium ad Tiberium cesarem.
- Description:
- Binding: 15th-16th centuries. Resewn on four tawed, slit straps laced through the edge of wooden boards and nailed in channels which are filled in with plaster. There is a piece of leather at the exit from one tunnel and what may be the tips of nails just inside the channel so earlier supports may have been of leather, nailed twice. The endbands, sewn on twisted leather cores laid in grooves, were tied down through a leather spine lining, the embroidery with three beads. The edges are gilt with a design scratched on them, the spine square. Covered in dark brown goatskin with corner tongues, blind-tooled with a star in a circle with wide rope interlace panels above and below, inside concentric outer borders. Small diamonds and dots on the spine. Four brass catches on the lower board and stubs of velvet straps nailed to the upper. One joint cracked and repaired and one endband added., On f. 3r, a good historiated initial, 7-line: the author in armor, holding his book; thick, curling foliage forms, pink, orange, blue, and green, on an irregular gold ground, edged in black. Nine illuminated initials (ff. 16r, 29v, 43r, 57r, 72r, 85v, 98r, 111v, and 126r) to open Books 2-10, composed of foliage, as above, and striated color strips, in vibrant blue, orange, crimson, mauve, green, and occasionally yellow, highlighted in white and variations of the same basic hues. 4-, 2-line initials, blue with red penwork or vice versa. Book numbers at top of page, red and blue; rubrics throughout. Remains of guides for rubricator., and Script: Written by a single scribe in fere-humanistic script. Marginal and interlinear notes in several contemporary and later hands.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Rome--History--Tiberius, 14-37
- Subject (Name):
- Valerius Maximus
- Subject (Topic):
- Didactic literature, Latin, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Valerij maximi factorum et dictorum memorabilium ad Tiberium cesarem liber primus incipit. j. de religione]
- Published / Created:
- 1705 or 6
- Call Number:
- Arabic MSS 59
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Copied in A.H. 1117 (A.D. 1705 or 6) for (according to a Turkish note on leaf 25 verso) Sultan Ahmet III of Turkey.
- Alternative Title:
- Koran
- Description:
- Calligraphic naskhī; ʻunwāns in gold and colors., Islamic binding, in brown, gilt, with flap., and Text in Arabic, notes in Turkish.
- Subject (Topic):
- Islamic binding. and Theology--Koran--Text
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > al-Qurʾān : Sūrat al-anʻām. -- 1705 or 6
- Creator:
- Masʻūd, Masʻūd ibn al-Sayyid Ḥijāzī, active 1876.
مسعود، مسعود بن السيد حجازي، ناشط 1876. - Published / Created:
- 1876
- Call Number:
- Arabic MSS suppl. 614
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Collection of Arabic poetry and prose from different eras, different places and different authors, covering some fifty subjects. Compiled by Masʻūd ibn al-Sayyid Ḥijāzī Masʻūd (al-Jirjāwī baladan, al-Ḥusaynī maḥtidan), on 1 Muḥarram, 1293 Hijrī (28 January, 1876). No reference could be found for the book or its compiler, probably the author's autograph.
- Alternative Title:
- Kitāb al-ʻUyūn al-sawāhir fī rawḍat al-zawāhir, ʻUyūn al-sawāhir, العيون السواهر في روضة الزواهر : مخطوطة / مسعود بن السيد حجازي مسعود., عيون السواهر, and كتاب العيون السواهر في روضة الزواهر
- Description:
- 15.5 x 22.5 cm; written surface: 10.5 x 18; 25 lines per page., Binding: In modern red cloth binding with leather spine., Colophon: "Yaqūlu jāmiʻuhu min shāsiʻ al-aqṭār baʻda taṣfiyatihi min daran al-akdār afqar al-ʻibād ilá rabbihi al-maʻbūd, Masʻūd ibn al-Sayyid Ḥijāzī Masʻūd, al-Jirjāwī baladan, al-Ḥusaynī maḥtidan: Laqad tamma nasj burd hādhā al-kitāb ʻalá minwāl al-kamāl al-mustaṭāb fī Muḥarram al-ḥarām, iftitāḥ sanat 1293, thalāthah wa-tisʻīn wa-miʼatayn wa-alf min Hijrat man kāna yará min al-amām ka-mā kāna yará min al-khalf, ṣallá Allāh ʻalayhi wa-sallam wa-sharrafa wa-karrama wa-ʻaẓam wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-aṣḥābihi al-ghurar mā badrun badar wa-najmun ẓahar.", In clear naskh/ruqʻah script, in brown ink, on white paper; catchwords., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Ḥamdu lillāh alladhī manna ʻalaynā bi-nayl al-maṭlūb wa-jaʻalanā nanṭuqu fīmā nuʻānī wa-jaʻala bi-dhikrihi taṭmaʼinnu al-qulūb, wa-in kāna yuṭribuhā dhikr al-aghānī ...", On folio 1a: "Hādhā Kitāb al-ʻUyūn al-sawāhir fī rawḍat al-zawāhir li-jāmiʻihi min shāsiʻ al-aqṭār baʻda taṣfiyatihi min daran al-akdār afqar al-ʻibād ilá rabbihi al-maʻbūd Masʻūd ibn al-Sayyid Ḥijāzī Masʻūd, ghafara Allāh dhunūbah wa-satara ʻuyūbah. M.", On spine in printed gold color: "al-ʻUyūn al-sawāhir. Masʻūd Ḥijāzī.", Romanization supplied by cataloger., Secundo folio: fa-man kāna mithlī mudhniban., Text folios: 1a-150a., Title from folio 1a., Translation of the colophon: "The compiler, Masʻūd ibn al-Sayyid Ḥijāzī Masʻūd (al-Jirjāwī baladan, al-Ḥusaynī maḥtidan) says: The materials for this book were collected from vast places, after cleansing them of impurities. I have endeavored to compose it in the most perfect way. It was completed at the beginning of Muḥarram, the year 1293 of the Hijrah of the Prophet [28 January, 1876] ...", البداية: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله الذي منّ علينا بنيل المطلوب وجعلنا ننطق فيما نعاني وجعل بذكره تطمئن القلوب، وإن كان يطربها ذكر الأغاني ...", الخاتمة: "يقول جامعه من شاسع الأقطار بعد تصفيته من درن الأكدار أفقر العباد إلى ربه المعبود، مسعود بن السيد حجازي مسعود، الجرجاوي بلدًا، الحسيني محتدًا: لقد تم نسج برد هذا الكتاب على منوال الكمال المستطاب في محرم الحرام، افتتاح سنة 1293، ثلاثة وتسعين ومائتين وألف من هجرة من كان يرى من الأمام كما كان يرى من الخلف، صلى الله عليه وسلم وشرف وكرم وعظم وعلى آله و'صحابه الغرر ما بدرٌ بدر ونجمٌ ظهر.", بداية الورقة الثانية: فمن كان مثلي مذنبًا., على ظهر المخطوط بطباعة مذهبة: "العيون السواهر. مسعود حجازي.", and على وجه الورقة 1: "هذا كتاب العيون السواهر في روضة الزواهر لجامعه من شاسع الأقطار بعد تصفيته من درن الأكدار أفقر العباد إلى ربه المعبود مسعود بن السيد حجازي مسعود، غفر الله ذنوبة وستر عيوبة. م."
- Subject (Name):
- Masʻūd, Masʻūd ibn al-Sayyid Ḥijāzī,--active 1876. and مسعود، مسعود بن السيد حجازي،--ناشط 1876.
- Subject (Topic):
- Arabic literature., Arabic manuscripts., and Arabic poetry.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > al-ʻUyūn al-sawāhir fī rawḍat al-zawāhir : manuscript / Masʻūd ibn al-Sayyid Ḥijāzī Masʻūd.