Manuscript on paper, with extensive corrections and annotations, of a five-act tragicomedy, featuring a convoluted marriage plot concerning a faithful genius. Mostly in blank verse, some parts rhymed couplets. Includes a conversation on what it means to be a "blackamoor" (f. 22r-v).
Description:
For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., Laid in: another version of Act 1, Sc. 5., and On title page: "Habent sua fata libelli. I. G."
Subject (Topic):
Drama., English drama--17th century., English literature--17th century., English poetry--17th century., and Tragicomedy.
Manuscript on paper, in a single secretary hand, of an English translation of Macchiavelli's biography of Castracani. This volume also includes, in a variety of hands, "Short Collections on natural history," calculations for the "Dimensions of England," a multiplication table and conversion table for beer and ale, puzzles, a collection of recipes for making colored ink titled "Profitable receipts taken out of Mathers Yong mans companion," a Latin dialogue between "Puer" and "Preceptor" titled "Colloquia Familiaria," and a Latin text with 14 chapters titled "Ars Logica."
Description:
Binding: full sheep (front board missing)., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., On first flyleaf: "Charles Darwin, No. 112.", On last two pages: pen trials, including calligraphic drawings and the alphabet., Paper has gilt edges., and This translation differs widely from Edward Dacre's version, published in 1640.
Subject (Geographic):
Lucca (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Castracani, Castruccio,--1281-1328., Mather, W.--(William),--fl. 1695., and Niccolo Machiavelli,--1469-1527.--Vita di Castruccio Castracani.
Subject (Topic):
Biography., Commonplace-books., English prose literature--17th century., and Workshop recipes.
Manuscript on paper containing twenty-seven poems, mostly Court satires, including works by Andrew Marvell; John Wilmot, earl of Rochester; Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset; and Sir Carr Scroope. With other unattributed texts including ""Peytons Fate; ""Th
Description:
fol. 23 recto-23 verso
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain --History --Restoration, 1660-1688 --Poetry
1. Ma'rifat taqwim (Knowing the calender). 2. Fal nameh (A treatise for fortune telling). 3. [Work on the branches of the occult by Nasi Ibn Muhammad Ibn Haydar Rammal Shirazi].
Manuscript on paper (thick, coarse) of the Life of Saint Birgitta, in two books.
Description:
Belonged to comte Paul Riant (1836-88) whose Scandinavian library was presented to Yale by Mrs. Henry Farnam, in 1896., Binding: Nineteenth century (?). Vellum case with stubs of two ties. Title, in ink, on spine and front cover: "Vita Sancta [sic] matris nostrae Birgittae". Red edges., Folio 16 cut in half, with loss of text., Hand-colored engraving of St. Birgitta, standing with open book in left hand and crucifix in right, pasted to f. 11v. Same engraving (but uncolored) of St. Birgitta pasted to f. 106v., and Script: Written in quasi-italic by a single scribe.
Subject (Name):
Bridgettines
Subject (Topic):
Christian hagiography, Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
An anthology of translated and Russian accounts of the posthumous miracles of the Virgin Mary.
Description:
130 miniatures from the second half of the 19th century, including full illuminations depicting miracles of the Virgin., Binding, 17th-18th century, boards in stamped leather with one intact clasp; spine restored in 19th century., Incipit: Bogotechnui︠u︡ zvězdu i︠u︡zhe viděvshe volʹsvi, o neĭ zheprorochestvovashe Valaa drevle, i toi︠a︡ pōslědovasha zari...., Possible translation from a Ruthenian printed version (see Slovarʹ Knizhnikov i knizhnosti drevnei Rusi, 17 vek (A-Z), St. Petersburg, 1992, pp. 398-400)., Purchased from Svetlana Aronov on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund, 1997. Late 17th century ownership inscription on verso of first leaf attributed to Pantelei, son of Afanasi., Russian Church Slavic., Similar 17th-century copy found in Undolʹskij Collection, Russian State Library, Moscow, # 398. (See V. M. Undolʹskiĭ, Slavi︠a︡no-russkie rukopisi V.M. Undol'skago, Moscow, 1870, pp. 263-264.)., Stamp with two-headed eagle dated 1746 on inside back cover., and Watermarks: jester's head (Dianova, 1980, #355 (1683), #327 (1652)); crest of the city of Amsterdam with the letters IP (Dianova, 1980, #159 (1680)).
Subject (Name):
Mary,--Blessed Virgin, Saint--Apparitions and miracles--Russia, Mary,--Blessed Virgin, Saint--Devotion to--Russia, and Pantelei,--son of Afanasi--Ownership
Collection of documents relating to Capel of Tewkesbury's tenure as First Lord of the Admiralty (1679-1680. Contents include a copy of his appointment and the official instructions for the post; a copy of James, Duke of York's instructions to the Navy Office and Royal definitions of the duties of Navy Board officials; inventories and valuations of ships, shipbuilding materials, provisions, and other supplies; and fair copies of office correspondence.
Alternative Title:
His Majesty having out of His royal desire
Description:
Binding: Contemporary black sheep, paneled; gilt spine., Bound in: three printed items, cataloged separately. 1) "By the Lords Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of England. General Instructions."; 2) "Qualifications established by His Majesty and the Lords of the Admiralty December the 18th 1677...."; 3) "By the Lords Commissioners for executing the Office of the Lord High Admiral of England....."., Bound with 3 other works., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., Laid in: TLS from Viscount Barrington to "My Dear Bill", 1934 Jan 31, accompanied by 4 p. of manuscript notes concerning the volume., and Spine title: "Admiralty."
Publisher:
s.n.,
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--History, Naval--17th century. and Great Britain--History--Restoration, 1660-1688.
Subject (Name):
Great Britain.--Royal Navy--Appropriations and expenditures., Great Britain.--Royal Navy--Pay, allowances, etc., and Great Britain.--Royal Navy--Records and correspondence.
7 leaves of unfoliated binder's blanks inserted at both beginning and end., Armorial bookplate of Frederick North, fifth Earl of Guilford (1766-1827)., ff. 1-12 foliated in ink in a hand later than the manuscript, the remaining leaves with modern pencil foliation., ff. 17 apparently a contemporary insertion., and On parchment binder's blanks.
Subject (Name):
Duveen, Denis I., bookplate and North, Frederick, Earl of Guilford, 1766-1827, bookplate.
f. 45v, 46r : Geometric symbols containing luna crests., f. 50r : ""Philosophisch balneum,"" distillation apparatus and furnace., f. 50v : ""Der Faule Heintze,"" a multilevel furnace, and f. 51r : ""Der Philosophische Offen,"" a cylindrical furnace, with chimney.
Description:
3 oversize folding pages with drawings and diagrams inserted after f. 227., On paper, Twelve illustrations., and Written by a single scribe in gothic, Fraktur and roman scripts.