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2.
- Creator:
- Oxford University Press
- Published / Created:
- 1695.
- Call Number:
- X194 963b
- Image Count:
- 1
- Description:
- First issue., BEIN,GEN: Bound at end are photostats of 5 leaves added in the 2d issue., and Signatures: [*]¹ [a]-e⁴.
- Publisher:
- Printed at the Theater
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and Oxford
- Subject (Name):
- Fell, John, 1625-1686.
- Subject (Topic):
- Printing, Type and type-founding, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A specimen of the several sorts of letter given to the University by Dr. John Fell, sometime Lord Bishop of Oxford. To which is added the letter given by Mr. F. Junius
3.
- Creator:
- Priest, Josiah, 1788-1851
- Published / Created:
- 1840.
- Call Number:
- CE275 P75
- Image Count:
- 2
- Description:
- BEIN: Imperfect: p. 31-32 mutilated; browned.
- Publisher:
- Printed by W.B. Harkness
- Subject (Geographic):
- United States
- Subject (Name):
- Ogden, David, b. 1764.
- Subject (Topic):
- History and Indian captivities
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A true narrative of the capture of David Ogden, among the Indians, in the time of the revolution, and of the slavery and sufferings he endured, with an anccount of his almost miraculous escape after several years' bondage; -- with eight other highly interesting stories of the revolution, and tales of hunters ...
4.
- Creator:
- Lucan, 39-65.
- Published / Created:
- [between 1200 and 1225]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 332
- Image Count:
- 3
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Lucan, Bellum civile, with scholia. Preceded by Epitaphium Lucani, 4 lines only
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Main text written above and below top line in a small early gothic bookhand by two scribes. Scribe 1) ff. 1r-37r; Scribe 2) ff. 37v-91v. First letter of each verse written to left of text between double rulings or on middle of three rulings; right-hand margin justified. Scholia, primarily at beginning of codex, written in a contemporary hand., Decorative initials, red or blue, 12- to 4-line, with simple designs in opposite color, for each book. Rubrics added sporadically. Plan of Brindisi appears in the margin of f. 15v (II.610) to illustrate Caesar's siege of the city; on f. 47v is a schematic circular drawing of Paulus in the center, surrounded by Pelion, Ossa, Otrix, Pindus and Olympus., Rubbing, staining, trimming of leaves, and worm holes result in some loss of text and scholia., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Light brown pigskin, blind-tooled, with brass fastenings.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Rome
- Subject (Name):
- Lucan, 39-65.
- Subject (Topic):
- Historical poetry, Latin, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Scholia, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bellum civile, with scholia
5.
- Creator:
- Exquemelin, A. O. (Alexandre Olivier)
- Published / Created:
- 1684-85.
- Call Number:
- WeInd Cxb e678gb
- Image Count:
- 1
- Description:
- V.2 has title: Bucaniers of America. The second volume. Containing The dangerous voyage and bold attempts of Captain Bartholomew Sharp, and others; performed upon the coasts of the South Sea, for the space of two years, &c. From the original journal of the said voyage. Written by Mr. Basil Ringrose, gent. ... London, 1685. and Collation: pt.1, 6 p.l., 47 [i.e.55] p.; pt.2, 80 p.; pt.3, 84, [12] p.; pt.4 (v.2) 8 p.l., 212 [i.e. 216], [17] p.
- Publisher:
- Printed for William Crooke, at the Green Dragon without Temple-bar
- Subject (Geographic):
- Spanish Main. and West Indies
- Subject (Name):
- Morgan, Henry, Sir, 1635?-1688., L'Olonnais, 1630-1671., and Sharpe, Bartholomew, active 1679-1682.
- Subject (Topic):
- Buccaneers, Pirates, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bucaniers of America: or, A true account of the most remarkable assalts committed of late years upon the coasts of the West-Indies, by the bucaniers of Jamaica and Tortuga ...
6.
- Creator:
- Trippe, Simon
- Call Number:
- Osborn a43
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper in a single Italic hand of a treatise on the compatibility of the science of medicine with belief in Christianity and a vindication of Galen against four traditional attacks on him, including the "calumnies" that Galen favored reason over religion and that he scoffed at both Judaism and Christianity. Trippe frequently alludes to and quotes other medical and scientific authors in developing his argument, including Hippocrates, Dioscorides, Nicander, Avicenna, and his contemporaries Antonio Guainerio, Jean Fernel, Pietro Andreas Mattioli, and Leonhard Fuchs, as well as the humanist thinkers Henry Cornelius Agrippa, Guillaume Bude, and Ramus (Pierre de la Ramee). and Text prefaced (p. 5-7) by a dedicatory epistle to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, who was Chancellor of Oxford and from whom Trippe was soliciting recommendation for appointment as Physician of Corpus Christi
- Description:
- In Latin and English., Pages are ruled in red; marginal annotations in the same hand in the marginal compartments., Annotation on recto of front flyleaf: "Presented to Chas. Leeson Prince M.R.C.S by The late Revd. Edward Turner Rector of Maresfield Sussex. 1870.", Tipped in on recto of front flyleaf: printed dealer description., Annotation by Edward Turner on added p. 1 containing detailed biographical information on Simon Trippe., Bookplate: Ex libris Robert Hoe., Bookplate: T[homas] J[efferson] Coolidge, Jr., and Binding: contemporary full paneled calf, extensive gold tooled decoration on boards and spine; cloth ties not present. Possibly bound for the dedicatee, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Name):
- Galen. and Corpus Christi College (University of Oxford).
- Subject (Topic):
- Humanism, Medicine, Early works to 1800, History, Philosophy, and Physicians
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Christianus medicus, siue disceptatio quaedam instituta aduersus receptam publice opinionem, bene medicum male christianum existere, in qua comprimis Galenus vindicatus a 4. calumnijs..., 1572 May 15.
7.
- Published / Created:
- 1938.
- Call Number:
- 2007 +198
- Container / Volume:
- 1
- Image Count:
- 12
- Alternative Title:
- Codex Mendoza
- Description:
- BEIN 2007 +198: Case mutilated., Plan accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress., Ortellius' map of Mexico, 1579, on lining-paper at end of v.2., "The Mendoza codex is a Mexican pictographic manuscript prepared on the authority of Don Antonio de Mendoza, the first viceroy of New Spain, for Charles V ... A Spanish priest, familiar with the Nauatl, or Mexican language, was employed by the viceroy to set down in Spanish the explanations of the glyphs as interpreted by the Mexicans themselves."--v.1, p.3., The facsimile includes the original pictographs in colors and the Spanish explanations., and Issued in case.
- Publisher:
- Waterlow & Sons, Limited
- Subject (Geographic):
- Mexico
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Mexican, Indians of Mexico, Languages, Writing, Antiquities, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Codex Mendoza, the Mexican manuscript known as the Collection of Mendoza and preserved in the Bodleian library, Oxford
8.
- Creator:
- Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, baron de, 1689-1755
- Call Number:
- Bg44 27y
- Image Count:
- 3
- Description:
- BEIN Bg44 27y: Unidentified armorial bookplate with motto: Nec impetu, nec imperio., Signatures: pi² A-R⁸ S⁴(-S4, S3v blank)., and Title in red and black.
- Publisher:
- Chez Jaques [sic] Desbordes, MDCCXXXIV [1734]
- Subject (Geographic):
- Rome
- Subject (Topic):
- History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Considerations sur les causes de la grandeur des Romains et de leur decadence
9.
- Creator:
- Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, baron de, 1689-1755
- Published / Created:
- M. DCC XXXIV [1734]
- Call Number:
- 2004 77
- Image Count:
- 2
- Description:
- BEIN 2004 77: Shelfmark label on front pastedown. Undeciphered autograph on t.p. Red chalk marks throughout., Pirated ed. based on the octavo true first ed., Signatures: pi2 A-Y⁸·⁴ Z⁸(-Z8)., Final p. blank., and Includes bibliographical references.
- Publisher:
- Chez Jacques Desbordes
- Subject (Geographic):
- Rome
- Subject (Topic):
- History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Considerations sur les causes de la grandeur des Romains et de leur decadence
10.
- Creator:
- Calancha, Antonio de la, 1584-1654
- Published / Created:
- 1638.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Description:
- BEIN 1971 +120: Extra illustrated with parts from a duplicate added t.-p., cut out and mounted., Added t.-p., engr.; (38 x 28 cm. fold. to 32 cm.), Signatures: *⁶ **⁸ A-Kkkk⁶ Llll⁸., and "A second ... volume of this work was printed at Lima in 1653 [or 1654] but was never published, owing probably to certain obnoxious passages contained in it. It is a smaller volume than the first, and is of very rare occurrence." -- Stevens, Hist. nuggets, v.2, 1862, p. 108. this second volume was written in part by Bernardo de Torres, whose "Cronica de la provincia pervana del Orden de los ermitaños de S. Avgvstin," Lima, 1657, was also published as a supplementary volume to the first volume of Calancha's work and included an epitome of it. cf. Rene-Moreno, Bolivia y Perú; notas hist. y bibl., 1905, p. [1]-9; Bibl. peruana, t.1, 1896, nos. 404, 412; Medina, Bibl. hisp.-amer., t.2, 1900 no. 977.
- Publisher:
- P. Lacavalleria
- Subject (Geographic):
- Peru. and Peru
- Subject (Name):
- Augustinians
- Subject (Topic):
- History, Indians of South America, and Missions
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Coronica moralizada del Orden de San Avgvstin en el Perv, con svcesos egenplares [sic] en esta monarqvia ...
