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- Published / Created:
- 1562.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 89
- Image Count:
- 214
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Latin, all concerning laws of forestry
- Description:
- In English., Watermarks: unidentified pot., Script: Written in a well formed chancery hand by a single scribe., and Binding: Sixteenth century. Endleaves reinforced with vellum, two leaves originally pasted to each board. Sewn on five single, tawed skin thongs laced into paste boards rounded on the outside of the spine edge. Beaded endbands sewn on leather or cane cores but not laced to boards. The spine is square, with traces of adhesive. Covered in dark brown calf, blind-tooled with a triple line border and a small central ornament. Two ribbon fastenings, now wanting. Leather broken at joint, sewing reinforced.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
- Subject (Topic):
- Forests and forestry, Hunting, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Politics and government
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Carta de foresta
- Published / Created:
- [after 1651, but before 1655 (?)]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 62
- Image Count:
- 324
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- philosophorum, seu tinctura phisica, in Latin
- Description:
- In Latin and English.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy, Transmutation (Chemistry), Formulas, recipes, etc, and Astrology
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Alchemical miscellany
- Published / Created:
- 1793.
- Call Number:
- Osborn fc217
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 92
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- has notes indicating its Latin name
- Description:
- In English and Latin.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain, England, and Norfolk
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820.
- Subject (Topic):
- Botanical specimens, Collection and preservation, Flowers, Herbs, and Plants
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Album of pressed botanical specimens from Norfolk, England : manuscript
- Creator:
- Locques, Nicolas de, active 17th century
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1765]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 112
- Image Count:
- 404
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Description:
- In English., Script: Written in a careful cursive hand sloping slightly to the right in a single column 170 x 110 mm without bordering lines or ruling. the text has been partly corrected by another hand and with significant marginalia throughout by this hand in inks of different hues., Watermarks: Paper watermarked with a crowned coat of arms, probably a Dutch paper not certainly identified., Binding: English binding of diced brown Russia leather, a border of gilt dots around the edges of the covers, inside and out, the backstrip in compartments similarly treated, original title label on second compartment from top gold-lettered: "Anonimo Manuscritto di un Vero Adepto." Plain edges. Hinges and corners repaired., Tome 1: 1 smaller leaf 220 x 140 mm inserted after first leaf of index., and Tome 2: 1 smaller leaf 190 x 112 mm inserted after page 157.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Chaos of the Sages, anonymously translated into English, with much additional matter, partly in French and Latin
- Creator:
- Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, fl. 1230
- Published / Created:
- 1526-27.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 337
- Image Count:
- 220
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- zodiac volvelles with descriptions in Latin
- Description:
- In English and Latin.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, fl. 1230.
- Subject (Topic):
- Astrology, Astronomy, Medieval, Calendars, English poetry, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Early maps
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De sphaera, etc
- Published / Created:
- between 1400 and 1499.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 47 vault
- Image Count:
- 256
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on paper, containing a collection of medical treatises and recipes. Includes: medical recipes and charms (ff. 1-57), gynaecological treatise (ff. 60-71), catalogue of plants and their medical properties (ff. 73-99), and an astrological treatise (ff. 103-114).
- Alternative Title:
- text (leaves 103-114) including Latin
- Description:
- In English with Latin headings.
- Subject (Topic):
- Gynecology, Manuscripts, Medical, Medicine, Practice, Manuscripts, and Medicine, Medieval
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Collection of medical recipes and medical treatises
- Call Number:
- 49 2601
- Container / Volume:
- v.2
- Image Count:
- 84
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Two volumes, in two different hands, with drawings in ink (some colored) on vellum of swan marks granted by the King of England to persons who have lands valued at least 500 marks and who wish to keep swans, otherwise designated a royal bird and the property of the crown. The catalog of marks assigned to each family, in rough alphabetic order is preceded by a summary of various laws related to the keeping of swans and their designation as royal game. From Horace Walpole's 1774 edition of Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole at Strawberry-Hill near Twickenham, Middlesex: Curious books in the glass closet in the library ... Two books of swan-marks, on vellum: extremely rare
- Description:
- In English and Latin.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain and Great Britain.
- Subject (Topic):
- Game laws and Swanmarks
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Swan marks, [16th century].
- Call Number:
- 49 2601
- Container / Volume:
- v.1
- Image Count:
- 27
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Two volumes, in two different hands, with drawings in ink (some colored) on vellum of swan marks granted by the King of England to persons who have lands valued at least 500 marks and who wish to keep swans, otherwise designated a royal bird and the property of the crown. The catalog of marks assigned to each family, in rough alphabetic order is preceded by a summary of various laws related to the keeping of swans and their designation as royal game. From Horace Walpole's 1774 edition of Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole at Strawberry-Hill near Twickenham, Middlesex: Curious books in the glass closet in the library ... Two books of swan-marks, on vellum: extremely rare
- Description:
- In English and Latin.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain and Great Britain.
- Subject (Topic):
- Game laws and Swanmarks
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Swan marks, [16th century].
10.
- Creator:
- Langford, Mr. (Abraham), 1711-1774, auctioneer, publisher
- Published / Created:
- [1755]
- Call Number:
- 125 L278 755 3/11
- Image Count:
- 172
- Resource Type:
- text
- Description:
- Meadianum, which was printed in Latin.--Lugt, F
- Publisher:
- Abraham Langford
- Subject (Geographic):
- England, London, Great Britain, and England.
- Subject (Name):
- Mead, Richard, 1673-1754
- Subject (Topic):
- Art collections, Art auctions, Art, Private collections, Decorative arts, Prices, Private libraries, and House furnishings
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A catalogue of the genuine and entire collection of valuable gems, bronzes, marble and other busts and antiquities, of the late Doctor Mead : which (by order of the executors) will be sold by auction, by Mr. Langford, at his house in the Great Piazza, Covent Garden, on Tuesday the 11th of this instant March 1755, and the four following days : the said collection will be exhibited to public view on Friday, Saturday and Monday, the 7th, 8th and 10th instant, from ten in the morning till four, and the sale will begin each day punctually at twelve o'clock : catalogues of which may be had on Thursday the 6th, at Mr. Langford's aforesaid