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2221.
Treatises on magic, astrology, alchemy and Sufism : manuscript

Published / Created:
1761-1815.
Call Number:
Arabic MSS suppl. 600
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Collection of treatises on magic, astrology, alchemy and Sufism: 1. On the magical qualities of the letters of the Arabic alphabet, their numerical values and their categorization into fire, air, water and earth letters, in Ottoman Turkish (folios1a-2...
Description:
In Arabic and Ottoman Turkish.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy, Astrology, Magic, Magic squares, Numerology, Sufism, and Talismans
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Treatises on magic, astrology, alchemy and Sufism : manuscript

2222.
Treatises on rhetoric, etc

Published / Created:
[between 1450 and 1500]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 319
Image Count:
21
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of Treatises on Rhetoric and Epistulae including texts by Francesco Filelfo, Apollonius Dyscolus (?), and Trypho
Description:
In Greek and Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval and Rhetoric
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Treatises on rhetoric, etc

2223.
Trionfo di Bacco : fatto rappresentare dalla munificenza degl'illustriss. & eccelsi signori

Published / Created:
[1691]
Call Number:
Italian Festivals 12
Image Count:
9
Description:
Description of Bologna's annual Porchetta festival ("Festa della porchetta"), held in 1691, with festival theme 'the triumph of Bacchus'. Full-size folded sheet tipped in, with engraving depicting the event, signed: "L. Matthiolus f."
Publisher:
Per Giuseppe Longhi
Subject (Geographic):
Italy, Bologna, and Bologna (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Dionysus (Greek deity)
Subject (Topic):
Festivals, Social life and customs, and Anniversaries, etc
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Trionfo di Bacco : fatto rappresentare dalla munificenza degl'illustriss. & eccelsi signori confaloniere di giustitia, et anziani consoli, sù la publica piazza di Bologna il gorno [sic] della solita festa popolare, 26 agosto, dell'anno presente

2224.
True love requited!, or, The bailiffs [sic] daughter of Islington

Published / Created:
[1750?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 2
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
True love requited, or, The bailiffs daughter of Islington
Bailiffs daughter of Islington
Description:
Date of publication from ESTC.
Publisher:
Printed and sold in Aldermary Church-yard, Bow-Lane, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and London (England)
Subject (Topic):
Broadsides, Ballads, English, Love, Man-woman relationships, Apprentices, and Social life and customs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > True love requited!, or, The bailiffs [sic] daughter of Islington

2225.
Truth and moderation

Published / Created:
published April the 21 1741.
Call Number:
741.04.21.01+
Image Count:
1
Description:
Letterpress broadside poem illustrated with a hand-colored etching at top of sheet (plate mark 20 x 31.8 cm.).
Publisher:
Sold by John King in the Poultry, John Tinney at the Golden Lion in Fleet Street, and at the print and pamphlet shops
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Truth and moderation

2226.
Two MS.

Published / Created:
1564.
Call Number:
Persian MSS suppl. 98
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Manuscript, on paper, of two texts, given the titles Meezan (=mizan) and Moonshayb (=Musha'ib).
Description:
In Persian.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Persian and Persian language and literature
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Two MS.

2228.
Unidentified theological work (fragment).

Published / Created:
approximately 1300.
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 712.5
Image Count:
4
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Manuscript bifolia, on parchment, from an unidentified theological work. Subjects include prayer, the Trinity, creation, and Revelations 6:21.
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval and Theology
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Unidentified theological work (fragment).

2229.
Unsun playing cards

Published / Created:
[1720?]
Call Number:
JAP21
Image Count:
10
Resource Type:
text and still image
Description:
BEIN JAP21: Imperfect: 18 cards (9 courts and 9 pip cards) wanting. From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Japan
Subject (Topic):
Playing cards
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Unsun playing cards

2230.
Vaticinia Pontificum, etc

Published / Created:
[between 1325 and 1350]
Call Number:
Marston MS 225
Image Count:
100
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment of Ps.-Joachim da Fiore, Vaticinia Pontificum. With additional prophetic texts including a Sibylline tract entitled De imperatore; and a Version of the "Tripoli" prophecy, added by a late 15th- or early 16th-century hand, here ...
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Joachim, of Fiore, approximately 1132-1202.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Papacy, History, Prophecies, and Visions
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Vaticinia Pontificum, etc

2231.
View of the Mall in St. James's Park &c. = Vue du Maill dans le Park de St. Jaque

Published / Created:
[approximately 1765?]
Call Number:
765.00.00.99+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
View of promenaders in the tree lined Mall in St James's Park, Westminster; cathedral in the distance on the left, and St. James’s Palace on the right. A proscenium arch, printed from a separate plate, serves as a border framing the scene
Alternative Title:
Vue du Maill dans le Park de St. Jaque
Description:
Titles etched below image, in English and French.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), Saint James's Park (London, England),, England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Saint James's Palace (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Parks and Pedestrian malls
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > View of the Mall in St. James's Park &c. = Vue du Maill dans le Park de St. Jaque

2232.
View of the telegraph erected on the Admiralty Office Charing Cross in Feby

Published / Created:
[26 March 1796]
Call Number:
File 69 796 V670+
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
An explanatory design of the telegraph, built for the transmission of messages, over the Admiralty, Whitehall; the main image shows the telegraph on top of the Officer's Cabin with all the shutters closed; engraved lettering below, and around the edge...
Description:
Title from text engraved along the top of the image.
Publisher:
Pud. March 26, 1796 by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly corner of Sackville St.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Telegraph and Communications, Military
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > View of the telegraph erected on the Admiralty Office Charing Cross in Feby

2233.
Virtues and vices, exempla

Published / Created:
[between 1400 and 1425]
Call Number:
Marston MS 80
Image Count:
310
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper (coarse, thick) of 1) Commentary on selections from Seneca the Elder, Controversiae, beginning imperfectly in I.3. 2) 300 exempla. 3) Gualterus Angelicus, Fabulae. 4) More than 100 extracts about the Virgin Mary, and other topics. ...
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Burlaeus, Gualterus, 1275-1345?, Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604., Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint., and Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 55 B.C.-approximately 39 A.D.
Subject (Topic):
Conduct of life, Epitaphs, Exempla, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholia
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Virtues and vices, exempla

2234.
Vitae sanctorum (fragment)

Published / Created:
[between 1100 and 1125]
Call Number:
Takamiya MS 73 1
Container / Volume:
(File) (Oversize)
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Manuscript bifolium, on parchment, containing portions of the lives of saints Nazarius, Celsus, Abdon, and Sennen from the Vitae sanctorum
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval and Saints
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Vitae sanctorum (fragment)

2235.
Vitae sanctorum (fragment).

Published / Created:
[between 1150 and 1250?]
Call Number:
Takamiya MS 130 1
Container / Volume:
(File) (Oversize)
Image Count:
4
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Manuscript leaf, on parchment, containing a portion of the life of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval and Saints
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Vitae sanctorum (fragment).

2236.
Wagstaff miscellany

Published / Created:
[ca. 1450; between 1300 and 1400]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 163
Image Count:
390
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment, composed of 2 parts, both of uneven quality. Part I of the codex written in the 15th century. The final quire, written probably in the 14th century, was bound in with the first 186 ff. in the 16th or 17th century. Contains exc...
Description:
In English and Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Charms, English literature, Hunting, Manuscripts, Medieval, Medicine, and Medicine, Medieval
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Wagstaff miscellany

2237.
Walpole, Lord Walpole [graphic].

Published / Created:
[late 18th century?]
Call Number:
File 47 790 W2+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Coat of arms of Lord Walpole with the motto "Fari que sentiat" supported by a stag (left) and lion (right); Chippendale style
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Nobility
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Walpole, Lord Walpole [graphic].

2238.
Whereas the Greenland white bear has afforded great satisfaction to the nobility and gentry : this

Published / Created:
[not before 1735]
Call Number:
LWL MSS 7 Box 45, Folder 16
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Description:
Title from first line of text.
Publisher:
Mrs. Motteux?
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Curiosities and wonders
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Whereas the Greenland white bear has afforded great satisfaction to the nobility and gentry : this is to give notice, that there is lately arrived, a curious female creature, of an amphibious kind, which feeds on raw flesh, and spouts out water like a whale : it has full lips, like an Aethiopian, and is bearded like a goat ... .

2239.
Wherein is shewed, that witches are, and what powre they have gaind (with gods permission) over us

Call Number:
Osborn fb224
Image Count:
7
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript tract, on paper, on the nature, extent, and prosecution of witchcraft by an unidentified author. Originally an addition to an unknown manuscript of theological commentary (the manuscript is headed "An addition to that in page 1077"), the tr...
Description:
With: Other manuscripts in the same hand, also intended as expansions of an unknown text, including "Of Atheisme, and the causes of it, allso how to roote them out"; "Certaine Remarkable Notes taken out of Doctor Ushers woorkes": "Of the soule of man,...
Subject (Geographic):
England and England.
Subject (Name):
Ussher, James, 1581-1656.
Subject (Topic):
Church of England, Doctrinal works, Religious literature, Trials (Witchcraft), and Witchcraft
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Wherein is shewed, that witches are, and what powre they have gaind (with gods permission) over us..., [ca. 1630].

2240.
Whitby psalter (fragment).

Published / Created:
1200-1299.
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 712.188
Container / Volume:
(File)
Image Count:
8
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript fragment (4 leaves), on parchment, of the volume known as the "Whitby Psalter."
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and England
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Psalters, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Whitby psalter (fragment).

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