Genre: Early works to 1800 - Yale University Library Search Results

Published / Created:: 1467.
Call Number:: Manuscript 22 Vault
Image Count:: 84
Resource Type:: text
Abstract:: Manuscript on paper, in two different hands, containing Joannes de Sacro Bosco's De sphaera mundi and Additiones (1r-22v) and Gherardo da Cremona's Theorica planetarum (23r-38v). First hand is unidentified; second hand, Jacobus de Milisapris, has copi...
Alternative Title:: Tractatus de spera de Iohannis de sacro busco. Theorica planetarum
Tractatus de sphaera / written by Jacobus de Milisapris de Porturraris at Padua ; finished "at 2 P.M. on 9 September 1467"
Description:: In Latin.
Subject (Topic):: Astronomy and Science, Medieval
Found in:: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Tractatus de spera d[e] Ioha[nn]is de sac[ro] busco. Theorica planetaru[m].

Call Number:: Quarto 66 726 T675
Image Count:: 184
Abstract:: A collection of English engraved advertisements, trade cards, invitations to society functions, and bookplates probably compiled around 1758 by F. [ or T.?] Legge of St. James's Market and mounted in an album, with five later items laid-in. In some ca...
Description:: Title from spine.
Subject (Geographic):: England, London, and London (England)
Subject (Topic):: Retail trade and Commerce
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Trade tokens and bookplates, 1705-1799 (bulk 1757-1758).

Call Number:: Eliz 294
Image Count:: 168
Resource Type:: text
Abstract:: Manuscript on paper, in a single secretary hand, corrected, containing the text of a school drama on the life of Oedipus. The text, mainly in fourteener couplets, draws heavily on Alexander Neville's verse translation of Seneca's Oedipus (1581), and a...
Description:: In English.
Subject (Geographic):: Newcastle upon Tyne (England)
Subject (Name):: Lyly, John, 1554?-1606, Neville, Alexander, 1544-1614., Newton, Thomas, 1542?-1607., Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D., and Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599
Subject (Topic):: Influence, College and school drama, English, Endowed public schools (Great Britain), English drama, and English poetry
Found in:: Elizabethan Club > Tragedie called Oedipus, [circa 1596-1603].

Published / Created:: [1794]
Call Number:: Folio 75 H67 800 v.3 (Oversize)
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: The Virgin, seated in the clouds, feeds a naked child with irradiated head into the large hopper of a windmill; wafers, the product of the mill, fall onto a patera held up by a short figure in a white surplice; a stout priest, intended as a Roman Cath...
Description:: Title etched below image.
Publisher:: R. Faulder and J. Egerton
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain
Subject (Name):: Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint. and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):: Transubstantiation, Communion, Grinding machines, and Priests
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Transubstantiation satirized [graphic]

Published / Created:: [1794]
Call Number:: Hogarth 794.00.00.38 Box 120
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: The Virgin, seated in the clouds, feeds a naked child with irradiated head into the large hopper of a windmill; wafers, the product of the mill, fall onto a patera held up by a short figure in a white surplice; a stout priest, intended as a Roman Cath...
Description:: Title etched below image.
Publisher:: R. Faulder and J. Egerton
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain
Subject (Name):: Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint. and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):: Transubstantiation, Communion, Grinding machines, and Priests
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Transubstantiation satirized [graphic]

Call Number:: Osborn c523 1
Image Count:: 95
Resource Type:: text
Abstract:: Manuscript of a travel diary which opens with the writer already in Rome on December 11, 1765, documents his sojourn in Italy, and concludes with a journey to Vienna, Berlin, and finally Potsdam one year later. The unidentified author describes the ar...
Description:: Bookplate: Ver Hayden de Lancey of the Middle Temple and Grey's Inn.
Subject (Geographic):: Europe, Italy, and Naples (Italy)
Subject (Topic):: Military art and science, Travelers' writings, English, Travel diaries, Description and travel, and History
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Travel diary, 1764-1765

Published / Created:: [between 1300 and 1400]
Call Number:: Beinecke MS 127
Image Count:: 82
Resource Type:: unspecified
Abstract:: Manuscript on parchment of 1) Moamin, Treatise on Falconry, parts 1-3. 2) Treatise of Dancus rex. 3) Treatise of Guillelmus falconarius. Artt. 4-5: Anonymous treatises on horses. 6) Moamin, part 4, on dogs
Alternative Title:: Moamin
Description:: In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):: Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):: Animal culture, Dogs, Falconry, Horses, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Treatise on falconry, etc

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

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

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