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2202.
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).

2203.
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

2204.
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

2205.
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

2206.
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

2207.
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

2208.
Vitae sanctorum (fragment)

Published / Created:
[between 1100 and 1125]
Call Number:
Takamiya MS 73
Container / Volume:
(File) (Oversize)
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
unspecified
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)

2209.
Vitae sanctorum (fragment).

Published / Created:
[between 1150 and 1250?]
Call Number:
Takamiya MS 130
Container / Volume:
(File) (Oversize)
Image Count:
4
Resource Type:
unspecified
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).

2210.
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

2211.
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].

2212.
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 ... .

2213.
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].

2214.
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).

2215.
World chronicle

Published / Created:
[ca. 1450]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 495
Container / Volume:
Box
Image Count:
832
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper. The compiler of this unidentified world chronicle cites as sources Sallust, Suetonius, Josephus, Orosius, Macrobius, Eusebius, Origen, Eutropius, Sigebertus, Hugh of Fleury, and many others. The chronicle concludes at the end of t...
Description:
Written in the middle of the 15th century, perhaps ca. 1456 when the codex was given to John Capgrave by Jacobus de Oppenheim. Capgrave was elected in August of 1455 to another 2-year term as head of the English Augustinian Province. In 1457 he resume...
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and World history
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > World chronicle

2216.
Wundarzt-Ordnung

Published / Created:
November 22, 1578.
Call Number:
Manuscript 23 vault
Image Count:
36
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper, in unidentified hand, containing the Wundarzt-Ordnung or Statutes for the surgeons of the city of Regensburg in 1578. Folio 14v is a supplement dated 6 February 1580
Alternative Title:
Regensburg (Germany). Wundarzt-Ordnung
Imperial town of Regensburg : Wundarzt Ordnung of 1578
Wundarzt-Ordnung, 1578
Description:
In German.
Subject (Topic):
Surgery, Practice, Medicine, Public health, Surgeons, and Professional ethics
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Wundarzt-Ordnung

2217.
Young Bateman's ghost, or, a godly warning to all maidens, : by the example of God's judgment shewn

Published / Created:
[1760?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 2
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Bateman's tragedy
Godly warning to all maidens
Description:
Date of publication from ESTC.
Publisher:
s.n.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Topic):
Broadsides, Ballads, English, Unrequited love, Suicide, Ghosts, Man-woman relationships, Nooses, Suicides, Demons, and Bedrooms
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Young Bateman's ghost, or, a godly warning to all maidens, : by the example of God's judgment shewn upon one German's wife, of Clifton, in the county of Nottingham, who lately lying in child bed, was borne away, and never heard of after. Tune Flying fame

2218.
[Album of trade cards and invitations], between 1733 and 1769

Call Number:
Folio 66 733 Al325
Image Count:
77
Abstract:
Collection of mostly English engraved trade cards for a wide variety of London businesses, especially those advertising goods and services relating to household furnishings, men and women's attire and accessories such as gloves, boots, and swords, mer...
Description:
Collection title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
England, London, and London (England)
Subject (Topic):
Retail trade and Commerce
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Album of trade cards and invitations], between 1733 and 1769

2220.
[Composite atlas of Europe].

Published / Created:
[1677-1692]
Call Number:
Folio 469
Image Count:
2
Description:
A composite atlas of 13 maps, hand colored, issued between 1677 and 1692, made primarily by Nicolaes Visscher II (1635-1701), including one by Nicolaes Visscher I (1618-1679), two maps by Guillaume Sanson, and one map by Justus Danckerts.
Subject (Geographic):
Europe
Subject (Topic):
Atlases, Dutch
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Composite atlas of Europe].

2225.
[English cathedrals and monuments] [graphic].

Published / Created:
[between 1780 and 1787?]
Call Number:
Folio 633 780 En58
Image Count:
26
Abstract:
An album of engravings of English cathedrals, sepluchres, cenotaph, family seals, and other antiquities
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England.
Subject (Topic):
Buildings, structures, etc, Antiquities, Churches, Cemeteries, Tombs & sepulchral monuments, and Effigies
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [English cathedrals and monuments] [graphic].

2226.
[Este tarocchi cards].

Published / Created:
[1450?]
Call Number:
PLAYING CARDS GEN 966
Image Count:
32
Resource Type:
text and still image
Description:
BEIN PLAYING CARDS GEN 966: Imperfect: 16 cards only. From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Italy
Subject (Topic):
Tarot cards
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Este tarocchi cards].

2227.
[Frost Fair souvenir, 1740] : Mr. Phineas Pateshall

Published / Created:
printed upon the Thames, January 12, 1740.
Call Number:
File 646 740 F939
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Alternative Title:
Noble art and mystery of printing was first invented by John Guttenburg a soldier in the year of our Lord 1440, and brought into England by John Islip, an abbot of Westminster, in the year 1447
Description:
Title from dealer's invoice; remainder of title from item.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and London
Subject (Topic):
Fairs and Rivers
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Frost Fair souvenir, 1740] : Mr. Phineas Pateshall

2228.
[Globe gores forgery after Martin Waldseemüller].

Published / Created:
[early 20th century]
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1486 (Oversize)
Container / Volume:
Box (Oversize)
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A photomechanical print probably created during the early twentieth century as a forgery that reproduces twelve gores for a globe published in 1507 by Martin Waldseemüller based on his wall map, Universalis Cosmographia (1507).
Description:
A gore is a roughly triangular or wedge-shaped segment of an object, as found in domes and globes, where a sector of a curved surface, or a curved surface that lies between two close lines of longitude on a globe, and flattened to a plane surface with...
Subject (Geographic):
America
Subject (Name):
Hauslab, Franz, 1798-1883., Vespucci, Amerigo, 1451-1512., and Waldseemüller, Martin, 1470-1519
Subject (Topic):
Forgeries, Globes, World maps, Discovery and exploration, and Name
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Globe gores forgery after Martin Waldseemüller].

2230.
[Horned animal 'about the size of a bullock'] [art original].

Published / Created:
[not before 1774]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B935 805 folder 20 Box 2
Collection Title:
[Scrapbook of drawings].
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Watercolor drawing depicting a large ungulate, probably a wildebeest (gnu). Drawing could have been made from a captive or preserved specimen
Description:
Title from local catalog card; title based on descriptive note in Richard Bull's hand on a separate sheet (7.8 x 18.7 cm) that accompanies the drawing: This animal, very rarely to be met with, was taken in the year 1774 in land in Africa, latitude 25 ...
Subject (Topic):
Biological illustration
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Horned animal 'about the size of a bullock'] [art original].

2231.
[Horned animal 'about the size of a bullock'] [art original].

Published / Created:
[not before 1774]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B935 805 folder 20 Box 2
Collection Title:
[Scrapbook of drawings].
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Watercolor drawing depicting a large ungulate, probably a wildebeest (gnu). Drawing could have been made from a captive or preserved specimen
Description:
Title from local catalog card; title based on descriptive note in Richard Bull's hand on a separate sheet (7.8 x 18.7 cm) that accompanies the drawing: This animal, very rarely to be met with, was taken in the year 1774 in land in Africa, latitude 25 ...
Subject (Topic):
Biological illustration
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Horned animal 'about the size of a bullock'] [art original].

2232.
[Ibrahim Müteferrika's engraved map of the Persian Empire, showing also the Caucasus, southern

Published / Created:
1729?]
Call Number:
534 1729
Image Count:
2
Alternative Title:
Mameluke Iran
Description:
BEIN 534 1729: Preliminary record.
Publisher:
Ibrahim Müteferrika
Subject (Geographic):
Iran
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Ibrahim Müteferrika's engraved map of the Persian Empire, showing also the Caucasus, southern Russia, Transcaucasian Turkestan, Iraq and part of Anatolia ... A.H. 1142 - A.D. 1729/30] [cartographic material].

2233.
[Jiangxi Yuanzhou Fu tu].

Published / Created:
[not after 1624]
Call Number:
Lanman 5626 1624
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
cartographic image
Alternative Title:
Map of Yuanzhou Fu, Jiangxi Province : prefecture and 3 counties
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Yichun (Jiangxi Sheng, China), Wanzai Xian (China), and Fenyi Xian (China)
Subject (Topic):
Maps
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Jiangxi Yuanzhou Fu tu]., [江西袁州府圖].

2235.
[Pocket terrestrial globe] [cartographic material].

Published / Created:
[approximately 1679]
Call Number:
Globe 41
Image Count:
11
Resource Type:
cartographic three dimensional form
Description:
BEIN Globe 41: From the library of Stephen F. Gates. Accompanied by display plate.
Publisher:
Sumptibus J. Moxon
Subject (Geographic):
Earth (Planet)
Subject (Name):
Drake, Francis, approximately 1540-1596 and Cavendish, Thomas, 1555?-1592
Subject (Topic):
Travel, Maps, and Constellations
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Pocket terrestrial globe] [cartographic material].

2236.
[R]ogatu pluri[m]o[rum] i[n] opu[m] nu[m]mo[rum] ege[n]tiu[m] appotecas refuta[n]tiu[m] occasio[n]e

Published / Created:
[approximately 1486]
Call Number:
Incunabula H-61 (Goff)
Image Count:
360
Resource Type:
text
Alternative Title:
Herbarius
Rogatu plurimorum in opum nummorum egentium appotecas refutantium occasione illa quia necessaria ibidem ad corpus egrum spectantium sunt cara ...
Herbarius latinus
Description:
Title from incipit on leaf pi2r.
Publisher:
Jean Bonhomme
Subject (Topic):
Herbs, Botany, Medical, and Materia medica
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > [R]ogatu pluri[m]o[rum] i[n] opu[m] nu[m]mo[rum] ege[n]tiu[m] appotecas refuta[n]tiu[m] occasio[n]e illa q[uia] necessaria ibide[m] ad corp[us] egru[m] specta[n]tiu[m] sunt cara ...

2237.
[Trappola deck].

Published / Created:
[1780?]
Call Number:
AUS76
Image Count:
5
Resource Type:
text and still image
Description:
BEIN AUS76: Imperfect: AB, K, JS; JB; K, JD; C, JC; 9B; 2D; 8, 7C wanting. From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Austria
Subject (Topic):
Playing cards
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Trappola deck].

2239.
[Treatises in Anglo-Norman verse].

Published / Created:
[circa 1300-1349]
Call Number:
Osborn a56
Container / Volume:
Vol
Image Count:
154
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript, on parchment, in two Gothic bookhands, containig copies of Walter of Biblesworth (Bibbesworth), Le tretiz ff.1-27v; Nicholas Bozon (c.1280-1320), Les proverbes de bons enseignements, here called Liber de proverbiis sapientie, ff.28-40v; Hu...
Description:
In Anglo-Norman French with Middle English glosses and annotations.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Biblesworth, Walter de.
Subject (Topic):
Administration of estates, Anglo-Norman dialect, Chivalry, Conduct of life, French language, Study and teaching, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Treatises in Anglo-Norman verse].

2240.
[Uncut sheet of 18th century French game cards depicting personalities and events of the era of

Published / Created:
[1710]
Call Number:
FRAsheet190
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
text and still image
Description:
BEIN FRAsheet190: From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Topic):
Playing cards
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Uncut sheet of 18th century French game cards depicting personalities and events of the era of Napoleon III].

2241.
[Verse and prose in Latin and Middle English].

Published / Created:
[ca. 1450-1475]
Call Number:
Takamiya MS 94
Image Count:
449
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Manuscript, on vellum and paper, in several hands, containing a collection of texts in Latin and Middle English. Almost two-thirds of the volume consists of an untitled collection of Latin sermons, followed by a Latin verse text, Stimulus compassionis...
Description:
In Latin and Middle English.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451? and Prester John (Legendary character)
Subject (Topic):
Conduct of life, Devotional literature, English (Middle), English literature, English poetry, English prose literature, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sermons, Latin
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Verse and prose in Latin and Middle English].

2243.
al-Sharḥ lil-Risālah al-waḍʻīyah. -- [1525].

Call Number:
Arabic MSS 550
Image Count:
3
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Commentary on al-Risālah al-waḍʻīyah (on the expression of ideas) of ʻAḍud al-Dīn al-Ījī.
Alternative Title:
Sharḥ al-Risālah al-waḍʻīyah
شرح الرسالة الوضعية
Description:
The ḥamdalah is the same as in Berlin catalog 5311 (7) (variant form of al-Qūshjī's commentary) but the incipit is different.
Subject (Name):
Ījī, ʻAḍud al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad, -1355?
Subject (Topic):
Arab logic and Logic, Medieval
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > al-Sharḥ lil-Risālah al-waḍʻīyah. -- [1525]., الشرح للرسالة الوضعية. -- [1525].

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