Highly detailed accounts of both receipts and expenses (written from opposite ends of the volume) kept by the London merchant Abraham Chitty, brother of Alderman Thomas Chitty. Receipts include records for rents on his properties in London, Westminster and Surrey, as well as income from an interest in a brewhouse and insurance records for warehoused goods such as wine. The record of Chitty’s personal expenses is particularly complete and includes 6s. "for Pamila. 2 Vollums;" "about L1.4s.6d to see The Conscious Lovers" at Covent Garden Playhouse in 1739; and 14s. for "Chockolate, Mackoroons, carraways and oysters." Also included are regular payments for housekeeping expenses "For Mrs. Chitty;" purchases at auctions and sales, such as "a barometer;" and frequent carriage repairs.
Description:
Both pastedowns contain notes on birth and death dates for family members., Related material: Abraham Chitty, Letters (Osborn c608)., and Volume contains unnumbered pages, blank pages (not digitized), and text written in both directions; both sections of text paginated separately.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain --Economic conditions --18th century and Great Britain --Social life and customs --18th century
Subject (Name):
Chitty, Thomas
Subject (Topic):
Amusements --England, Chitty family, Cost and standard of living --England --18th century, Family --England --Domestic relations, Home economics --Accounting, Luxury, and Middle class --England --London --18th century
Manuscript on parchment and paper, written in two parts. Part I (parchment, written ca. 1490): 1) John of Rupescissa, De consideratione quinte essentie. 2) Descriptions of various herbs. Part II (paper, added ca. 1800): 3) Alchemy. 4) Recipes for making Prussian Blue, in Italian.
Description:
Binding: Late eighteenth century, probably French. Speckled calf, the sides undecorated, the repaired back in compartments with gilt tooling, the original title-stamping defective, speckled edges; restored by Carolyn Horton, November 1955., Part I: Headings in red throughout, that on f. 1r overwritten in an intense red ink covering earlier writing in pale red ink, the intense ink then used for the remainder of the headings in this portion of the codex, and the overwriting probably by the original scribe. Plain, small, roman capitals at beginnings of sections of the text in blue or green; a large initial "D" and a full border no f. 1r, as well as a smaller initial "L" at the beginning of the second book of text, foot of f. 25r, all finely illuminated in gold and colors in the "white-vine" style, the lower part of the border on f. 1r with a coat of arms consisting of a shield azure, a bear rampant or. Part II: Undecorated., and Script: Part I (ff. 1-40): Written by one hand in a neat, minute humanistic cursive. Part II (ff. 41-52): In an Italian hand.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy--Early works to 1800, Formulas, recipes, etc, Herbs--Early works to 1800, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Prussian blue
Unsigned autograph manuscript calculation of the cost of transporting a slave from Montevideo, Uruguay to Lima, Peru through Chile. Lists expenses including food, clothing, hire of mules, sea passage, totalling 113 pesos.
Description:
Phillipps MS 16220. Purchased from Alan G. Thomas on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 1980. and Title reads: Calculo del costo que por razon de dños y transporte tiene un negro comprado en Montevideo con destino para venderse en la Ciudad de Lima, conduciendolo por la via de Chile.
Anonymous musical MS., Consisting of a 4 part canon for 2 tenors and 2 bassi, set to the text To Father Son & Holy Ghost All Glory be therefore., and Written in the shape of a square to be read from four sides of the paper.
Dupin, Louise Marie Madeleine Fontaine, 1707-1779 Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778
Published / Created:
[17--]
Call Number:
GEN MSS VOL 225
Image Count:
27
Abstract:
Autograph manuscript draft of an essay on the Salic law, with additions and corrections in the hand of Madame Louise Dupin. This manuscript is one of a series of essays written by Rousseau at the request of Madame Dupin in preparation for a book which she intended to write on women's rights. The manuscripts are described in Anicet Sénéchal's "Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Secrétaire de Madame Dupin" (in Annales de la Société J.-J. Rousseau, vol. 36, 1963-1965, p. 243, item 28) to which has been added a "Note sur la dispersion des papiers Dupin" by B. Gagnebin.
Description:
Modern[?] foliation in pencil. Most versos blank, not digitized.
Documents relating to the estate of John Hallett, a landowner in Barbados, written in manuscript in unidentified hands, most dated at Barbados: copy of an agreement, dated 1700, relating to Hallett's marriage to Sarah Andrews; copy of Hallett's will, dated 1716; document granting power of attorney for Hallett's estate in Great Britain, signed by Edmund Sutton and William Cogen, 1716; judgement settling Hallett's estate, signed by Robert Raymond, Baron Raymond, attorney general, 1722; inventory of the estate of William Andrews, administered by Sarah Hales, former wife of John Hallett, 1726; and list of accounts of William Andrews, 1727-1729. and Documents relating to the government of the colony of Barbados, written in manuscript in unidentified hands: copy of an appointment made by Sir Matthew Lamb for a hearing on legislation, dated 1761; document containing copies of extracts from letters, dated 1765, regarding seizure of the ship Patient Mary; articles of agreement relating to the office of secretary and remembrancer of the exchequer court, signed by Andrew Stone, 1770; and ALS from Henry Crichlow to an unidentified recipient, regarding his partnership with James Elder in the office of deputy provost marshall general, 1772. Also present is a document signed by John Gay Alleyne, granting power of attorney, 1747.
Subject (Geographic):
Barbados--Politics and government--18th century and Barbados--Social conditions--18th century
Subject (Name):
Alleyne, John Gay, 1724-1801, Andrews, William, plantation owner, Cogen, William, Crichlow, Henry, Elder, James, Hales, Sarah, Hallett, John, Lamb, Matthew, Sir, 1705-1768, Patient Mary (Ship), Raymond, Robert Raymond, Baron, 1673-1733, Stone, Andrew, 1703-1773, and Sutton, Edmund