Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of several hundred poems on primarily moral or spiritual subjects, many taken from printed works by such poets as John Dryden, William Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, and Isaac...
Description:
Autograph on flyleaf: S. S. Toms.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Religious life and customs--18th century
Manuscript of a satirical novella concerning an imaginary voyage by the narrator to a distant planet inhabited by giants, during which he encounters the "Royal Academy" of the planet and the "Chief Minister" (modelled on Pitt the Younger).
Description:
First leaf inscribed: "Manuscript, 1784. By Walker. Bolton Street Piccadilly."
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William,--1759-1806 and Swift, Jonathan,--1667-1745--Influence
Subject (Topic):
English fiction--18th century, Fantasy fiction, English--Women authors, First person narrative, Satire, English--18th century, and Women authors--Great Britain
Autograph manuscript and print commonplace book. Collection of notes, engravings, and print cuttings concerning archery. Print items include announcements of meetings of the Robin Hood Society; playbills, reviews, and excerpts from stage adaptations o...
Description:
Binding: Full calf, gilt borders and spine with blind-tooled flowers and gilt title: Archery Scrap Book.
Subject (Name):
Robin Hood Society (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Archers--Women, Archery--Great Britain--History, and Robin Hood (Legendary character)--Drama
Bound autograph manuscript in an unidentified hand on the art of painting. Includes bibliographies of works on painting and on practical perspective. Excerpts published by Crillo Volkmar Machado in his Collecçao de memorias (Lisbon, 1823).
Description:
Bound in red full levant morocco, gold tooled, possibly for Manuel II, King of Portugal.
Subject (Name):
Manuel--II,--King of Portugal,--1889-1932--Ownership
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of 8 primarily melancholy poems copied from various authors, on such subjects as love, solitude, and loneliness. The collection contains Alexander Pope's Eloise to Abelard; Mrs. Madan's Abelard to Eloisa; ...
Description:
Binding: full parchment.
Subject (Name):
Héloïse,--1101-1164--Poetry, Hill, Aaron,--1685-1750, Madan, Judith,--1702-1781, and Pope, Alexander,--1688-1744
Subject (Topic):
Elegiac poetry, English, English poetry--18th century, Solitude--Poetry, and Women authors
Notes recorded between April 2nd and April 24th, 1822 on the Lancasterian plan of education (the 'Bell-Lancaster method' or 'Monitorial system'). Includes description of class levels, lesson plans, teacher duties, classroom organization and school adm...
Description:
Binding: paper wrappers with "Notes" in ink capitals on front cover.
Subject (Topic):
Education--North Carolina, Monitorial system of education--North Carolina, Schools--North Carolina, and Teaching--North Carolina
Holograph manuscript journal of a seven-week tour through France, Germany and Switzerland taken by Stocker, Apothecary to Guys Hospital, in the company of the Tupper family, including the 19 year old Martin Farquhar Tupper. He gives detailed descripti...
Subject (Geographic):
Alps --Description and travel, Durlach (Germany), France --Description and travel, Germany., and Karlsruhe (Germany)
Subject (Name):
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 --Influence, Stocker, Richard, and Tupper, Martin Farquhar, 1810-1889
Subject (Topic):
Grand tours (Education), Tourism --Europe, and Travelers’ writings, English
Also present in Box 2 is an unrelated printed indenture with manuscript annotations, dated September 2, 1799, transferring 100 acres of land in Ontario County, New York, from Oliver Phelps of Hartford, Connecticut, to Oliver Ellsworth of Windsor, Conn...
Alternative Title:
List of money paid on a/c of Turnpike
Description:
Gift of the estate of Delia Lyman Porter, 1934.
Subject (Geographic):
Hartford and New-Haven Turnpike (Conn.)
Subject (Name):
Ellsworth, Oliver,--1745-1807, Hartford and New-Haven Turnpike Company, Hillhouse, James,--1754-1832, Phelps, Oliver,--1749-1809, and Wadsworth, Jeremiah,--1743-1804
Subject (Topic):
Roads--Connecticut, Toll roads--Connecticut, and Transportation--Connecticut
Also present in Box 2 is an unrelated printed indenture with manuscript annotations, dated September 2, 1799, transferring 100 acres of land in Ontario County, New York, from Oliver Phelps of Hartford, Connecticut, to Oliver Ellsworth of Windsor, Conn...
Alternative Title:
Hartford & New Haven Turnpike Company: list of shareholders and Rec'd June 1806 of Simeon Baldwin Treasurer of the Hartford and New Haven Turnpike Company the sums annexed to our names respectively, being for the second dividend on the stock in our names and
Description:
Gift of the estate of Delia Lyman Porter, 1934.
Subject (Geographic):
Hartford and New-Haven Turnpike (Conn.)
Subject (Name):
Ellsworth, Oliver,--1745-1807, Hartford and New-Haven Turnpike Company, Hillhouse, James,--1754-1832, Phelps, Oliver,--1749-1809, and Wadsworth, Jeremiah,--1743-1804
Subject (Topic):
Roads--Connecticut, Toll roads--Connecticut, and Transportation--Connecticut
Also present in Box 2 is an unrelated printed indenture with manuscript annotations, dated September 2, 1799, transferring 100 acres of land in Ontario County, New York, from Oliver Phelps of Hartford, Connecticut, to Oliver Ellsworth of Windsor, Conn...
Alternative Title:
[Dividend order and receipt for Dwight Foster]
Description:
Gift of the estate of Delia Lyman Porter, 1934.
Subject (Geographic):
Hartford and New-Haven Turnpike (Conn.)
Subject (Name):
Ellsworth, Oliver,--1745-1807, Hartford and New-Haven Turnpike Company, Hillhouse, James,--1754-1832, Phelps, Oliver,--1749-1809, and Wadsworth, Jeremiah,--1743-1804
Subject (Topic):
Roads--Connecticut, Toll roads--Connecticut, and Transportation--Connecticut
Also present in Box 2 is an unrelated printed indenture with manuscript annotations, dated September 2, 1799, transferring 100 acres of land in Ontario County, New York, from Oliver Phelps of Hartford, Connecticut, to Oliver Ellsworth of Windsor, Conn...
Alternative Title:
[Receipt for Henry Hartley's work on Sugarloaf Hill &c.] and James Hillhouse pd to Joel Cole for work at the well
Description:
Gift of the estate of Delia Lyman Porter, 1934.
Subject (Geographic):
Hartford and New-Haven Turnpike (Conn.)
Subject (Name):
Ellsworth, Oliver,--1745-1807, Hartford and New-Haven Turnpike Company, Hillhouse, James,--1754-1832, Phelps, Oliver,--1749-1809, and Wadsworth, Jeremiah,--1743-1804
Subject (Topic):
Roads--Connecticut, Toll roads--Connecticut, and Transportation--Connecticut
Marriage contract, manuscript, ink and paint on paper, dated 9th of Nisan, 5665 (1905) at Dameśeḳ. The text is written within an arched gilded border in the bottom half of the document. Above it and on both sides are painted large vases with flower...
Alternative Title:
כתובה : דמשק, סוריה, 5665 ניסן 9.
Description:
Bride: Ester ha-mitḳaret Tirah bat ha-manoaḥ Nibtsah Eliyah.
Subject (Geographic):
Damascus (Syria)--Religious life and customs
Subject (Name):
Buqqaʻi, Raḥamim ben Yosef, Ester bat Nibtsah Eliyah, אסתר בת ניבצאל אליה, and בוקאעי, רחמים בן יוסף
Subject (Topic):
Antenuptial contracts (Jewish law) and Ketubah--Syria--Damascus
Marriage contract, manuscript, ink and paint on vellum, dated the 7th of Shevaṭ 5614 at Firentsi (1854). A rectangular ketubah with the text written in square Hebrew letters typical of Italian-Jewish scribes in nineteenth century Italy. According to ...
Alternative Title:
כתובה : פירנצה, איטליה, 5614, שבט 7.
Description:
Bride: Leʼah bat Yaʻaḳov Lampronṭi.
Subject (Geographic):
Florence (Italy)--Religious life and customs
Subject (Name):
Lampronṭi, Leʼah bat Yaʻaḳov, Piazza, Reʼuven ben Mosheh, לאמפרונטי, לאה בת יעקב, and פיאצא, ראובן בן משה
Subject (Topic):
Ketubah--Italy--Florence and Prenuptial agreements (Jewish law)
Marriage contract, manuscript, ink and paint on paper, dated 27 Elul 5627 at Gulpadgan (1867). The document is written in semi-block letters. The calligraphy above the text of the ketubah is the phrase "If I forget thee, O Jerusalem" (Psalm 137:5) and...
Alternative Title:
כתובה : גולפייגן, איראן, 5627, 27 אלול.
Description:
Bride: Bibi bat Babai.
Subject (Geographic):
Gulpāyigān (Iran)--Religious life and customs
Subject (Name):
Yaʻaḳov ben Yosef, ביבי בת באבאי, and יעקב בן יוסף
Subject (Topic):
Antenuptial contracts (Jewish law) and Ketubah--Iran--Gulpāyigān
Marriage contract, manuscript, ink and paint on vellum, dated 12th of Adar I 5570 at Liṿorno (1810). The bride and groom are descendants of Sephardic (Spanish) Jews who settled in Italy. Besides the standard wording, the text includes the statement t...
Alternative Title:
כתובה : ליוורנו, איטליה, 12 אדר א 5570.
Description:
Bride: ha-almanah Ḳolomba bat ha-manoaḥ Mosheh me-Ḳapuʼah.
Subject (Geographic):
Livorno (Italy)--Religious life and customs
Subject (Name):
Capua, Colomba bat Mosheh, me-, Corcos, Isak ben Binyamin, Medinah, Yaʻaḳov de ben Yitsḥaḳ Ḥayim, Priʼas, Yitsḥaḳ Cardoso, מדינה, יעקב די בן יצחק חיים, פריאס, יצחק קארדוסו, קאפואה, קולומבא בת משה מ-, and קורקוס, יצחק בן בנימין
Subject (Topic):
Ketubah--Italy--Livorno and Prenuptial agreements (Jewish law)
Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 41-1202 or 3 Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 41-1202 or 3. Haft paykar Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 41-1202 or 3. Iskandarnāmah Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 41-1202 or 3. Khusraw va Shīrīn Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 41-1202 or 3. Layli va Majnūn Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 41-1202 or 3. Makhzan al-asrār
Published / Created:
[18--?].
Call Number:
Persian MSS +86
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Five epic poems (Khusraw va Shīrīn, Makhzan al-asrār, Laylī va Majnūn, Haft paykar, Iskandarnāmah).
Description:
Ethé, H. India Office, 972.
Subject (Topic):
Persian language and literature--Poetry and Persian poetry
Manuscript, in an unidentified hand. The original manuscript dated Kōryaku 2 [1380].
Alternative Title:
Kōfukujikaishomokudaisaisaihikitsuke, 興福寺会所目代細々引付, and 興福寺會所目代細々引付, 康暦2 [1380].
Description:
"Original fiscal documents and records of Kōfukuji. Written on the reverse side of letters. 1380" (K. Asakawa. "Gifts of the Yale Association of Japan," 1945).
Subject (Geographic):
Japan --History --To 1600 --Sources, Kōfukuji (Nara-shi, Japan) --History --Sources, and 興福寺 (Nara-shi, Japan) --History --Sources
The papers consist of approximately 85 manuscript poems written by, to or for Lady Elizabeth Compton and other family members and a personal account book kept by James Compton from 1716 to 1734. The poems include birthday and wedding poems; elegies on...
Alternative Title:
Account book
Description:
James Compton, Earl of Northampton (1687-1754) married the heiress Elizabeth Shirley in 1716; she became Baroness Ferrers of Chartley in her own right in the following year. The couple moved into Compton Wynates, and extensively restored and altered t...
Subject (Name):
Compton family, Rushout, Anne Compton,--Lady,--1693-1766, and Townshend, Charlotte Compton,--Viscountess,--d. 1770
Subject (Topic):
Amusements--England, Cost and standard of living--England--18th century, and Family--England--Domestic relations
Manuscript copy, in an unidentified seventeenth-century hand, of a text of Macbeth very similar to the Sir William Davenant version published in 1674. Ten pages supplied in a modern hand.
Description:
Binding: 18th century marbled boards; contemporary cloth case.
Subject (Name):
D'Avenant, William,--Sir,--1606-1668, Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616, Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616.--Macbeth, and Turner, William,--Sir,--1615-1692--Ownership
Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852 Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1809-1888
Published / Created:
1877
Call Number:
Im Sh53 +W825a
Image Count:
8
Description:
Memoirs of the life of ... Richard Brinsley Sheridan ... London :Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825. 26 cm. inlaid to crown folio in 4 v.; extra-illustrated.
Emolument Certificates. This certificate of emolument was issued to Kang Sin in the 11th month of the 19th year of the King Sunjo (1819). As with Nokpong Chŭngsŏ (YAJ K2.1), there is no indication of salary class.
Alternative Title:
Nokbong Jeungseo, Nokpong chŭngsŏ, 녹봉증서, and 祿俸證書, 1819.
Description:
Housed in case with YAJ K2.1.
Subject (Topic):
Korean manuscripts and Yale Association of Japan Collection
Processus mysterii magni philosophicus or, An open entrance to the great mysteries of the ancient philosophers. Deilver'd in plaine and linear words in my labours to my children for their benefit and instruction, &c. Written for fear of death before I finish y.e same by me Wiliam Yarworth
Description:
Not published.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy --Early works to 1800 and Alchemy--England
Long, original poem in four parts, inscribed "unfinished" at the end; following the poem are a series of "Extracts From a Plea for Religion and the Sacred Writings by the Rev. David Simpson, M.A. Minister of Christ Church, Macclesfield, 1808. Addresse...
Manuscript, in a single hand, of 8 descriptions in poetry and prose of William Shenstone's Leasowes estate, each titled "Shenstone's Walks" and numbered 1 to 8. Addressed to "Zattoo," the narrator leads the reader through various walks on the grounds,...
Description:
Printed description of the manuscript included with the collection.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Social life and customs--18th century and Leasowes Garden (Halesowen, England)
Subject (Name):
Hull, Thomas,--1728-1808 and Shenstone, William,--1714-1763
Subject (Topic):
Architectural inscriptions, Elegiac verse, English, English poetry--18th century, Gardens, English, and Gardens--Great Britain
Manuscript, in an unidentified hand. The original manuscript dated 元亀4 [1573]. インク写し.
Alternative Title:
Genki yonen rokugatsu jūhachinichi Shimogyō-chū deiri no chō., Genki yonen Shimogyō-chū deiri no chō, Genkiyonenshimogyōchūdeirinochō, 下京中出入帳, 明治40 [1907]., and 元亀四年下京中出入之帳 Yale copy has title :
Description:
Manuscript, in an unidentified hand. The original manuscript dated Genki 4 [1573]. Inku utsushi.
Subject (Geographic):
Kyoto (Japan)
Subject (Topic):
Japanese Manuscript Collection (Yale University) and Japanese manuscripts
Bound with 4 other titles. To view other titles search by call number: Ig 6c 676B.
Publisher:
Printed by Andr. Clark, for J. Martyn, and H. Herringman, at the Bell in St. Paul's Church-yard, and at the Blue Anchor in the lower walk of the New Exchange
Holograph journal, illustrated, describing a brief trip from Weymouth to Guernsey, Jersey, Nantes and the Loire valley. The opening of the diary details sights seen in the Channel Islands, including the fort at Guernsey; the "druid's altars" (dolmens)...
Description:
Annotated on front cover: Guernsey-Nantes. 28 May 1829/11 June.
Subject (Geographic):
Channel Islands--Description and travel, France--Description and travel, Loire River Valley (France)--Description and travel, Nantes (France)--Buildings, structures, etc, and Nantes (France)--Description and travel
Subject (Topic):
Travelers' writings, English and Watercolor painting--19th century
Manuscript, in a single secretary hand, of a collection of several dozen Scottish Presybterian tracts in English and verses in Latin. The collection includes David Hume's De unione tractatus secundus, 1605; William Bradshaw's Treatise of the nature an...
Description:
Binding: limp parchment; leather ties.
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland--Politics and government--1625-1649 and Scotland--Religious life and customs
Subject (Name):
Hume, David,--1560?-1630?, Knox, John,--1505-1572, and Scaliger, Joseph Juste,--1540-1609
Subject (Topic):
Latin poetry, Presbyterian Church--Doctrinal and controversial works, and Presbyterian Church--Scotland
18th-century poems, songs, and ballads, by various authors, including some by Alexander Pope (1688-1744), Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), [Richard] Steele (1672-1729), Benjamin Hoadly (1676-1761), Nicholas Howe, and John Wilmot, 2nd earl of Rochester (164...
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of 39 primarily sentimental and occasional poems on such subjects as friendship, death, solitude, nature, and women's beauty, by various authors, including Edward Jerningham, David Garrick, Hannah More, Wi...
Description:
Autograph inside front cover: Anne Heigham 1781.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Social life and customs--18th century
Subject (Name):
Garrick, David,--1717-1779, Hayley, William,--1745-1821, Heigham, Anne, Jerningham, Edward,--1737-1812, More, Hannah,--1745-1833, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley,--1751-1816
Subject (Topic):
Elegiac poetry, English, English poetry--18th century, Occasional poetry, English, Sentimentalism in literature, Theater--Great Britain--18th century, and Women authors
Manuscript, in multiple hands, of a collection of about 25 primarily satirical or lighthearted poems, many on the subject of women and love. Poem titles include Damon to Philomel; Advice to a lady, by George, 1st baron Lyttleton; On Sr Isaac Newton; U...
Alternative Title:
A receipt to make an epigram; said to be wrote by Lord Chesterfield
Description:
Autograph inside front cover: Mary Dyott 10 Febry 1792.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Religious life and customs--19th century and Great Britain--Social life and customs--19th century
Subject (Name):
Dyott, Mary--Autograph, Ickworth, John Hervey,--Baron,--1696-1743, Lyttelton, George Lyttelton,--Baron,--1709-1773, and Montagu, Mary Wortley,--Lady,--1689-1762
Subject (Topic):
English poetry--18th century, Rebuses, Verse satire, English, Women authors, and Women--Conduct of life
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of fifteen 18th-century satirical poems, epigrams, and epitaphs. The poems are primarily political and satirize the royal family and the ministry of Sir Robert Walpole, 1st earl of Orford. The volume inclu...
Description:
Binding: panelled speckled calf; gilt decoration.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Court and courtiers, Great Britain--Politics and government--1702-1714, and Great Britain--Politics and government--1714-1760
Subject (Name):
Caroline,--Queen, consort of George II, King of Great Britain,--1683-1737, George--II,--King of Great Britain,--1683-1760, Ickworth, John Hervey,--Baron,--1696-1743, Marlborough, John Churchill,--Duke of,--1650-1722, and Walpole, Robert,--Earl of Orford,--1676-1745
Subject (Topic):
English poetry--18th century, English wit and humor, Epigrams, English, Epitaphs, English, Political poetry, English, and Verse satire, English
Collection of English verse, epitaphs, copies of letters, and descriptions of voyages to Germany; contents include: "A Journey to Duderstadt, with a description of the Ceremony of The Nuns taking The Veil, as performed there, ... Sunday 13th June: 175...
Text of a letter written by the Jewish false Messiah Shabbetai Tzevi in the summer of 1666 and copied by the Doenmeh (or Dönme) sect. According to the scholar Yaron Ben-Naʾeh, this copy was probably written around 1800. In this previously unknown let...
Publisher:
s.n.,
Subject (Name):
Shabbethai Tzevi,--1626-1676 and שבתי צבי,--1626-1676
Autograph manuscript collection of copies of receipts, etc. from the papers of Robert Dodsley (1703-1764); also contains notes on William Shakespeare (1564-1616) and George Steevens (1736-1800).
Alternative Title:
For the essay on metre
Subject (Name):
Dodsley, Robert,--1703-1764, Malone, Edmond,--1741-1812, Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation, and Steevens, George,--1736-1800
Collection of Jacobite verses; contains approximately sixty poems chiefly referring to political events in 1714-17; there is one poem on the battle at Gladsmair (1745).
