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 Watts. Other entries include epitaphs and psalms. The volume also contains some of Hamby's own religious verses as well as verses by several of his Norfolk acquaintances. The work is prefaced by an introduction which declares that although a preface seems needless when the volume is meant for "one private person," the preface will be useful to those who will read the work after his decease. The preface provides an autobiography of Hamby, focusing on his development as a writer.
Description:
Autograph on flyleaf: S. S. Toms., Autograph on title page: M. Toms., Binding: contemporary full morocco with gilt and blind-stamped decoration. Title on spine: Manuscript Poetry., Marbled endpapers., and Pasted in: engraved portrait of Nathaniel Hamby, "de Wymondham in Com. Norfoliciae."
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.", For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., and Spine title: "MS de Lady Mary Walker."
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
Manuscript containing approximately 60 pieces, most of which are drafts of verses by Thomas Hull, some heavily revised, including verses in memory of his friend William Shenstone; "Address to Solitude, a Cantata"; "Irregular Ode Written in a Garden"; and "Ode to Health". Other material includes poems by others copied by Hull; a letter about Shenstone by E. Baker; and engravings of Shenstone and Leasowes.
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 of the legend of Robin Hood; announcements of equestrian archery shows and Robin Hood re-enactments. Also includes clippings of news items, short poems, an account of William Tell, an editorial on women archers and membership in the Toxopholitic Society, with a watercolor depicting a woman archer. Engravings of: the Liberty of Switzerland; the dress of royal archers (1795); men's fashion and archery costumes (in color, 1829).
Description:
Binding: Full calf, gilt borders and spine with blind-tooled flowers and gilt title: Archery Scrap Book., Bookplate: Joseph Haslewood., Inscription on front pastedown: J.W. Remington Wilson. Ent in Cat., Items dated in ink, from 1724-1829., Paper watermarks: 1799, 1813, 1818., and The book later belonged to John Matthew Gutch (1776-1861) who added to it; Gutch later used the book as the basis for an article in The Reliquary (XIX [1787-1789]: 157-160) where he wrote "Some of the following vestiges of English archery are contained in a commonplace book formerly belonging to Mr. Haslewood, collected by him as an appendix to a meditated edition of Robin Hood Ballads; others have been collected by the present writer" (The Reliquary XIX: 157); this description is copied on a tipped-in leaf in the volume. A few of the items mentioned by Gutch are no longer present in the volume.
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
David Garrick papers from the Thomas Rackett collection, 1741-1776.
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 33
Image Count:
6
Abstract:
Letters, manuscript poems, financial papers, and other documents relating to David Garrick and his tenure as manager of the Drury Lane Theatre. Letters include a lengthy 1751 letter from Richard Berenger describing theaters and operas in Paris; transcripts of two letters from Garrick to Francis Hayman about plans for a series of prints from Shakespeare; and a 1767 letter from the actor Patrick O'Brien discussing his "exiled" life in New York. Manuscript verse consists of drafts of several prologues and epilogues, and copies of comic epigrams and songs. Other papers include a record of receipts for the first season of Drury Lane; "A Scheme for a Theatrical Society;" a list of characters performed by Garrick in 1741-42; and a copy of "Mr. Taylor's address to young students and lovers of landscape painting."
Alternative Title:
Drury Lane Theatre documents
Description:
David Garrick (1717-1779) was the most celebrated Shakespearean actor of his time and the successful manager of the Drury Lane Theatre for almost three decades. and Thomas Rackett (1755-1840) received his MA from University College, Oxford in 1780 and named rector of Spetisbury in Dorset shortly after; he held the living until his death in 1840. Rackett devoted much time to his antiquarian interests; he was a member of the Linnean Society, the Royal Society, and the Society of Antiquaries, and contributed several drawings to John Hutchins's History of Dorset. He died at Spetisbury in November of 1840.
Subject (Name):
Drury Lane Theatre, Garrick, David,--1717-1779, and Rackett, Thomas,--1757-1841--Ownership
Subject (Topic):
Actors--England, Theater--England--18th century, and Theater--Great Britain--18th century
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of poetical, historical, and economic material, primarily on such subjects as politics, government, love, and marriage. Many of the entries are lighthearted or satirical, including poems by Joseph Addison, Matthew Prior, William Congreve, Alexander Pope, and Jonathan Swift. The volume also contains a large number of extracts from early 18th-century poetry, drama, and prose, many drawn from The Spectator; a collection of moral thoughts in French; and a collection of Spanish proverbs. and The latter half of the volume contains descriptive and historical accounts of France and Italy, statistics on the population, demographics, economies, and other data of London and other European cities; lists of the peers of England, Scotland, and Ireland; and lists of the kings of England and France.
Description:
Binding: contemporary calf, one cover gone, one detached. On spine: Commonplace book. and Index at beginning of manuscript.
Subject (Geographic):
Europe--Economic conditions--18th century, Europe--Population--18th century, Great Britain--Economic conditions--18th century, Great Britain--Politics and government--18th century, and Great Britain--Population--Statistics
Subject (Name):
Addison, Joseph,--1672-1719, Pope, Alexander,--1688-1744, Prior, Matthew,--1664-1721, and Swift, Jonathan,--1667-1745
Subject (Topic):
Aphorisms and apothegms, English poetry--18th century, Epigrams, English, Nobility--Great Britain--18th century, Spectator (London, England : 1711), Theater--Great Britain, and Verse satire, English
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of poetical, historical, and economic material, primarily on such subjects as politics, government, love, and marriage. Many of the entries are lighthearted or satirical, including poems by Joseph Addison, Matthew Prior, William Congreve, Alexander Pope, and Jonathan Swift. The volume also contains a large number of extracts from early 18th-century poetry, drama, and prose, many drawn from The Spectator; a collection of moral thoughts in French; and a collection of Spanish proverbs. and The latter half of the volume contains descriptive and historical accounts of France and Italy, statistics on the population, demographics, economies, and other data of London and other European cities; lists of the peers of England, Scotland, and Ireland; and lists of the kings of England and France.
Description:
Binding: contemporary calf, one cover gone, one detached. On spine: Commonplace book. and Index at beginning of manuscript.
Subject (Geographic):
Europe--Economic conditions--18th century, Europe--Population--18th century, Great Britain--Economic conditions--18th century, Great Britain--Politics and government--18th century, and Great Britain--Population--Statistics
Subject (Name):
Addison, Joseph,--1672-1719, Pope, Alexander,--1688-1744, Prior, Matthew,--1664-1721, and Swift, Jonathan,--1667-1745
Subject (Topic):
Aphorisms and apothegms, English poetry--18th century, Epigrams, English, Nobility--Great Britain--18th century, Spectator (London, England : 1711), Theater--Great Britain, and Verse satire, English
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; Aaron Hill's Alone in an inn at Southampton Court; and William Congreve's To a candle. Other titles include The late Lord Harvey to Mr. Fox; The castle top, wrote by a lad at Winchester School; and A hermit's meditation.
Description:
Binding: full parchment. and Imperfect: p. 34-35 wanting.
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 administration.
Description:
Binding: paper wrappers with "Notes" in ink capitals on front cover., Elijah Coffin was born in 1793 in Guilford County, N.C., and moved to Indiana in 1824. He began as a teacher, then became a businessman and finally a banker. He held positions of responsibility within the Society of Friends, including Clerk of the Indiana Yearly Meeting and Elder, and published works on Scripture and religion. He died in 1862., Laid in: portrait of Elijah Coffin, a copy of the frontispiece from The life of Elijah Coffin, 1863., Purchased from Robert Rubin Books on the Jockey Hollow Fund, 2010., and Several blank pages at end not digitized.
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 descriptions
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, Connecticut. and The records contain approximately 300 manuscript papers including, in Box 1, correspondence, contracts and agreements, financial statements, toll both records, lists of stockholders, records for 12 scheduled dividends paid out between 1805 and 1826, dividend orders and receipts, and in Box 2, vouchers (invoices and receipts) for building, maintaining, and repairing the road. Most of the correspondence is addressed to Simeon Baldwin, but letters were also sent to James Hillhouse and Jeremiah Wadsworth.
Alternative Title:
List of money paid on a/c of Turnpike
Description:
Gift of the estate of Delia Lyman Porter, 1934. and The Hartford and New-Haven Turnpike Company was formed in 1798 with the purpose of surveying and laying out "a direct road from New Haven to Hartford through the town of Berlin and through such towns and in such places as will best promote the public travel." The treasurer of the company was New Haven lawyer Simeon Baldwin (1761-1851).
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, Connecti
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. and The Hartford and New-Haven Turnpike Company was formed in 1798 with the purpose of surveying and laying out "a direct road from New Haven to Hartford through the town of Berlin and through such towns and in
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, Connecticut. and The records contain approximately 300 manuscript papers including, in Box 1, correspondence, contracts and agreements, financial statements, toll both records, lists of stockholders, records for 12 scheduled dividends paid out between 1805 and 1826, dividend orders and receipts, and in Box 2, vouchers (invoices and receipts) for building, maintaining, and repairing the road. Most of the correspondence is addressed to Simeon Baldwin, but letters were also sent to James Hillhouse and Jeremiah Wadsworth.
Alternative Title:
[Dividend order and receipt for Dwight Foster]
Description:
Gift of the estate of Delia Lyman Porter, 1934. and The Hartford and New-Haven Turnpike Company was formed in 1798 with the purpose of surveying and laying out "a direct road from New Haven to Hartford through the town of Berlin and through such towns and in such places as will best promote the public travel." The treasurer of the company was New Haven lawyer Simeon Baldwin (1761-1851).
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, Connecticut. and The records contain approximately 300 manuscript papers including, in Box 1, correspondence, contracts and agreements, financial statements, toll both records, lists of stockholders, records for 12 scheduled dividends paid out between 1805 and 1826, dividend orders and receipts, and in Box 2, vouchers (invoices and receipts) for building, maintaining, and repairing the road. Most of the correspondence is addressed to Simeon Baldwin, but letters were also sent to James Hillhouse and Jeremiah Wadsworth.
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. and The Hartford and New-Haven Turnpike Company was formed in 1798 with the purpose of surveying and laying out "a direct road from New Haven to Hartford through the town of Berlin and through such towns and in such places as will best promote the public travel." The treasurer of the company was New Haven lawyer Simeon Baldwin (1761-1851).
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
David Garrick papers from the Thomas Rackett collection, 1741-1776.
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 41
Image Count:
2
Abstract:
Letters, manuscript poems, financial papers, and other documents relating to David Garrick and his tenure as manager of the Drury Lane Theatre. Letters include a lengthy 1751 letter from Richard Berenger describing theaters and operas in Paris; transcripts of two letters from Garrick to Francis Hayman about plans for a series of prints from Shakespeare; and a 1767 letter from the actor Patrick O'Brien discussing his "exiled" life in New York. Manuscript verse consists of drafts of several prologues and epilogues, and copies of comic epigrams and songs. Other papers include a record of receipts for the first season of Drury Lane; "A Scheme for a Theatrical Society;" a list of characters performed by Garrick in 1741-42; and a copy of "Mr. Taylor's address to young students and lovers of landscape painting."
Alternative Title:
Other papers
Description:
David Garrick (1717-1779) was the most celebrated Shakespearean actor of his time and the successful manager of the Drury Lane Theatre for almost three decades. and Thomas Rackett (1755-1840) received his MA from University College, Oxford in 1780 and named rector of Spetisbury in Dorset shortly after; he held the living until his death in 1840. Rackett devoted much time to his antiquarian interests; he was a member of the Linnean Society, the Royal Society, and the Society of Antiquaries, and contributed several drawings to John Hutchins's History of Dorset. He died at Spetisbury in November of 1840.
Subject (Name):
Garrick, David,--1717-1779, Griffin, William, fl. 1758-1776, and Rackett, Thomas,--1757-1841--Ownership
Subject (Topic):
Actors--England, Theater--England--18th century, and Theater--Great Britain--18th century
James Marshall Osborn collection of poetry manuscripts
Container / Volume:
Box VI | Folder P.B. VI / 106-110
Image Count:
2
Abstract:
The collection consists of manuscript copies of several thousand individual English poems, dating from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. The majority of the items date from between 1650 and 1800.
Description:
A Grave Poem, as it was presented in Latin by certayne Devyn[es] ... by way of interlude before his his majesty at Cambridge [?] Liber novus de Adventu Regis ad Cantabrigiam. Faythfullie done into English and with some liberal advantage made rather to be songe than read. To the tune of Bonny Nell.
James Marshall Osborn collection of poetry manuscripts
Container / Volume:
Box 4 | Folder P.B. IV / 161-170
Image Count:
3
Abstract:
The collection consists of manuscript copies of several thousand individual English poems, dating from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. The majority of the items date from between 1650 and 1800.
Alternative Title:
Upon the death of Lady Abergavenny by Lady Mary Wortley Mountague
Subject (Name):
Abergavenny, Katharine Neville, Lady, d. 1729
Subject (Topic):
English poetry--16th century, English poetry--17th century, English poetry--18th century, English poetry--19th century, and English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700
James Marshall Osborn collection of poetry manuscripts
Container / Volume:
Box 5 | Folder P.B. V / 1-10
Image Count:
4
Abstract:
The collection consists of manuscript copies of several thousand individual English poems, dating from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. The majority of the items date from between 1650 and 1800.
Alternative Title:
Verses to the memory of my dearest sister Lady Barbara May
Subject (Topic):
English poetry--16th century, English poetry--17th century, English poetry--18th century, English poetry--19th century, and English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700
James Marshall Osborn collection of poetry manuscripts
Container / Volume:
Box 5 | Folder P.B. V / 11-20
Image Count:
4
Abstract:
The collection consists of manuscript copies of several thousand individual English poems, dating from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. The majority of the items date from between 1650 and 1800.
Alternative Title:
To a lady upon her asking the author where he thought he should be that time [in] twelve month[s] and To a lady upon her asking the author where he thought he should be that time twelve month
Subject (Topic):
English poetry--16th century, English poetry--17th century, English poetry--18th century, English poetry--19th century, and English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700
James Marshall Osborn collection of poetry manuscripts
Container / Volume:
Box 5 | Folder P.B. V / 78-88
Image Count:
4
Abstract:
The collection consists of manuscript copies of several thousand individual English poems, dating from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. The majority of the items date from between 1650 and 1800.
James Marshall Osborn collection of poetry manuscripts
Container / Volume:
Box 5 | Folder P.B. V / 78-88
Image Count:
3
Abstract:
The collection consists of manuscript copies of several thousand individual English poems, dating from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. The majority of the items date from between 1650 and 1800.
James Marshall Osborn collection of poetry manuscripts
Container / Volume:
Box 7 | Folder P.B. VII / 5-7
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
The collection consists of manuscript copies of several thousand individual English poems, dating from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. The majority of the items date from between 1650 and 1800.
James Marshall Osborn collection of poetry manuscripts
Container / Volume:
Box 5 | Folder P.B. V / 21-30
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
The collection consists of manuscript copies of several thousand individual English poems, dating from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. The majority of the items date from between 1650 and 1800.
Alternative Title:
Sonnet: By Avons stream the artless poet sung
Subject (Topic):
English poetry--16th century, English poetry--17th century, English poetry--18th century, English poetry--19th century, and English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700
James Marshall Osborn collection of poetry manuscripts
Container / Volume:
Box 5 | Folder P.B. V / 97-100
Image Count:
2
Abstract:
The collection consists of manuscript copies of several thousand individual English poems, dating from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. The majority of the items date from between 1650 and 1800.
Alternative Title:
Prologue: We to this place where Shakespear dwelt of old ...
Subject (Topic):
English poetry--16th century, English poetry--17th century, English poetry--18th century, English poetry--19th century, and English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700
James Marshall Osborn collection of poetry manuscripts
Container / Volume:
Box 11 | Folder Miscellaneous Poetry (indexed)
Image Count:
2
Abstract:
The collection consists of manuscript copies of several thousand individual English poems, dating from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. The majority of the items date from between 1650 and 1800.
Alternative Title:
To dance or not to dance - that is the question
Subject (Topic):
English poetry--16th century, English poetry--17th century, English poetry--18th century, English poetry--19th century, and English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700
James Marshall Osborn collection of poetry manuscripts
Container / Volume:
Box 7 | 38-45
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
The collection consists of manuscript copies of several thousand individual English poems, dating from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. The majority of the items date from between 1650 and 1800.
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 flowers an
Alternative Title:
כתובה : דמשק, סוריה, 5665 ניסן 9.
Description:
Bride: Ester ha-mitḳaret Tirah bat ha-manoaḥ Nibtsah Eliyah., Bridegroom: Raḥamim ben Yosef Bukaʻi., and Witnesses: Yaakov Yosef Harari and one other.
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 the
Alternative Title:
כתובה : פירנצה, איטליה, 5614, שבט 7.
Description:
Bride: Leʼah bat Yaʻaḳov Lampronṭi. and Bridegroom: Reʼuven ben Mosheh Piʼatsa.
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 an
Alternative Title:
כתובה : גולפייגן, איראן, 5627, 27 אלול.
Description:
Bride: Bibi bat Babai. and Bridegroom: Yaʻaḳov ben Yosef.
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 that
Alternative Title:
כתובה : ליוורנו, איטליה, 12 אדר א 5570.
Description:
Bride: ha-almanah Ḳolomba bat ha-manoaḥ Mosheh me-Ḳapuʼah., Bridegroom: Yitsḥaḳ ben ha-manoaḥ Binyamin Ḳorḳos., and Witnesses: Yaʻaḳov di Medinah, Yitsḥaḳ Ḳardoso Priʼas.
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., Good modern (19th century) nastaʻlīq, in red and black; ʻunwāns in colors; with numerous miniatures in colors., Islamic binding, in red, with flap., and Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949.
Subject (Topic):
Persian language and literature--Poetry and Persian poetry
Copied in A.H. 738 (A.D. 1337)., Good naskhī., Islamic binding, in brown, with flap., Manual of Shafiʻi law; volume I only., and Other volume(s) wanting.
Manuscript, in an unidentified hand. The original manuscript dated Kōryaku 2 [1380]. and Manuscript, in an unidentified hand. The original manuscript dated 康暦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)., 12-chō ; 26.8 x 21.3 cm. On double leaves, oriental style (fukurotoji)., In Japanese., and Yale Association of Japan Collection original call number: Ac4.
Subject (Geographic):
Japan --History --To 1600 --Sources, Kōfukuji (Nara-shi, Japan) --History --Sources, and 興福寺 (Nara-shi, Japan) --History --Sources
"Not a gift from YAJ." (Handwritten note from K. Asakawa. "Gift of the Yale Association of Japan," 1945)., "Old documents and records of Kyoto." (K. Asakawa. "Gift of the Yale Association of Japan," 1945)., 15 different documents in 32 separate sets (28 v., 5 scrolls and 96 sheets)., and Manuscripts, original and copied in an unidentified hand.
Subject (Geographic):
Kyōto (Japan)--History--Sources and 京都 (Japan)--History--Sources
Subject (Topic):
Japanese manuscripts and Yale Association of Japan Collection
Manuscripts, original and copied in an unidentified hand.
Alternative Title:
Kyōtokomonjo and 京都古文書, 寬永3 [1626]-文政13 [1830].
Description:
"Not a gift from YAJ." (Handwritten note from K. Asakawa. "Gifts of the Yale Association of Japan," 1945)., "Old documents and records of Kyoto." (K. Asakawa. "Gifts of the Yale Association of Japan," 1945)., and 15 different documents in 32 separate sets (28 v., 5 scrolls and 96 sheets).
Subject (Geographic):
Kyōto (Japan)--History--Sources and 京都 (Japan)--History--Sources
Subject (Topic):
Japanese manuscripts and Yale Association of Japan Collection
Copied on A.H. 8 Rabīʻ al-S̲ānī 1244 [A.D. 1828]., Ethé, H. India Office, 972(3), Good nastaʻlīq, in red and black; ʻunwān in colors on leaf 1 verso; with crude full-page miniatures., Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949., and Teaching resource: Kishwar Rizvi, History of Art
Littleton, Thomas, Sir, d. 1481 West, William, fl. 1568-1594
Published / Created:
1617
Call Number:
Osborn pb106
Image Count:
516
Alternative Title:
Tenures
Description:
13 x 8 cm., inlaid and interleaved to 24 x 17 cm. with copious manuscript notes, includes original blank leaves R5-6 at end., Imperfect: leaves 21 and 22 wanting., and In Law French.
Publisher:
Imprinted [by Adam Islip?] for the Companie of Stationers,
Subject (Topic):
Land tenure--England--Early works to 1800 and Real property--England--Early works to 1800
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 the deaths of Compton children; verse epistles; invitations to visit; animal fables; humorous poems; and topical ballads and satires. There are also several translations of Latin verse by Horace and Catullus, and what may be copies of contemporary published verse. Lord Compton's account book contains detailed records of his daily expenses during his sojourns in London. There are multiple entries for chocolate-house and coffeehouse purchases; fees for plays and operas, wagers on horse races, and losses at cards; purchases of and subscriptions for books and prints, including Hogarth's Harlot's Progress and the first edition of Gay's Poems on Several Occasions; and miscellaneous disbursements to "the boy who brings the news," "a raree Showman," "a magick Lanthorn man," and a shopkeeper for "Play things for my children."
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 the Tudor structure. Although they had eight children, only one daughter, Charlotte (1729-1770), survived into adulthood, marrying George Townshend (later 1st Marquis Townshend) in 1751. Lady Elizabeth Compton died in 1741. James Compton largely withdrew from society after her death, refused a dukedom in 1743, and died in 1754.
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., Formerly owned by Sir William Turner., and Several additions on slips of paper attached to the pages with sealing wax are possibly in the hand of Sir William Turner.
Subject (Name):
D'Avenant, William,--Sir,--1606-1668, Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616, Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616.--Macbeth, and Turner, William,--Sir,--1615-1692--Ownership
Followed by 1 leaf of notes. and Tract in proof of the proposition that the advent of the Prophet is foretold in the Old Testament.
Description:
Copied in the 15th(?) century., Fair naskhī, in red and black., The author was a Jewish convert to Islam., The date A.H. 720 at end is the date of composition., and With: 5 other titles.
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.
Dedication to Princess Augusta., Includes: The Bohemian’s Horn; Selection of Preludes & Airs for the Royal Portable Irish Harp., and With: Autograph letter, signed from Egan to Princess Augusta; and notes signed "J. E."
Subject (Geographic):
Hannover (Germany)--History--19th century
Subject (Name):
Augusta Sophia, Princess, daughter of George III, King of Great Britain, 1768-1840
Subject (Topic):
Music publishing--Great Britain, Music trade--Great Britain, and Music--Great Britain--19th century
