A collection of drawings of Celtic designs, heads (a satyr, bacchanalian, Chinese, and two classical), ornaments, two with muscial motifs (wind instruments), on a variety of papers, some oiled, probably from the 16th-18th centuries, mounted on a leaf ...
Description:
Title devised by curator.
Subject (Topic):
Architectural decorations & ornaments and Heads (Anatomy)
Daily journal, Gentleman's and tradesman's complete annual accompt-book, Court and city director, for the year ..., and Annual register, or, Court and city director, for ...
Description:
Subtitle varies, <1760>: " ... to which is added, the Annual register, or, court and city director, for ..."
Publisher:
Printed ... for R. Baldwin
Subject (Geographic):
England. and Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Account books, Diaries (Blank-books), and Officials and employees
Manuscript, in two unidentified hands, on parchment, including a Latin Chronicle (imperfect beginning, ends with Henry VI; ff. 1-5), and a collection of medical recipes and remedies in Middle English (ff. 16-65). The manuscript ends with a number of m...
Description:
In Latin and Middle English.
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, Manuscripts, and Recipes
Illuminated manuscript, on paper, of Maktabī Shīrāzī's Laylī va Majnūn, a poem in mathnawi style tells the romantic love story of Layla and Majnun
Alternative Title:
Laylī va Majnūn.
Description:
In Persian.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Turkish, Manuscripts, Persian, and Persian poetry
Abridgement of the chronicles of Englande and Abridgement of the chronicles of England
Description:
BEIN By7 49e: Imperfect: Leaves [2]-[3] at beginning, 177, 184 and [1]-[4] at end wanting; leaf 189 badly mutilated; bled slightly at top and fore edges; leaf 26 misbound before leaf 25. Bookplate: Francis Edward Paget. Signatures: J. Sneyd; Thoma[s?]...
Manuscript, on paper, of a mec'mua containing prayers and mystical poems: (1) unidentified Sufi theological text, ff. 1b-20b; (2) Münācāt-ı der tevhīd-i yā Rabbī teālā 'azze ve celle (مناجات در توهيد يارى تعالي عز و جل), ff. 21b-30b; (3) 'İbt...
Alternative Title:
Ṭariḳat-ı Bektāşiyye'den Divān-ı Ṣāfī and طريقات بكتاشيهدن ديوان صافي
Description:
In Ottoman Turkish and Arabic.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Turkish, Sufi poetry, Turkish, and Sufism
Manuscript on paper, containing a miscellany on the topic of prognostication and the occult. Contains: Ma'rifat taqwim, Knowing the calendar; Fal nameh, A treatise for fortune-telling; and Nasi Ibn Muhammad Ibn Haydar Rammal Shirazi's Work on branches...
Description:
In Persian.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Persian, Persian language and literature, Calendar, Fortune-telling, and Occultism
A view of the altar that was erected by John James Capoccio in 1256 in the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore of Rome, perhaps the work of Peter Cavallini
Alternative Title:
SS. omnium altare cum marmoreo vetere ciborio musivo opere artificiose constructo in quo sacrae reliquiae religiose coluntur and Altar erected in the church of Santa Maria Maggiore
Description:
Title engraved above image.
Publisher:
B. Zannetti
Subject (Name):
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) and Santa Maria Maggiore (Church : Rome, Italy),
