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 disbound from a 19th century album
Description:
Title devised by curator. and One of four sheets from a 19th century album. To view other sheets, see Lewis Walpole Library: Drawings Un58 nos. 74 and 75 and SH Contents Sa5 no. 1.
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 ...", Description based on: 1757., and Annotated throughout by a father and then a son. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed ... for R. Baldwin
Subject (Geographic):
England. and Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Account books, Diaries (Blank-books), and Officials and employees
Title from image., Caption above image: "He delivered the Poor that cried.", Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Handwritten signature in lower right corner., On page numbered 14 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils]., and Wax seal in lower left corner.
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 miscellaneous 16th century notes and inscriptions (ff. 63-80).
Description:
In Latin and Middle English., Title from manuscript note on front pastedown., Script: gothica cursiva., Decoration: 4-line red and blue initials. Rubrication., Layout: 1 column of about 25 lines., Binding: original sheep leather binding, with vestiges of two strap-and-pin clasps, fastening from the upper to the lower boards., and Also available on microfilm.
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., Title assigned by cataloger., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Layout: Double columns of 10 lines. Catchword on each verso., Script: Nasta'līq., Binding: Dark brown leather over paper pasteboards; gold-tooled inlaid central mandorla with pendants, cornerpieces and frames; light brown leather doublures., Decoration: Volume is paginated, so Illuminated miniatures with scenes from the story are on "pp. 9, 47, 158, 174, 194, 212. Illuminated headpiece, cloudbands, floral page decorations; text frames in blue and gold., and Contemporary pagination.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Turkish, Manuscripts, Persian, and Persian poetry
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) 'İbtidā-i Ġazeliyāt-ı fī ḥarf-i elif (ابتدائي غزليات في حرف الألف), ff. 31a-70a; (4) unidentified poem, ff. 71b-76a
Alternative Title:
Ṭariḳat-ı Bektāşiyye'den Divān-ı Ṣāfī and طريقات بكتاشيهدن ديوان صافي
Description:
In Ottoman Turkish and Arabic., Title assigned by cataloger. Variant title from contemporary manuscript annotation at head of text., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Layout: Single column of 15 lines (ff. 1b-20b). Double columns of 15 lines (ff. 21b-76a). Catchword on each verso., Script: Nasta‘līq., Binding: Modern three-quarter binding in light brown leather with marbled paper over paper pasteboards., Decoration: Rubrication., and Manuscript annotations in a later hand include a prayer (f. 90b) and a petition (f. 91b). Protective charm against bookworms: Yā Kebīkec (يا كبكج) (f. 1b).
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 of the occult
Description:
In Persian., Layout: 1 column of around 12 lines., Decoration: Rubrication., Binding: Modern black gold-tooled binding., Modern pencil foliation., Contains some tables and diagrams., and Original text block appears to have been cut and surrounded by more modern paper, perhaps to remove original marginal annotations(?). New marginal annotations are added on top of the new marginal space.
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., Publication information from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved., Plate from: De Angelis, P. Basilicae S. Mariae Maioris de vrbe a Liberio Papa I vsqve ad Pavlvm V pont. max. ... Romae : Ex typographia B. Zannetti, 1621., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on two sides., Scale bar below image labeled "Scala palmorum.", "H2"--Lower right corner of plate., The upper part of this altar was purchased by Sir William Hamilton in 1767 and was then sent to back England to Horace Walpole, who in 1771 erected a chapel at Strawberry Hill to display it., Mounted on page 174 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12., and On laid paper mount (43 x 27 cm) with Horace Walpole's annotation: This altar was erected by J. James Capoccio in the Church of Sta. Maria Maggiore of Rome; but being removed in 1767, the upper part, of beautifull mosaic, was purchased by Sr. W. Hamilton, younger son of Lord Archibald Hamilton, & then British Minister at Naples; and being sent by him to Mr. H. Walpole, the latter erected a chapel for it in his garden at Strawberry Hill near Twickenham in Middlesex, 1771.
Publisher:
B. Zannetti
Subject (Name):
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) and Santa Maria Maggiore (Church : Rome, Italy),
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-2L⁶., First leaf is blank., With final contents leaf., First edition 1619., Printed by William Stansby. See E.E. Willoughby. A printer of Shakespeare, 1934., Title page variant: author's name incorrectly spelled "Raphe"., Title-page inscribed: G. Dury, Esq. [17th century hand?], Imperfect: Preliminary blank leaf A₁ wanting., and Formerly laid in: William Roberts Gichard "Commemorative English and French heraldry keepsake". See Lewis Walpole Library 53 C67B B79x
"Portrait of a woman (possibly Mary Ruthven or Princess Mary), bust-length, turned to the right, with curly hair, pearl necklace, and embroidered dress."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from manuscript annotation in pencil above image, on mounting page., Place of publication based on printmaker's nationality; date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1888,0612.40., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of statements of responsibility from bottom edge. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., and Mounted on page 163 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
