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52.
- Published / Created:
- 1808-1819.
- Call Number:
- A42 Ak139U
- Container / Volume:
- t.2 / 1810
- Image Count:
- 402
- Alternative Title:
- Umozritelʹnye issledovanii︠a︡ Imperatorskoĭ Sanktpeterburgskoĭ akademīi nauk
- Publisher:
- Pri Imperatorskoĭ akademīi nauk
- Subject (Geographic):
- Russia
- Subject (Name):
- Imperatorskai︠a︡ akademīi︠a︡ nauk (Russia)
- Subject (Topic):
- Intellectual life
- Found in:
- Sterling Memorial Library > Umozritelʹnyi︠a︡ izsli︠e︡dovanīi︠a︡ Imperatorskoĭ Sanktpeterburgskoĭ akademīi nauk 1810 / t.2
53.
- Published / Created:
- 1808-1819.
- Call Number:
- A42 Ak139U
- Container / Volume:
- t.3 / 1812
- Image Count:
- 318
- Alternative Title:
- Umozritelʹnye issledovanii︠a︡ Imperatorskoĭ Sanktpeterburgskoĭ akademīi nauk
- Publisher:
- Pri Imperatorskoĭ akademīi nauk
- Subject (Geographic):
- Russia
- Subject (Name):
- Imperatorskai︠a︡ akademīi︠a︡ nauk (Russia)
- Subject (Topic):
- Intellectual life
- Found in:
- Sterling Memorial Library > Umozritelʹnyi︠a︡ izsli︠e︡dovanīi︠a︡ Imperatorskoĭ Sanktpeterburgskoĭ akademīi nauk 1812 / t.3
54.
- Published / Created:
- 1808-1819.
- Call Number:
- A42 Ak139U
- Container / Volume:
- t.4 / 1815
- Image Count:
- 442
- Alternative Title:
- Umozritelʹnye issledovanii︠a︡ Imperatorskoĭ Sanktpeterburgskoĭ akademīi nauk
- Publisher:
- Pri Imperatorskoĭ akademīi nauk
- Subject (Geographic):
- Russia
- Subject (Name):
- Imperatorskai︠a︡ akademīi︠a︡ nauk (Russia)
- Subject (Topic):
- Intellectual life
- Found in:
- Sterling Memorial Library > Umozritelʹnyi︠a︡ izsli︠e︡dovanīi︠a︡ Imperatorskoĭ Sanktpeterburgskoĭ akademīi nauk 1815 / t.4
55.
- Published / Created:
- 1808-1819.
- Call Number:
- A42 Ak139U
- Container / Volume:
- t.5 / 1819
- Image Count:
- 334
- Alternative Title:
- Umozritelʹnye issledovanii︠a︡ Imperatorskoĭ Sanktpeterburgskoĭ akademīi nauk
- Publisher:
- Pri Imperatorskoĭ akademīi nauk
- Subject (Geographic):
- Russia
- Subject (Name):
- Imperatorskai︠a︡ akademīi︠a︡ nauk (Russia)
- Subject (Topic):
- Intellectual life
- Found in:
- Sterling Memorial Library > Umozritelʹnyi︠a︡ izsli︠e︡dovanīi︠a︡ Imperatorskoĭ Sanktpeterburgskoĭ akademīi nauk 1819 / t.5
56.
- Creator:
- Kerr, Christian, 1679- .
- Call Number:
- Osborn c102
- Image Count:
- 242
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection primarily of arithmetic problems and conversion tables interspersed with a large number of verses, both satirical and sentimental, on such subjects as marriage, the sexes, love, and friendship. The collection includes directions for addition, subtraction, multiplcation, and division; tables of weights and measures; and directions for calculating the number of minutes in years. Many of the poems are occasional, including two addressed to Mrs. Christian Kerr on her birthday and two to Mr Kerr of Chatto on his 71st birthday. The volume also contains several further entries concerning the Kerrs' neighborhood, including a copy of "a circular advertisement for the Douffs in Kelso district, the consecration of the yew at Sunlaws." The collection also contains brief journal entries on significant events, including a murder, a burnt house, and memoranda on wages paid and Dos-a-dos, the volume contains more arithmetic problems; financial accounts; household inventories; lists of books in her possession; and a list of expenses concerning her legal "affair with Hardon beginning 1727."
- Description:
- Christian Kerr, Lady of Chatto and Sunlaws, was the daughter of William Kerr of Chatto and Sunlaws, and inherited her father's estates in preference to her brother. She married her cousin, Charles Kerr, but left no children. In 1759, she entailed the estates of Chatto and Sunlaws on William Scott of Thirlestain., In English., Laid in: copy of a letter, in the same hand, concerning business and family matters., The manuscript contains several crude drawings, especially of faces., On back flyleaf: "William Kerr," "Mrs. Christian Kerr Her Arithmetick Boock.", Author's name on decorated flyleaf. Her name also appears on p. 83, again decorated., and Binding: full parchment; leather ties. Handwritten financial account written on back cover.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain., England, Great Britain, Great Britain, and Kelso (Scotland)
- Subject (Name):
- Chatto and Sunlaws, Christian Kerr, Lady. and Kerr family.
- Subject (Topic):
- Accounts, Arithmetic, Study and teaching, English poetry, Households, Inventories, Occasional verse, English, Private libraries, Sentimentalism in literature, Verse satire, English, Women authors, Intellectual life, and Social life and customs
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Commonplace book], 1716-1730
57.
- Call Number:
- Osborn b65
- Image Count:
- 323
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, containing extracts from philosophical, religious, and historical works; sermons; and numerous verses, both philosophical and satirical. The volume contains extracts from Thomas Aquinas; Fuller's History of the Holy War; Livy's History; Godwin's Catalogue of the Bishops of England; Jeremy Taylor's Exercises of Holy Living; and Reynold's God's Revenge Against Murder. Satirical verses include a copy of Thomas Randolph "Salting," which satirizes Randolph's contemporaries under the figure of dishes at a feast, as well as A Poet's Farewell To His Threadbare Cloake. The volume also contains such contemplative poems as Musarum Lachrymae; Ruines of Time; and Mr. Austin's Sepulcrum Domus Mea Est; and a list of English words and their Latin translations
- Description:
- In English and Latin., See Modern Philology, vol. 39, 1942 and English Literary Renaissance, vol. 12, no. 1, 1982., and Binding: full sheep; remains of metal clasps.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661., Godwin, Francis, 1562-1633., Livy., Randolph, Thomas, 1605-1635., Reynolds, John, fl. 1621-1650., Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667., and Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.
- Subject (Topic):
- Elegiac poetry, English, English poetry, Religious literature, English, Religious poetry, English, Sermons, English, Verse satire, English, Intellectual life, and Religious life and customs
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Commonplace book], [ca. 1630].
58.
- Creator:
- Meghen, Peter, scribe
- Published / Created:
- 1502.
- Call Number:
- Osborn a50
- Image Count:
- 300
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, containing copies of several treatises: 1) Tractatus de Sacramento Corpus Christi, by Baldwin, Archbishop of Canterbury (ff. 1-26); 2) De Vero Sapientia, Dialogus I and II, attributed here to Petrarch (now believed to be by Nicholas of Cusa) (ff. 27-50v); 3) De Invidia, Niccolò Perotti's translation of a sermon by Basil the Great, with a preface addressed to Pope Nicholas V (ff. 51-63); 4) De invidia et odio, Niccolò Perotti's translation of a work by Petrarch, with a preface addressed to Pope Nicholas V (ff. 63v-68v); 5) De fortuna virtute ve nominum: ad Nicolaum quintum pontificem maximum, by Niccolò Perotti (69-73v); 6) Epistle LXVII to Simplician, by St. Ambrose (ff. 74-79v); 7) Ex sermonibus quadragesimalibus: Sermone de correctione fraterna, by Leonardo di Utino, O.P. (80-86v); 8) Speculum regis Edwardii tercii, attributed here to Simon Islip, Archbishop of Canterbury (now recognized as the work of William Pagula) (ff. 87-148, with skip from 89 to 100); 9) De tenenda obedientia et evitanda superbia, by St. Augustine (ff. 148-152).
- Description:
- Peter Meghen (d. 1537), of 's-Hertogenbosch in Brabant; scribe who copied works for several English clients, including Christopher Urswick and John Colet, and served as a courier for Erasmus and Sir Thomas More. Meghen's other patrons included Cardinal Wolsey, and he became Writer of the King's Books in the 1520s and served until his death in 1537. His nickname, "Cyclops," referred to his having only one eye., In Latin., In a humanistic script., Original foliation in red, from i to clii, skips from lxxix to c., Rubrics and foliation in red. Historiated initial and full-page border on ff 1v.; seven large and twenty-two small illuminated initials, all in a Northern Netherlandish style ("Masters of the Dark Eyes")., Colophon (ff. 142v) in red states that the manuscript was written for Christopher Urswick by "Petrus Meghen monoculus.", Spine label: Vrsyke de sacra: euch:. Spine date at foot: MCCCCCII., and Binding: 19 century full paneled brown calf, blind-stamped. Five-compartmented spine.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., England, and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Meghen, Peter,, Nicholas V, Pope, 1397-1455., and Urswick, Christopher, 1448?-1522.
- Subject (Topic):
- Conduct of life, Envy, Kings and rulers, Duties, Lord's Supper, Sermons, Wisdom, Manuscripts, Medieval, Economic conditions, Intellectual life, and Politics and government
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Moral and theological treatises copied for Christopher Urswick].
