The collection includes music manuscripts which consists of submitted compositions, fragments, and transcriptions that were all owned by Dizzy Gillespie. Also included are works of art completed by Dizzy’s wife, Lorraine Gillespie. The artwork include...
Description:
John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie was born on October 21, 1917 in Cheraw, South Carolina. Gillespie taught himself how to play trumpet and trombone and went on to perform in big bands and establish his own band. He also was a composer, bandleader, and a fi...
Subject (Name):
Gillespie, Dizzy, 1917-1993. and Gillespie, Lorraine.
Subject (Topic):
Arrangement (Music)., African American musicians, Bop (Music)., Jazz musicians, Music, Manuscripts, Trumpet players, Portraits, and Sheet music
Illuminated manuscript roll facsimile of Manuscript X 118 in the Royal Library in Stockholm, made by Carl Olausson. Contains a compilation of exerpts from De arte phisicali et de cirurgia by John Arderne. Text is illustrated by miniatures showing vari...
Alternative Title:
De arte phisicali et de cirurgia : [hand-painted replica done as a color vellum scroll during 1929 by Carl Olausson; from the 1412 original housed in the Royal Library of Stockholm]
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Manuscripts, Medicine, Medieval, Surgery, and Surgery, Medieval
Autograph manuscript song texts and other writings by Charles Dibdin, some with watermarks dated 1794-1814; an autograph letter, signed, from Dibdin's wife Anne Dibdin to William Kitchiner, 1824 February 28, referring to her husband's death and to a b...
Description:
Charles Dibdin, English composer, author, and actor; husband of Anne Dibdin (1757-1835); father of engraver Anne Dibdin (born circa 1776).
Subject (Geographic):
England., Great Britain., and England
Subject (Name):
Dibdin, Anne, 1757-1835., Dibdin, Anne, approximately 1776-, Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814., Dibdin, E. Rimbault 1853-1941. (Edward Rimbault),, Freemantle, W. T. (William Thomas), Kitchiner, William, 1775?-1827., and Sievier, Robert William, 1794-1865.
Subject (Topic):
Authors, English, Composers, English drama, Engravers, Illustration of books, Manuscripts, Collectors and collecting, Music, Instructions and study, Songs, English, Theater, and Vocal music
Collection of three hagiographical Syriac texts, as follows: 1. "Tašʻítā d-Māry Matāy wa-d-Māry Andrʼāwus Šlíḥē" (folios 2a-18b; pages 3-36), Story of the Apostles Saint Matthew and Saint Andrew. 2. "Tašʻítā d-Abbā Marqús Tarmaqāyā" ...
Description:
In Syriac.
Subject (Geographic):
Urūmīyah (Iran)
Subject (Name):
Andrew, Apostle, Saint, Cyricus, Saint, -approximately 304, Julitta, Saint, -approximately 304, Mark, Saint, of Tharmaka, and Matthew, the Apostle, Saint
Subject (Topic):
In literature, Christian hagiography, Syriac language, and Manuscripts
Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, containing memoranda, historical notes, curiosities, and opinions on various subjects. Many of the entries are concerned with various religions, including describing their rites and customs, such as "sacrifices,...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Covel, John, 1638-1722., Colvill, John., and Orthodox Eastern Church.
Subject (Topic):
Christianity and other religions, Judaism, Music, History and criticism, Manuscripts, Theology, Intellectual life, and Religious life and customs
Autograph manuscript, on paper, containing a collection of texts on medicine and surgery. Includes: an index (front flyleaf recto), an unidentified medical text: A malis curis et a falsis (front flleaf verso), "Mens hominis discedendo alitur" (f. 1), ...
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Medical notebook ; in his autograph (Italian and Latin)
Description:
In Latin and Italian.
Subject (Topic):
Surgery, Manuscripts, Medical, Medicine, Practice, Manuscripts, and Medicine, Medieval
Manuscript, on parchment, containing Stephanus of Alexandria's Commentary on Hippocrates' Prognostica in Greek. Written in the hand of Andreas Darmarios
Alternative Title:
Commentary on Hippocrates' Prognostica : in Greek / ascribed to Stephen of Alexandria and Prognostica
Description:
In Greek.
Subject (Name):
Hippocrates.
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Greek and Roman, Manuscripts, Greek, Medicine, and Manuscripts
Manuscript, on parchment, in unidentified hand of pseudo(?)-Eustachi' Tabulae Anatomicae. Includes 307 pen and ink anatomical drawings, many hand colored, with commentary. Consisting of three parts written by the same hand and bound together: part 1 (...
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Bartholomaei Eustachii Tabulae quaedam anatomicae cum explicatione autographa, quae diu apud haeredes Matthaei Pini Urbinatis delituerunt; tandemque anno MDCCXV inventae sunt and Tabulae quaedam anatomicae : cum explicatione autographa
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Topic):
Human anatomy, Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, and Manuscripts