A man, woman, and child with a ram beneath a tree with a snake coiled around it. The scene surrounded by a oval frame. There are torches flanking the image, which in part make up a rectangular border. The phrase Servat et Docet is above the oval frame, and below it reads Fundata MDCCCLXXV. A motto: Fundata MDCCCLLXXV. Beneath is a box indicating Ex Dono, and a space to write a name.
Subject (Name):
Boston Medical Library and Yale University. School of Medicine
Subject (Topic):
Children, Heraldic bookplates, Medical libraries, Nature, Snakes, and Torches
Title from item., Date supplied by curator., Title given in Latin, French, Spanish, and German., Below title: Med: Folo. No. 34; C.P.S.C.M., In margin upper right: 130., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
George Balthasar Probst, excud. A.V.
Subject (Name):
Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen.
Subject (Topic):
Academic libraries, Libraries, Books, Ladders, and Scholars
Catalogus variorum librorum theologicorum, philologicorum prae-caeteris selectiorum bibliothecae instructissimae, R.D.D. H. Cornwalli
Description:
Imperfect: title page and pp. 1-6 mutilated, affecting text. Bookplate: Gertrude Dale. Annotated with prices., Several blank pages at front and end not digitized., and Signatures: pi1 A-C².
Publisher:
Catalogues may be had at Mr. Thurlburn's ... Mr. J. Pindar's coffee-house in Cambridge, and of Edw. Millington ... London,
Subject (Name):
Cornwall, H.--Library--Catalogs and Dale, Gertrude--Bookplate
Subject (Topic):
Catalogs, Booksellers'--England--Cambridge--Early works to 1800
BEIN Gk24 O6: Signatures: A8, A-Dddd8, Eeee6 (last blank and wanting). Qq7 and Ppp5 are slightly mutilated. Manuscript notes. and Title within illuminated border.
Manuscript on parchment of Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books I (parts 1 and 2)-II, in an unidentified and freely adapted Italian translation (e.g., the opening portion of Book II is greatly abbreviated).
Description:
Binding: Fifteenth century, Italy. Sewn on four tawed skin, slit straps nailed in channels on the outside of wooden boards. Yellow edges. Pink, green and cream endbands sewn on five cores. Covered in dark red goatskin with corner tongues, blind-tooled with a central ornament in a panel bordered with rope interlace in concentric frames. Two fastenings, leaf-shaped catches on the lower board and the upper board cut in for the clasp straps. Rebacked twice., Purchased from L. C. Witten in 1955 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written in an elegant, upright mercantesca script by a single scribe, below top line., and Spaces for headings and decorative initials remain unfilled. Initial on f. 1r later addition.
Subject (Geographic):
Egypt--History--To 640 A.D
Subject (Name):
Diodorus,--Siculus
Subject (Topic):
History, Ancient, Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library