Herbarius, Rogatu plurimorum in opum nummorum egentium appotecas refutantium occasione illa quia necessaria ibidem ad corpus egrum spectantium sunt cara ..., and Herbarius latinus
Description:
Title from incipit on leaf pi2r., Imprint from Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke., Signatures: pi⁴ a-u⁸ x¹⁰ (pi1 blank)., Includes 150 woodcut illustrations of plants., Initial spaces, some with guide-letters., Pages [1]-[2] are blank., Text in Latin; plant names under many of the woodcuts given in Latin and French., Includes some red lettering., and BAC Leaf Collection no. 0427: Imperfect: 3 leaves only. From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink.
Manuscript on parchment of a Middle English text of the Book of Sir John Mandeville, probably related to the "Defective Version." Biblical quotations in Middle English on f63v-f64v
Alternative Title:
Itinerarium. English
Description:
Sir John Mandeville is the suppositious author of the "travel" book known as the Book of Sir John Mandeville, or Mandeville's Travels. Written in the 14th century in Anglo-Norman French, it was widely popular and thought to be an accurate account of a knight's journey through Europe, the Middle East and Asia., In Middle English., Title supplied by cataloger., Annotation, in a later hand, on f1r: Sir John Mandevile's Travails., Script: cursive anglicana hand in brown ink; 32 lines per page., Side notes and notation marks in various hands, 15th-17th century., Opening illuminated initial with ivy-leaf sprays into margins and 17 blue initials with extensive red penwork flourishing. Three contemporary or near-contemporary marginal drawings, one with color wash, of manicula., and Binding: 18th-century full mottled calf, gilt. Spine label reads: Mandevil's travails.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Mandeville, John, Sir.
Subject (Topic):
English prose literature, Voyages and travels, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Two watercolor drawings, one depicting two spiders and the other depicting three insects (one mayfly and two beetles).
Alternative Title:
Three insects
Description:
Titles from local catalog card., Each drawing signed in pencil in lower left corner with the artist's initials., Place of production based on artist's countries of residence in Europe; date of production based on artist's death date., Formerly page 5 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806]., Matted to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.
BEIN PLAYING CARDS GEN 1031: Imperfect: 23 cards only (KS-JS, 8S, 5S; KH-JH, 9H-5H; KD, JD; AC-JC, 8C-5C). Hand-drawn color illustrations of cartomanic figures on versos of cards. From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards., Title devised by cataloger., Date of publication from Keller., French suit system., Composition of deck: 52 (A, K, Q, J, 10-2)., and JS, JC: Claude Valentin.
Two watercolor drawings, one depicting a skate and the other depicting a hermit crab in a shell
Alternative Title:
Crab
Description:
Titles from local catalog card., Each drawing signed in pencil in lower left corner with the artist's initials; top drawing is mounted upside down, causing the initials to appear inverted in upper right., Place of production based on artist's countries of residence in Europe; date of production based on artist's death date., Formerly on page 29 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806]., Matted to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.
"Ticket to the Pantheon; a family concert outside a thatched cottage with a boy blowing a trumpet accompanying his sister who sings from a sheet, while the parents look on; in frame wrapped in garlands, ... cartouche at top."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., With embossed wafer seal in red ink of the "Society of Musicians" in lower left corner, and the concert details "Pantheon, Friday, May 16th, 1788" added in ink within blank cartouche at top of image., Imperfect; sheet torn in lower right corner resulting in loss of printmaker's signature. Trimmed to plate mark on left edge. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: C,2.1476-1483., Watermarked paper: LV., and With contemporary ink signatures of "Arnold" (for Samuel Arnold) and "Sandwich" (for the Earl of Sandwich, as Society committee members) to blank lower margin; verso with contemporary ink note "No. 158. Richard Sulivan Esq. Subscriber." For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Charity, Musical instruments, Families, and Dwellings
BEIN AUS91: Imperfect: 2 of Cups wanting. From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards., Title devised by cataloger., Latin/Italian suit system., Composition of deck: 36 [A, K, C, J, 10-7, 2]., Tax stamps on King of Coins, black: KARTEN SIGIL HOCHF SALZPURGIS / [heraldic device] and on Ace of Batons, black: S. / KARTEN., Aces: AB: ZU FINDEN BEI IOSE / PH TRAUNWI / SER; AC, eagle perched on cup., and Pipcards: 2S: SALZBURG / [heraldic device].
BEIN AUS89: From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards., Title devised by cataloger., Latin/Italian suit system., Composition of deck: 36 [A, K, C, J, 10-7, 2]., Tax stamp on 7 of Coins, black: [asymmetrical cartouche] / AS / 7X., Ace of Batons: N.S.; Ace of Coins, lion's head; Ace of Cups, eagle., King of Cups: I.A., and 2 of Swords, woman plays lute.
BEIN AUS76: Imperfect: AB, K, JS; JB; K, JD; C, JC; 9B; 2D; 8, 7C wanting. From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards., Title devised by cataloger., Latin/Italian suit system., Composition of deck: 36 [A, K, C, J, 10-7, 2]., Tax stamp on 7 of Coins, black: [asymmetrical cartouche] K / 7X., 2 of Swords: 1 / [cross] / I / [heraldic device]., and Ace of Cups, eagle: CLAGENE.
