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1. ... Monas hieroglyphica Ioannis Dee ...
- Creator:
- Dee, John, 1527-1608
- Published / Created:
- 1564
- Call Number:
- Mellon Alchemical 38
- Image Count:
- 64
- Alternative Title:
- Monas hieroglyphica Joannis Dee.
- Description:
- Engr. t.-p. and tail-piece.
- Publisher:
- G. Silvius typog. regius, excud.,
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy--Early works to 1800, Astrology--Early works to 1800, and Hieroglyphics
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > ... Monas hieroglyphica Ioannis Dee ...
2. 1928 Thunderbolt
- Creator:
- Lacerenza, William A
Mayer, Peter F
Reuter, Louis W
Suess, George H
Van Kannel, T. (Theophilus), 1841-1919 - Published / Created:
- 1928
- Call Number:
- BrSides Elephant Folio 2013 7
- Collection Title:
- Amusement park attractions : blueprints, plans, and building permits for Coney Island and other
- Image Count:
- 2
- Abstract:
- A collection of blueprints, plans, and building permits for Coney Island attractions and for the Witching Waves ride in Detroit and Euclid Beach Park, Cleveland. The Witching Waves ride was originally a Coney Island attraction that was later licensed to other locations. Collection includes plans for rides (such as Witching Waves, Bubble Bounce, Roll-O-Plane, and Thunderbolt), restaurants, arcades, a revolving platform and a miniature golf course, as well as for foundations, pipelines, and concrete piers. Includes also plans for an elephant track and stables for 5 elephants and 5 persons.
- Description:
- Architects and surveyors named on plans: T. Van Kannel, George H. Suess, William A. Lacerenza, Peter F. Meyer, Louis W. Reuter., Collection includes 1 blueline print and 1 manuscript floor plan and duplicate blueprints., Imperfect: manuscript floor plan mutilated with loss of text., and Stamps of the Department of Housing and Buildings, Borough of Brooklyn, City of New York.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Coney Island (New York, N.Y.) and Euclid Beach Park (Cleveland, Ohio)
- Subject (Topic):
- Amusement parks--Michigan--Detroit, Amusement parks--New York (State)--New York, and Amusement parks--Ohio--Cleveland
- Collection Created:
- [United States :
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > 1928 Thunderbolt
3. A concise view of Oregon Territory, its colonial and Indian relations; compiled from official letters and reports, together with the organic laws of the colony, by Elijah White ...
- Creator:
- White, Elijah, 1806-1879
- Published / Created:
- 1846
- Call Number:
- Zc74 846wi
- Image Count:
- 42
- Alternative Title:
- American settlement of Oregon (continued)
- Publisher:
- T. Barnard, Printer
- Subject (Geographic):
- Northwest, Pacific, Oregon --Description and travel, and Oregon --History --To 1859
- Subject (Topic):
- Indians of North America --Oregon and Law --Oregon
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A concise view of Oregon Territory, its colonial and Indian relations; compiled from official letters and reports, together with the organic laws of the colony, by Elijah White ...
4. A pocket book, containing severall choice collections in arithmetick [!], astronomy, geometry, surveying, dialling, navigation, astrology, geography, measuring, gaugeing. By John Seller ...
- Creator:
- Seller, John, fl. 1658-1698
- Published / Created:
- [1677?]
- Call Number:
- 1978 748
- Image Count:
- 48
- Resource Type:
- Books, Journals & Pamphlets
- Description:
- 46 plates (some tab mounted and folded) : incl. tables, maps, diagrams., Autograph of Samuel Plowman[?], Blank pages counted but not scanned., Bound as a commonplace book with blank pages interspersed. Numerous notes in pencil and ink ., and Imperfect?: all editions listed in pre-1956 NUC and the BM cat. include text as well as plates.
- Publisher:
- And are sold by him at the Hermitage in Wapping: and by John Hills in Exchange Alley in Cornhill, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Almanacs, English and Astronomy --Early works to 1800
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A pocket book, containing severall choice collections in arithmetick [!], astronomy, geometry, surveying, dialling, navigation, astrology, geography, measuring, gaugeing. By John Seller ...
5. A queens delight, or, The art of preserving, conserving, and candying : as also, a right knowledge of making perfumes, and distilling the most excellent waters
- Published / Created:
- 1668
- Call Number:
- Uv81 668q
- Image Count:
- 81
- Description:
- Published also in The queens closet opened. and With copious manuscript recipes on blank leaves at end.
- Publisher:
- Printed by J. Winter, for Nat. Brook, at the Angel in Gresham-colledge
- Subject (Topic):
- Canning and preserving, Liquors, and Recipes --Early works to 1800
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A queens delight, or, The art of preserving, conserving, and candying : as also, a right knowledge of making perfumes, and distilling the most excellent waters
6. Account book
- Creator:
- Chitty, Abraham, 1683-1759
- Published / Created:
- 1735-1754
- Call Number:
- Osborn fc154
- Image Count:
- 133
- Abstract:
- Highly detailed accounts of both receipts and expenses (written from opposite ends of the volume) kept by the London merchant Abraham Chitty, brother of Alderman Thomas Chitty. Receipts include records for rents on his properties in London, Westminster and Surrey, as well as income from an interest in a brewhouse and insurance records for warehoused goods such as wine. The record of Chitty’s personal expenses is particularly complete and includes 6s. "for Pamila. 2 Vollums;" "about L1.4s.6d to see The Conscious Lovers" at Covent Garden Playhouse in 1739; and 14s. for "Chockolate, Mackoroons, carraways and oysters." Also included are regular payments for housekeeping expenses "For Mrs. Chitty;" purchases at auctions and sales, such as "a barometer;" and frequent carriage repairs.
- Description:
- Both pastedowns contain notes on birth and death dates for family members., Related material: Abraham Chitty, Letters (Osborn c608)., and Volume contains unnumbered pages, blank pages (not digitized), and text written in both directions; both sections of text paginated separately.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain --Economic conditions --18th century and Great Britain --Social life and customs --18th century
- Subject (Name):
- Chitty, Thomas
- Subject (Topic):
- Amusements --England, Chitty family, Cost and standard of living --England --18th century, Family --England --Domestic relations, Home economics --Accounting, Luxury, and Middle class --England --London --18th century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Account book
7. Additional notes
- Call Number:
- Z78 061t
- Collection Title:
- Letters written by the late right honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope ... to his son, Philip Stanhope
- Image Count:
- 4
- Subject (Name):
- Stanhope, Eugenia, d. 1783 and Stanhope, Philip, 1732-1768
- Collection Created:
- London : Printed for J. Dodsley, 1774
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Additional notes
8. Alchemical miscellany
- Creator:
- Avicenna, 980-1037
Jābir ibn Ḥayyān
Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā, 865?-925?
Richard, de Fournival, fl. 1246-1260 - Published / Created:
- [ca. 1350]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 2
- Image Count:
- 96
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of a collection of practical alchemies and procedures, the earliest such manuscript in the Mellon collection. Contains texts transmitted from Arabic sources and what appear to be European additions to the literature and practice of alchemy. Includes the following identifiable texts: Rasis or Aristotle, Lumen luminum perfecti magisterii; Avicenna, Epistola ad Hasen; Geber, Liber deitatis sive divinitatis and Summa perfectionis magisterii; Rasis, De aluminibus et salibus, extracts; and Richard de Fournival, Opus Arturi, or De arte alchemica. and The codex is an important, early, and comprehensive collection of largely practical alchemies and procedures. It is also of special significance both because of its early copies of texts transmitted from Arabic sources and for what appear to be very early, independent, European additions to the literature and practice of alchemy.
- Description:
- Alternating red and blue capitals throughout, some headings in red, many capitals stroked red, slight filiform decoration to opening initial of the volume, the rubrics and decoration probably by one of the scribes or another closely related hand., Binding: Early, probably 15th century. Undecorated red-dyed hide over beveled wooden boards, four brass edgepieces on each cover attached with brass nails, two brass catches on upper cover, lightly chased brass and leather clasps on lower cover (all of the material of cut sheet-brass), back with six raised bands, repaired and rebacked, with modern leather title label. Used as pastedowns inside upper and lower cover are two leaves from a 14th-century Germanic (perhaps Netherlandish) manuscript on parchment containing plainsong written in Germanic neumes on five-line staves, the text in Gothica textualis formata, large gothic capitals in red or blue, one at top of lower pastedown in black and red slightly decorated. In all the staves but the last on the lower pastedown the center-line is stroked red and bears the clef sign; in the last, the fourth line from the bottom has these indications., Pastedowns inside both covers are two leaves from a 14th-century Germanic (perhaps Netherlandish) manuscript on parchment containing plainsong written in Germanic neumes on five-line staves, the text in Gothica textualis formata, large gothic capitals in red or blue, one at top of lower pastedown in black and red slightly decorated., Possibly written by Frater Bartholomaeus (of?) Ol-----, 1335, according to a later note at foot of f. 88v, Script: Written by three scribes all using similar, legible, and rather cursive forms of Gothica textualis; the first scribe wrote ff. 1r-64v, the second ff. 65r-77r1, 38, and the third the remainder., Written by three scribes all using closely similar, legible, and rather cursive forms of Gothica textualis, heavily abbreviated with standard forms., and Written space 184 x 116, 2 columns, 50-49-48 lines each.
- Subject (Name):
- Avicenna, 980-1037, Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294, Duveen, Denis I., bookplate, Geber, 13th cent. Summa perfectionis magisterii, Razi, Abu Bakr Muh ammad ibn Zakariya, 865?-925?, Richard, de Fournival, fl. 1246-1260, and Saumaise, Claude, 1588-1653, provenance
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Alchemical miscellany
9. Alchemical miscellany.
- Creator:
- Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294
Freelove, Robert
Jean, de Meun, d. 1305?
Khālid ibn Yazīd al-Umawī, 7th cent - Published / Created:
- [ca. 1550]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 33
- Image Count:
- 277
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of 1) Unidentified alchemy. 2) Jean de Meung, Liber Lapidis mineralis, Book II only, translated into English by Robert Freelove, 1522. 3) The Practys of Lyghtes. 4) Roger Bacon or Johannes Sawtre, Radix mundi, translated into English by Robert Freelove, 1550. 5) Rudianus, Liber trium verborum, translated into English. 6) Khalid ibn Yazid, Liber secretorum philosophorum, translated into English, 1542. 7) Unidentified alchemy.
- Description:
- Binding: Sixteenth century, English. Brown calf over pasteboards, the covers paneled in blind fillets, much deteriorated and the backstrip missing, preserved in a cloth case., No color or rubrication; occasional headlines or headings in large writing., Script: At least three scribes writing English cursive vernacular hands; the first, whose initials were probably "T.R." as written on f. 18r, 20, wrote ff. 1-18; the second wrote ff. 19-53, 67-94, and perhaps ff. 115-128; the third wrote ff. 54-65., and Watermarks: 1) a pot similar to Briquet 12801; 2) a similar one with a gothic "3" on the pot; 3) a hand with flower like Briquet 11347, all datable about 1550.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy--Early works to 1800, English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Alchemical miscellany.
