"Not a gift from YAJ." (Handwritten note from K. Asakawa. "Gift of the Yale Association of Japan," 1945)., "Old documents and records of Kyoto." (K. Asakawa. "Gift of the Yale Association of Japan," 1945)., 15 different documents in 32 separate sets (28 v., 5 scrolls and 96 sheets)., and Manuscripts, original and copied in an unidentified hand.
Subject (Geographic):
Kyōto (Japan)--History--Sources and 京都 (Japan)--History--Sources
Subject (Topic):
Japanese manuscripts and Yale Association of Japan Collection
Copied on A.H. 8 Rabīʻ al-S̲ānī 1244 [A.D. 1828]., Ethé, H. India Office, 972(3), Good nastaʻlīq, in red and black; ʻunwān in colors on leaf 1 verso; with crude full-page miniatures., Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949., and Teaching resource: Kishwar Rizvi, History of Art
Littleton, Thomas, Sir, d. 1481 West, William, fl. 1568-1594
Published / Created:
1617
Call Number:
Osborn pb106
Image Count:
516
Alternative Title:
Tenures
Description:
13 x 8 cm., inlaid and interleaved to 24 x 17 cm. with copious manuscript notes, includes original blank leaves R5-6 at end., Imperfect: leaves 21 and 22 wanting., and In Law French.
Publisher:
Imprinted [by Adam Islip?] for the Companie of Stationers,
Subject (Topic):
Land tenure--England--Early works to 1800 and Real property--England--Early works to 1800
The papers consist of approximately 85 manuscript poems written by, to or for Lady Elizabeth Compton and other family members and a personal account book kept by James Compton from 1716 to 1734. The poems include birthday and wedding poems; elegies on the deaths of Compton children; verse epistles; invitations to visit; animal fables; humorous poems; and topical ballads and satires. There are also several translations of Latin verse by Horace and Catullus, and what may be copies of contemporary published verse. Lord Compton's account book contains detailed records of his daily expenses during his sojourns in London. There are multiple entries for chocolate-house and coffeehouse purchases; fees for plays and operas, wagers on horse races, and losses at cards; purchases of and subscriptions for books and prints, including Hogarth's Harlot's Progress and the first edition of Gay's Poems on Several Occasions; and miscellaneous disbursements to "the boy who brings the news," "a raree Showman," "a magick Lanthorn man," and a shopkeeper for "Play things for my children."
Alternative Title:
Account book
Description:
James Compton, Earl of Northampton (1687-1754) married the heiress Elizabeth Shirley in 1716; she became Baroness Ferrers of Chartley in her own right in the following year. The couple moved into Compton Wynates, and extensively restored and altered the Tudor structure. Although they had eight children, only one daughter, Charlotte (1729-1770), survived into adulthood, marrying George Townshend (later 1st Marquis Townshend) in 1751. Lady Elizabeth Compton died in 1741. James Compton largely withdrew from society after her death, refused a dukedom in 1743, and died in 1754.
Subject (Name):
Compton family, Rushout, Anne Compton,--Lady,--1693-1766, and Townshend, Charlotte Compton,--Viscountess,--d. 1770
Subject (Topic):
Amusements--England, Cost and standard of living--England--18th century, and Family--England--Domestic relations
Manuscript copy, in an unidentified seventeenth-century hand, of a text of Macbeth very similar to the Sir William Davenant version published in 1674. Ten pages supplied in a modern hand.
Description:
Binding: 18th century marbled boards; contemporary cloth case., Formerly owned by Sir William Turner., and Several additions on slips of paper attached to the pages with sealing wax are possibly in the hand of Sir William Turner.
Subject (Name):
D'Avenant, William,--Sir,--1606-1668, Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616, Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616.--Macbeth, and Turner, William,--Sir,--1615-1692--Ownership
Followed by 1 leaf of notes. and Tract in proof of the proposition that the advent of the Prophet is foretold in the Old Testament.
Description:
Copied in the 15th(?) century., Fair naskhī, in red and black., The author was a Jewish convert to Islam., The date A.H. 720 at end is the date of composition., and With: 5 other titles.
Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852 Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1809-1888
Published / Created:
1877
Call Number:
Im Sh53 +W825a
Image Count:
8
Description:
Memoirs of the life of ... Richard Brinsley Sheridan ... London :Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825. 26 cm. inlaid to crown folio in 4 v.; extra-illustrated.
