Manuscript on paper of Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer, Descriptio Orae Maritimae Frisiae. With 2 maps on vellum: the first, with Dutch place names and Latin legend, shows the coast of the Netherlands. The other, also in Dutch, shows the southern coast of England
Description:
In Dutch and Latin., Script: copied by one hand in calligraphic Humanistic cursive script. The scribe's knowledge of Latin was defective., The illustration consists of two maps and numerous profiles of coastal landmarks, all in coloured pen and ink drawings. The profiles are copied from the woodcuts in the printed edition., and Binding: contemporary Dutch parchment binding, gold-tooled. On the flat spine the handwritten inscription in Southern Gothica Textualis: “Carta del navigare del mare Oceano”.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., Great Britain, and Netherlands
Subject (Name):
Waghenaer, Lucas Janszoon, 1534 or 5-1606.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscript maps, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Description and travel
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a Dutch translation in verse of the Roman de la Rose by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, transmitted by three complete manuscripts and a few fragments
Description:
In Dutch., Script: copied by one hand in Northern Gothica Textualis Libraria., Alternating red and blue paragraph marks and 2-line plain initials, with guide letters. The four verses in the neighbourhood of an initial open with a majuscule heightened with red., and Die Rose is a Dutch translation in verse of the Roman de la Rose by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, transmitted by three complete manuscripts and a few fragments. Both leaves are trimmed, f. 2 severely so at the top, with loss of text. In both leaves the outer margin has been folded (c. 10 mm.) as to form a stub for use as flyleaves in the binding of an unrecorded printed book.
Title engraved above image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Title translation in British Museum catalogue: Directress of the decayed stock-regiments and particularly of natural law's shares., Plate numbered '4' within the image., Earlier text burnished from plate and replaced with title and verse of this state., Two columns of verse below image: Vrow Directrice, in 't los gewaad ..., Temporary local subject terms: Reference to John Law, 1671-1729 -- Dutch female costume., and Mounted to 31 x 18 cm.
Title from item., Translated title supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from language of text., Source, from old catalogue card: L'Amsterdamer Kunstler, 1697., In margin upper right: 19., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Uroscopy; Office interior.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Physician and patient, Urine, Analysis, Sick persons, Medical offices, and Physicians
An apothecary. A chirurgion and Un apoticaire. Un chirurgian
Description:
Titles in Dutch, English, and French from item., Place of publication based on printmaker's country of residence., Sheet trimmed., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Apothecaries.
Meulen, R. van der, active approximately 1830, printmaker
Published / Created:
[ca. 1830]
Call Number:
Print10122
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Date derived from printmaker's date of activity., Place of publication derived from publisher's known location., In margin top: Koninklijk Museum van s'Gravenhage., In margin bottom center: Déposé., See also Print10001., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Physician's visit; Vapours.
Publisher:
Steend. Desguerrois en Co.
Subject (Topic):
Physician and patient, Lovesickness, Physicians, Servants, Eating & drinking, Sick persons, Chamber pots, Dogs, and Pitchers
"A birch-rod placed diagonally, the handle (tied with rope) in the lower left corner of the design. From among the twigs ten heads (caricature portraits) project, also (right) the head of a boar and posteriors emitting smoke. 'O peuple aveugle et endormi! . . . C'est la liberté qui a formé pour ton éducation cette verge salutaire. . . .' Text, 'Ezekiel', vii. II."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Artist identified as Hess and printmaker questionably identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., Place and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Possibly published by Hannah Humphrey. See British Museum catalogue., One of twenty plates published as a bound set entitled: Hollandia regenerata., Plate numbered "18" in upper left corner., With: Letterpress explanation in French that includes appropriate texts from the Bible in Dutch and in English., Temporary local subject terms: Holland: civil discord -- Emblems: birch rod., and Letterpress explanation lacking.
