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2.
- Creator:
- Peter, of Ickham, active 1290
- Published / Created:
- [between 1305 and 1330]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 5
- Image Count:
- 168
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, of a version of Peter of Ickham's chronicle of English history. The narrative in this copy ends with 1301; this is followed by several brief entries in the same hand for events dated between 1287 and 1305
- Description:
- In Latin., Scribal explicit: "hic pennam fixi penitet me si male dixi.", Ownership inscription on front paper flyleaf: "Brudenell de Deen d[omi]nusque de Stonton.", Some marginal annotations, particularly in lower margins. Some of these have been trimmed; three leaves containing lower margin annotations have been left untrimmed and folded back, apparently in an effort to preserve the annotations (13r; 22r; 59r)., Two leaves bound in at the end of the volume contain passages from the Doctrinale of Alexander de Villa Dei. Ownership inscription on 1r in a later, (early seventeenth-century?) hand: "Mistresse Leucey Brudenell.", Layout: single columns of 34 lines., Script: rounded gothic script., Decoration: Rubricated., and Binding: seventeenth-century full calf, with the arms of the Brudenell family in gilt on the covers.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Peter, of Ickham, active 1290.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval, Latin prose literature, Medieval and modern, Great Britain, History, and Kings and rulers
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Chronicon de regibus angliae
3.
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [17 May 1805]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 6
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A burlesqued illustration of the quotation from 'Paradise Lost' etched below the design ... In the upper left corner of the design, and in the background, an aged St. Peter holds open a small arched door, putting one of his three massive keys into the lock. The irradiated doorway is 'Popish Supremacy'; through it is seen a table, also irradiated, spread with loaves, fishes (cf. BMSat 10697), and wine. A golden staircase receding in perspective ascends in a curve to the door from the summit of the globe, on which 'Ireland' (the more conspicuous) and 'England' are marked. A procession of petitioners winds up the globe from the lower margin of the design; its leaders have begun to ascend the stairs but have been struck by three mighty blasts of wind. These issue from the mouths of Pitt, Hawkesbury (just below), and Sidmouth (considerably lower) Their profile heads emerge from dark clouds on the extreme left. The blasts have overthrown the leading petitioners: Grenville, in bishop's robes, staggers back with outstretched arms, his crozier and mitre fall, and the Catholic Petition blows from his hands, tattered by the wind, in a stream of 'popish' objects which slants upwards across the design. Immediately behind him, full face, the spectacled Buckingham staggers backward. He is dressed as a monk. In front of the two brothers Moira has fallen on his back on the third stair, kicking wildly, his upright l. leg expressing his characteristic stiff rigidity. He wears a surplice over regimentals and spurred boots, and his sword has broken. He has dropped the halter of the Irish bull on which sits Fox, dressed as a cardinal, the central figure of the design. The bull, snorting flames, rears violently, throwing Fox back into a horizontal position. Round its neck is a tricolour ribbon inscribed 'Order of St Patrick', from which hangs a medal with a profile of 'Buonaparte'; on its head is a bunch of shamrock. Fox is a Papal Legate; he is about to fall, and drops his triple cross to which is attached a tattered tricolour banner, inscribed 'Catholic Emancipa[tion']. His cardinal's hat flies off; from his left hand blows a document with many seals: 'Hierarchical Powers of ye Legate-Cardinal Volpone'. Mrs. Fitzherbert, a Mother Abbess, has fallen headlong from the stairs on to the globe. Her r. hand is on Ireland, resting on an open book: ' . . by the Brighton Abbess System of Education for the benefit of Protestant Children'; her left wrist is on England. Her crozier rests on the globe. Her robes, rent by the fall, display bare posteriors and fat, kicking legs, suggesting the connotation of 'abbess' and bawd, see BMSat 5184, &c. Moira has flung his left arm across her. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Four stanzas of verse below image, two on either side of title: "And now St. Peter at heav'n's wicket seems ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on upper and lower edges., 1 print : etching with aquatint on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 38.5 x 46.3 cm, on sheet 42.5 x 52.3 cm., and Mounted on leaf 6 of volume 6 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. May 17th, 1805, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
- Subject (Name):
- Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Grattan, Henry, 1746-1820, Holland, Henry Richard Vassall, Baron, 1773-1840, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Lansdowne, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of, 1780-1863, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Windham, William, 1750-1810, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1766-1839, Carlisle, Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1748-1825, Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758-1834, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, Smith-Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844, and George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
- Subject (Topic):
- Catholic emancipation and Great Britain
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > End of the Irish farce of Catholic emancipation [graphic]
4.
- Creator:
- Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1375-1400]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 62
- Image Count:
- 189
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript volume, in a single hand, containing the text of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica, followed by the text of the Historia brittoum of Nennius; a brief biography of Merlin; and Sybilline prophecies
- Description:
- In Latin., Numerous marginal notes in contemporary and later hands., Bound with: parchment leaf of accounts kept by Robert de Staynford, steward of Lady Idoyne Percy, wife of Henry, Lord Percy (d. 1365)., Laid in: manuscript fragment, on paper, of a contract, in English (ca. 1574), formerly the back pastedown., Layout: single columns of 42 lines., Script: gothic text hand., Decoration: Rubricated. Numerous penwork initials and line fillers in red and blue ink. Ten larger illuminated initials, gilt and red and blue ink., and Binding: original oak boards covered in pink doeskin; remains of clasps.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Great Britain, Church history, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum
5.
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [16 March 1792]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 3
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A carriage (right) drives at a gallop towards the gateway of St. James's Palace; Lord Lansdowne, in peer's robes, puts his head out of the window to call to the coachman, who is lashing the pair of horses: "Drive you dog! drive! - now, or never! - aha the Coast is clearing!------drive! drive! you dog!" He has a sly smile. The carriage is decorated with coronets, and on the door is the beehive crest of Lord Lansdowne and the motto 'Ut Ap[es] Geometriam'. The coachman and three footmen who stand behind have enormous feather-trimmed cocked hats in the French fashion, with bag-wigs. Running behind the carriage with outstretched arms are: Fox, saying, "Stop! stop! - & take me in, - Stop!"; Sheridan saying, "And me too! stop", and (very small) M. A. Taylor, saying, "And me". In the background a similar carriage is driving yet more rapidly out of the Palace gateway; the tiny figures are recognizable: Dundas, the coachman, has dropped the reins, the horses are running away; Pitt, terror-stricken, puts his arms through the windows. Both look up at a dove with an olive-branch which flies over their heads towards the gateway. In the background are part of the Palace and the houses at the SW. corner of St. James's Street."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from item., Year of publication from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Vehicles: coaches -- London: St. James's Palace -- Domestic service: footmen -- Coachmen -- Pavement -- Symbols: dove with an olive-branch -- Nicknames: Shelburne as Malagrida -- Allusion to Gabriel Malagrida, 1689-1761., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.9 x 35.1 cm, on sheet 29.5 x 39.8 cm., Preceding imprint statement is "1792," written in ink in a contemporary hand., and Mounted on leaf 4 of volume 3 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Pub. March 16th by H. Humphrey, Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Taylor, Michael Angelo, 1757-1834
- Subject (Topic):
- Great Britain and Politics and government
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Malagrida driving post [graphic]
6.
- Published / Created:
- [1679?]
- Call Number:
- ENG76
- Image Count:
- 3
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Description:
- BEIN ENG76: From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards., Title from Keller., French suit system., Type: Historical., Composition of deck: 52 [A, K, Q, J, 10-2]., Aces: Indicated by "I"., CourtCards: Kings, Queens, Jacks with rank at upper left corner., Pip cards: Numbered X-II., and These cards apparently were copied from cards of another Popish Plot pack: they are reversed. Several variants of the Popish Plot pack exist. The workmanship of the present pack is crude, the impression, fair.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Playing cards, Popish Plot, 1678, Great Britain, Politics and Government, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Popish plot
7.
- Published / Created:
- [1684?]
- Call Number:
- ENG82
- Image Count:
- 82
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Description:
- BEIN ENG82: From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards. Imperfect: lacking Ace of Clubs; King of Spades, King of Clubs; 9 and 3 of Spades; 7, 6, and 4 of Hearts; 10, 8, and 3 of Diamonds; 10 of Clubs. The cards were cut unevenly., Title from Keller., French suit system., Type: Historical., Composition of deck: 52 [A, K, Q, J, 10-2]., Aces: Indicated by "I"., CourtCards: K: King; Q: Queen; J: Knave., and Pip cards: Numbered X-II.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Playing cards, Rye House Plot, 1683, Great Britain, Politics and Government, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Rye house plot
8.
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [20 April 1791]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Pitt as Don Quixote (and Petruchio) bestrides a sorry rosinante, the white horse of Hanover, scarred and decrepit and apparently at the point of death. Behind him sits the King of Prussia. Holland, as Sancho Panza, on the animal's hind-quarters, clasps Prussia round the waist. The Sultan, on the extreme left, crouches behind the horse, kissing its tail. Pitt, who holds a whip, points a thin mail-clad hand arrogantly at Catherine of Russia (right), a stout woman who has sunk in terror to her knees, but is supported by the Emperor Leopold and by France, a grotesquely lean Frenchman of the old régime, wearing a cocked hat ornamented with fleur-de-lis. Pitt wears Mambrino's helmet (the barber's basin) surmounted by a crown and a feather. He says: ""Katharine, that cap of yours becomes you not; "Off with that bauble, 'tis my royal will." The 'cap' is a crescent in her hair, symbolizing her conquests from Turkey and, more especially, Oczakoff, the place in dispute. Pitt's horse (George III), says, weeping, "Heigho! to have myself thus rid to death, by a Boy & his playmates, merely to frighten an Old Woman - I wish I was back in Hanover to get myself a belly full". A holster on the animal's neck is inscribed 'G.R', but the 'G' has been struck out and replaced by 'P' (to indicate that Pitt has usurped the prerogative of the Crown, cf. BMSat 7479, &c). The King of Prussia, with his chin on Pitt's shoulder, glares fiercely; he holds a drawn sabre and says, "Blood & Dunder, I would give her one good Prussian stroking". Sancho Panza, a fat Dutchman, says, "I'm in a good humour to give her a dram of right Holland's". The crouching Turk cries obsequiously, "Amman! Amman! Anglois, Alia, Alia". Catherine is terrified, she turns away from Pitt exclaiming: ""I see my Lances are but straws; "My strength is weak, my weakness past compare; "And am asham'd, that Women are so simple "To offer War when they should kneel for Peace." France says, "O, by Gar! if Mirabeau was but 'live! Sacre Dieu." The Emperor, who is crowned, and wears a cloak on which is the Habsburg eagle, says, "Das is de devil, to give up all again". Beside Catherine is a sword tying across a plan of a fortress, Oczakow."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- What you will and Modern Quixote
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to Don Quixote -- Horse of Hanover -- George III as the Horse of Hanover -- Weapons: sabre -- Horse whip -- Allusion to Oczakow -- Allusion to Triple Alliance (England, Prussia and Holland)., 1 print : etching on paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.9 x 40.1 cm, on sheet 27.7 x 42.0 cm., and Mounted on leaf 61 of volume 2 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. April 20th, 1791, by S.W. Fores, Piccadilly
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796, Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1747-1792, Frederick William II, King of Prussia, 1744-1797, Selim III, Sultan of the Turks, 1761-1808, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
- Subject (Topic):
- Great Britain and Foreign relations
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Taming of the shrew, Katharine & Petruchio, the modern Quixotte, or, What you will [graphic].
9.
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [21 April 1791]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Pitt, very thin and elongated, poises on one toe on a tight-rope; he holds a long balancing-pole in both hands, on one end (left) sits the Sultan, on the other (right) Catherine II. The Turk, whose end of the pole is slightly the lower, clutches it desperately, saying, "My dear Billy, do help me to make another push, & I'll give you - half of my Seraglio". The fat Empress sits with her hands on her hips; she wears a crown, in her right hand is a sceptre, in her left a paper inscribed 'New Russian Conquests'. She says "Both Billy - the Flat, & yourself may do your worst you circumcised dog! get me down if you can! - I'll match you all, & swallow Thousands more!" Pitt stands with his head raised arrogantly in profile to the right; he says, "The old Hag cannot move me, & Seraglios cannot bribe me: - I have nothing to do with these matters - my Pole will always remain level - ". On the ground beneath the rope stands a dwarfish Sheridan (right) in profile to the left, grotesquely caricatured as a clown; he wears trousers and long sleeves which cover his hands and hang down. He says: "O! the Devil! the Devil! The Cow leaps over the Moon! And if I could once get up on the Rope, Lord! I'd fill my Pockets soon: - I mean, I would soon bring her down: fol der lol, fol der ol"."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Posterity of the immortal Chatham turned posture master
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Text following title: Vide Sherridans speech., and Mounted on leaf 62 of volume 2 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Publishd. April 21st, 1791, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond St.
- Subject (Name):
- Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796, Selim III, Sultan of the Turks, 1761-1808, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
- Subject (Topic):
- Great Britain and Foreign relations
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The balance of power, or, "The posterity of the immortal Chatham turn'd posture master" [graphic].
10.
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [6 December 1791]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Cornwallis, [It has been suggested that he is William Monson (1760-1807), then serving under Cornwallis, but as a captain in the 52nd he was not of sufficient note in England for caricature and Cornwallis's star removes all doubt of his identity. 'Monsoon' is not a pun, see BMSat 7938.] mounted on an ass, flees terror-stricken from a fortess (right) from behind the battlements of which the grinning Tipu Sultan, holding a sabre, urinates a devastating stream upon the fleeing British soldiers (right). Two cannon belch fire and smoke from loopholes. Cornwallis, wearing his Garter star, gallops past the bodies of dead soldiers, he drops his sabre and his reins, holding up his arms; his hat flies off. His ass is muzzled by a long nose-bag."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Retreat from Seringapatam
- Description:
- Title from text in top part of image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Three lines of text below image: "Whats the matter, Falstaff." What's the matter! Here be four of us, have taken a city this morning. ..., Temporary local subject terms: India -- Wars: 3rd Mysore War, 1790-1792 -- Cornwallis's retreat from Seringapatam, December 1791 -- Newspapers: satire on Cornwallis's letter in Gazette, Dec. 2, 1791 -- Literature: altered quotation from Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part I, ii, 4, 177 -- Military uniforms: general's uniform -- Soldiers -- Flags: Union Jack -- Fortresses -- Gun salutes -- Weapons: swords -- Asses -- Nose-bags., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 22.2 x 27.5 cm, on sheet 24.9 x 30.8 cm., and Mounted on leaf 73 of volume 2 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Decr. 6th, 1791, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, Marquis, 1738-1805 and Tipu Sultan, Fath ʻAli, Nawab of Mysore, 1753-1799
- Subject (Topic):
- Great Britain and Politics and government
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The coming-on of the monsoons, or, The retreat from Seringapatam [graphic].
