Manuscript on paper of prescriptions against various illnesses of horses, Latin and German benedictions for various illnesses and wounds, and a formulary for Latin letters and documents, mostly concerning ecclesiastical matters
Description:
In German and Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Benediction, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Medicine, Medieval
Manuscript on paper of Laurentius, Meditationes. This treatise contains a Christian humanistic philosophy dealing with God, the angels, cosmography, man, mind, the soul and happiness. Authors quoted are Averroes, Socrates, Aristotle, St. Augustine, St...
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Laurentius.
Subject (Topic):
Humanism, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Philosophy, Renaissance
Manuscript, on parchment, in a single cursive gothic bookhand, of this popular Latin devotional work on the life of Christ. Long attributed to St. Bonaventure, the work is now considered to be by the fourteenth-century Franciscan Johannes de Caulibus....
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Jesus Christ, Johannes, de Caulibus, 14th cent., and Franciscans.
Subject (Topic):
Biography, Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Devotional literature, Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript, in Walpole's hand, containing primarily the beginnings and endings of various sections of the memoirs of political characters and events during the reign of King George II. The focus of the collection, however, is on the drawings and engr...
Alternative Title:
Memoirs of King George II.
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Bentley, R. 1708-1782. (Richard),, Campbell, Archibald, 1691-1756., George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760., Harrington, William Stanhope, Earl of, approximately 1690-1756., Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774., Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793., Müntz, Jean-Henri, 1727-1798., Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768., Pelham, Henry, 1695?-1754., and Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Manuscript on paper, in a single Italic hand, of a history of the political, religious, and military events from the death of James I in 1625 to the restoration of Charles II in 1660
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
France, Great Britain., Great Britain, and France.
Subject (Name):
Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649., Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685., Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658., and Warwick, Philip, Sir, 1609-1683.
Subject (Topic):
Foreign relations, History, and Politics and government
Biography of Alice Thornton, manuscript, including transcribed extracts from her papers, n.d. On a preliminary page is an "extract of a letter from William Danby of Swinton, Yorkshire, May 31, 1815," manuscript, containing genealogical data. Bound w...
Description:
Thomas Comber (1765-1835) was a son of Thomas Comber (d. 1778).
Subject (Name):
Danby family., Thornton, Alice Wandesford, 1627-1707., Wandesford, Christopher, Viscount Castlecomer, 1592-1640., and Wandesford family.
Autograph narrative, extensively illustrated by Mrs. Kenah, of two journeys in Europe taken by the Kenah couple with friends in 1821-24 and in 1827-29. On the first tour, accompanied by Walter Burrell, MP for Sussex, and "Mrs. Crutchley of Sunning Hil...
Description:
Spine title reads: "Journal. Vol. I."
Subject (Geographic):
Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, France, Lucca (Italy), Naples (Italy), and Vesuvius (Italy)
Ethnic costume, Grand tours (Education), Landscape drawing, Travelers' writings, English, Views, Women authors, Women travelers, Description and travel, Social life and customs, and Eruption, 1822
Agreement between Henry L. Webb, John W. Audubon, son of John James Audubon, and Henry C. Mallory, of the first part, with Edward W. Whittlesey, forming an overland company for California
Description:
Probably printed in New York.
Subject (Name):
Audubon, John Woodhouse, 1812-1862., Mallory, Henry C., Webb, Henry Livingston., and Whittlesey, Edward W.
