Manuscript, in a single hand with many corrections , excisions, and pasted-in additions, of a diary recording a journey to Belgium coinciding with the Battle of Waterloo. The author, traveling with her brother John and sister Jane, as well as Sir Neil Campbell, Knight of Elba; Major Wiley, aide-de-camp to the Duke of Wellington; and Mr. Littleship, an English merchant, records her journey by steam packet from Ramsgate to Ostend on June 10, 1815. She describes their difficulty convincing the sentry to allow them to enter the garrison of Ostend; praises their hotel once they arrive; visits Ghent; and finds Brussels "new and amusing." She breakfasts with Major Llewellyn in Brussels two hours before the Battle of Waterloo, and the remainder of the diary consists of a description of her experience during the battle, including her and her companions' efforts to dine and sightsee without mentioning public events; their attempts to obtain information about the battle's progress; the exodus from Brussels by "masters and servants, ladies and stableboys, valets and soldiers"; and reports of the battle's outcome and After the battle, she is evacuated to the Netherlands, where she comments unfavorably on the character and habits of the Dutch inhabitants. Several weeks later, she returns to Brussels and visits Waterloo
Description:
Charlotte Ann (Waldie) Eaton (1788-1859) was a writer. In June 1815 she visited Brussels, the headquarters of Wellington's army, with her brother John and sister Jane. Her account of the battle was first published as Circumstantial Detail By a Near Observer in The Battle of Waterloo (1815). In 1817, her family published a more extended account based on her own experiences titled Narrative of a Residence in Belgium, During the Campaign of 1815, and of a Visit to the Field of Waterloo. By an Englishwoman. In 1820, after a visit to Italy, she anonymously published the popular and acclaimed Rome in the Nineteenth Century. Her other published works include The Days of Battle, later published as Waterloo Days; Continental Adventures; and At Home and Abroad., In English., Written on page removed from volume: Journal of Four Months' Absence from England, in the Summer of 1815: including a Tour in Flanders, Holland, and France., Written on title page: Narrative of a few days' residence in Belgium, in June 1815. and of a visit to the Field of Waterloo. by an Englishwoman., Pasted on flyleaf: Lubbok Bookbinder St. N. C. Yd. Newcastle., Bookplate of Charles Edward Thynne Eaton and signature of Wilfred Eaton, 1897 on the title-page., Marbled endpapers., and Binding: half morocco over marbled boards; gilt decoration.
Subject (Geographic):
Belgium and Netherlands
Subject (Name):
Eaton, Charlotte A. 1788-1859. (Charlotte Anne),, Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821., Waldie, John, 1781-1862., and Watts, Jane (Waldie), 1793-1826.
Subject (Topic):
Travelers' writings, English, Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815, Description and travel, and Women authors
Manuscript, on vellum, in multiple hands, containing the text of the "Old" Natura Brevium; the text of The Old Tenures; and a register of writs from the reign of King Edward III. These texts are followed by a copy of part of a testament by "John Norton of Wadyngham."
Description:
In Latin and Law French. A copy of part of a testament in Middle English on p. 420., Part of the Anthony Taussig Collection of English Legal Manuscripts (OSB MSS 184). Taussig catalog number: MS 86.6.25 (number 69 in main catalog numbering)., A fuller description of the contents is found in Baker and Taussig, Catalogue (London: 2007), pp. 33-34., Script: English book hands., Decoration: initials have red and blue flourishing; many paragraph marks in red or blue., and Binding: late eighteenth-century? full brown morocco, gilt. Title on spine: Fitzherbert Natura Brevium. Codex MSS in membranis.
Subject (Geographic):
England, Great Britain, Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Edward III, King of England, 1312-1377. and Taussig, Anthony.
Wāʻiẓ al-Makkī, ʻAbd al-Raʼūf ibn Yaḥyá, -1556 واعظ المكي، عبد الرؤوف بن يحيى، -1556
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 293
Image Count:
53
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Versification of al-Nuqāyah (concise encyclopedia) of Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī. and Followed by 2 leaves of notes
Description:
Available on microfilm, The title, scrawled in a later hand on leaf 217 recto, confused the author with ʻAbd al-Raʼūf al-Munāwī., The author's full name is given in the colophon (explicit)., Kâtip Çelebi (ed. Flügel) misprinted ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz as covering fann al-tafsīr only., Kâtip Çelebi gives the author's surname as al-Zamzamī al-Makkī. Brockelmann, S II, p. 509, lists a Naẓm ʻilm al-tafsīr under ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn ʻAlī al-Zamzamī, d. 1568, possibly the same work. (But Hitti, 7, gives his death date as A.H. 963 / A.D. 1556)., Kâtip Çelebi gives the death date as A.H. 963 (A.D. 1555 or 1556)., According to the colophon the author was a pupil of Ibn Ḥajar al-Haythamī (d. 1565?)., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm ... Yaqūlu muḥtāj al-Ghanī al-Ḥāfiẓ ʻAbd al-Raʼūf najl Yaḥyá al-Wāʻiẓ: Aḥmadu man ajāda bi-al-aḥkām ...", Modern (18th century?) Yemenite naskhī, in red and black, sparsely pointed., Islamic binding, in brown, with flap., and No. 3 of 3 titles bound together.
Subject (Name):
Suyūṭī, 1445-1505., Wāʻiẓ al-Makkī, ʻAbd al-Raʼūf ibn Yaḥyá, -1556., Zamzamī, ʻIzz al-Dīn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn ʻAlī, -1568., and Zamzamī, ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn Yaḥyá, -1556.
Subject (Topic):
Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Arabic and Islamic learning and scholarship
Manuscript, on parchment, in a liturgical Gothic bookhand, with additional notes in later hands, containing a necrology for the parish church of Hollain in Hainaut, including information concerning the deceased, the donors, the donated properties, and the fees for the celebrants. A brief list of obits (ff. 4-9v) is followed by a detailed list, organized in calendar form (ff. 14-47). Notes added to some entries in later hands contain corrections and updates to the original entries. The perpetual calendar of obits is followed by a register of lands and incomes held by the parish of Hollain (ff. 48-64v.).
Description:
In Middle French, with some Latin., Ownership inscription on verso of last leaf:"Antoine Descamps pasteur de Hollain 1607.", Ownership inscription on verso of last leaf: "Alard Sprien pasteur de Hollain 1647 26 Januarii.", Ownership inscription on verso of last leaf: "Pierre Lemari pasteur de hollain, x julii 1660.", Ownership inscription on verso of last leaf: "Paul François Deschamps pasteur de hollain le 12 de decembre 1693.", Layout: single column with varying number of lines., Script: Gothic liturgical bookhand., Decoration: Rubricated. Initials in red or blue; paragraph marks in alternating red and blue., and Binding: Remnant of original wooden binding attached to back of volume.
Subject (Geographic):
Hainaut (Belgium), Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Finance, Church property, Endowments, Catholic Church, Manuscripts, Medieval, Necrologies, Obituaries, and Parishes (Canon law)
Manuscript on parchment. Includes: Letter of Eusebius to Carpianus; Eusebian Canons; the New Testament; Epiphanius of Cyprus, In Sabbato magno; and John Damascene, De dormientibus in fide
Description:
In Greek., Script: Written throughout in an extremely small Greek minuscule, by five scribes: Scribe 1, ff. 1r-32v and 171r-173r; Scribe 2, ff. 33v-68v; Scribe 3, ff. 69r-168r; Scribe 4, ff. 168r-170v; Scribe 5, ff. 173r-188v. Notes added on f. 33r (originally blank) and in margins by various later hands; in some of the notes on f. 33r Latin letters are used for Greek words., Two headings and title of Matthew in blue (f. 37r). Initials in red with simple floral ornament. Extensive rubrication. Headpieces and bars between sections in red, blue, green and yellow (all faded). Eusebian Canons done with compass and ruler, in red and blue., Several folios originally had holes, which have been written around., and Binding: Date? Original sewing on three chain supports laced in a Z pattern into square, flush wooden boards, grooved on the edges. Two pin holes in the edge of the upper board and three holes for each strap in the lower. Traces of rectangular plates (?) at the fore-edge near the head of the upper board and the tail of the lower. Rebacked and the sides covered with cloth.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Theology
Manuscript on paper (thick) of 1) Five lines of verse on the proper formulaic conclusion to prayers addressed to members of the Trinity. 2) Nicolaus de Dinkelsbuehl, De septem peccatis capitalibus (Confessionale). 3) Latin and German names of the books of the Bible; Latin and German names of Aristotle's principal works; Latin names of the Minor Prophets; etc. 4) Johannes Herolt ("Discipulus"), Sermones dominicales. 5) Johannes Herolt, Sermo in festo Iohannis Baptiste
Description:
In German and Latin., Watermarks, in gutter: similar to Briquet Monts 11786 and unidentified bull's head., Script: Written by multiple scribes in varying styles of gothic hybrida and bookhand scripts., Crude red initials, 3- to 2-line, throughout; ff. 33v-38r, 113v-114v and 166r-203r rubricated., and Binding: Fifteenth century, Germany. The backs of the quires are cut in. Original sewing on three double supports is laced into almost flush wooden boards, and the tawed skin cores of braided endbands, sewn through the cover, are also laced. The spine is back cornered with lining extending between supports on the outside of the boards. Large vermilion and sepia roses are painted on each edge. Back pastedown (and perhaps the inner front pastedown, covered by paper) consists of a parchment bifolium (Germany, 1200-1250) containing the Sermones de tempore of Johannes Halgrinus de Abbatisvilla. Written in small neat early gothic bookhand, above top line. Binding stays from this and other parchment manuscripts, 13th-14th centuries. Covered in kermes pink skin blind-tooled with an X in a frame on the front board, tying-up marks on the spine, and a frame on the lower one. Five round, brass bosses on each board and one fastening, the catch inset on the upper board, the lower one cut in for the strap.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
John, the Baptist, Saint. and Dinkelsbuehl, Nicolaus de.
Subject (Topic):
Church year sermons, Confession, Catholic Church, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sermons
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (translated into Latin by Leonardo Bruni Aretino).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in hybrida libraria with notarial influence., and Decoration: 8-line initials at the beginning of each book in red and purple; 3-line initials at the beginning of each capitulum alternate red and purple; 1-line initials in brown highlighted with red; rubrics in red in same script as text; first line of each book written in larger minuscule; paragraph marks alternate red and purple; running headlines in red and purple; punctuated with the punctus and, for major pauses, the punctus versus; another hand in black ink made some corrections and added punctuation, including the punctus elevatus and punctus interrogativus; hyphenation in the same ink as the text.
Manuscript on parchment of Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae (abridged).
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in fere-humanistic script by a single scribe, below top line., Folio 1r with partial border in inner and lower margin (rubbed). Inner margin has scrolling vine, yellow, on parchment ground with red dots, with stylized foliage, flowers and fruit in green, red, purple and dove grey. Illuminated initial, 3-line, purple on dark green ground, is incorporated into border. In lower margin, wreathed medallion (unidentified mutilated arms: per pale, or and sable?) on pink ground, supported by two heraldic dragons, parchment colored (unfinished) against red ground. All of this decoration appears to be a later addition. Plain initials and headings in red., and Binding: Fifteenth century, Italy. Sewn on three tawed skin, kermes pink slit straps nailed in channels on the outside of the wooden boards. Yellow edges. The plain wound endbands may have been resewn. The spine is lined with cloth. Covered in brown, originally tan, sheepskin with corner tongues. Blind-tooled with two rope interlace stars in a central panel bordered with concentric frames. Spine: bands outlined with double fillets; panels diapered with triple fillets. Two truncated diamond fastenings, the catches on the lower board (one wanting), the upper board cut in for straps attached with star-headed nails.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Gellius, Aulus.
Subject (Topic):
Commonplace-books, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Archiconfraternita dei SS. Ambrogio e Carlo dei Lombardi
Published / Created:
[ca. 1485-1585]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 675
Image Count:
185
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment of a collection of documents pertaining to the Hospital of St. Ambrose in Rome compiled over a century and containing a core of foundation documents and numerous later additions
Description:
In Latin., Written in several notarial hands, signed and dated by notaries., Heading on f. 2 in calligraphic script with a large interlaced penwork initial. Notaries' marks., and Binding: Contemporary blind-stamped leather with foldover flap and buckle. Miniature of St. Ambrose painted on front cover.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Rome (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Archiconfraternita dei SS. Ambrogio e Carlo dei Lombardi.
Subject (Topic):
Charters, Hospitals, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Signed note in Horace Walpole's hand to his friend Richard Bull, in which Walpole mentions the depiction of his Marc Anthony medal in the second edition of Pinkerton's An essay on medals. Walpole also writes that he is sending along to Bull a copy of the plate in question
Description:
In English., Dated approximately by the reference to the second edition of Pinkerton's An essay on medals, 1789. See: Yale edition of Horace Walpole's correspondence., Mounted on page 110 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., Mounted beside the top half of the plate mentioned in the note, probably the impression sent by Walpole to Bull., and For further information, consult library staff.