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2.
- Creator:
- Vesalius, Andreas, 1514-1564, author
- Published / Created:
- [1558] March 15.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 16th cent +
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Autograph letter, signed, recommending William I return to Breda to visit his ill wife (Anna van Egmont, 1533-1558) and stating his presence will console her. She died nine days later
- Description:
- In French., Date appears as "le XV de Mars". Year assigned by references on the basis of the year of death of Anne van Egmont., Layout: single column of 20 lines., Numerous modern letters, memos, and articles regarding provenance and transcription of letter included., Script: Italic., Seal of embossed paper on verso., and Signed: "And. Vesalius".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Europe
- Subject (Name):
- Vesalius, Andreas, 1514-1564.
- Subject (Topic):
- Medicine
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Andreas Vesalius letter to William I, Prince of Orange, 1558 March 15.
3.
- Published / Created:
- [1756]
- Call Number:
- 756.00.00.54
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Satire: Britannia, whose spear is broken in her hand, sits on a monumental statue which is placed on a pedestal of "Rotten Stone"; she says: "My leaness my leaness, wo untio me the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously, yea the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously. ..." At the foot of the monument lies the British Lion, dreadfully emaciated, wounded by three daggers, and breathing his last. Near him are the personifications Truth, Rapine, Envy, Ingratitude, and Infidelity -- representations of the powers of Europe
- Description:
- Title from item., Plate numbered '22' in upper right corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Four lines of verse below image: See here a monument of shame / Indelible the Horrid Name / Shame on your Actions, Cursed Tricks / To the latest Time -- O! fifty-six.", and Plate prepared for: England's remembrancer, or, A humorous, sarcastical, and political collection of characters and caricaturas ... London, 1759.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain and Europe
- Subject (Topic):
- Foreign relations, Britannia (Symbolic character), Allegories, and National emblems
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Are these things so [graphic].
4.
- Published / Created:
- 1720.
- Call Number:
- 2006 Folio 21
- Image Count:
- 3
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in undentified hand, containing an overview of the terms and conditions for the creation of a merchant trading company by the mayor and vroedschappen of the city of Woerden in the Netherlands. Signing up for the company is announced on October 25th, 1720
- Description:
- In Dutch., Title from heading., Layout: single column of varying length., Binding: quarter bound with vellum and printed paper (heavily damaged) over paper pasteboard., and Volume contains 57 printed and 6 manuscript items bound together under title page: Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid. This manuscript is the fifth manuscript in the volume and number 60 of 63 items bound together.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Woerden (Netherlands), Europe, and Netherlands
- Subject (Topic):
- Colonial companies, Commercial crimes, Speculation, and Economic conditions
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Burgermeesteren en vroedschappen der steede Woerden hebben op iterative instantien en wel gegronde ... : manuscript
5.
- Published / Created:
- 1844.
- Call Number:
- 30 1844
- Image Count:
- 1
- Publisher:
- Aug. Logerot
- Subject (Geographic):
- Europe
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Carte Générale des routes de Poste de L'Europe ... par A.R. Fremin, Géographe 1844
6.
- Published / Created:
- MDCCXCI [1791]
- Call Number:
- 53 B92 C73
- Image Count:
- 31
- Resource Type:
- text
- Description:
- BEIN College Pamphlets 1959 3: 21 cm. From the library of Samuel Parr. With half-title of another pamphlet attached: Vindication of Burke's Revolution in France (1791)., Signatures: [A]² B-G⁴ [H]²., Ms. note on title page identifies author as Captain Bentinck., Ms. note on wrapper: "Capt. Bentinck read at Bowdon, June 14, 1850"., and Original wrappers.
- Publisher:
- Printed for C. Lowndes, No. 66 Drury-Lane
- Subject (Geographic):
- France, Great Britain, Europe, Europe., France., and Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778, Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778., and Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797.
- Subject (Topic):
- Political and social views, Politics and government, and Political science
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Comparison of the opinions of Mr. Burke and Mons. Rousseau, on government reform, and strictures on the answers to Mr. Burke
7.
- Published / Created:
- 9th century
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 974
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of fragments from Codex Iustinianus
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: copied by one hand in Carolina, marked by the use of Half Uncial and Uncial d, ri- and st- ligatures (but no ct-ligature), and the improper use of the ae-diphthong and e caudata. Noticeable spellings and miswritings: amguitatibus (for ambiguitatibus), conitionaliter (for cognitionaliter), licteris, magestas, proibentur, spetialiter. Headings and plain initials in red; small slightly decorated black initials., Fragments from Codex Iustinianus. There are a few contemporary interlinear glosses (word explanations) and many textual corrections. In the outer margin of f. 1r a red Nota mark and of f. 1v two contemporary notes., and Only the outer margin is partly preserved; at the three other sides the leaf has been severely cropped, with loss of text; the inner top part is torn, and holes have caused some additional text losses. In the outer margin of f. 1r the modern note in pencil: "103/68/8".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Europe, Connecticut, and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Civil law, History, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Corpus iuris civilis
8.
- Published / Created:
- 1720 October 28.
- Call Number:
- 2006 Folio 21
- Image Count:
- 3
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in undentified hand, containing a list of changes that the mayor and leaders of the trade company of the city of Veere have made to the current trade company terms and conditions. This includes a change in the terms of payment and of the numbers of directors of the trade company
- Description:
- In Dutch., Title from heading., Layout: single column of varying length., Binding: quarter bound with vellum and printed paper (heavily damaged) over paper pasteboard., and Volume contains 57 printed and 6 manuscript items bound together under title page: Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid. This manuscript is the fifth manuscript in the volume and number 43 of 63 items bound together.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Veere (Netherlands), Europe, and Netherlands
- Subject (Topic):
- Colonial companies, Commercial crimes, Speculation, and Economic conditions
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De commissarissen provisioneelyk gecommitteerd tot de saaken van de commercie navigatie, en assurantie compagnie binnen deese stad notificeeren ... : manuscript
9.
- Creator:
- Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375, author
- Published / Created:
- [20 June 1492]
- Call Number:
- Zi +7046 1
- Image Count:
- 253
- Resource Type:
- text
- Alternative Title:
- Decamerone
- Description:
- BEIN Zi +4524: For fuller description see collation slip in volume. Variant copy. [7], 2-137, [1] leaves, illustrated, 30 cm (fol). Leaf 2 numbered with a broken numeral "2"; leaf 29 so numbered (misprinted 26 in the preceding). Imperfect copy. Bookplate of A. H. (monogram AH)., BEIN Zi +7046: Imperfect copy: missing leaves pi1-3, pi6, a1, a5, a8, b6, f3, i1, n3, o4, s1, t1, u4, and z4 (blank) wanting. Leaf [4] (first count) bound at end of volume., BEIN Zi +7046: Provenance: Bookplate of Antoine Pol of Paris. Early manuscript ownership note of a certain Ad. de Beauchamp on front pastedown. Modern manuscript note regarding publication in French on first leaf. Gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, May 1964., BEIN Zi +7046: Binding: brown leather binding. Red sprinkling on all edges. Gold-tooled title on spine: Opera Politian / Decame., BEIN Zi +7046: Number 2 of 3 titles bound together., Title from leaf [1]/1r., Colophon (leaf z3r): Finisce lo elegantissimo Decamerone: cio e le cento novelle detto: dello excellentissimo poeta Giova[n]ni Bocchaccio da certaldo. Impresso i[n] Venetia per Giova[n]ni & Gregorio de gregorii fratelli. Impera[n]te Augustino Barbarigo felicissimo principe: nellanno della humana recuperatione. MCCCC. Lxxxxii. ad di .xx. de Giugno., Printed in type 23:82R., Signatures: pi⁶; a⁸ b-y⁶z⁴., Leaves pi6 and z4 blank., 113 woodcuts., and Printed guide letters.
- Publisher:
- Johannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis
- Subject (Geographic):
- Europe
- Subject (Topic):
- Plague, History, and Love
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Decamerone o ver cento novelle del Boccaccio
10.
- Published / Created:
- 1720.
- Call Number:
- 2006 Folio 21
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in undentified hand, containing an overview of the terms and conditions for the subscription to bonds in the city of S' Gravenhage, now The Hague. Includes a description of sums, interests rates, and differences in classes of subscriptions. The date of subscription was advanced from January 6th, 1721 to December 16th, 1720
- Description:
- In Dutch., Title from heading., Layout: single column of varying length., Binding: quarter bound with vellum and printed paper (heavily damaged) over paper pasteboard., and Volume contains 57 printed and 6 manuscript items bound together under title page: Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid. This manuscript is the fourth manuscript in the volume and number 28 of 63 items bound together.
- Subject (Geographic):
- The Hague (Netherlands), Europe, and Netherlands
- Subject (Topic):
- Colonial companies, Commercial crimes, Speculation, and Economic conditions
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Directeuren van de comp[anie] van beleevinge eet opgeregt binnen S' Gravenhage; met voorkennis en aprobatie van de Heeren van de magistraat laten doen een inteekening in obligatien ten lasten vant gemeene land van Holland en Westvriesland en van het comptoir generaal van de unie te verdeelen in twaalf en combinatien te weeten : manuscript
