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1. Journal of a four months' absence from England, in the summer of 1815 - including a tour in Flanders, Holland, and France; and a short residence at Brussels and Paris in 2 volumes. Volume 2nd, [1815].
- Creator:
- Watts, Jane (Waldie), 1793-1826
- Call Number:
- Osborn d185
- Image Count:
- 123
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Holograph diary of a stay in Brussels and France after the Battle of Waterloo. Many of the author's observations reflect the recent battle; she reports, for example, on the celebrations in Brussels when its inhabitants receive news of Napoleon's surrender; provides news about various acquaintances in the military as well as other military news after the Battle of Waterloo; and describes Paris as "a military camp for all the nations of Europe." She also makes numerous comparisons between French and English culture, as when she views a play at the Theatre Francaise and comments on the lighting techniques in French playhouses as compared to those in England. Elsewhere, she views as statue of King Henri IV and comments on his reign; vists the porcelain manufactory at Sevres; and describes acquaintances she makes in Brussels. The diary concludes with her road journey from Boulogne to Calais, where she meets several friends, and then to Dover, At the end of the volume is a table of inns in which the author stayed, and The work is the second volume of a set; see Osborn d186 for the first volume in the set. The author's diary was published in 1817
- Description:
- In English., Title from title page., Autograph on flyleaf: Jane Waldie., Written inside front cover: No. 118., and Binding: quarter red morocco.
- Subject (Geographic):
- France, Great Britain, and Belgium
- Subject (Name):
- Eaton, Charlotte Ann (Waldie), 1788-1859., Henry IV, King of France, 1553-1610., Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821., Waldie, John, 1781-1862., and Watts, Jane (Waldie), 1793-1826.
- Subject (Topic):
- Theater, Travelers' writings, English, Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815, Women authors, Description and travel, and Social life and customs
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Journal of a four months' absence from England, in the summer of 1815 - including a tour in Flanders, Holland, and France; and a short residence at Brussels and Paris in 2 volumes. Volume 2nd, [1815].
2. Life of St. Lambert
- Creator:
- Sigebert, of Gembloux, approximately 1030-1112
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450].
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1131
- Image Count:
- 40
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Vita S. Lamberti, by Nicolaus canonicus Leodiensis (12th cent.), Sigebertus Gemblacensis (c. 1030-1112), Godescalcus canonicus Leodiensis (8th cent.), and Godescalcus diaconus Leodiensis
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: copied by two hands in Gothica Hybrida Libraria: A, ff. 1r-16r (artt. 1-7); B, f. 16v (artt. 8-10), in a more rapid form of the script., Decoration: Headings and stroking of majuscules in red. A 6-line red initial on f. 1ra; and elsewhere there are various red plain initials (2-5 lines)., and Binding: 18th or 19th century brown speckled paper over pasteboard.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Lambert, Saint, Bishop of Maastricht, ca. 635-ca. 705. and Sigebert, of Gembloux, approximately 1030-1112.
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian hagiography and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Life of St. Lambert
3. [An old woman letting a boy light his candle] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [between 1620 and 1630]
- Call Number:
- Folio 33 30 Copy 11
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Old woman and a boy with candles; he leans over her shoulder from the right to light his candle; she holds a basket and shields the flame with her hand."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Quis vetet apposito, lumen de lumine tolli, mille licet capiant, deperit inde nihil
- Description:
- Title devised by curator; alternative title from text below image., Second state of the plate, with retouchings by Paulus Pontius. See British Museum online catalogue., Place of publication inferred from primary city of activity for Rubens and Pontius; date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: S.7263., Four lines of text in lower right corner: Cum Privilegiis Regis christianissimi serenissime infantis et ordinum confederat., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with slight loss of text from bottom edge. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Mounted on page 36 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., With note ink in Richard Bull's hand, below image on mounting sheet: This print is supposed to have been engraved by Rubens and is very scarce., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- Peter Paul Rubens
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [An old woman letting a boy light his candle] [graphic]
4. Scholastica hystoria
- Creator:
- Petrus, Comestor, active 12th century
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1200]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 674
- Image Count:
- 363
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Petrus Comestor (Manducator), Historia Scholastica
- Alternative Title:
- Historia scholastica
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: copied by two scribes (Scribe 1: ff. 1r-47r; Scribe 2: ff. 47r-179v) in proto-gothic script., Large initial on f. 1v embodying 9 miniatures (depicting, top to bottom, God the Father enthroned, Noah and the Ark, Abraham and Melchisidech, Abraham and Isaac, Elijah pouring water around his altar, a king kneeling before an altar, a prophet, David playing the harp, and Petrus Comestor at work). 19 large decorative initial letters in light green, dark green, yellow, blue, and red with interlace and leafy decorations, often employing zoomorphic ornamentation. Hundreds of smaller painted initials., and Binding: 18th century. Brown calf, with gilt embossed ornamentation on spine and the legend: "Historia | Scholastica | Petri | Manducatori" and a label with the printed number 3742.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Petrus, Comestor, active 12th century
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Scholastica hystoria
5. Memoranda, from a journal of tours made upon the Continent at various periods beginning in 1821, with illustrations sketched upon the spot, 1821-1836
- Creator:
- Kenah, E. A., Mrs
- Call Number:
- Osborn fd74
- Image Count:
- 105
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- 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 Hill Park....and a Blenheim spaniel," the Kenahs traveled through France, Switzerland, Italy, and Bavaria; they were present in Naples for the 1822 eruption of Mount Vesuvius, and spent time in Rome and Lucca as well. In the later tour, they visited the Low Countries, Germany, and Trieste. The text is clearly drawn from diaries kept by Mrs. Kenah during the tours, and contains her often humorous responses, as an "Inexperienced Traveller," to tourist sights, local customs and manners, "foreign" food, and travel difficulties, Mrs. Kenah describes herself as "a woman in quest of the Picturesque," and over 80 of her watercolors and pen and ink sketches are mounted in her travel album. Subjects include "Eruption of Vesuvius, October 22, 1822 as it appeared at midday;" several portraits of Lucchese, Swiss and German figures in local costume; a portrait of Tommaso Sgricci, the famous improvvisatore; a memorial Mass in Caudenberg; the "table d'hote" at the Baths of Ems; the Salon at the Palazzo Ricasoli in 1824; and a variety of "picturesque" landscapes, including a view of the Bay of Naples, of a canal in Venice, and of several castles and mountain scenes in Germany. Also included are several printed views of German scenes which have been hand-colored, and In addition, there are watercolors of English subjects at the end of the volume: cottage scenes, rural landscapes, "view of Box Hill," "Grimsthorpe, 1826," and "Dunkeld from Dr. Fisher's garden. Sept. 9 1826."
- Description:
- Spine title reads: "Journal. Vol. I.", Annotated on front endpaper: "Mary Leigh Best, 1878.", and Binding: Contemporary calf, red gilt morocco spine label, gilt decoration.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, France, Lucca (Italy), Naples (Italy), and Vesuvius (Italy)
- Subject (Name):
- Burrell, Walter, 1777-1831., Kenah, Thomas, Lt. Col., and Sgricci, Tommaso, 1789-1836.
- Subject (Topic):
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Memoranda, from a journal of tours made upon the Continent at various periods beginning in 1821, with illustrations sketched upon the spot, 1821-1836
6. De bello iudaico
- Creator:
- Josephus, Flavius
- Published / Created:
- [between 1150 and 1200]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 282
- Image Count:
- 231
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Josephus, De bello iudaico, translated into Latin by Rufinus
- Alternative Title:
- De bello Judaico
- Description:
- In Latin., Written in bold and elegant early gothic bookhand; some looped flourishes in upper margins contain red dots., Seven initials, 17- to 10-line, in red, filled with red swirling foliage on orange and green grounds, with touches of blue, against irregular grounds of blue and/or orange panels. 6- to 2-line initials, green and/or red with red or green foliate flourishes, set both outside and into text column; initials sometimes incorporate simple facial features. 1-line red initials for rubrics. Rubrics throughout; remains of notes to rubricator., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Brown goatskin, blind-tooled.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Josephus, Flavius.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Jews, History, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De bello iudaico
7. Commentary on Daniel
- Creator:
- Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420
- Published / Created:
- [between 1100 and 1299].
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1038
- Image Count:
- 165
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of St. Jerome (ca. 348-420), Commentarii in Danielem, with prologue and later additions
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Artt. 2-4 probably copied by various, very similar, hands in Praegothica, but with frequent interruptions. The texts on the front flyleaf (art. 1) are written in sixteenth century Gothica Cursiva Currens. The many interruptions in the handwriting and the variations in the layout, especially in quire V, are as yet unexplained., Decoration: Unevenly spread; headings and explicit formulas and initials exclusively in red ink., and Binding: 15th century, rebacked in ancient style: reddish brown calfskin over wooden boards. Both covers blind-tooled. Spine has four raised bands. There are marks of two clasps attached to the front board which close over brass catches on the rear board.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commentary on Daniel
8. Marcel Jean scrapbooks, 1921-1940
- Creator:
- Jean, Marcel, 1900-1993
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS 1599
- Container / Volume:
- Box 2
- Image Count:
- 748
- Abstract:
- Collection of four scrapbooks compiled by Marcel Jean between 1921 and 1940 containing over 150 tracts, exhibit catalogs, letters, advertisements, subscription forms, invitation cards, and other ephemera documenting Surrealism in France, Belgium, and other locations. Includes printed, typescript, and manuscript material relating to Surrealist exhibitions, publications, and political activity, including tracts on the Spanish Civil War and fascism. Printed ephemera feature artists and writers such as Salvador Dalí, Man Ray, Tristan Tzara, René Char, and André Breton. Correspondence includes letters from Georges Bataille, Henri Pastoureau, Remedios Varo, Sheila Legge, Wolfgang Paalen, Eduardo Westerdahl and others to Jean, 1935-1939. Contains one photograph of Benjamin Péret and Jean at Léo Malet's house, 1935 and Volume 1: 1921-1934. Volume 2: 1935-1936. Volume 3: 1937-1939. Volume 4: supplement, 1926-1940
- Description:
- Marcel Jean (1900-1993), French artist, member of the Paris Surrealist group and author of numerous publications on Surrealism., Largely in French., and Each volume includes original endpapers created by Marcel Jean with ex-libris and autograph list of contents.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Belgium., France., Belgium, France, and Spain
- Subject (Name):
- Bataille, Georges, 1897-1962., Breton, André, 1896-1966., Char, René, 1907-1988., Dalí, Salvador, 1904-1989., Jean, Marcel, 1900-1993., Jean, Marcel, 1900-1993, Legge, Sheila, 1911-1949., Man Ray, 1890-1976., Paalen, Wolfgang, 1907-1959., Pastoureau, Henri., Péret, Benjamin, 1899-1959, Tzara, Tristan, 1896-1963., Varo, Remedios, 1908-1963., and Westerdahl, Eduardo.
- Subject (Topic):
- Surrealism, Surrealism (Literature), Surrealist artists, Intellectual life, History, and Foreign public opinion
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Marcel Jean scrapbooks, 1921-1940
9. Vreugde- en eereteeken voor het Stadhuis van s'Gravenhage Illuminations et autres marques d'honneur de la maison de ville. [graphic] =
- Creator:
- Hooghe, Romeyn de, 1645-1708, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1691]
- Call Number:
- Topos B429 no. 2+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A celebration in front of City Hall in the Hague in honour of William III
- Alternative Title:
- Illuminations et autres marques d'honneur de la maison de ville
- Description:
- Title in Dutch above image; title in French below image., Printmaker: Romeyn de Hooghe., and Plate from: Bidloo, G. Komste van Zyne Majesteit Willem III in Holland. The Hague : Arnold Leers, 1691.
- Publisher:
- Arnold Leers
- Subject (Geographic):
- Belgium.
- Subject (Name):
- William III, King of England, 1650-1702.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Vreugde- en eereteeken voor het Stadhuis van s'Gravenhage Illuminations et autres marques d'honneur de la maison de ville. [graphic] =
