Holograph diary of a several months' tour through France and Italy, concluding in Italy. Topics include sights seen, with particular emphasis on gardens and landscape, sites associated with poets, and paintings by Renaissance artists
Description:
Inscription on front flyleaf: J. Mitford. 1822.
Subject (Geographic):
France and Italy
Subject (Name):
Mitford, John, 1781-1859.
Subject (Topic):
Travelers' writings, English and Description and travel
Manuscript on parchment containing 1) Nicolaus de Byard (ca. 1250), Tractatus de vitiis et virtutibus, often improperly titled Summa de abstinentia (themes treated in alphabetical order). 2) Readings for the liturgical year, referring to the chapters of Tractatus de vitiis et virtutibus, arranged as follows: the Vespers on Saturdays; Temporale and the feast of the Dedication of the church; Sanctorale ("De sanctis"), at the same time Common of the Saints
Description:
In Latin., Script: probably copied by one hand, writing a small, rapid Gothica Textualis/Semitextualis Libraria with numerous abbreviations., Headings and underlining in red. Alternately red and blue paragraph marks. Alternately red and blue 2-line half inset flourished initials, respectively with penwork at the opening of the chapters, with guide letters. 6-line littera duplex with penwork in the same colours on f. 1v., and Binding: spine with four raised bands. On the spine and partly on the covers, an 18th century paper title label with handwritten inscription "Ancien / Manuscrit / sur / Velin / Complet / et ********" (cfr. MSS 940 and 941).
Stuart, Bérault, seigneur d'Aubigny, ca. 1452-1508
Published / Created:
[between 1500 and 1525]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 659
Image Count:
34
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment of Berault Stuart (Bernard Stewart, ca. 1452/53-1508), Traite sur l'art de la guerre
Description:
In French., Script: Copied by one hand in a small Gothica Hybrida Formata (loopless Bastarda)., Line-fillers in liquid gold on red, blue or brown ground. 2-line (rarely 3- or 4-line) initials on square background, in liquid gold on coloured background or in colour, heightened with white, on liquid gold background decorated with leaves and flowers. Six miniatures., and Binding: Early nineteenth century. Cross-grained red leather over pasteboard, the covers gold-tooled with a decorative border, the turn-ins gold-tooled with dentelle border; brownish marbled endpapers; the spine gold-tooled with flowerets and the title "L'ORDRE D'UN CHEF DE GUERRE PAR D'AUBIGNY".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Stuart, Bérault, seigneur d'Aubigny, ca. 1452-1508.
Subject (Topic):
French literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Military art and science
Manuscript text of twelve letters from Watkins to his father, Pennoyre Watkins, describing his travels in the Low Countries, France, Spain and Switzerland in 1787. The manuscript contains corrections, addenda and several notes for a printer, and is apparently the text of "his Travels in France and Spain....suppressed" in the 1792 publication of Travels through Swisserland, Italy, Sicily..... Versions of Letters 11 and 12 in this manuscript appeared as Letters I and II in the first edition of Travels and Watkins' letters give a full account of places, sights and people encountered on his travels with his friend, George Pocock, and include his horror at the sight of galley slaves in Bordeaux; his dislike of Spanish theater and his "shudder" in the offices of the Inquisition in Barcelona; his admiration of Mont Blanc and Chamonix; and his conclusion that Rousseau's description of the Vallais was "a deception passed upon travellers."
Description:
Title from front cover (repeated on first page as "title page")., Spine title: "Travels.", Signed on back cover: "Hughes. Brecon 1861.", and Binding: contemporary vellum.
Subject (Geographic):
Alps, France, Spain, and Switzerland
Subject (Name):
Pocock, George., Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778, and Watkins, Pennoyre.
Subject (Topic):
Influence, Grand tours (Education), Travelers' writings, English, and Description and travel
Manuscript on paper of Franciscus Petrarca (Petrarch, 1304-1374), Trionfi, in the French translation by Simon Bourgouin, incomplete: ends with the translation of Triumph of Death, chapter 2, verse 27.
Description:
In French., Script: Copied by one hand in Gothica Semihybrida Libraria (Bastarda)., The first leaf is unfoliated and blank. The paper is at many places damaged by the acid ink., Apart from the calligraphic majuscules there is no decoration. The headings are generally in a more formal script than the text., and Binding: Early binding, grey leather over pasteboard covers, damaged; sewn on three split leather thongs. Remnants of a 19th century paper title label "Pétrarque [ ] Triomphes MS". Marks of two clasps.
Title from item., Place of publication from item., In image: h.D. 217., Date supplied by curator., Above image: Actualités. 5., Published in Le Charivari, 5 October 1850., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Head injuries.
Publisher:
Chez Aubert & Cie, Pl. de la Bourse 29 and Imp. de Me. Ve. Aubert, r. de l'Abbaye 5
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Topic):
Riots, History, Politics and government, Wounds & injuries, Bandages, Bathrobes, Balconies, and Neighbors
Meissonier, Jean Louis Ernest, 1815-1891, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not after 1891]
Call Number:
Print01153
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Possibly by Meissonier., Date derived from attributed printmaker's date of death., Place of publication derived from publisher's street address., In margin upper left: Série pol.146., Published: Le Charivari., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Sleep; Politics, French; Demons & devils.
Publisher:
Chez Aubert, galerie véro dodat and L. de Bequet, rue Furstemberg 6.
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Topic):
Nightmares, Demons, Government facilities, Medical equipment & supplies, Sleeping, Crowns, and Politics and government
A street scene in Paris, at corner of Pont Neuf: a blind man and a lame man beg on the sidewalk beside a bookseller's stall, the seller in glasses looing up at his shelves under an awning. Two street vendors sit in the street: a man with a peg leg holds a brush up along side his shoe shining equipment; above his head a sign with a cage hanging from it reads "La fond. Cond proprement les chiens et coupe les chats et tient depot de mort au rats.". Beside him a woman shears a sheep. Above her head a sign on the right margin: Catrinne coup chien et chat et son mari va-en ville. On the left along the wall a woman carries a dog in a bag and a turkey in her arms. Two other men show signs of shame and fear
Description:
Title engraved below image., Date from British Museum online catalogue., and Mounted on secondary support.
Publisher:
Chez Noel Fréres, rue St. Jacques no. 16 et rue des Prêtres St. Germain-l'Auxerois, no. 22
Subject (Geographic):
France and Paris.
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Beggars, Blind persons, Bookselling, Peg legs, Pleading (Begging), Ratcatching, Sheep shearing, Shoe shining, and Street vendors
A view of the back window of a carriage on a country, tree-lined lane, shows a woman unswaddling her screaming child with a look of concern. An obese man to her right plugs his ears with his fingers, red-faced and angry. A thinner man to her left holds his nose. Another man in a bonnet leans out the window of the carriage with a surprised look on his face. In the front is a glimpse of the whip and the arm of the coach driver as he drives the coach quickly down the lane, hurling clouds of dust behind them. A dog looks down from the roof of the coach
Description:
Title etched below image., Series title etched above image, Printmaker's name etched at top of carriage., Series title and number from caption above image., Dimensions from impression Museum of Fine Arts, Boston., "The series 'Musée Grotesque' consists of at least 65 plates, made over a long period between March 1814 and August 1829. They seem all to have been designed, and in some cases etched, by Godissart de Cari, and all are placed under his name in the British Museum. The first four plates of the series, unlike the others, do not carry the heading 'Musée Grotesque' but rather 'Les Nouvellistes' and are numbered 1 to 4."--British Museum online catalogue., and Sheet trimmed to 20 x 24 cm.
Publisher:
Chez Martinet, Libraire, rue du Coq, No. 25
Subject (Topic):
Infants, Carriages & coaches, Crying, Dogs, Odors, and Sounds
