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1. A general display of the arts and sciences [graphic]
- Creator:
- Grignion, Charles, 1721-1810, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1810]
- Call Number:
- Print00643
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title below image., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., Place of publication derived from printmaker's nationality and language of text., In upper margin center: Frontispiece to Hall's Encyclopedia., 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: Comparative anatomy.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Art and architecture, Science, Anatomy, Geography, Balloons (Aircraft)., Globes, Skeletons, and Forums (Discussion & debate).
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > A general display of the arts and sciences [graphic]
2. Halieutica, etc
- Creator:
- Oppian, active 2nd century
- Published / Created:
- [between 1490 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 255
- Image Count:
- 308
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of 1) Table for Oppian, Halieutica. 2) Anonymous Life of Oppian. 3) Oppian of Anazarbos, Halieutica. The order of the text is distorted: I.1-66; 380-543; 67-379; I.544-III.189; IV.562-619; III.198-IV.561; IV.620-end. 4) Oppianus of Apamea, Cynegetica. 5) Colluthus, Raptus Helenae. 6) Tryphiodorus, Troiae Halosis. 7) Dionysius Periegetes, Description of the habitable world (De situ orbis).
- Description:
- In Greek., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Chapeau 3397 for leaves with text, and to Harlfinger Cloche 31 for blank pages., Script: Text was written by a single scribe. A later hand, bold and ill-formed, supplied the table of contents (ff. iii verso-iv verso), minor marginal notations and the foliation in the upper right corner (for ff. 1-60)., Tinted drawing of Oppian writing his poem while contemplating fish in a nearby stream occurs on f. 1v (perhaps an amateur copy of an author portrait); one simple 6-line initial in red and black penwork, f. 2r; headings in red., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Title in ink on fore edge. Tan calf case with deep geometric indentations, blind-tooled, with a dark blue, gold-tooled calf label. Similar to the bindings of MSS 256 and 258. Possibly bound by Whitaker (we thank A. R. A. Hobson for this information).
- Subject (Geographic):
- Greece., Connecticut, New Haven., and Troy (Extinct city)
- Subject (Name):
- Oppian, active 2nd century.
- Subject (Topic):
- Geography, Greek poetry, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Legends, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Halieutica, etc
3. Hedendaagsche historie, of Tegenwoordige staat van alle volkeren ...
- Creator:
- Salmon, Thomas, 1679-1767
- Published / Created:
- 1730-1803]
- Call Number:
- Ea 730S
- Container / Volume:
- 7
- Image Count:
- 13
- Alternative Title:
- Modern history. Dutch and Tegenwoordige staat van alle volkeren
- Description:
- Mixed set., Title varies slightly., Some vols. have added engr. t.p. in place of frontispiece., Vol. 1-10, each in six parts, paged continuously (except v. 6) with individual t.p. for each part; vol. [27, 34-37] in two parts each, v. [29] in three parts, each of these vols. with individual t.p. for each part, paged continuously., Vol. 16, 23, 26, 33 have also individual t.p.: Tegenwoordige staat der Vereenigde Nederlanden; v. [24-25, 31-32] have this individual t.p. only. Vol. 6, pt. 5-6, have t.p.: Vervolg van den tegenwoordigen staat van't koningryk Polen., Vol. [21-22] have on t.p.: 20.21. deel., Vol. 27 in two parts, paged continuously, each with individual t.-p., Vol. 33 has also t.p.: Tegenwoordige staat van het Landschaap Drenthe., Vol. [34-41] have no general t.p., Vol. 1 has added general t.p. (following vol. t.p.): Hedendaegsche historie, of Tegenwoordige staet van alle volkeren ... / nieuwlings in 't engelsch beschreven door den Heere Salmon, in 't nederduitsch overgebragt, en met byvoegselen vermeerdert door M. van Goch, M.D. Deerde druk. Te Amsterdam: By Isaak Tirion ... 1731., Vol. 11-15, 17-22, 27-30 have series t.p. only; v. 24-25, 31-32 have no series t.-p.; v. 33 has also individual t.p., Vol. 10-16, 21, 23 by Jan Wagenaar; v. 22 by M. Tydeman and R. van Noort; v. [34-35] compiled from works by Salmon, Chamberlayn, Miege, Bolton, Maitland, Rapin Thoras, and others., Molhuysen ascribes authorship of v. 11-15, 21, 23, and 26 to Jan Wagenaar; authorship of other parts to S. Stijl, A. Ypey, J. H. Knoop and others., Vol. 1, no. II, derde druk, 1735; v. 1, no. V, twede druk, 1735; v. 2, lste-6de stukje, twede druk 1739; v. 11, tweede druk, 1739., and Vol. 30, no more pub. after stuk 1.
- Publisher:
- By Isaak Tirion [etc., etc
- Subject (Geographic):
- Netherlands
- Subject (Topic):
- Geography and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Hedendaagsche historie, of Tegenwoordige staat van alle volkeren ...
4. Polychronicon, [15--].
- Creator:
- Higden, Ranulf, -1364
- Call Number:
- Osborn a20
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on paper, in cursive bookscript, produced in England in the sixteenth century. Translated by John Trevisa
- Description:
- In English. and Binding: the spine was covered with a brown paper backing by R. N. Green-Armytage, January 26, 1934, and the volume is kept unbound in paper boards.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Higden, Ranulf, -1364. and Trevisa, John, -1402.
- Subject (Topic):
- Geography and Description and travel
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Polychronicon, [15--].
5. Unidentified geography
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1720-30]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 297
- Image Count:
- 624
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (no watermarks) of Unidentified Geography, translated into modern Greek from Latin by Demetrius Notaras. With Dedication to Chrysanthus Notaras, Patriarch of Jerusalem (1707-33).
- Description:
- In Greek., Script: The text was written by two scribes in similar styles of minuscule. Scribe 1 (pp. 1-238) is the same scribe (Constantine Raphael Byzantinus) as that designated as Scribe 1 in Beinecke MSS 294, 295 and 300, etc.; Scribe 2 copied pp. 239-586. A third person supplied the Table of Contents at the beginning of the codex (pp. i-xv)., No ornamentation or rubrication., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Near Eastern. Brown goatskin with a deeply impressed medallion containing a crown, sword, sceptre, eagle, bull and I. K., N. B., originally gilt. Title gold-tooled. Spattered edges.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Chrysanthos, Patriarch of Jerusalem, ca. 1663-1731.
- Subject (Topic):
- Geography and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Unidentified geography
6. Visualized map of all the countries
- Creator:
- Koyano, Ishun, creator
- Published / Created:
- Bunka 6, 6th month :
- Call Number:
- 2018 +512
- Image Count:
- 154
- Resource Type:
- cartographic image
- Alternative Title:
- Bankoku ichiranzu, Bankoku ichiran zusetsu, and (Explanation of the visualized map of all the countries)
- Description:
- BEIN 2018 +512: Manuscript annotations in English on margins of map., Cover attached; cover and map title the same., Accompanied by: BANKOKU ICHIRAN ZUSETSU : (Explanation of the visualized map of all the countries) / Koyano Yoshiharu. -- Bunka 7 : (1810). -- 2 v., ill. ; 25.2 x 18 cm., Kôzanrō is a private school of Koyano Yoshiharu., and California shown as an island.
- Publisher:
- Kôzanrô, (June, 1809)
- Subject (Geographic):
- Japan and Japan.
- Subject (Topic):
- World maps, Geography, Study and teaching, and Prints, Japanese
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Visualized map of all the countries
