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1.
A Pisgah-sight of Palestine and the confines thereof : with the history of the Old and New

Creator:
Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661
Published / Created:
1662.
Call Number:
Mhc9 F959 +P67 1662
Image Count:
4
Description:
BEIN Mhc9 F959 +P67 1662: Map of Canaan (between p. 24 and 29, 1st count) wanting. Plan of Jerusalem from the Royal Magazine inserted facing p. 313., Added t.p. engraved, illus., and Irregular pagination, some leaves counted as leaves, some plates included in pagination.
Publisher:
Printed by R. Davenport for John Williams
Subject (Geographic):
Palestine and Jerusalem
Subject (Topic):
Geography, Jews, Antiquities, Historical geography, and Description and travel
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A Pisgah-sight of Palestine and the confines thereof : with the history of the Old and New Testament acted thereon

2.
Itinerarium; Boccaccio, De montibus, silvis, fontibus

Creator:
Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374
Published / Created:
1434.
Call Number:
Marston MS 17
Image Count:
152
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper, with parchment for inner and outer bifolia, of 1) Petrarch, Itinerarium breve de Ianua usque ad Ierusalem et Terram sanctam. 2) Boccaccio, De montibus, silvis, fontibus...
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Monts 11854., Script: Written in fere-humanistic script by a single scribe, above top line., Plain red initial, 5-line, f. 1r; space unfilled for 10-line initial, f. 8r. Plain red initials, 3- to 1-line, throughout. Paragraph marks in red, in art. 1. Rubrics throughout, except f. 1r., First folio torn with loss of lower third of leaf; beginning and end of manuscript stained; some stains and wormholes affect text., and Binding: Eighteenth century, France (?). Brown, mottled sheepskin. Two blackish green labels (probably later additions) on gold-tooled spine: "Petrarchae Itinerarium" and "Boccatius De Montibus et Fluuiis." Contemporary green gold-tooled label on upper cover: "Fr. Petrachi. Itinerarium J. Bouatii. De. Flauiis. M. S. 1434."
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Jerusalem
Subject (Name):
Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.
Subject (Topic):
Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Description and travel
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Itinerarium; Boccaccio, De montibus, silvis, fontibus

3.
Jerusalem photographic album

Creator:
Eccleston, John C.
Published / Created:
1865.
Call Number:
1995 Folio 19
Image Count:
28
Description:
Title from printed leaf which was pasted on inside front cover., Signed and dated on leaf: John C. Eccleston ... Dec. 1st, 1865., Descriptive letterpress below each photograph., and "In the winter of 1859 the King of Prussia sent an artist to the Holy Land to procure accurate views for his portfolio ... I was so fortunate as to secure ... fine impressions from the most valuable of these negatives ... photographers, Messrs. Stoutenburgh & Rose (of this city) having reproduced these views"--printed label.
Publisher:
John C. Eccleston
Subject (Geographic):
Jerusalem
Subject (Topic):
Description and travel
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Jerusalem photographic album

5.
Mizrah plaque : Jerusalem, 697 [1936 or 1937].

Call Number:
Hebrew MSS suppl 79 7 (Oversize)
Image Count:
2
Abstract:
Printed on paper, dated 697 (1936 or 1937). At the top of the document are the words "Jerusalem" in Hebrew and in English. In the center is the word "Mizraḥ". At the center of the document is an oval enclosing a biblical map of Israel with the tribal settlements indicated by Roman numerals, which correspond to the names of the tribes listed in a chart on the side of the map. On both sides of the oval are lists of modern Jewish settlements designated by Arabic numerals. Around the oval are depictions of holy sites in the land of Israel. These sites include Tiberias, Hebron, Jerusalem and Safed. Above are illustrations of the two port cities of Israel, Jaffa and Haifa, with an image of Solomon's Temple in the middle
Description:
In Hebrew, Yiddish and English.
Subject (Geographic):
Jerusalem. and Jerusalem
Subject (Topic):
Prayer, Judaism, Religious articles, Jewish art and symbolism, and Religious life and customs
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Mizrah plaque : Jerusalem, 697 [1936 or 1937]., מזרח : ירושלים, ‪697 [1936 or 1937]‬.

6.
Prefatio in opus transmarine peregrinationis ad venerandu[m] et gloriosum sepulcru[m] Dominicu[m

Creator:
Breydenbach, Bernhard von, approximately 1440-1497
Published / Created:
anno salutis 1486 die xj Februarij.
Call Number:
Zi +156 2
Image Count:
11
Abstract:
An account of a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, with outstanding illustrations, and with information on various eastern peoples met en route
Alternative Title:
Peregrinatio in Terram Sanctam and Prefatio in opus transmarine peregrinationis ad venerandum et gloriosum sepulcrum Dominicum in Iherusalem ...
Description:
BEIN Zi +156 Copy 1: Variant: Last letter (e in "pere-") inverted in line 1 of fol. 4v., BEIN Zi +156 Copy 1: Rubricated throughout. Head- and tail-pieces hand-colored. Part of view of Jerusalem hand-colored., BEIN Zi +156 Copy 1: Imperfect: wanting plates with view of Venice, view of Modon, middle [?] portion of view of the Holy Land, and final blank leaf. Some leaves and plates appear to have been supplied from another copy. Some plates mutilated. Complete view of Holy Land supplied in negative photostat., BEIN Zi +156 Copy 1: Stamp: Ex Bibliotheca J. Richard D.M., BEIN Zi +156 Copy 1: Bound in quarter old stamped leather over wooden boards, with clasps; lined with four leaves from a vellum 14th c. manuscript on canon law; the clasp hooks are missing., BEIN Zi +156 Copy 2: Variant: Last letter (e in "pere-") inverted in line 1 of fol. 4v., BEIN Zi +156 Copy 2: Imperfect: Final blank leaf wanting., BEIN Zi +156 Copy 2: Bookplate: Frank Altschul. Inscription: Pro Conventu Olomucensi ad S. Bernardinum. Illegible stamp., The first illustrated travel book printed, and the first to include images of real places. Also the first to include folding plates; the panorama of Venice is over five feet long. The view of Jerusalem is the earliest printed map of the Holy Land based on a contemporary eyewitness account., Woodcuts by Erhard Reuwich., Imprint from colophon, where name of printer precedes place of publication., Title from incipit to preface (leaf 4r)., Capital spaces without guide letters., Types of Peter Schöffer used. Cf. GW 5075., 1 binding fragment cataloged separately. To view other title search by call number: Zi +156, and BAC: British Art Center copy bound in contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards; clasps missing. Rubricated; with uncolored woodcuts. Inscribed: Monastery Baumburg.
Publisher:
P[er] Erhardu[m] Reüwich de Traiecto Inferiori
Subject (Geographic):
Palestine, Sinai (Egypt), Venice (Italy), and Jerusalem
Subject (Name):
Breydenbach, Bernhard von, -1497
Subject (Topic):
Description and travel, Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages, Travel, and Travelers' writings, German
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Prefatio in opus transmarine peregrinationis ad venerandu[m] et gloriosum sepulcru[m] Dominicu[m] in Iherusale[m] ...

7.
Shiviti plaque : Jerusalem, 1932

Call Number:
Hebrew MSS suppl 234 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Manuscript, ink on paper, dated 693 Kisleṿ (1932). The traditional shiviti statement, Psalm 16:8, "I have set (shiviti) the Lord always before me" is written at the top of the document. In the center of the document is a large seven-branched candelabrum formed from the text of Psalm 67. At the very bottom of the menorah is a statement that this shiviti was made by Mosheh ben Yitsḥaḳ Mizraḥi. On either side there are two circles which contain the date and the place, the holy city of Jerusalem. The frame around the document consists of abbreviations, with the exhortation, "Know before Whom you stand" at the top. In the two upper corners and the center there are floral designs. At the bottom of the document is the name Yokheved bat ḥakham ʻAmram Mizraḥi.
Description:
In Hebrew.
Subject (Geographic):
Jerusalem. and Jerusalem
Subject (Topic):
Prayer, Judaism, Religious articles, Jewish art and symbolism, and Religious life and customs
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Shiviti plaque : Jerusalem, 1932, שויתי : ירושלים, ‪1932‬.

8.
Titus and Vespasian, [circa 1300-1325].

Call Number:
Osborn a11
Image Count:
96
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript, on parchment, in Anglicana script, produced in England during the early fourteenth century
Description:
In English., The text is incomplete, ending at line 4902 of 5166 lines., One of the flyleaves has the name Thomas Redyng in a late sixteenth-century hand., Bought from Lord Kingsborough by Lord Derby (Edward Smith Stanley, 13th Earl) in Dublin, Nov. 1, 1842., and Binding: nineteenth-century brown morocco with gilt Derby crest.
Subject (Geographic):
Jerusalem
Subject (Topic):
History
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Titus and Vespasian, [circa 1300-1325].