Title from text etched above image., Title translation in British Museum catalogue: Night singer of shares with his magic lantern., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered '2'., Text burnished from plate between image and verse., Two columns of verse in Dutch below image: 't wind-luchtig bulken, blaasen, gaapen, zyn tanden braaf te laaten zien ..., and Mounted to 26 x 19 cm.
Title from item., Title translation in British Museum catalogue: Picture of the very famous Island of Madhead., Publication place and date from book in which this print was published., Two columns of verse below image: Deez' Schets vertoond het vreemd gewest Van Gekskop, 't geen men op het lest ..., Plate 3 from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ... , v. 2., Watermark., and Mounted to 37 x 34 cm.
Manuscript on paper of an alchemical compilation, apparently the holograph of the original compiler, not identified. Probably the laboratory notes of a practicing alchemist. Includes lists of Flemish names, apparently identifying fellow practitioners in early alchemy; and laboratory procedures, designed primarily to color metals and to carry out other operations with various substances. Leaves inserted and blank pages filled at later dates
Description:
In Latin, with later additions in Latin and German., Watermark: Outstretched hand, the fingerjoints indicated, a four-leafed petal extending from the tip of the third finger, the wrist and cuff of a sleeve also depicted, comparable to Briquet 11423., Script: The original part of the codex (ff. 1-133) written in a very fine, neat, and clear humanistic hand, and using a considerable range of alchemical symbols; the later additions (ff. 134-145) consist of Latin sections written in a neat italic and German passages in flowing cursive, perhaps both by a single German hand of the 18th century., Headings of procedures in red and blue alternating in the original section, and with some capitals stroked red; no color in the additions. No ornament., Though the whole of the manuscript has suffered some marginal water-staining since it was bound, it appears certain that other stains and damage occurred while the separated quires, or groups of them, remained unbound., and Binding: Probably original. Stiff parchment over paper boards, flaps over the fore-edge, probably dating from about 1525, conceivably later, as the manuscript contents do not appear to have been bound at the time of writing in any case; flat spine with modern inscription in brown ink, "Alchemical | Recipes", original blue edges.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Science, Medieval
Title from item., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Three columns of verse in Dutch below image: Een Actie-Heer, die d'Actie-Wind Had by Scheeps-ladings ingeslágen ..., Watermark in the upper part of sheet, countermark DP (monogram) in the lower part., and Title translation on verso: Anatomy of the trade wind, or, Bombardio for the Devil.
Depiction of the marble statue of Antinous at the Palace of Versailles. The nude male figure stands on a pedestal, looking and leaning towards the left; with short curly hair, a drape over his right arm and shoulder, and a tree-trunk support to left
Description:
Title etched within pedestal at bottom of image., Publication information from that of the volume in which the plate appeared., Plate from: Thomassin, S. Recueil des figures, groupes, thermes, fontaines, vases, statues, et autres ornemens de Versailles. Amsterdam : P. Mortier, 1695., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered "36" in upper right corner., Mounted on page 159 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., and For further information, consult library staff.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of an antiphonary containing unidentified chants and Holy Saturday, lauds
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis formata)., and Decoration: the 4-line initial "U" is in blue and red; some of the sketched flourishes outside of the letter have been traced in red and filled with green; inside the letter a floral pattern has been sketched and partially completed; the 2-line initial "O" is red with sketched flourishes only partially completed and filled with green; rubrics in red in the same script as the text; quadrata notation is in black on a 4-line staff in red; punctuated with the punctus.
Depiction of the copy at the Palace of Versailles of the statue known as the Apollo Belvedere or the Pythian Apollo. The nude male figure stands on a pedestal, folded drapery hanging from his outstretched left arm; his right hand rests on the tree trunk at his side around which coils the python
Description:
Title etched within pedestal at bottom of image., Publication information from that of the volume in which the plate appeared., Plate from: Thomassin, S. Recueil des figures, groupes, thermes, fontaines, vases, statues, et autres ornemens de Versailles. Amsterdam : P. Mortier, 1695., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered "34" in upper right corner., Mounted on page 159 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., and For further information, consult library staff.
Title from item., Title translation in British Museum catalogue: April card, or, Momus's game at cards after the newest fashion., Publication date from book in which this print was published., Fifty four images of playing cards in six rows, begining with the king of hearts in the upper left corner and ending with a card engraved with the title in the lower right corner. Each image is 8.4 x 4.8 cm., Plate 8 from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ... , v. 1., and Watermark: Strasburg bend in the lower part of sheet, countermark N in the upper part.
Title from item., Title translation in British Museum catalogue: Harlequin stockholder., State with festoons comprised of a pair of bellows, human mask, a cheese and fruit, as described by Stephens., Publication date from book in which this plate was published., Plate 25 from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ... , v. 1., Six lines of verse in Dutch added below plate in an unidentified contemporary hand: Wat moet wen niet ..., Watermark., and Mounted to 46 x 28 cm.
Uitlegginge der tytelplaat voor arlequyn actionist
Description:
Title in letterpress above image., State with festoons comprised of a pair of bellows, human mask, a cheese and fruit; additional title in letterpress above plate line, as described in Stephens., Publication date from book in which this plate was published., Six stanzas of verse in three columns in letterpress below plate: Ziet hoe dat deeze actienbaazen, agter het tooneelgordyn ..., Plate 26 from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ... , v. 1., and Mounted to 47 x 31 cm.
