Manuscript on paper. Includes notes on arithmetic and accounting for merchandise; a romance of Tristan; list of spices; astronomical and astrological information; charms and prayers; recipes; extracts in Venetian; and poems
Description:
In Italian and Latin., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Fruit 7372-76, Briquet Cheval 3564, and Briquet Fruit 7341., Script: Written by a single scribe in a neat notarial hand, through f. 67v. Notes added by various hands of 14th-15th centuries., Drawings of ships, towers and merchants in ink, with added yellow, brown, green, red and blue; many diagrams. Crude 2- and 1-line initials in red, with guide-letters for rubricator showing beneath; headings in red., Repair of f. 1 with later paper; some loss of text. Repairs at outer edges on this and other folios do not affect text., and Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Rigid vellum case with paste paper back endleaf and pastedowns. Central fold of each bifolium has been reinforced with a strip of parchment.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Venice (Italy)
Subject (Topic):
Accounting, Arithmetic, Astrology, Astronomy, Medieval, Formulas, recipes, etc, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, Merchants, Prayers, Tristan (Legendary character), and Economic conditions
An accountant in spectacles shown half length sitting behind a desk as he studies the open on the table; another "Day Book" is propped up behind him on the right, beneath a stack of invoices on a spindle on a rail. On the wall behind a bird cage are posted two sheets: "Coals for distr[...] poor ..." and "Ship Argus ..." Also on the desk is an inkwell; the pen is poked behind his right ear
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Accounting, Birdcages, Business people, and Offices
Master of Petrarch, active approximately 1515-approximately 1522, printmaker
Published / Created:
[after 1531]
Call Number:
Print01022
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title supplied by curator., Restrike date derived from original publication date., Place of publication supplied by curator., Originally published in M.T. Cicero, Officia, Augsburg: Heinrich Steyner, 1531., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., In pencil lower left: Bloodletting., and In pencil lower right: H. Burgmair 1508. [Dubious attribution?]
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Phlebotomy, Accounting, Bowls (Tableware)., Coins, and Sick persons
Manuscript on paper, of about 58 verse and prose pieces. Most of the poems concern love, including An Amorous Catch; Solicitation to a Married Woman; and Ben Jonson's In Defence of Women's Inconstancy. Other verses include The Tragedy of Mr. Christopher Love, rendered in five acts; and Roger L'Estrange's Loyalty Confined. The volume also contains several instructional prose texts, including Directions for Right Writing; Directions for Making Latine More Elegant or Pure; and An Introduction to Philosophy; as well as epigrammatic notes "collected out of Mr. James Howell's letters"; a letter titled "News out of Scotland by way of Letter the Author unknowne;" and "An imitation of Mr. Cleveland's letter of thanks sent to my Lord Westmorland who was pleased to send him an elegant paper in commendation of his poetry."
Description:
31 pages at the beginning and end of the volume contain various accounts of payments received and made for various goods and services, including medicines, physicians' visits, hats, wool, and paper. This section also includes a list of names and birthdates for the writer's 9 children, and the date of the death of his wife, "7th of Nov. 1725.", Binding: full sheep., and On spine: "John Hale."
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Religious life and customs--17th century and Scotland--Description and travel
