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31.
[Frontispiece to The lawyer's fortune, or, Love in a hollow tree] [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1736]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
A bearded man in a hollow tree reaches out his hand toward a gentleman below. Another man enters the hollow tree at its base. An owl looks on from a branch above; around the base of the tree are lion, boar, cat, and donkey
Alternative Title:
Lawyer's fortune, or, Love in a hollow tree
Description:
Title from letterpress title page on same sheet., Letterpress title page in red and black: The lawyer's fortune, or, Love in a hollow tree / written by **********. Revis'd and compar'd with the first edition in 1705. London : Printed for E. Underhill, and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, MDCCXXXVI. (Price six-pence)., Title page with woodcut image of an elephant walking a tight-rope., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above frontispiece: Imputed to Hogarth. See N 246. Mounted below: A lengthy ms. note in ink in Steevens's hand on separate sheet mounted beneath., and On page 83 in volume 1.
Publisher:
E. Underhill
Subject (Name):
Grimston, William Grimston, Viscount, 1683?-1756.
Subject (Topic):
Animals
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Frontispiece to The lawyer's fortune, or, Love in a hollow tree] [graphic].

32.
[Frontispiece to The lawyer's fortune, or, Love in a hollow tree] [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1736]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
A bearded man in a hollow tree reaches out his hand toward a gentleman below. Another man enters the hollow tree at its base. An owl looks on from a branch above; around the base of the tree are lion, boar, cat, and donkey
Alternative Title:
Lawyer's fortune, or, Love in a hollow tree
Description:
Title from letterpress title page on same sheet., Letterpress title page in red and black: The lawyer's fortune, or, Love in a hollow tree / written by **********. Revis'd and compar'd with the first edition in 1705. London : Printed for E. Underhill, and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, MDCCXXXVI. (Price six-pence)., Title page with woodcut image of an elephant walking a tight-rope., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above frontispiece: Imputed to Hogarth. See N 246. Mounted below: A lengthy ms. note in ink in Steevens's hand on separate sheet mounted beneath., and On page 83 in volume 1.
Publisher:
E. Underhill
Subject (Name):
Grimston, William Grimston, Viscount, 1683?-1756.
Subject (Topic):
Animals
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Frontispiece to The lawyer's fortune, or, Love in a hollow tree] [graphic].

33.
Masquerade ticket [graphic].

Creator:
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1727]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Satire in the form of a mock admission ticket; a masquerade consisting of debauched looking characters in costume; at left, 'A', 'a sacrifice to Priapus', an altar to Priapus decorated with ram's heads and antlers, in front of which the figure of Time is stabbed by a bishop and a butcher, his blood pouring into a bowl held up by a monkey in a surplice; opposite at right, burning hearts on an altar to Venus and Cupid decorated with doves and wigs; at the back of the room, a painting of a Bacchic subject, to either side shelves with jellies and cakes, labelled provactives, and two signs with the obscene pun 'Supper below'; to either side, 'B', two 'Lecherometers' in the form of barometers, at left labelled 'Expectation Hope Hot desire Extreem Hot Moist Sudden Cold', at right 'Cool Warm Dry Changable Hot moist Fixt'; above the design at centre, a clock with Heidegger's face at top, the hour hand 'Wit', the minute hand 'Impertinence', the second hand 'Nonsense', to either side a lolling unicorn and lion, stroking their tails between their legs. Cf. British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., State, date, and printmaker from Paulson., State with "Prouocatiues" changed to "Provocatives"., Caption below title: A. a sacrifice to Priapus. B. a pair of Lecherometers shewing [the] companys inclinations as they approach em. Invented for the use of ladys & gentlemen by [the] ingenious Mr. H[eidegge]r., "Price one shiling."--Lower left corner., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in Steevens's hand above print: See Nichols's book, 3d edit. p. 150 / Great masquerade., and On page 46 in volume 1.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Heidegger, John James, 1659?-1748,
Subject (Topic):
Allegories, Animals, Goddesses, Gods, Erotica, Masquerades, and Sacrifices
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Masquerade ticket [graphic].

34.
[Beasts of Carolina]

Published / Created:
1718
Call Number:
CL32 29w
Collection Title:
The history of Carolina : containing the exact description and natural history of that country
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Abstract:
Illustrated plate depicting 10 animals including snakes, buffalo, bear, wolf, and others.
Description:
Facing p. 115 and Title from facing page.
Subject (Topic):
Animals
Collection Created:
London : Printed for T. Warner, 1718
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Beasts of Carolina]

35.
Den Oprechten Onvervalsten Italiaenschen waersegger, oft Prognosticacie op 't Jaer ons Heere 1702

Published / Created:
[ca. 1704-1708]
Call Number:
Print20123
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title above image., Date from copy in Rijksmuseum., Rijksmuseum lists creator as Monogrammist W. R., Three columns of text below image., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Spanish Succession, War of, 1701-1714, Fortune-telling, Priests, Physicians, Medicines, Animals, Medallions, and Mentally ill persons
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Den Oprechten Onvervalsten Italiaenschen waersegger, oft Prognosticacie op 't Jaer ons Heere 1702, 3, 4 en 5 [graphic].

36.
Aaron slaat het Stof der aarde, en 't werd door heel Egipten... [graphic].

Published / Created:
[17th century]
Call Number:
Print10138
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
The Plague of Lice
Description:
Title from item., Translated title supplied by curator., Date and place of publication supplied by curator., 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: Bible; Fleas & lice.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Aaron (Biblical priest).
Subject (Topic):
Plagues of Egypt, Lice, Medicine in the Bible, Insects, Victims, Animals, and Fires
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Aaron slaat het Stof der aarde, en 't werd door heel Egipten... [graphic].

37.
[Plate depicting two bulls clashing in a landscape with a goat, boar, horses, and cattle]

Published / Created:
[1697]
Call Number:
Gnv60 +ag697
Collection Title:
The works of Virgil : containing his Pastorals, Georgics and Aeneis / translated into English verse
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Description:
Caption at foot: To Sr. Justinian Isham of Lamport in Northamptonshire Barronet and Facing p. 106
Subject (Topic):
Animals and Domestic animals
Collection Created:
London : Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1697
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Plate depicting two bulls clashing in a landscape with a goat, boar, horses, and cattle]

38.
Tu me cede malis sed contra audentior ito [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1602]
Call Number:
Print10077
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Seeking truth through alchemy, philosophical speculation, mysticism
Description:
Title from text in image., Alternate title supplied by curator., From: Henricus Khunrath, Amphitheatrum sapientiae aeternae., Pencil notation verso: [Illegible] Dr. H Khunrath 1602., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Khunrath, Heinrich, 1560-1605.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy, Animals, Scientists, Symbols, and Demons
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Tu me cede malis sed contra audentior ito [graphic].

39.
De animalibus

Creator:
Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280
Published / Created:
[between 1450 and 1500]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 77
Image Count:
785
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper, with parchment bifolios at beginning and end of each gathering, of Albertus Magnus, De animalibus
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Lettre P 8606 and 8625., Script: Written by a single scribe in a neat running script for the text and a more formal style for rubrics., First initial on f. 1r, 10-line, painted blue, on red and green ground, yellow highlights. Many small plain initials in red and/or blue. Major headings lacking; minor rubrics and red initial strokes throughout., and Binding: 15th-16th centuries. Sewn and wound on five slit, tawed straps laced into oak boards and pegged or nailed. Kermes pink, braided endbands attached to primary ones sewn on hempen (?) cores laced into boards. Covered in brown calf, blind-stamped in a diamond pattern filled in with roses, fleurs-de-lis, eagles, and lions (?). Traces of five round bosses on each board and of three nails to attach a chain at the head of the lower board. Tongue-turn-ins. Two clasps on the upper board and stubs of pink, tawed straps held to the lower with metal plates. Remains of a title on parchment on the upper board. Numerous place markers, some vermilion leather, some very small Turk's head knots of leather or tawed skin. Rebacked.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280.
Subject (Topic):
Animals, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholasticism
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De animalibus

40.
Hugo de Folieto, Aviarium; Bestiarium; Moral treatises

Creator:
Hugh, of Fouilloy, d. 1172 or 3.
Published / Created:
[between 1300 and 1350]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 851
Image Count:
54
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment of Hugo de Folieto, Aviarium, a Bestiarium, and moral treatises
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by two hands writing a small Gothica Textualis Libraria, both having a tendency towards lengthening and making loops to the ascenders at the top line; A copied ff. 1r-7v and 17r-19v and is marked by conspicuous vertical decorative strokes at the top of r and long strokes on i; B copied ff. 8r-16v. Running headlines in red in artt. 3-5 in Gothica Textualis Libraria., Headings in red. 2-line (on f. 18v 3-line) initials were provided but were not executed; guide letters in the inner and outer margins. In art. 1, square spaces or roundels traced in ink have been provided in the text for illustrations, but the latter have only exceptionally been executed. No illustrations were provided in chapters 28-30 and 36-37. On f. 1v the text of chapters 31-35 is arranged in such a way, that a roundel containing a fully coloured female saint is placed in the center, and in the right-hand column a large space has been provided for a picture of the Cedar, the text being written around its stem. On f. 2r there is a drawing in crayon of a Pelican (very light, ch. 38), on f. 2v an ink drawing of a Raven (ch. 40), on f. 6r a crayon sketch of a Stork (ch. 47)., Parchment soiled and in bad condition. Holes and irregular and damaged lower edges, the latter often repaired by means of strips of parchment; the final pages badly damaged, with loss of text., The manuscript contains: 1) Hugo de Folieto (Hugh of Fouilloy, d. c. 1172), Aviarium. 2) Bestiarium (Bestiary). 3) Caesarius Arelatensis (c. 470-542), Sermo 46 (De ebrietate vitanda). 4) Ps.-Augustinus Hipponensis, Sermo de vanitate. 5) Augustinus Hipponensis (St. Augustine, 354-430), Informatio regularis (Regula ad servos Dei)., and Binding: 19th century. Reddish leather over cardboard; the covers blind-tooled with a double decorative frame, the inner one chequered, with circular dots on the intersections; small quadrangular decorative bosses in gilt (?) brass in the four corners and in the center of each cover. Spine with four raised bands. Two brass clasps attached to the rear cover, with catches on the front cover.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Hugh, of Fouilloy, d. 1172 or 3.
Subject (Topic):
Animals, Birds, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sermons, Latin
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Hugo de Folieto, Aviarium; Bestiarium; Moral treatises

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