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2.
- Published / Created:
- 1728
- Call Number:
- Be4 48b
- Collection Title:
- The chronology of antient kingdoms amended : to which is prefix’d, a short chronicle from the first
- Image Count:
- 1
- Description:
- After p. 346
- Subject (Topic):
- History, Ancient
- Collection Created:
- Dublin : Printed for G. Risk [etc.], 1728
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A description of the inner court & buildings for the priests in Solomons Temple
3.
- Creator:
- Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680
- Published / Created:
- 1679
- Call Number:
- Bg4 +679k
- Image Count:
- 3
- Resource Type:
- Books, Journals & Pamphlets
- Description:
- Signatures: +-++rA-Ff4.
- Publisher:
- ex officina Janssonio-Waesbergiana,
- Subject (Name):
- Lairesse, Gerard de, 1640-1711 and Munniks, Johannes, 1652-1711
- Subject (Topic):
- Babel, Tower of, Hamitic languages, History, Ancient, Indo-European languages, and Semitic languages
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Athanasii Kircheri e Soc. Jesu Turris Babel; sive, Archontologia qua primo priscorum post diluvium hominum vita, mores rerumque gestarum magnitudo, secundo turris fabrica civitatumque exstructio, confusio linguarum, & inde gentium transmigrationis, cum principalium inde enatorum idiomatum historia, multiplici eruditione describuntur & explicantur.
4.
- Creator:
- Diodorus, Siculus
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1475]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 73
- Image Count:
- 268
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books I (parts 1 and 2)-II, in an unidentified and freely adapted Italian translation (e.g., the opening portion of Book II is greatly abbreviated).
- Description:
- In Italian., Script: Written in an elegant, upright mercantesca script by a single scribe, below top line., Spaces for headings and decorative initials remain unfilled. Initial on f. 1r later addition., and Binding: Fifteenth century, Italy. Sewn on four tawed skin, slit straps nailed in channels on the outside of wooden boards. Yellow edges. Pink, green and cream endbands sewn on five cores. Covered in dark red goatskin with corner tongues, blind-tooled with a central ornament in a panel bordered with rope interlace in concentric frames. Two fastenings, leaf-shaped catches on the lower board and the upper board cut in for the clasp straps. Rebacked twice.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Egypt
- Subject (Name):
- Diodorus, Siculus.
- Subject (Topic):
- History, Ancient, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bibliotheca Historica
5.
- Creator:
- Coronelli, Vincenzo, 1650-1718
- Published / Created:
- 1707?]
- Call Number:
- 2013 Folio 5
- Image Count:
- 677
- Alternative Title:
- Cronologia prodomo alla Biblioteca del P. Coronelli
- Description:
- BEIN 2013 Folio 5: Accompanied by an unbound leaf (30 x 20 cm.) of uncut volvelles intended to be mounted on the large folding plate at p. 32. Printed slip with corrections pasted over text on p. 153., Engraved t.p., At head of title: Cronologia de' XXXXXXXII tomi già composti in differenti idiomi dall'autore medesimo., and Binder's instructions on p. 531.
- Publisher:
- s.n.
- Subject (Topic):
- Chronology, Historical and History, Ancient
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Cronologia universale che facilita lo studio di qualumque storia : e particolarmente serve di prodromo alli XXXXV volumi della Biblioteca consecrata all'eminetissimo Prencipe Fra Vincenzo Maria Orsini ...
6.
- Creator:
- Justinus, Marcus Junianus
- Published / Created:
- [between 1430 and 1440]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 279
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Part I: Excerpts from Seneca, Phaedra. Part II: Justinus, Epitoma historiarum Pompei Trogi
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Part I (ff. 1-2, palimpsest): Written by several scribes in humanistic bookhand; for the passages from Seneca, the initial letter for each verse is set between vertical bounding lines. Part II (ff. 3-130): Written by a single scribe, below top line, in humanistic bookhand that sits somewhat above the ruled line; the conclusion of the text on ff. 129v-130r was added by a different hand., One large illuminated initial, f. 3r, 9-line, pink with white highlights on irregular angular ground, blue with white filigree and a thin white line outlining the ground. Filled with a stylized interlacing pattern of white vine-stem, white with green and yellow shading against gold ground. Numerous small initials, 3-line, yellow, on blue or blue and pink grounds with white filigree. Initial heading in gold; running headlines for book numbers in red., and Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Rigid vellum binding, gold-tooled. Traces of turn-ins and bosses from earlier binding on f. 130 and possibly on f. 1.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Justinus, Marcus Junianus. and Trogus, Pompeius.
- Subject (Topic):
- History, Ancient, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Epitoma historiarum Pompei Trogi, etc
7.
- Creator:
- Justinus, Marcus Junianus
- Published / Created:
- [between 800 and 810]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 854
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of Iustinus, Epitome historiarum Pompei Trogi, 20.1-3.
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: copied by one hand in early Caroline minuscule., The text on the recto opens with a half inset 5-line black Insular initial D, filled with yellow and its circumference at the inner and at the outer side decorated with red dots., and A vertical fold about the middle of the leaf has apparently caused the loss of a narrow section of the text on lines 1-6 and damage to all the subsequent lines; a large stain in the lower half of the leaf has also caused some damage to the text.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Justinus, Marcus Junianus. and Trogus, Pompeius.
- Subject (Topic):
- History, Ancient and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Epitome
8.
- Creator:
- Iustinus
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 511
- Image Count:
- 210
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper
- Description:
- In Latin., Watermarks: (1) Scissors, Briquet?; Piccard, Werkzeug und Waffen IX, 1103-1199, 1328-1332?; (2) Anvil, Briquet?; Piccard?; (3) Hunting Horn, Briquet?; Piccard?., Script: Written by a single scribe in a small rapid Humanistica Cursiva under strong Gothic influence; the latter is especially visible in the forms of d and final s. Headings in Humanistica Textualis. The margins contain contemporary annotations in Humanistica Cursiva., The decoration is wanting. Space for 3-line initials was provided at the opening of Books II-XLIV and for larger initials at the beginning of the Prologue and of Book I. Guide letters for the initials are visible in the left margin. On f. 100v a coarse human head in profile has been drawn in pen and ink (15th century)., and Binding: Original half leather (red goatskin), heavy wooden boards, one clasp attached to the front cover. Spine (damaged) with three raised bands.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Iustinus. and Trogus, Pompeius.
- Subject (Topic):
- Classical literature, History, Ancient, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Epitome historiarum Pompei Trogi
9.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1679]
- Call Number:
- Osborn b315
- Image Count:
- 258
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of empires, cities, and people who have come to misfortune. Chapter headings include "Of the destruction of many cities," "Of those who have been slain by their own Alliance," "Of Princes who have been reduc'd to shamefull Poverty," and "Of the miseries which have hap'ned to Lady's who were considerable for their virtue." Short poems appear throughout the text.
- Description:
- Binding: paper-covered boards., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., Includes a table of contents., Note inside front cover indicates this manuscript is from the library of Robert Browning, with a few notes in his hand, including the comment "A most dolorous book!" on flyleaf., The title page indicates that the manuscript was "written in the time of Oliver Cromwell.", Tipped in on p. 179: a comment about the "barbarous" murder of Charles I., and Tipped in on p. 97: a six-line poem about the fire of London in 1666, indicating it should be inserted after the mention of that fire on p. 97.
- Subject (Topic):
- English poetry--17th century, Fires--England--London, History, Ancient, Natural disasters, and World history
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The historie of fortune
10.
- Creator:
- [Hole, William, d. 1624]
Elstracke, Renold, fl. 1590-1630
Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618 - Published / Created:
- 1614
- Call Number:
- Bg4 035y
- Image Count:
- 6
- Description:
- "The first part of the Historie of the vvorld .. The third booke" (caption title) begins new pagination on 4A1r., Anonymous. By Sir Walter Raleigh., Includes indexes and errata., Maps are hand colored. Autograph and inscription opposite p. 1 of the third book: John Bird, Galby, Leicestershire. 1768 and 1780., Maps are tab bound between noted pages., Printer's name and bookseller's address from colophon., Signatures: pi³ A-E⁴ a-c⁶ d² B-3I⁶ 3K⁴ 4A-6T⁶ 6V-6Y⁴ 7A-7C⁶., and The title page is engraved and signed: Ren: Elstrack sculpsit.
- Publisher:
- Printed [by William Stansby] for Walter Burre [, and are to be sold at his shop in Paules Church-yard at the signe of the Crane],
- Subject (Geographic):
- Arabian Peninsula--Maps--Early works to 1800, Middle east --Maps --Early works to 1800, and Palestine--Maps--Early works to 1800
- Subject (Name):
- Bird, John, fl. 1768-1780 --Autograph
- Subject (Topic):
- History, Ancient and Punic War, 2nd, 218-201 B.C.--Early works to 1800
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The history of the world.
