Title from item., Place of publication derived from publisher's known location., Date supplied by curator., Published in Harper's Weekly, 13 February 1864., 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: Hospitals, U.S.A.
Publisher:
Harper & Brothers
Subject (Name):
United States Sanitary Commission.
Subject (Topic):
United States, History, Medicine, Military, Military hospitals, Convalescence, Hospitals, Soldiers, Kitchens, and Medical aspects of war
Manuscript on parchment of fragments from Codex Iustinianus
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by one hand in Carolina, marked by the use of Half Uncial and Uncial d, ri- and st- ligatures (but no ct-ligature), and the improper use of the ae-diphthong and e caudata. Noticeable spellings and miswritings: amguitatibus (for ambiguitatibus), conitionaliter (for cognitionaliter), licteris, magestas, proibentur, spetialiter. Headings and plain initials in red; small slightly decorated black initials., Fragments from Codex Iustinianus. There are a few contemporary interlinear glosses (word explanations) and many textual corrections. In the outer margin of f. 1r a red Nota mark and of f. 1v two contemporary notes., and Only the outer margin is partly preserved; at the three other sides the leaf has been severely cropped, with loss of text; the inner top part is torn, and holes have caused some additional text losses. In the outer margin of f. 1r the modern note in pencil: "103/68/8".
Manuscript on paper of Diego Enriquez del Castillo (1433-1504?), Chronicle of King Enrique IV of Castile (1425-74). With the Life of Don Juan Pacheco, Marques de Villena; Decretal texts concerning behavior of clerics; and Brief law text in Latin
Description:
In Spanish., Watermarks: unidentified hand., Script: Written by several scribes in late Spanish bookhands with cursive and humanistic features. Some headings in large gothic display script., and Binding: Sixteenth century, Spain. Sewn on three tawed skin, slit straps, now broken, laced into channels in wooden boards. One plain wound endband is sewn on a tawed skin core, the other endband was added later. Covered in brown calf blind-tooled with concentric frames, the central panel and alternate frames filled with rope interlace. The layout of the design is the same on both boards but different small tools are used in the central panels. Spine: four fillets outlining the supports and in the center of the panels a small rope tool in the center of the compartments so formed. Two fastenings, the catches on the lower board, the clasp straps later additions. The spine is mended at head and tail; some corners repaired.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Castile (Spain)
Subject (Name):
Enríquez del Castillo, Diego, 1431-1503? and Henry IV, King of Castile and Leon, 1425-1474.
Subject (Topic):
Biography, Canon law, Manuscripts, Medieval, Spanish literature, and History
Manuscript daybook in Barzillai Slosson's handwriting documents payments made to him or by him to town residents for both his legal work and purchases he made. It identifies clients, services rendered, goods purchased, and charges for those services and purchases in Kent, Connecticut, covering the period from July 7, 1809, to December 9, 1812. Additionally, Slosson recorded in the account book that people used his law books in his office to study law
Alternative Title:
Barzillai Slosson daybook, 1809 July 7-1812 December 6
Description:
Manuscript written in black ink in 19th-century handwriting., Dates based on internally recorded dates., Title devised by cataloger., On front pastedown: "Daniel J. Baswell began to read law in my office April 17, 1811." Another note reads: "Mr. Sylvester Johnson began to use law the second time in my office June 18, 1811.", Several pages are badly mutilated, and many are completely destroyed at the beginning and end of the book., Yale Law Library's label inside book: "Presented to the Yale Law Library by Mr. Otto J. Leonhard of Kent, 1936.", Also available in original print http://morris.law.yale.edu/record=b258893~S1, Digital reproduction. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale Law Library, MssA Sl55 no.4 flat, Description based on print version record., Hicks classification: MssA Sl55 no.4 flat., and Barzillai Slosson (1769-1813), a Yale College graduate of 1791, was an attorney from Kent, Connecticut, who also served as a clerk for the Connecticut House of Representatives.
Publisher:
Barzillai Slosson
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, Kent, Kent., Kent (Conn.), and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Lawyers, Accounting, Practice of law, Account books, Law offices, Law, Study and teaching, Business records, History, Fees, and Manuscripts, American
BEIN: Imperfect: damp-stained., Added t.-p., engraved., First edition of the original, of which but few copies are known. Translated into Spanish in 1681, and thence into English, 1684 (where the name appears as Esquemeling) and into French, 1686 (with the name written Oexmelin) The work went through numerous editions in its various versions and formed the foundation for many of the histories and romances of the buccaneers published during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries., and Signatures: *⁴ A-Z⁴.
Manuscript on parchment (monastic, furry) of Josephus, De bello Judaico, translated into Latin by Hegesippus
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by a single scribe in elegant French minuscule. Marginalia, including "Nota" marks, by several later hands., Good pen-drawn initial for Book 1 (f. 2v), 12-line, in brown, with vigorous foliage swirls, modelled with fine striations, against a bright, multicolored (green, blue, red, maroon) panelled ground; for the Prologue and Books 2-5 (ff. 2r, 37r, 52r, 67v, and 82v), 7- or 5-line initials, in red, blue, green, and light brown with delicate, stylized foliage (f. 2r: also with two stylized heads). On f. 77v, a marginal drawing in red ink of a man pointing to text with a note (13th century) in brown ink "Nota de iniquo Symone.". Rubrics throughout., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Edges gilt. Green goatskin gold-tooled, with a brick-red label.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Josephus, Flavius.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Jews, History, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment of Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (39-65), De bello civili (Pharsalia).
Description:
In Latin., Script: Copied by one hand writing Southern Gothica Semitextualis Libraria/Formata, using the two forms of d. The opening majuscule of each verse is placed in a separate column. The scribe sometimes adds hairline extensions in the upper margin to letters on the top line; the loops of these occasionally contain a sketchy human face., A series of illuminated leaves have been cut out; only the initials at the opening of Books 2, 5, 8, 9 and 10 are preserved. The initials are in Lombard style, pink letters on a blue square background, both decorated with white penwork, and have acanthus extensions of green, orange and yellow in the margin. The decoration is different in each initial; the one on f. 8v contains four yellow flowers. There is no space for a heading at the opening of Books 2 and 5; one line is left free for headings at the opening of Books 8-10, but headings have not been entered., and Binding: Fifteenth century, Italy. Blind-tooled brown leather (worn) over slightly rounded beech boards, part of the front cover and the entire spine missing. Worm holes, especially in the rear board. Sewn on three split leather thongs. On the covers a triple frame of four double fillets; the space between the middle and the inner frame filled with interlace design; the four corners of the central panel are decorated with quarter circles of fillets filled with the same design; in the middle an oblong cartouche; on the front board part of the damaged original cover has been replaced by brown leather blind-tooled with a different interlace design. Marks of four clasps attached to the front board; two lily-shaped brass catches remain, fixed by means of three nails to the outer side of the rear board. On the blank wood of the front board there is a fragmentary inscription in ink and large script (upside down, 16th century?).
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Rome
Subject (Name):
Lucan, 39-65.
Subject (Topic):
Historical poetry, Latin, Epic poetry, Latin, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
Manuscript on parchment of Leonardo Bruni, De bello italico adversus gothos, in the Italian version by Ludovico Petroni made in 1456. Preceded by the letter of Leonardo Bruni to Giuliano Cardinal Cesarini (1398-1444).
Description:
In Italian., Script: Written by a single scribe in fere-gothic script, above top line., Partial border in inner margin of white vine-stem ornament, f. 1r, on blue, green and pink ground with white and blue dots. In lower border terminals extending in ink hair spray with green, pink and blue flowers and gold balls frame central medallion with a crude outline drawing of a head in profile (later addition?). Two decorated initials, 4- to 3-line, gold on blue, pink and green grounds with white vine-stem ornament. On f. 1r initial joined to partial border. Heading on f. 1r in red., and Binding: 18th-19th centuries, Italy. "Alla rustica" with grey-green paper added over the spine and part of the boards. Edges yellow.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Rome
Subject (Name):
Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444. and Cesarini, Giuliano, Cardinal, 1398-1444.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian literature, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
Manuscript on parchment of Josephus, De bello iudaico, translated into Latin by Rufinus
Alternative Title:
De bello Judaico
Description:
In Latin., Written in bold and elegant early gothic bookhand; some looped flourishes in upper margins contain red dots., Seven initials, 17- to 10-line, in red, filled with red swirling foliage on orange and green grounds, with touches of blue, against irregular grounds of blue and/or orange panels. 6- to 2-line initials, green and/or red with red or green foliate flourishes, set both outside and into text column; initials sometimes incorporate simple facial features. 1-line red initials for rubrics. Rubrics throughout; remains of notes to rubricator., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Brown goatskin, blind-tooled.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Josephus, Flavius.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Jews, History, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, and Manuscripts, Medieval
