A political cartoon with 42 bust caricatures of members of a conspiracy discovered by no. 1 "La Vigilance du Gouvernement Français", a rooster or the Gallic cock, depicted at top center, holding "Correspondance de Mr. Draque - Ambassadeur de la Cour Britannique &c. &c." Those accused of participating in the conspiracy are: no. 2 "Le Prince de Galles" (possibly the Prince of Wales), no. 3 "Parti de l'Opposition", no. 4 "Le Comte d'Artois" (Charles X), no. 5 "Lord Windham", no. 6 "Lord Moira", no. 7 "Lord King", no. 8 "Mr. Vic-Kam", no. 9 "Lord With Wurth", no. 10 "Mr. Pitt", no. 11 "Mr. Drake", no. 12 "Mr. Adington", no. 13 "Le Général Limcol", no. 14 "Mr. Francis", no. 15 "Milord Cathcart", no. 16 "Monsieur, Frère du Roi de France" (Louis XVIII), no. 17 "Spencer Smith", no. 18 "Lord How Kersbury", no. 19 "Le Duc de Cambridge", no. 20 "Charlotte Reine d'Angleterre", no. 21 "Géorges III Roi d'Angleterre", no. 22 "Le Duc d'York" (Prince Frederick Augustus), no. 23 "Lord Windham", no. 24 "Le Comte de Darmouth", no. 25 "Le Duc de Portland", no. 26 "Sidney Smith", no. 27 "Sir Lucas Pepys", no. 28 "Mr. Canning", no. 29 "Fitz Williams", no. 30 "Lord Walsingham", no. 31 "Lord Nelson Admiral", no. 32 "L'amiral Duc Woeth", no. 33 "Mr. Tierney", no. 34 "Le Prince de Conde", no. 35 "Lord Malmesbury", no. 36 "Milord Harrowby", no. 37 "Mr. F. Millman", no. 38 "Heberden", no. 39 "Lord Grandville", no. 40 "Mr. Carnawon", no. 41 "Mr. Carlole", and no. 42 "Sir Robert Taulay."
Description:
Title from item. and Includes key with corresponding numbers identifying the persons depicted.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
France and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., Charles X, King of France, 1757-1836., Pitt, William, 1759-1806., Louis XVIII, King of France, 1755-1824., Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818., George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827., and Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount, 1758-1805.
Subject (Topic):
History, National emblems, French, Roosters, Conspiracy, Enemies, and Faces
All engraved including title page on verso of first leaf., Date from publication based on known date of Thomas Hope's commission for the work by Henry Moses. Cf. Designs of modern costume, engraved for Thomas Hope of Deepdene. London : Costume Society, 1973., Plates signed: H. Moses del. et sc., and Bound in contemporary straight-grain red morocco, bordered in blind on covers, spine gilt in compartments; with a bold autograph on the recto of front free marbled end-paper: Edward Bell.For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Henry Setchel & Son 23 King Strt. Covt. Garedn
Title from item., Date supplied by curator., Above image: Actualités. 134., Published in Le Charivari., 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: Le Constitutionnel; La Patrie; Politics, French.
Publisher:
Chez Aubert & Cie. Pl. de la Bourse, 29. Paris and Imp. de Ve. Aubert 5.r. de l'Abbaye, 5. Paris
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
Véron, Louis Désiré, 1798-1867. and France.
Subject (Topic):
French newspapers, Fishing, Politics and government, and History
Manuscript on parchment of Valerius Maximus, Dictorum factorum memorabilium ad tiberium cesarem
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by a single scribe in a precise round gothic bookhand., Illuminated by Cristoforo Cortese, ca. 1420. Fine historiated initial (12-line) on f. 1r, the author seated at a lectern, pink, purple, green, red, and blue foliage on a gold ground, edged in black, with delicate white highlights; an exuberant vine and foliage border in three margins; the upper margin with a bar, gold and blue, with white highlights. Eight illuminated initials (9- or 8-line) on ff. 14v, 29v, 45r, 61r, 79r, 98v, 115r, 132r in the same style, borders in outer margin. Fine penwork initials throughout, blue with red penwork or vice versa (7- to 4-line). Several lines following initials written in ornate majuscules widely spaced on every other line, filled in with sepia penwork (some left unfinished, especially near end of manuscript). 2-line initials, blue with red or red with blue penwork, less ornate than above. Rubrics missing for major text divisions; paragraph marks in red or blue., Borders cut out on ff. 1r, 45r, and 79r, replaced with parchment, with initials and borders partially restored., and Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Mottled calf case, gold-tooled.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Rome
Subject (Name):
Valerius Maximus.
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
Manuscript on paper containing Lactantius, Divinae institutiones, and other texts
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks: (1) Lion rampant holding a sword and surmounted by a fleur de lis: Piccard, Wasserzeichen Raubtiere, 1699-1700 (1465-1466); (2) and (3) Mountain: var. Briquet 11702, 11709 (1440, 1466)., Script: copied by one hand in an idiosyncratic Gothico-Humanistica Libraria, with f and straight s with long pointed descenders, Uncial or Half-Uncial d, round or straight s in final position and e caudata used in a totally unorthodox way; unexplained stray letters appear in the text., Headings, paragraph marks and stroking of some majuscules in red. All other decoration is missing: there are guide letters in the margin; space for initials of various heights, but generally exceptionally wide, has been provided at the opening of books and chapters., The manuscript contains: 1) Augustinus Hipponensis (St. Augustine, 354-430), note on Lactantius, shortened version of Contra Faustum Manichaeum (CPL 321). 2) Augustinus Hipponensis, note on Lactantius, shortened after Epistula 143.2-3. 3) Hieronymus Stridonensis (St. Jerome), note on Lactantius, from Epistula 58.10. 4) Hieronymus Stridonensis, note on Lactantius (in fact on Origen), after Epistula 62.2. 5) Hieronymus Stridonensis, note on Lactantius, from De viris illustribus, 80 (CPL 616). 6) Table of Contents (list of chapters) of Divinae institutiones. 7) Firmianus Lactantius (d. c. 325), Divinae institutiones (CPL 85)., and Binding: 20th century. Quarter binding, white pigskin and oak boards with rounded edges, the leather blind-tooled with fillets and flowerets. Spine with three raised bands. Brown edges.
Manuscript docket book kept by Barzillai Slosson, perhaps in Kent, Connecticut, from September 1794 to March 1808, regarding court cases in Litchfield County, Connecticut. The content includes brief abstracts of proceedings, names of plaintiffs and defendants, a table of fees, and miscellaneous accounts
Alternative Title:
Barzillai Slosson's docket for C.C. & S.C. September 1794 and Barzillai Slosson docket book : Litchfield County Court
Description:
Handwritten in ink., Title taken from the label on the box., Yale Law Library's label inside the clamshell box: "Presented by Hellen Bull, 1935.", Also available in original print http://morris.law.yale.edu/record=b257544~S3, Digital reproduction. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale Law Library, MssA Sl55 no.5, In English. , Description based on print version record., Hicks classification: MssA Sl55 no.5., 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, Litchfield County., Accounting., New Haven., and Litchfield County (Conn.)
Subject (Topic):
Court records, Practice of law, Lawyers, Fees, Manuscripts, American, and History
Manuscript on paper of 1) Note on the reign of the first Doge of Venice, Pauluccio Anafesto (697-717). 2) History of Venice from its legendary foundation to 695. 3) Alphabetical list of Venetian noble families, with their coats of arms and notes on their history. 4) History of the Doges of Venice up to Francesco Venier, elected 1554, d. 1556, with their coats of arms
Description:
In Italian., Script: Copied by two hands. A (ff.IIr and 1r-84v): Gothica Cursiva Libraria/Currens; B (ff. 85r-170r): Humanistica Cursiva Currens., Painted coats of arms, those in art. 3 in decorative cartouches. Large decorative painted initials for each family name., The top and the lower corners of the final leaves badly damaged by moist, with loss of some text., and Binding: Date? Pasteboard.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., Italy., and Venice (Italy)
Subject (Topic):
Heraldry, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Nobility, and History
