Manuscript on paper of the history of the final days of the Moorish kingdom of Granada
Description:
In Spanish., Watermark: resembles Briquet 11272 (Toulouse, 1570)., Script: copied by a single scribe in a Spanish version of Humanistica Cursiva Formata. The first word of each paragraph is written in Capitalis. The Latin formula at the end is in Humanistica Textualis Formata. A few marginal notes, mostly by a later hand., The text recounts the history of the final days of the Moorish kingdom of Granada through the conquest by Gonsalvo de Cordoba, the "great captain" in the service of the Catholic Kings of Spain, 1492. This is the final quire of a manuscript that contained the full history of the Moorish Kings of Granada., and Disbound. Extracted from a larger manuscript.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., Granada (Kingdom), and Spain
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Kings and rulers, and History
Manuscript on paper (unidentified watermark) of a List of English Knights with Blazons. The names of the knights are arranged by counties. The manuscript was originally part of a larger manuscript
Description:
In French., Script: Copied by one hand in Gothica Cursiva Libraria (Secretary)., Edges and folds of most leaves repaired., and Binding: Twentieth century. Half leather (dark brown sprinkled calf) over cardboard covered with blue-grey marbled paper. On the spine gold-tooled inscription "ENGLISH KNIGHTS. MS - ABOUT - 1480".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Heraldry, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
Fisher, Samuel H. (Samuel Herbert), 1867-1957, author
Published / Created:
1946.
Call Number:
YL 05 L61 no.11
Image Count:
148
Resource Type:
text
Description:
"Books referred to in the biographical catalogue"--Page 142., Also available in original print http://morris.law.yale.edu/record=b332082, Digital reproduction. New Haven, Connecticut : Yale Law Library, 2018. YL 05 L61 no.11, and Description based on print version record.
Publisher:
Published for the Yale Law Library by the Yale University Press
BEIN Zc20 856LL: Inscriptions: James M. Stewart, Jany. 15, 1865; Frances C. Carden. Advertising matter on [4] p. at end, not noted in pagination., Copyrighted 1855, by James T. Lloyd on t.p. verso., Advertisement for Jesper Harding on front paste-down endpaper., and Includes index.
Publisher:
James T. Lloyd & Co., Stereotyped and printed by Jesper Harding)
Subject (Geographic):
Mississippi River Valley., Mississippi River Valley, Mississippi River, Ohio River, and United States
Subject (Name):
Fitch, John, 1743-1798. and Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815.
Subject (Topic):
Steamboat disasters, Steam-navigation, Description and travel, Railroads, and History
A large, muzzled and chained dog representing England, is shown being attacked by several men who represent England's enemies, the countries of the armed neutrality league and its allies -- a Swede, a Dane, a Frenchman with an umbrella, a Spaniard with a cane, a Dutchman holding the dog by the tail, an American with a single feather in his hat, and one woman, Catherine of Russia, holding a caduceus and a sword. In the background, a woman, labeled "Queen of the Sea," stripped to the waist, wearing a crown, and hanging by her wrists from a gallows is being whipped by a man dressed as a naval officer and identified as J. Paul Jones. The print includes legend to numbered figures below title
Description:
Title from item. and "De piris is 8 stuijoen."
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Assault and battery, Great Britain, Foreign relations, United States, and History
A thin cat with the head of Charles Grey walks on top of a wall. In his mourn is a fish labeled "First Lord of the Treasury 6000". His long tail, curving around the design and ending at the bottom right, is covered in white patches that are labeled with the names of his relations, their positions, and the amount of their pay. A stick figure of Wellington, with sword raised, appears in the right corner above the end of the tail. Posted on the wall are two signs: "Commit no nuisance" and "Reform in Parliament meeting will be [illegible scrawl]."
Alternative Title:
Tommy Grey with the tail of his order!!!
Description:
Title from caption etched below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pub. Feb. 15, 1831, by T. McLean, 26 Haymarke [sic]
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Nepotism, Reform, History, Politics and government, and Cats
Collection of four scrapbooks compiled by Marcel Jean between 1921 and 1940 containing over 150 tracts, exhibit catalogs, letters, advertisements, subscription forms, invitation cards, and other ephemera documenting Surrealism in France, Belgium, and other locations. Includes printed, typescript, and manuscript material relating to Surrealist exhibitions, publications, and political activity, including tracts on the Spanish Civil War and fascism. Printed ephemera feature artists and writers such as Salvador Dalí, Man Ray, Tristan Tzara, René Char, and André Breton. Correspondence includes letters from Georges Bataille, Henri Pastoureau, Remedios Varo, Sheila Legge, Wolfgang Paalen, Eduardo Westerdahl and others to Jean, 1935-1939. Contains one photograph of Benjamin Péret and Jean at Léo Malet's house, 1935 and Volume 1: 1921-1934. Volume 2: 1935-1936. Volume 3: 1937-1939. Volume 4: supplement, 1926-1940
Description:
Marcel Jean (1900-1993), French artist, member of the Paris Surrealist group and author of numerous publications on Surrealism., Largely in French., and Each volume includes original endpapers created by Marcel Jean with ex-libris and autograph list of contents.
