An obese woman hoisted upon her servant's back as her doctor's prescribed cure for flatulence. The lady asks: "O! dear, doctor, has John studied the book?", her doctor replies: "Aye, aye; nothing requir'd but my book, page 75 -gently John! Gently! Page 75". The black servant exclaims: "Eh! eh! Missey, you makey wind for true." The doctor has some resemblance to John Abernethy
Alternative Title:
Cure for flatulency
Description:
Title etched below image., "A. Sharpshooter" is the pseudonym of John Phillips; see British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Published November 30, 1829, by S. Gans, 15 Southampton Street, Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Physicians, Patients, Household employees, Dogs, Flatulence, Black people, House furnishings, Costume, History, Obesity, and Servants
Merlinus verax and Almanack for the year of our Lord, 1687
Description:
BEIN 2013 1188: Armorial bookplate: Bryan Fausset. Inscriptions: Simon Hughes. Scant manuscript annotations on rear free endpaper. No. 3 of 12 titles bound together., A lover of loyalty = John Gadbury., A different work from the "Merlinus verax" of Robert Neve., and Signatures: A-B⁸ ²B⁸ D⁸ E⁴.
Publisher:
Printed for the Company of Stationers
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Almanacs, English, Ephemerides, Astrology, History, and Chronology
Manuscript in a single hand, written on vellum, describes in minute detail Waldegrave's negotiations with the Bey and Vizar in Bardo over the exchange of Corsican prisoners held in Tunis after the capture of the Maria Rosa as well as other diplomatic issues arising between Tunis, Algiers, Corsica and Great Britain from the period 22 February 1796 to 19 August 1796. Waldegrave records almost verbatim the negotiations between the Bey and Vizar as well as conversations with the Consul and other British officials and naval officers. Copies of correspondence between Waldegrave, John Jervis, John Sutton, and Gilbert Elliot as well as officers serving on the Barfleur and the French counsel are transcribed at the end of the account which includes details of naval skirmishes fought during this period
Description:
William Waldegrave, first Baron Radstock (1753-1825), naval officer, born on 9 July 1753 in Kensington, London, second son of John Waldegrave, third Earl Waldegrave (1718-1784) and his wife, Lady Elizabeth Leveson-Gower (1724-1784), daughter of the first Earl Gower and Evelyn Pierrepoint., In English; some French., Spine label: 11790., Written on vellum and bound in blue morocco, gold tooling, with silver clasps., and Blue morocco, with silver clasps. Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763.
Subject (Geographic):
Corsica (France), Tunisia, Great Britain., Great Britain, and Tunisia.
Subject (Name):
Minto, Gilbert Elliot, Earl of, 1751-1814., Radstock, William Waldegrave, Baron, 1753-1825., Rance, James P., Captain., St. Vincent, John Jervis, Viscount, 1735-1823., and Maria Rosa (Ship)
Manuscript on paper containing 1) Legendary history of the foundation of Rome. 2) Mirabilia Romae. 3) Note on Roman abbreviations especially for personal names. 4) Heading of an index to the Roman History of Livy (?). 5) Note on officials, functions and institutions of the Roman empire. 6) Note on the structure of Roman personal names. 7) Headings of the chapters of Books 1-9 of Facta et dicta memorabilia. 8) Giunta de Sancto Giminiano (14th century), alphabetical table to Facta et dicta memorabilia, from A to T, with ample blank spaces between each letter of the alphabet. 9) Mentions of Valerius Maximus and Livy in works of Thomas Aquinas and Nicholas of Lyre. 10) Valerius Maximus (1st century), Facta et dicta memorabilia, including the pseudepigraphic Book 10, De interpretacionibus nominum
Description:
In Latin., Script: Copied by one hand in Gothica Cursiva Libraria, the text very large, the glosses small., Underlining, paragraph marks, headings, stroking of majuscules and plain initials (with guide letters), all in red., The pages damaged by the acidity of the ink., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Quarter binding in brown leather, the cardboard covers covered with marbled brown paper. Gold-tooled spine with five raised bands and brown title label with gold-tooled inscription: “VALERIUS MAXIMUS / MANUSCRIPTUM”. Red sprinkled edges.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Rome (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Valerius Maximus.
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval, Scholia, Description and travel, and History
Manuscript on paper (incomplete) of texts on various religious, devotional, and historical themes. Contents include Kirakos Vardapet, On the eight sacraments, ff. 1r-6v; treatises on gastronomy, adultery, avarice, melancholy, passion, idleness, vainglory, and pride, ff. 6v-42r; Story of the Hermit Macarius and the conversion of the Emir of Nisibis (incomplete), ff. 52r-125r; Story of the Greek emperor Heraclius on the discovery of the Holy Cross, ff. 125r-153r; Story of young Mehmet, ff. 153r-158v; Bishop Methodius, Commentary on the vision of the prophet Daniel, ff. 162r-181v; Victory of the Christians, ff. 181v-196r; Agadon, History of the propitious times when the power of the Armenians increased..., ff. 196v-219v; Miraculous deeds of St. Minas, ff. 220v-231r; Life and martyrdom of the Patriarch St. Cyril of Jerusalem, ff. 266v-284v; Moses of Khoren, Life of St. Hṙip'simē, ff. 284v-293v; and Anania Vardapet, Homily on St. John, ff. 305r-320r
Description:
In Armenian., Layout: one column of 15-24 lines., Script: notragir., Decoration: rubrication., Binding: mutilated leather over boards, with striped linen doublures. Two parchment flyleaves at beginning from a 10th-century manuscript, and two paper flyleaves at end from a 12th-century manuscript, both in erkat'agir., Principal colophon wanting. Dating suggested by paleography. An inscription on f. 196r indicates that the manuscript was copied by the scribe Yandrēas., and Some leaves disordered; some missing, including one quire between ff. 51 and 52.
Subject (Geographic):
Armenia
Subject (Name):
Cyril, Saint, Bishop of Jerusalem, approximately 315-386., Heraclius, Emperor of the East, approximately 575-641., Hṛipʻsime, Saint., Macarius, the Egyptian, Saint, active 4th century., Miniatus, Saint, active 3rd century., and Armenian Church
Manuscript on paper of an album of 105 water-color drawings of Italian costumes and scenes of daily life (some with titles), including two maps of Venice
Description:
In Italian., Drawings mounted, framed by narrow gold strips., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Red, straight-grained goatskin, gold-tooled, with light blue, watered silk doublures and flyleaves. Possibly bound by one of the Bozerians (Paris, 1793-1817), but the foot of the spine where their signature usually appears was destroyed in rebacking. Gilt edges.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Venice (Italy)
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Description and travel, and History
Title from item., 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:
Published by Chas. Magnus 12 Frankfort St. New York & 520, Seventh St. Washington, D.C. and Entered according to Act of Congress A.D. 1864 by Chas. Magnus in the Clerks Office of the Southern District of N.Y.
Subject (Geographic):
United States
Subject (Topic):
Military hospitals, Hospitals, Bird's-eye views, and History
