Manuscript on paper. Includes notes on arithmetic and accounting for merchandise; a romance of Tristan; list of spices; astronomical and astrological information; charms and prayers; recipes; extracts in Venetian; and poems
Description:
In Italian and Latin., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Fruit 7372-76, Briquet Cheval 3564, and Briquet Fruit 7341., Script: Written by a single scribe in a neat notarial hand, through f. 67v. Notes added by various hands of 14th-15th centuries., Drawings of ships, towers and merchants in ink, with added yellow, brown, green, red and blue; many diagrams. Crude 2- and 1-line initials in red, with guide-letters for rubricator showing beneath; headings in red., Repair of f. 1 with later paper; some loss of text. Repairs at outer edges on this and other folios do not affect text., and Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Rigid vellum case with paste paper back endleaf and pastedowns. Central fold of each bifolium has been reinforced with a strip of parchment.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Venice (Italy)
Subject (Topic):
Accounting, Arithmetic, Astrology, Astronomy, Medieval, Formulas, recipes, etc, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, Merchants, Prayers, Tristan (Legendary character), and Economic conditions
Caption title., Text within ornamental border., Articles for sale listed in three columns, separated by printers' ornaments; first column begin: Black half-ell modes; three quater ditto; yard-wide ditto; black half-ell, three-quarter, plain, and figur'd satins ..., Watermark: T. Boyd. For further information, consult library staff., and Ms. receipt on blank verso signed by Pridham and dated 27 May 1780 for 40 yards of canvas.
Publisher:
Printed by W. Grigg, bookseller and stationer near Broad-Gate, in the Fore-Street
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Clothing trade, Millinery, Textile fabrics, and Merchants
A receipt on engraved letterhead with a vignette demonstrating the creation of wallpaper and with the name and address of the merchant (Grant); receipt made out to Mr. Bowen (Bowers?), dated 1 June 1820, and signed by Chs. Grant. Also engraved in vignette is the name of the merchant and a patriotic appeal: "Grant, paper-stainer, near the Old Market, Boston ... Americans encourage the manufactories of your country if you wish for its prosperity."
Title engraved below image., Date of publication from dealer's description., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Text below title: NB. Regimentals & naval uniforms made in the neatest manner., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Miller, Lambeth
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
Merchants, Dry-goods, Dry goods stores, and Window displays
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[29 March 1772]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 111. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on a prosperous City of London merchant: a portly man, grinning happily, beside the entrance to a suburban pleasure garden called "The New Paradise" to which "No Gentlemen or Ladies to be admitted with Nails in their Shoes. Recreation & Refreshment at 6d. pr. Head"; he wears an embroidered waistcoat and carries a sword."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Tea gardens: 'The New Paradise,' Fish-Street., Mounted on page 111 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : etching with drypoint on laid paper ; sheet 26.5 x 17.5 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs March 29, 1772, by J. Bretherton, New Bond Street No. 134
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[29 March 1772]
Call Number:
Bunbury 772.03.29.02 Impression 1
Collection Title:
Page 111. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on a prosperous City of London merchant: a portly man, grinning happily, beside the entrance to a suburban pleasure garden called "The New Paradise" to which "No Gentlemen or Ladies to be admitted with Nails in their Shoes. Recreation & Refreshment at 6d. pr. Head"; he wears an embroidered waistcoat and carries a sword."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Tea gardens: 'The New Paradise,' Fish-Street., and Watermark, mostly trimmed.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs March 29, 1772, by J. Bretherton, New Bond Street No. 134
The administrators of the East India Company are confronted with the image of East Indian merchants. A letter of apology lies at the feet of the one director who stands up in fright, his chair overturned behind him
Description:
Title engraved below image., Plate from: Town and country magazine, v. 4, supplement (1772), page 705., Illustration to dialogue: The directors in the suds, or, The Jaghire dismayed at the ghosts of the black merchants., and Placement instructions above image: Vol. IV ; No. XXXIX.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Colebrooke, George, Sir, 1729-1809, Clive, Robert Clive, Baron, 1725-1774, and East India Company
Subject (Topic):
Administration, East Indians, Merchants, and Taverns (Inns)
"A jewish pedlar carrying a box of wares on straps around his neck, holding out his hand to take money from a school boy who stands on the right counting his coins; townscape with a dome and two towers behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Jew merchant and school boy
Description:
Title engraved below image., Plate numbered '223' in lower left corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Jewish merchants.
Publisher:
Published 12th May 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
