Manuscript on parchment of M. Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.), Cato Maior de senectute, with a List of the Seven Wise Men of Greece
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by Giovanmarco Cinico from Parma in Humanistica Textualis Formata. This famous scribe was active in Naples from ca. 1458 to ca. 1498., Pink headings. The names of the interlocutors and the colophon on f. 48r are written in pink Capitals. The first line of the various sections following the dentelle initial is written in alternately pink and black Capitals, except on f. 2r, where it is written in gold Capitals. The illuminated opening folio before f. 1 has been cut out. The smaller sections open with a pink Capital placed between the double bounding lines. 2-line Renaissance dentelle initials in gold on a divided and indented red and blue background, decorated with silvery penwork, at the beginning of the major subdivisions of the text., and Binding: original Italian, repaired: brown leather over thin wooden boards, the covers blind-tooled and decorated with numerous small gold dots. Marks of two clasps; on the spine, now detached and kept separately, a gold-tooled reddish brown title label (17th century?) with the inscription “STR // DE // SEN”. Gilded edges.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Subject (Topic):
Dialogues, Latin, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Old age
Title etched below image., Place of publication derived from publisher's street address., Verse below title: Worn out with folly & disease / The Doctor thinks his purse can please. / But miss Maria with disdain / Laughs at his hopes & fancied pain / And says a warming pan instead / Would better suit his feeble bed., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Pub. [...]17 1777 by J. Walker No.13 Parliament Street
Subject (Topic):
Lust, Old age, Sex, Servants, Purses, Physicians, Crutches, and Beds
Leaf 81. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of Issobel Walker in old age; head to front, slightly directed to the right, looking towards the viewer, stitched coif under scarf, mole between upper lip and nose; impression pasted onto backing sheets; after Wales."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Isobel Walker
Description:
Title engraved below image., Restrike, bearing the imprint statement of a later state. For an early state of the plate before imprint added, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1914,0520.540., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], An original publication date in the 1780s seems likely for this state with imprint, based on publisher's street address; see British Museum online catalogue., Cf. Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 4, page 387., and On leaf 81 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Publish'd by W. Richardson, Antient & Modern Print Warehouse, 174 Strand and Field & Tuer
Title printed within image., Date supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from printer's location., Published in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1 December 1887., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified and Imp. A. Clément
Subject (Topic):
Old age, Older people, Diseases, Geriatrics, Sick persons, Women, and Chairs
Holograph of a collection of notes and personal memoranda. The volume begins with a description of a dream, dated August 1840, in which she imagines she is with child, from which she awakes in tears, recalling that she has never possessed either husband or child, and has long survived that "Friend" who had been such a comfort to her. Following this recollection and dated 9 May 1842, she reminisces about her past vigor of body and mind, including extraordinary sense of sight and hearing, and notes how these senses are diminishing with age; she also mentions her quickness of mind which was nurtured by those to whom she was devoted. The volume concludes with a brief essay titled The apocalypse, which analyzes the Book of Revelation
Description:
Mary Berry (1763-1852), author, was born at Stanwick, Yorkshire. She and her sister Agnes began a close friendship with Horace Walpole in 1788, who spoke of them as his "twin wives." He established the sisters at Teddington, in 1789, and two years later offered them the use of his own secondary residence, Little Strawberry Hill. Berry became engaged to General Charles O'Hara (c.1740-1802) about October 1795, though the couple separated in 1796. In 1824 the sisters took up residence in Curzon Street, where they established a salon frequented by many prominent figures in society; Berry's acquaintances included William Thackeray, Maria Edgeworth, and Madame de Staël. Her literary productions include the comedy Fashionable Friends; A comparative view of the social life of England and France from the Restoration of Charles the Second to the French Revolution (1828) and its sequel Social Life in England and France from the French Revolution in 1789 to that of July 1830 (1831); and an edition of the Works of Horace Walpole (1798)., In English., Binding: cardboard covers. Written on cover: MB. 1839., and For further information, consult library staff.
The assembly of old batchelors and The assembly of old bachelors
Description:
Title below image., Place of publication from item., Date supplied by curator., Above image: Assemblee des vieux garçons., Below title is a verse from Dryden., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Printed for Bowles & Carver, 69, St. Pauls' Church Yard
Subject (Name):
Dryden, John, 1631-1700.
Subject (Topic):
Life cycle, Human, Bachelors, Old age, Gout, Older people, Meetings, and Crutches
Portrait of the drug grinder William Wilson (1709-1815), known as ‘Mortar Willie’, who supposedly worked as a drug grinder for various apothecaries, chemists and druggists in Edinburgh until his 106th year. He is shown seated, using a large pestle and mortar
Alternative Title:
William Wilson, commonly called Mortar Willie
Description:
Title etched below image. and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Apothecaries -- Compounding of drugs.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Wilson, William, 1709-1815,
Subject (Topic):
Old age, Pharmacists, Drugs, Dosage forms, Mortars & pestles, and Older people
Portrait of the drug grinder William Wilson (1709-1815), known as ‘Mortar Willie’, who supposedly worked as a drug grinder for various apothecaries, chemists and druggists in Edinburgh until his 106th year. He is shown seated, using a large pestle and mortar
Alternative Title:
William Wilson, commonly called Mortar Willie
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Apothecaries -- Compounding of drugs., and 1 print : etching ; plate mark 194 x 152 mm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Wilson, William, 1709-1815,
Subject (Topic):
Old age, Pharmacists, Drugs, Dosage forms, Mortars & pestles, and Older people
Title written in ink at center margin, Artist's name in ink at lower right., Pencil notation verso, "By Robert Cruikshank not signed by him ND 1830"., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Title and date supplied by catalogue raisonné., Place of publication based on printmaker's place of residence in 1902., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., In pencil lower left, additional inscription, probably publisher., and Stamp in lower left margin.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Old age, Older people, Diseases, Geriatrics, Women, and Sick persons
