Manuscripts
Japanese ikebana manuscript
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[Single sheet manuscript in Japanese]
Manuscripts
Simple sheet in Japanese: content unidentified; looks like some kind of letter and/or diary type entry; written on rectangular sheet; printed on paper with landscape design; given the language and script style, date seems to be approximately late 19th c. (i.e. Meiji).
mssHM 81208
Japanese smallpox manuscript volume, approximately 1860
Manuscripts
Handwritten and illustrated book in Japanese on smallpox. The 29 double pages are mounted to an accordion-style book with stiff pages, and contain 27 hand-colored illustrations, many of which show the disease in three-dimension. The Kanbun text is handwritten. The book is covered in satin brocade with a paper title slip. Housed in a silk folding sleeve, also with paper title slip.
mssHM 82443
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Kōmō Chayuhō : [manuscript]
Manuscripts
Recipes, intake methods (i.e. oral, skin, etc.), and commentary on various teas and oils from areas such as Holland, Sweden, etc.; many names of the incredients, techniques, etc., written in phoneticization of original title into Japanese kana script; some illustrations in latter sections depicting instruments used in process of distillation; 33 pages; medicines divided generally between water-based and oil-based recipes; title on box reads: "Japanese Medicinal Distilling"
mssHM 81220
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Fascinating features of fair Japan
Visual Materials
An album with 50 hand-tinted photographs of Japan showing gardens, shrines, temples, palaces, parks, resorts, scenic landscapes, and traditional Japanese arts and occupations, such as Ikebana, Sumo wrestling, No theater, and rice planting. The images include "Three Views of Japan": the islands at Matsushima, the shrine at Itsukushima, and the sandbar at Ama no Hashidate. There are photographs of various sites in Tokyo, Kyoto, Kyushu, and Nikko.
photCL 60
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To wish you many happy returns of the day. Wyberslegh Hall ; Choosing a school : poems
Manuscripts
A booklet of two poems written for his grandfather John Henry Bradshaw-Isherwood (1841-1924) on his birthday. With decorated paper covers and a label: "J. Bradshaw-Isherwood August 27th 1918;" pages are sewn together, written and signed by Christopher Isherwood.
mssHM 83211
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Poetical manuscript commonplace book
Manuscripts
A verse miscellany, entitled "Poetical Manuscript Commonplace book" on the spine and "English Verses, Time of James and Charles the First" within the volume; it is written in a single neat italic hand, probably written in Oxford, England, approximately 1635, and associated with Christ Church College, Oxford University. The volume contains 108 poems, almost all of which are presented anonymously; there are mentions of race and skin color and more than 60 of the poems concern women, love, or marriage. Some of the poems are attributed to, among others, Thomas Carew, Richard Corbet, Robert Herrick, Ben Jonson, Henry King, Thomas Randolph, and William Strode. The volume has 19th-century foliation and a list of contents in the front. The volume is bound in contemporary calf, sewn on four alum-tawed slips, covers with a single gilt rule border, head of spine has some damage, and the end leaves were replaced in approximately 1830; also, with a catalogue cutting pasted inside front cover and a morocco-backed slipcase.
mssHM 84418