Manuscripts

Anaheim disease of the grape: manuscript

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Description: Manuscript of Max William Gardner's examination of the Pierce's disease of the grape, which was first discovered near Anaheim by Newton Barris Pierce in 1892 and had a significant impact on Southern California agriculture. Includes a variety of excerpts from contemporary reports and includes references to the effect of the disease on the James DeBarth Shorb ranch. Typewritten with handwritten corrections. Also contains a published version of the manuscript (1975).
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1966.
Call number: mssHM 73798-73799
Creator: Gardner, Max William (1890-1979)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Max William Gardner, December 21, 1967.
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Plaster-of-Paris model of a grape leaf

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One plaster-of-Paris model of a grape leaf, mounted on a rectangular base, labeled "1453" in the lower right hand corner. On the upper left hand corner is a medal medallion with the embossed words "P.P. Caproni & Bro. - Plastic Arts - Boston, USA." On the top edge of the model is a small wire loop. Title supplied by cataloger.

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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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Isaac Newton et ses travaux: copy of book chapter

Manuscripts

This manuscript is a handwritten transcription, in French, of the Chapter "Newton et ses Travaux" from Bertrand's book Les fondateurs de l'astronomie moderne: Copernic, Tycho Brahé, Kepler, Galilée, Newton, par Joseph Bertrand. it was a gift from Francisco José Mariano Duarte, a Venezuelan mathematician and scientist., to the Babson Institute in 1956. Duarte may well be the author of the manuscript. It is bound in leather and the cover is stamped "Babson Institute" with "Newton" on the spine.

mssHM 76717

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Album and unpublished manuscript

Manuscripts

Album compiled by Arthur Coyte Paget, who was a schoolfellow and close friend of William Makepeace Thackeray. The album includes original drawings by Thackeray, printed material, and a manuscript by Paget.

mssHM 40011

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Piers Plowman : [manuscript]

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ff. 1-89v. [William Langland] Piers Plowman. Incipit: In a somere seyson whan softe was þe sonne/ y shop into shrobbis as y shepherde were. Explicit: And sende me hap and hele til ich haue peers ploughman/ And suthe he gradde after grace til ich gan awake. Hic explicit passus secundus de dobest. Explicit peeres plouheman scriptum per Thomam Dankastre. Rubric: Hic incipit Visio Willelmi de petro ploughman. English. IMEV 1459; C text, p group; see R. W. Chambers, "The Manuscripts of Piers Plowman in the Huntington Library and their Value for Fixing the Text of the Poem," HLB 8 (1935) 1-25; J. A. W. Bennett, "A New Collation of a Piers Plowman Manuscript (HM 137)," Medium Aevum 17 (1948) 21-31; T. D. Whitaker, ed., Visio Willi de Petro Plouhman (London 1813) from this manuscript; W. W. Skeat, ed., The Vision of William Concerning Piers the Plowman by William Langland. EETS os 54 (London 1873) with this manuscript as the base text, described on pp. xix-xxiv; D. Pearsall, ed., Piers Plowman by William Langland: An Edition of the C-Text (London 1978) using HM 143 as the base manuscript.

mssHM 137

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Britanniae Romanorum: manuscript

Manuscripts

An unfinished dictionary of persons, places, etc. associated with Roman Britain (entries A through C only), followed by working notes and extracts from other sources; with additional notes, in another hand, on medieval England. The manuscript is undated. Volume 1 is 351 pages. Volume 2 is 273 pages.

mssHM 154

Anaheim disease of the grape: manuscript

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