Manuscripts

Airplanes, 1890-1914: manuscript album

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Description: This volume contains 1,043 illustrations of early airplanes (including 100 original photographs and 224 reproductions of technical design). This collection was brought together before the outbreak of World War 1 (there is a note in pencil in the beginning of the volume "Development of aeroplane construction prior to WW I." - the note is in German). The illustrations, most of which are cuttings from magazines, periodicals and other ephemeral or hard-to-get publications, include captions in German. A detailed list of the contents is in the inside front cover. The first image in the book is of Prince Henry of Russia in an airplane with the quote "Ein Flugapparat ist weder ein offenes Grab, noch ein Kinderspielzeug" ("A flying machine is neither an open grave nor a toy for children"). The next few images are of Orville and Wilbur Wright and their airplane.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1914.
Call number: mssHM 75936
Provenance: Burndy Library Collection, Gift of Dibner Family, November 2006.

Commonplace book : manuscript

Manuscripts

A manuscript commonplace book, with text written in several different hands. The volume is written mostly in English but also contains French and German; though no country of origin is identified, it appears to be mainly British in subject. The text includes seven pages of index in the beginning of the volume; there are also rough drawings in pencil and pen, as well more finely executed pen and ink illustrations. The text covers an extraordinary range of subjects, including technical inventions and developments, animal husbandry, recipes, political comment, sports, current events, travel, medicinal cures, economics, wine, and many other topics. The volume is bound in late 18th century three-quarter calf gilt, red edges, with some wear to the binding.

mssHM 83388

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Album

Manuscripts

A commonplace book, signed on the first page Fanny Sarah Westwood. The volume includes verses by Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, Felicia Hemans, Mary Howitt, and Thomas Westwood. The volume also includes botanical sketches and illustrations, drawings, botanical specimens, and printed illustrations.

mssHM 11587

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Benjamin Franklin portraits, 1777-1880: album

Manuscripts

This album contains over 100 portraits of Benjamin Franklin. They range in date from 1777 to about 1880 and include engravings, etchings, and other illustrations. The majority of them were acquired in 1907 at the sale of engravings from the collection of Hon. James T. Mitchell, Chief Justice of Pennsylvania (the title page from that sale catalog is included with the volume along with a numbered listing of the illustrations). Fourteen prints were later added to the volume. There is a handwritten note at the beginning of the volume by a J. M. Fox. The note is regarding the contents of the volume and is dated April 1908.

mssHM 75937

Die Vierundzwanzig Alten : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-320; f. 320v blank. [Otto von Passau]. [Vierundzwanzig Alten]. Incipit: Aller erste alte wiset dich minnende sele uff dich selber daz du vor uß betrahten solt. Explicit: An der heiligen himelfursten oben marien zů der lichtmesse. Des Jores do men zalte M ccc lxxx und sechs Jor. Amen. Anno xxxi Jor et cetera. Rubric: Diß ist der ane vang des bůches und vohet hie Amen. German. See W. Schmidt, Die vierundzwanzig Alten Ottos von Passau. Palaestra 212 (Leipzig 1938), for a list of the incunable editions and 113 manuscripts, including HM 1082 on pp. 85-86. In this manuscript, the names of the Elders are absent from the headings; the Discourse of the 13th Elder, f. 147v, begins incorrectly: "Got uesteclichen vergihe ich dritzehender alte lop und rům der ewigen wisheit . . . ," thus interrupting the alphabetical sequence of initials of each Discourse by use of a "G" instead of the expected "N" (I/J and U/V as one each; W at the end). Leaves missing between ff. 53-54 and 64-65 with the beginning of the eighth and ninth Elders' Discourses; f. 208rb, blank, but text is complete. The text is preceded by a chapter list and a prologue.

mssHM 1082

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Album of works for Jack London's "Children of the Frost,"

Manuscripts

Album of original watercolors and charcoal sketches for the French edition of Jack London's "Children of the Frost." The drawings are primarily vibrant and expressionistic portraits of Eskimos, reminiscent of the work by Georges Rouault. Some of the illustrations depict a progression with the final image at the beginning. For instance, following the "final" watercolor for "In the Forest of the North", there are at least 7 preliminary illustrations in charcoal and black watercolor showing different angles and variations. All eight illustrations found in the French edition of Jack London's "Children of the Frost" are represented in this volume.

mssHM 80824

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Photograph of a photograph of an airplane on the ground with a man on the wing.

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Airplanes, 1890-1914: manuscript album

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