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Ferdinand III edicts

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Description: Three resolutions (or editcs) by Ferdinand III, as well as the Electoral Council (commissio domini electi imperatoris in consilio). Signed by several people. Printed in old German script. Dated 1640, 1644, and 1645, Vienna. In fragile condition.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1640-1645.
Call number: mssHM 80413 (a-c)
Creator: Ferdinand (1608-1657)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Burndy Library Collection, Gift of Dibner Family, November 2006.
Associated organizations: Burndy Library,

Frederick Ferdinand Low letter to an unknown recipient

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In this letter to an unknown recipient, Frederick Ferdinand Low expresses his happiness for recent state and national elections. He also states that the recent completion of the railroad will, in his estimation, balance the arrival of "rebels" displaced due to the recent elections. Letter is incomplete, being only the last page, and has neither addressee nor date.

mssHM 21314

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Map of the north-east part of Siberia : to illustrate the narrative of the expedition to the Polar Sea in 1820, 21, 22 & 23 commanded by Lieut. Ferdinand Von Wrangell of the Russian Imperial Navy

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From the English translation (Narrative of an expedition to the Polar Sea: in the years 1820, 1821, 1822 & 1823. Commanded by Lieutenant, now Admiral, Ferdinand von Wrangell ... Ed. by Major Edward Sabine. London: J. Madden and Co., 1840: translated from G. Engelhardt's German translation of the then unpublished Russian manuscript.) of Wrangel's account of his over-ice journey along the northern coast of Siberia. From the mouth of the Kolyma River he explored northward and eastward over several winters reaching as far east as Koliutchin Island, a known whaling port island. Along the way he described "Mountains visible from C. Jakan in clear summer weather." He himself never saw them, relying on native reports. Some forty years later Wrangel Island would be discovered and named by an American whaler who may have been familiar with this map. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving. References: LC 05024476//r20. Verso Text: MS note: Belongs to RB Book #475.

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Chinese immigrants letters and notes, 1881 November

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This collection is comprised of two letters, a list of ingredients, a small note, and a mailing envelope written in a calligraphic Chinese script from John Day, Oregon in November 1881. HM 83910 (a): Liao Gengxin requests Xue Sizhan for more of an unidentified material. HM 83910 (b): Ya Wang asks Xue Yasuo for more money and briefly describes his situation as a miner. HM 83910 (c): List of ingredients for making Chinese herbal medicine. HM 83910 (d): This small note was included with one of the two letters, asking the recipient to deliver the letter to a store in Portland, Oregon and telling the shopkeeper to in turn, deliver the letter to its final recipient. HM 83910 (e): Postmarked envelope addressed to Wang Sang in Portland, Oregon. The author's names are stamped in red to verify authenticity, suggesting they were likely written by a literate calligrapher and dictated by the authors.

mssHM 83910 (a-e)

Florilegium : [manuscript]

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Part 1. f. 3: [Title of the Liber scintillarum]: Liber scintillarum, meditaciones beati Bernardi Et de trinitate cum multis aliis; [added later:] excepciones biblie; [f. 3v,13th/14th cent. contents of the Liber Scintillarum:] De caritate, De Paciencia ... De personarum acceptis, De itinere; [f. 3v, 15th cent. contents of the volume]: Libri contenti in hoc volumine videlicet Liber scintillarum vii cum versibus, Excepciones biblie, tractatus de verbis defectivis, De trasgressione [sic] ade, Beda de trinitate, Tractatus de sequentia sancti Michelis, De miseria humane condicionis, Pater noster expositus, Sermones qui sicut incipiunt Vide iacob scalam, Meditaciones bernardi. Part 1. ff. 4-54v: [Defensor of Ligugé, Liber scintillarum]: Rubric: Liber scintillarum primus. De caritate incipit. Incipit: Dominus dicit in evangelio Maiorem caritatem nemo habet ... Explicit: et multi sunt qui intrant per eam. Liber scintillarum explicit. [followed by an erasure of 2 lines; f. 55r-v, well washed material of undetermined date, illegible under ultraviolet light. Additional extracts from the Fathers added in the outer margins in the fourteenth century by 2 hands; those on f. 6 added over an erased note; book numbers and occasionally topics added as running headlines]. Part 1. f. 56: [12 verses on the voices of animals, followed by additional verses]: Incipit: Infans vagit, ovis balat, rugire leones ... est hominumque loqui quod dico prevalet omni. Explicit: Excaturizat aves, pisces eventerat ille/ Ustulat hic porcos, excoriatque boves; Fons scaturit, vinum [?] scatet, pullos scaturizat/hustullat porcos excoriatque boves [the last 2 verses added in a 13th/14th cent. anglicana script]. Part 1. ff. 56v-61: [Anonymous poem on old age]: Incipit: Magne [sic] fuit quondam capitis reverentia cani ... Explicit: Et fugiunt freno non remorante dies/ Cernis ut ignavum corrumpunt ocia corpus. [ ff. 60v-61, washed; f. 61v, blank.] Part 1. ff. 62-81: [Definitions, descriptions and exegesis on the Old and New Testaments; occasional citations from the Fathers and Zacharias]: Rubric: Incipiunt exceptiones de libro Genesis. Quid sit annalis historia. Incipit: Annalis historia est rei facte per annum complete commemoratio. Kalendaria historia est alicuius insignis rei . . . [chapter 2:] Quid sit febris effimera, . . . [chapter 3:] Quid sit allegoria, . . . [chapter 4:] Unde dicuntur elementa, . . . [chapter 5:] Sentencia platonis aristotilis Epicuri Moysi, . . . [last chapter: Quod petrus et paulus uno eodem die sint passi, . . . :]. Explicit: Petrus vero crucifixus est in vaticano vico scilicet qui est extra civitatem ubi fiebant dolia. Explicit actus apostolorum. Part 1. f. 81: [Saying attributed to Gregory I]: Rubric: Ex dictis egregii pape gregorii. Incipit: Tribus moris culpa perpetratur, Suggestione, Delectatione, Consensu ... ; Item Gregorius, Quattuor moris peccatum perpetratur in corde ... Part 1. ff. 81v-83v: [On defective verbs]: Rubric: Incipit de verbis defectivis. Incipit: Plurima deficiunt vario cum tempore verba/ Deficiunt alia plurima per genera ... Que bene verba tenet versificalis apex ... Versus de verbis defectivis, Cedo, sodes, faxo, cepi, sis, infit et inquit/ Nolo, facello, volo, queso, capello, fero ... Designata tunc dulciter ista placunt; Tractatus de verbis defectivis, Sunt verba defectiva ut donacius ait, Alia per modos ut cedo ... Super piget redet inflectuntur. Explicit. Part 1. ff. 84-87: [Hildebert of Le Mans, De transgressione ade triformi] Rubric: De transgressione ade triformi. Incipit: Vicit adam veterem gula, gloria vana, cupido ... Explicit: Nox aurora dies umbra figura deus. Explicit. Part 1. ff. 87v-90: [Eucher of Lyons; extract from De formulis spiritualis intelligentiae (also attributed to Pseudo-Augustine)]: Rubric: Beda de trinitate. Incipit: Omnipotens deus pater et filius et spiritus sanctus, unus atque trinus. Unus videlicet in natura ... Explicit: Vigilare dei est in defensionem electorum suorum et ultionem inimicorum se manifestum demonstrare. Explicit. Part 1. ff. 90-95: [De sequencia sancti Michaelis]: Rubric: Tractatus de sequencia Sancti Michaelis. Incipit: Nota hoc nomen canticum nec stricte nec large accepi ... Explicit: Idem est ergo alleluia quod laudate universalem id est dominum. Explicit. Part 1. ff. 95-97v: [Brief exegetical texts, with rubrics as follow]: De septem hostibus, Septem sunt hostes de quibus in deuteronomio dicit, per unam viam venient ...; De triplici modo compassione, Triplex est compassionis modus ... ; De Sunamite et helyseo, Dixit sunamitis viro suo de heliseo ... ; Ubi antichristus nascetur, Nascetur antichristus in babilone de tribu Danielis iuxta quod Iacobus ait ... ; De tribus missis in natali domini, Tres misse que in natale domini celebrantur ... ; De pascha, In diebus hiis est pascha dei id est transitus quando transivit de hoc mundo ad patrem ... [f. 97, blank; f. 97v:] De mendacio, Perdes omnes qui loquuntur mendacium ... ; De perfectione vite, Tria sunt que ducunt hominem ad vite perfectionem, Cordis contritio ... Part 1. ff. 97v-109v: [Innocent III, De miseria humane conditionis]: Prologue: Incipit liber de miseria humane conditionis editus a lothario diacono cardinali sanctorum Sergii et Bachi qui postea Innocentius iiius appellatus est, Domino patri Karissimo petro portuensi episcopo Lotharius ... Modicum ocii quod inter multas angustias ... Incipit: Quare de vulva. Explicit: terrores, fames, sitis, frigus, cauma, sulphur et ignis ardens in secula seculorum. Explicit liber Domini pape Innocentii iii de Contemptu Mundi. Part 1. ff. 110-112: [Exegesis on the Pater Noster]: Incipit: Pater noster, hec est oratio dominica ceteris oracionibus omnibus et instituentis auctoritate sublimior et utilitate petitionum fecundior ... Explicit: ad illas delicias dilectores suos nos assumat summe bonus ihesus christus qui est benedictus in secula Amen. Part 1. ff. 112-166: [Brief exegetical texts]: Septem scale quibus ascenduntur regna celorum prima castitas ... [f. 163:] Preceptum obediencia obedienciam signa comitantur. Explicit; [f. 163v, in the upper margin, Additiones ut supra:] Beda in omelis illa, Si diligitis me mandata mea servate et cetera, Quinquagesima die post occisionem agni data est lex ... [followed by 11 other sermons; f. 165:] Sepe in evangelio causa designatur nomine sui effectus ... Omnia michi ex patre nota in quibus electorum salus consistit per me scietis. [f. 166 blank]. Part 1. f. 166v: [Charm to staunch blood]: Incipit: Pur seink estanger, Iesu crist notre seignur el flum Iordan entra/ Cent cinquaunte veines de euue i truva/ Cent cinquaunte veines chescun home a/ estaunche saunc par tutes les vertuz ke damnedeus a. Part 1. f. 167: blank. f. 167v: Table of roman numerals and their Latin names, one to one million. ff. 168-169v, washed. On f. 169v, notes in lead point. Part 2. ff. 1-2v: [Bifolium from a late 12th cent. Missal; here bound reversed]: [f. 1: canon of the mass]: Incipit: //fides cognita est ... offerimus preclare maiestati tue de tuis donis ac datis// [f.2: prefaces]: //celestis exercitus, ymnum glorie tue canimus ...Celi celorumque virtutes ac beata seraphim socia exultacione//.

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