Manuscripts

Unidentified outside wrapper

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Description: Unidentified manuscript leaf, used as the outside wrapper for a copy of Georg Agricola's de re metallica (1541). Included: Facsimiles.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: between 1500 and 1599.
Call number: mssHM 80526
Provenance: Burndy Library Collection, Gift of Dibner Family, November 2006.
Dimensions: 270 x 195 (270 x 165) mm
Associated organization: Burndy Library,
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[Fragment from Sefer Yer̕eim]

Manuscripts

Fragment of a three-columned leaf in Hebrew that was used as a book wrapper.

mssHM 80528

Incipit liber magistri Egidii De pulsibus metrice compositus

Rare Books

Gilles de Corbeil's De pulsibus with commentary by Gentilis de Fulgines and edited by Venatius Mutius. Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 20.8 x 14.6 cm; text in one column measuring approximately 14.2 x 9.1 cm. Signatures: [a-c⁸ d-g⁶]. Modern binding using a vellum manuscript leaf from an antiphonal as a wrapper.

99934

Baptist[a]e Mantuani Carmelit[a]e theologi atq[ue] poet[a]e celeberrimi: Opus diuinu[m] de purissima uirgine Maria: cum ortum, tum totam eius uirginis uitam heroico carmine complectens: nuper eme[n]date impressum. Item eiusdem Baptist[a]e opusculum elegiacum. In quo hortat[ur] poetas, ut lasciuis spurcisq[ue] carminibus relictis: diuinam poesim, pudicis et nostre fidei sacris rebus applicare conentur

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Bound with: Baptista, Mantuanus. Parthenice secunda. [Paris: Georg Wolf for Jean Petit, approximately 1499] (RB 84692). -- Baptista, Mantuanus. De suorum temporum calamitatibus. Parisiis impressu[m] p[er] magistrum Ioha[n]ne[m] Philippi. [13 Nov. 1497] (RB 84693). Printer's device of Petit on title page; printer's device of either Georg Wolf or Thielman Kerver on verso of leaf h10. Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 18.5 x 12.4 cm. Text in one column. Signatures: [superscript pi]a¹⁰ a-f⁸ g-h¹⁰. Also includes Baptista, Mantuanus' Ad beatam Virginem votum post febrim acerrimam and Contra poetas impudice loquentes. Huntington Library copy has Thielman Kerver's printer's device on leaf h10v. Imperfect: first [20] pages (gathering [superscript pi]a) lacking. Binding: stiff vellum.

84691

Edwin Powell Hubble and two unidentified men outside a building at the U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory

Manuscripts

Edwin Powell Hubble and 2 unidentified men outside a building at the U.S. Ballistic Research Laboratory. Note in the hand of Grace (Burke) Hubble: "EPH at the B.R.L.". Hubble is in the center.

mssHUB 1043 (2)

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Gradual

Manuscripts

The one leaf parchment gradual is from an unidentified manuscript, written in black and red ink with decorated blue and red initals, five-line red staff.

mssHM 15628

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Baptismal record entries 2429-2436

Manuscripts

This manuscript is a facsimile of a one-page double-sided leaf from the baptismal records of the San Carlos Borromeo Mission. The numbered entries are 2429-2436, and are dated 1803, April 1 - June 9. Included are the signatures of José Viñals, Fermín Francisco de Lasuén, and Baltasar Carnicer. In Spanish.

mssHM 46543

Unidentified outside wrapper

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