Manuscripts

Petition to Marquis de Villagarcía, Viceroy of Peru

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Description: Two-page request written by Luis Godin (1704-1760) to José Antonio de Mendoza, Marquis de Villagarcia (1666?-1745) , Viceroy of Peru, concerning confirmation of the terms of Godin's employment as a professor of mathematics and cosmology, and seven pages of supporting documentation. The document notes that this position had become available upon the death of its prior holder, Pedro de Peralta (1663-1743). Pages include signatures and marginalia.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1742-1746.
Call number: mssHM 81071
Creator: Godin, Luis(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Burndy Library Collection, Gift of Dibner Family, November 2006.

Jennifer Lorson collection of Don Marquis materials

Manuscripts

This small group of material consists of a biography, a book jacket, an autograph inscription, and an interview with Marquis and dates from 1921-1988. HM 83911 (a): The biography, possibly unpublished, is related to a journalist's visit to Marquis in the 1930s. HM 83911 (b): A book jacket for Archy and Mehitabel published in 1933. HM 83911 (c): The inscription for best wishes is addressed to F.W. Skiff and dated December 1921. HM 83911 (d): The interview with Marquis was conducted by Don H. Kennedy, who failed to take any notes during the interview in June 1931. At the conclusion of the interview, Marquis sat down at his typewriter and typed out two pages of questions and answers to aid Kennedy. Included with the manuscript is a typewritten letter signed by Kennedy recounting his interview with Marquis, as well as a photocopy of a letter Marquis wrote him on July 3, 1931, after the interview was published.

mssHM 83911 (a-d)

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Letter to former viceroy and then current archbishop of Mexico City Alonso Núñez de Haro y Peralta regarding the maximum capacity of 36 nuns for the Capuchin convent in Mexico City

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This is a letter from Viceroy Flores to his predecessor, Alonso Núñez de Haro y Peralta certifying the three copies of the same royal order that preceede this manuscript letter regarding the Convent of Capuchin Nuns in Mexico City. The letter grants Archibishop Alonso Núñez de Haro y Peralta the permission which he had formerly requested.

52407 v.2

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La requeste du Sieur Marquis de Bonniuet, presentée au serenissime Roy de la grand' Bretaigne

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The Marquis de Bonnivet was implicated in the murder of Henry IV and compelled to leave France. He sought refuge in England and requested the King's aid in investigating the matter.

208008

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Robert Udny sale catalogue; Witt's Marquis of Stafford catalogue; Witt's Wellesley Collection catalogue [photocopies]

Manuscripts

This folder contains photocopies of three printed items: Catalogue of the Entire Collection of Pictures of Robert Udny, Esq. Deceased (1804), with handwritten notes; Catalogue with handwritten note "Wellesley Collection Catalogue" "Copy at DeWitt" "Miniatures – prints – letters" (20 pages + handwritten notes on 5x8 index card); and a list of plates with handwritten note "Marquis of Stafford Catalogue of Collection" (8 pages).

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Map of the Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana

Manuscripts

Cajon de San Juan to the west. Parcel owners include Heirs of Leandro Peralta; Van de Graff, Serrano, T. D. Mott, Asencion Sepulveda. Detailed hachures, colored highlights, structures, topographical features, vegetation.

mssSolano SR_Map_0256.01H

De animalibus : [manuscript]

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ff. 1-98v. [Aristotle] [De animalibus]. Incipit: Quedam partes corporum animalium dicuntur non composite et sunt partes que. Explicit: que accidunt non ex necessitate sed propter aliquid et propter causam finalem et propter causam moventem. Explicit liber aristotilis de naturis animalium. Sed intitulatus est et distinctus secundum novam translationem et sunt in hoc volumine 18 lib[ri, x] de hystoriis animalium, 3 de partibus animalium et v de generatione animalium, vii de progressu animalium hic deficit cum quo essent xix. Rubric: Incipit liber primus aristotilis de naturis animalium quem transtulit magister michael scotus de greco in latinum et habet in se x libros. Rubrica. Latin. Aristotle, De naturis animalium, De partibus animalium, De generatione animalium, trans. Michael Scot, completed by 1220; text not printed in full. See AL 80-81 and 245 where this manuscript is described. The text here is complete: the scribe erroneously repeated the rubric of Book VII on f. 26, thus his calculations at the end of the manuscript were off by one. Marginalia and nota marks by various readers of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

mssHM 1035

Petition to Marquis de Villagarcía, Viceroy of Peru

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