Manuscripts

Heigaku Shōshiki : [manuscript]

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Description: 6 vols.; v. 5-6 missing titles on cover while v. 1 has incorrect cover title (e.g., "v.6"). Some topics covered: 養兵学, 練兵学, 製器学; wormed; listed on Burndy inventory as "Heigaku Shoshiki (Notes on Military Studies - Dutch Artillery)".
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [approximately 1800]
Call number: mssHM 81214
Provenance: Burndy Library Collection, Gift of Dibner Family, November 2006.
Dimensions: 27 x 20 cm
Associated organization: Burndy Library,
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Oranda den Seiyu Hiketsu Zen : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

Inside placard states that the manuscript has no known author, translator or original title, but was written sometime during the Bunka era (1804-1817); no illustrations; wormed; title on box reads: "Oils and Fats"; listed on the Burndy list as "Dutch Secret Process for Preparation of Oils and Fats"

mssHM 81223

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Oranda Yakuyu no Shūka : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

Collection of recipes of Dutch medicine; instructions for the making of 茨花油, 野菊花油, 蚯蚓之油, etc.; a bit wormed; some illustrations; addenda; several color illustrations of stills, retints[?], etc.

mssHM 81212

Book of Hours, use of Châlons-sur-Marne : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-77v. [Book of Hours]: f. i r-v [added 16th c.]: Prayer to the Virgin; ff. 1-6v: Calendar in French; ff. 7-8v, 10-11: Pericopes of the Gospels (and on f. 11r-v, continuation of the responsorial prayer from f. i verso); ff. 13-14v: Obsecro te; ff. 40, 39, 41-43, 23, 12, 20-22, 27, 15, one leaf missing, 30, 25-26, 34, one leaf missing, 9, 16, two leaves missing, 19, one leaf missing, 35-36, one leaf missing, 37-38, one leaf missing; 24, two leaves missing, 29: Hours of the Virgin, apparently use of Châlons-sur-Marne; ff. 44-54v: Penitential psalms and litany; f. 54r-v: prayer added, 16th c., in the same hand as on f. i r-v: [M]ediatrix ..., [A]uxiliatrix ..., [R]eparatrix ...; ff. 31-32, 17-18, 33, 28, 55-71v: Office of the Dead, use of Châlons-sur-Marne; ff. 72-77v: Prayers in Latin and French to the Virgin with a woman as suppliant; f. 77r-v: completion of prayer from f. 54v: [I]lluminatrix ..., [A]lleluiatrix ...

mssHM 1265

Devotions, in Dutch : [manuscript]

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ff. 1-21v, 54v-95v, 218, 139-163v, 173-177v. [Meditations]. Dutch. A collection of meditations, sermons and prayers arranged according to the liturgical year, with many excerpts from such authors as Bonaventure, Bernard, Augustine, Anselm and Gregory. The text includes numerous added/inserted shorter texts; it is misbound and many leaves are missing. ff. 177v (rubric only), 182-217v, 164-172v. [Gerard Zerbolt van Zutphen] Van geestelijke opclimmingen. Dutch. This is the Dutch translation of De spiritualibus ascensionibus. ff. 218-231. [Pseudo Bernard] Prekel der mynnen. Dutch. This is the Dutch translation of Stimulus amoris; for the Latin text, see PL 184:953-966. Back flyleaf. [Breviary?] Latin. Containing part of the rite for visiting the sick, here with feminine forms in the original text, and the masculine forms supplied in superscript. Parchment 105 x 145 mm (measurement as given are from a cropped leaf). Germany, between 1150-1199.

mssHM 1048

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Heisho Jōkan : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

Black print, though return marks (i.e. kaeriten 返り点), kana (i.e. okurigana 送り仮名), and other grammatical symbols written in red ink; no illustrations in main text; a bit wormed. The ink on gold illustrations on inside covers appear to have been added at a later date.

mssHM 81216

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Tonegawa Dams, Dikes and Bridges : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

Japanese manuscript on local dams, dikes, and bridges; engineering schematics and explanations/instructions of architecture; originally part of the Tonegawa [利根川] collection [蔵書]; a bit wormed; some illustrations; mostly in black with a blue wash; some in red and black; boxed

mssHM 81217

Heigaku Shōshiki : [manuscript]

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