Oranda den Seiyu Hiketsu Zen : [manuscript]

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  Kōmō Chayuhō : [manuscript]

  Manuscripts

  Recipes, intake methods (i.e. oral, skin, etc.), and commentary on various teas and oils from areas such as Holland, Sweden, etc.; many names of the incredients, techniques, etc., written in phoneticization of original title into Japanese kana script; some illustrations in latter sections depicting instruments used in process of distillation; 33 pages; medicines divided generally between water-based and oil-based recipes; title on box reads: "Japanese Medicinal Distilling"

  mssHM 81220

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  Rule and testament of St. Clare of Assisi, in Dutch : [manuscript]

  Manuscripts

  ff. 1-18. [Clare of Assisi]. [Rules]. Dutch. Rule of St. Clare; for the Latin text, see Ignacio Omaechevarria, O.F.M., Escritos de Santa Clara (Madrid 1970) 251-76. On medieval Dutch manuscripts of the Rule and related texts, see David de Kok, ""Codices van Klarissen,"" Nederlandsch Archief voor Kerkgeschiedenis, n.s. 17 (1924) 200-25, and his Bijdragen tot de geschiedenis der Nederlandsche klarissen en tertiarissen voor de Hervorming. Werken uitgegeven door het Historisch Genootschap, Utrecht, ser. 3, No. 52 (Utrecht 1927) and ""De Zegen van S. Clara in het Oud-Nederlandsch,"" Het Boek 10 (1921) 321-26. ff. 18-25v. [Clare of Assisi]. [Testament]. Dutch. For the Latin text see Omaechevarria, 277-86. ff. 25v-26v. [Clare of Assisi]. [Benediction]. Dutch. For the Latin text see Omaechevarria, 400-01. ff. 26v-27; ff. 27v-30, notes. [Profession of a nun]. Dutch. Vow of profession, with interlinear changes in another hand, contemporary. On f. 27v, autobiographical notes dated 1536 and 1555, Ic suster Clara van vorssel vaert gheboren op den xxisten dach van Julio op sinte Maria magdaleenen auent. . .Anno m.v.c ende vi dertich. . .[and professed] Int Jaer ons heer m vc 1v. . .; on f. 28, prayer and versicles for the profession of vows; on ff. 28-30, devotional material, arranged numerically (5 holy rules, 6 points, etc.).

  mssHM 1052

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  [Composite atlas of early printed and manuscript maps of the Americas, probably compiled in France]

  Rare Books

  Collection of 118 maps, 28 in manuscript, compiled sometime in the 18th century. Pagination is supplied in pencil in curatorial hand, rectos only numbered. The maps are primarily of the Americas, with special concentration in locations of particular interest to French imperial ambitions towards the end of the reign of Louis XIV (reigned 1643-1715). They are primarily of Dutch, French and Portuguese origin, and the texts are in French, Latin, Dutch, Portuguese and English. They range in date from 1616 to no later than 1720. Many are undated. 19 of the smaller maps, mounted two or three to a page, have been identified by Philip Burden as belonging to André Thévet's unpublished work Le Grand Insulaire. (cf. Burden, Philip. "A dozen lost sixteenth-century maps of America found" Map Collector (Spring 1996), p.30-32).

  109496

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  Vita Bruti : [manuscript]

  Manuscripts

  ff. 1-20. [Plutarch] Vita Bruti. Incipit: Marci Bruti progenitor fuit Iunius fuit brutus [sic] quem pristi romanorum. Explicit: epistolam vere bruti fuisse dicimus. Rubric: Marci Bruti Vita ex Plutarco Per Guarinum Veronensem Oratorem Clarissimum. Latin. Other creator(s): Iacopo Angeli da Scarperia, translator. Iacopo Angeli da Scarperia, trans.; on the authorship of the different Plutarch translations, see V. R. Giustiniani, ""Sulle traduzioni latine delle 'Vite' di Plutarco nel Quattrocento,"" Rinascimento, 2 ser., 1 (1961) 37 and n. 3. ff. 20-21v; ff. 22-24v blank. [Plutarch] Comparatio Bruti et Dionis. Incipit: His itaque hominibus cum multa bonorum adsint genera. Explicit: ut statua eodem in loco permaneret imperavit. Rubric: Comparatio et diligens de bruto ac dione iudicium plutarchi. Latin. Other creator(s): Guarino Veronese, translator. Guarinus Veronensis, trans.; in the manuscripts, the Comparatio usually follows the Vita Dionis (also translated by Guarinus Veronensis), not the Vita Bruti.

  mssHM 1029

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  Book of Hours, in Dutch : [manuscript]

  Manuscripts

  ff. 1-220v. [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-10v: full calendar in Dutch; f. 10r-v: computistic notes; ff. 11-40: Hours of the Virgin, in the Middle Dutch compilation of Geert Grote; ff. 40v-42v: Prayers to the Virgin; ff. 43-59v: Hours of the Eternal Wisdom; ff. 59v-60v: Prayers to God and Christ, with indulgences; loss of one leaf between ff. 60-61, with resulting loss of text; ff. 61-78: Long hours of the Cross, beginning imperfectly due to loss of the leaf between ff. 60-61; ff. 78-91v: Prayers on the Passion of Christ; ff. 92-106v: Penitential psalms and litany; ff. 106v-107v: Prayers to Christ; ff. 108-176v: Prayers for the sanctorale; ff. 177-184v: Prayers for Communion; ff. 184v-188v: Prayers to Christ and to God the Father; ff. 189-216v: Office of the Dead, use of Utrecht; ff. 216v-220v: Prayers with indulgences.

  mssHM 1127

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  Histoire naturelle choix de dessíns : [manuscript] / par Meunier, J.G. Pretre & Vaillant

  Manuscripts

  Approximately 1,078 drawings by three artists on 204 parchment leaves. Title page is drawn in red and blue letters within a painted border of butterflies on a gold ground. The first 2 and final 2 leaves are blank. The drawings represent a range of natural subjects: Insects such as butterflies, moths, beetles, flies and wasps; shells; sea life including fish, crustaceans, sharks, anemones and sea stars. Also includes studies of small mammals and reptiles. The drawings have been executed in what is known as "bodycolor," in opaque water-soluable pigments. Drawings such as these are often loosely termed "watercolors," but they are really a combination of transparent and opaque pigments, over a graphite underdrawing. The drawings are signed variously "Meunier", "J.G. Pretre" and "Vaillant". Some of the Meunier drawings are dated 1820 or 1821, some signed "Vaillant" are dated 1839. The artists have been tentatively identified as Jean Gabriel Prêtre (1768-1849) and Antoine Jean Baptist Vaillant (1817-1852). Meunier may be related to Jean Baptist Meunier (1821-1900) an illustrator, but has not been identified.

  mssHM 1552