Oranda den Seiyu Hiketsu Zen : [manuscript]

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  Kōmō Chayuhō : [manuscript]

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  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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  [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the smaller maps, mounted two or three to a page, have been identified by Philip Burden as belonging to André Thévet's unpublished work Le Grand Insulaire.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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  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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  Histoire naturelle choix de dessíns : [manuscript] / par Meunier, J.G. Pretre & Vaillant

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  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

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  Most of Farquhar's diaries, which are arranged, chronologically, include his daily activities but also include reminiscences about his life and family history and musings on a variety of topics. There is one "Account Book and Memo Book" from 1902 to 1907 and one "Journal" which includes Farquhar's memories of his life (it includes no daily entries). His earlier diaries (1906-1911) were written while he was living in Washington; the later diaries were written while he was living in California. In his diaries Farquhar also talks about the attack on Pearl Harbor, World War II, Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, his brother-in-law Rear Admiral William R. Furlong, the bombing of Hiroshima and Japan's surrender. Many of the volumes have loose clippings with them, the majority of which are obituaries for people Farquhar knew. The manuscripts include copies of several of his writings including '49, And what of the years?, and History of Livingston, California. These books deal with early California pioneer history, the Gold Rush, and the Chinese in California. There are also two manuscripts regarding the genealogy of the Burgess and Farquhar families. These manuscripts, which are arranged alphabetically by title, are all carbon copies with Farquhar's handwritten edits.

  mssHM 71720-71742

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  Manuscripts

  Manuscripts

  Most of Farquhar's diaries, which are arranged, chronologically, include his daily activities but also include reminiscences about his life and family history and musings on a variety of topics. There is one "Account Book and Memo Book" from 1902 to 1907 and one "Journal" which includes Farquhar's memories of his life (it includes no daily entries). His earlier diaries (1906-1911) were written while he was living in Washington; the later diaries were written while he was living in California. In his diaries Farquhar also talks about the attack on Pearl Harbor, World War II, Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, his brother-in-law Rear Admiral William R. Furlong, the bombing of Hiroshima and Japan's surrender. Many of the volumes have loose clippings with them, the majority of which are obituaries for people Farquhar knew. The manuscripts include copies of several of his writings including '49, And what of the years?, and History of Livingston, California. These books deal with early California pioneer history, the Gold Rush, and the Chinese in California. There are also two manuscripts regarding the genealogy of the Burgess and Farquhar families. These manuscripts, which are arranged alphabetically by title, are all carbon copies with Farquhar's handwritten edits.

  mssHM 71720-71742