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Le coeur de mademoiselle: report and transcript

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Description: Handwritten report by Jean Bouillaud and accompanying transcript. The one-page manuscript consultation report was signed by Bouillaud, and the one-page transcript is typewritten. According to earlier archivists, the patient in question may be the daughter of Louis Pasteur. Text is in French and was written in Paris.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1875, May 31.
Call number: mssHM 83020-83021
Creator: Bouillaud, J (1796-1881)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Burndy Library Collection, Gift of Dibner Family, November 2006.
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In comincia el dignissimo fasiculo de medicina : in volgare el quale tracta de tute le infirmitate del corpo humano & de la anotomia de quello & multi altri tractati composti p[er] diuersi excelentissimi doctori con auctorita e testi prouadi & prima la exposition del colore delle vrine e iudicio de quelle

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"Johannes de Ketham can be convincingly identified as Hans von Kircheim of Swabia ... This collection of texts was in circulation by 1400."--ISTC. Translated by Sebastianus Manilius; edited by Petrus Andrea Morsiano. Includes Pietro da Tossignano's Consilium pro peste evitanda (leaves e2v-f2r) and Mondino dei Luzzi's Anothomia (leaves f3r-i3v). Includes ten full-page woodcuts, with one printed in color: the library of Petrus de Montagnana (leaf a1r); urinoscopic consultation (leaf a1v); circle of urine glasses (a2r); disease man (a4r); Zodiac man (b2r); vein man (b2v); wound man (b6v); pregnant woman (d1r); scene in the chamber of a plague patient (e2r); and dissection scene (leaf f2r, in color). Chancery folio, with paper measuring 29.6 x 20.5 cm. 48 lines to a full-page; area of text: 26.3 x 16.4 cm. Includes initial spaces with guide-letters. With signatures; without foliation and catchwords Signatures: a-h⁶ i⁴. Imperfect: trimmed, with occasional loss of outside edges of illustrations and signature marks. Binding: half Spanish calf with marbled paper.

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Robert Bohle interview with Christopher Isherwood : transcript

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This interview took place on April 18, 1971 at the California home of Christopher Isherwood. The material includes a typewritten, corrected transcript of the interview which contains corrections and comments by Isherwood (in pencil) and Bohle (in pen) (HM 83267); the transcript may not be complete as it begins on page 6. Also included is the original audiocassette of the interview and (4) compact disc copies (HM 83268 a-e).

mssHM 83267-83268

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Johann Friedrich Blumenbach: handwriting specimen, letter and transcript

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Handwriting specimen of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, plus accompanying letter and transcript prepared by Blumenbach's son. The five-line handwriting specimen is dated 1834, December 28, and is found on a folded sheet with two pages of writing; two lines of this text are in French and three lines, including Blumenbach's signature, are in German. The specimen is annotated and translated into English by Blumenbach's son and by an unidentified person. The second page of the sheet contains a letter from Blumenbach's son to an unidentified recipient addressed as My dear Sir and dated 1836, April 27, describing the handwriting specimen; this letter is in English. Also contains a one-page undated typed transcription and partial translation of Blumenbach's lines and of the start of the son's letter, as well as biographical information about Blumenbach, prepared by an unidentified person; this page contains annotations in pencil relating to the material's archival location.

mssHM 83022-83023

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Oral history of Edith and Lessing Rosenwald: transcript

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Copy of transcript of an oral history conducted by Janet Rosenwald Becker, who interviewed her parents, Edith Goodkind Rosenwald and Lessing Rosenwald. The oral history, originally dated 1978, November 11, recounts the histories of both the Rosenwald and the Goodkind families from the 19th century to the 1970s. The typescript also includes a photocopy of a four-page handwritten letter dated March 1910 from Lessing Rosenwald's mother, Augusta Nusbaum Rosenwald, to her children, and a two-page typewritten transcription.

mssHM 83093

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Memoire sur la dérivation des canaux pour servir à l'irrigation: report

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The report by Ignace Giulio concerns the construction and use of irrigation channels, and includes one folded page of detailed drawings. Text is in French. As stated in a footnote on the first page, the original Italian reads, "Memoria intorno la derivazione de' canali per servire alla proficua irrigazione de' terreni, a dare il moto a' molini, ed altri edifizi idraulici, letta alla Società li 31. maggio 1786. dal Sig. Giulio, Architetto Idraulico e civile, Socio Ordinario, e membro dell' Accademia Clementina di Bologna."

mssHM 83082

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Background report on Charles H. Parker: incomplete copy

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Typescript background report on engineer Charles H. Parker commissioned by an unknown party and on letterhead of the "International Bureau of Criminal Investigation. North America Branch." The document is undated, but presumably dates to about 1897, the year of Parker's death and the last date referenced in the work (Page 18). According to the report, Parker was a draughtsman who passed himself off as a bridge engineer and building inspector, among other professions. The veracity of the report, which is incomplete and it ends in mid-sentence on the 27th page, has not been confirmed.

mssHM 83085

Le coeur de mademoiselle: report and transcript

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