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Appareil à Gaz: manuscript, letter, diagram, and note

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Description: One five-page manuscript entitled Appareil à Gaz describing an illuminating gas plant, plus one diagram of the gas works and a letter (two pages), written by Lankez? to Monsieur Banuel? from Metz, France, and dated 1819. The manuscript includes emendations and marginalia, and the diagram covers both pages of a 30 x 43 cm folded sheet that contains calculations and a brief annotation on verso. Also includes one sealed note with text, "appareil pour la production du gaz à éclairage, No. 11."
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1819, undated.
Call number: mssHM 83200
Provenance: Burndy Library Collection, Gift of Dibner Family, November 2006.
Associated organization: Burndy Library,

Traicté de peyne : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-20v; f. 21r-v blank. Traicté de peyne. Incipit: Apres avoyr par longtemps travaille/ Couru trote longuement et sans cesse. Explicit: En payement ils prendront si leur plaist/ De par nous troys ce present tel qu'il est./ Faict et conclus en vos pays et marches/ Par troys amys dont les troys ne sont qu'ung/ Les penitens de vostre mayson d'arches/ Dont l'escripvain feust et sera"Tant brun.". French. f. 1r-v blank; ff. 2-3, dedication; ff. 3-20v, text; f. 21r-v blank. E. Paillet, ed., Le Traicté de peyne, poëme allégorique dédié à Monseigneur et à Madame de Lorraynne, manuscrit inédit du XVIe siècle (Paris 1867) from this manuscript (only known copy) in a limited edition, of which one copy on vellum, now Huntington Library RB 194320.

mssHM 49

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

Almagest : [manuscript]

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ff. 1-218v. [Ptolemy]. [Almagest]. Incipit: Bonum scire fuit quod sapientibus non deviantibus visum est. Explicit: Finit dictio undecima almagesti ptolomei pheludiensis. Anno domini millesimo ducentesimo septuagesimo nono A littera dominicali anno cicli solaris undecimo bissextili tercio lunari quarto decemnovenali septimo concurrente quarto epacta 6 scriptus est liber....et abbreviationem arrogantiam et collaudationem. Item iam sequitur et honestum est ut ponamus hic finem libri. Explicit almagesti. Latin. Other creator(s): Gerard of Cremona, translator. Text proceded by prologue ("Quidam princeps nomine albuguafe in libro suo quem scientiarum electionem et verborum nominavit pulchritudinem dixit...") and chapter list. Ptolemy, Syntaxis Mathematica or Almagest, in the translation of Gerard of Cremona, first printed in Venice by Petrus Liechtenstein, 1515. See Aristoteles Latinus 379; F. Carmody, Arabic Astronomical and Astrological Sciences in Translation (Berkeley and Los Angeles 1956) 15; P. Kunitzsch, Der Almagest; Die Syntaxis Mathematica des Claudius Ptolomäus in arabisch-lateinischer überlieferung (Wiesbaden 1974), this manuscript cited pp. 91, 384. Frequent marginalia in a contemporary hand, possibly that of the scribe; occasional fifteenth century marginalia which may be in the hand of Pier Leoni (e.g. ff. 20, 24, 40, 52v). ff. 219-270v; f. 271r-v blank. [Astronomical tables]. Latin. Twenty astronomical tables connected to the appropriate places in the text by tie marks. A version of the 14th table, ff. 241-258, the"tabula stellarum fixarum," printed in C. H. F. Peters and E. B. Knobel, Ptolemy's Catalogue of Stars, A Revision of the Almagest (Washington 1915) 27-50; due to error in Gerard of Cremona's translation (Peters and Knobel, 14), the latitudes of 60 and odd degrees have been rendered as 300 and odd degrees (here, ff. 242, 243r-v); those on f. 242 have been corrected in a near contemporary hand.

mssHM 65

Gospels in Greek : [manuscript]

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Vol. 1, f. 1 blank; f. 1v. [Miniature of Matthew]. Greek. Vol. 1, ff. 2-4; f. 4v blank. [Chronicle]. Greek. On added leaves, a chronicle, similar in part to that of Hippolytus of Thebes, from the creation to ca. 1250; printed from this manuscript by E. J. Goodspeed, "The Bixby Gospels," University of Chicago Historical and Linguistic Studies in Literature related to the New Testament ser. 1, 2 (1915) 123-52. Transposed in binding, folios 2 and 3. Vol. 1, ff. 5-11; ff. 11v-12 blank. [Menology]. Greek. Menology, 1 Septermber-31 August, but with loss of 2 leaves after f. 6 containing 12 December-22 January. Vol. 1, ff. 13-14. [Gospel readings]. Greek. List of gospel readings for Saturdays and Sundays in Lent. Vol. 1, ff. 14-20. [Synaxarium]. Greek. Vol. 1, ff. 20v-21. [Letter of Eusebius to Carpianus]. Greek. Vol. 1, ff. 21-22v. [Eusebian canon tables]. Greek. Vol. 1, ff. 23-24v. [Κεφάλαια for Matthew]. Greek. Ὑπόθεσις of the gospel of Matthew; printed in H. von Soden, Die Schriften des Neuen Testaments in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Text gestalt (Göttingen 1913) I:1, p. 314 [120]; Κεφάλαια (68) for Matthew; four verses in honor of Matthew: ματθαίου τοδε ἔρχου . . . βροτὸν αὐτὸν ἐόντα; printed in von Soden, I:1, p. 373, 5; note added in a modern hand, τετραευάγγελον μονῆς τοῦ παντοκράτορος καὶ σωτῆρος χριστνῦ τὸν ἐν τῶ ᾄθω. Test of transliterated Greek: tetraeuángelon monē̃s toũ pantokrátoros kaì sōtē̃ros khristnũ tòn en tō̃ áͅthō Vol. 1, ff. 25-124v. [Gospel of Matthew]. Greek. Gospel of Matthew in 357 sections, with some contemporary and later corrections and marginalia; cf. Goodspeed, p. 128. Vol 1, ff. 125-127v. [Κεφάλαια for Mark]. Greek. Vol. 1, f. 125, ruled, but blank; f. 125v, full page miniature of Mark; f. 126, ruled, but blank; ff. 126v-127v, Κεφάλαια (48) for Mark. Vol. 1, ff. 128-196v. [Gospel of Mark]. Greek. Gospel of Mark in 234 sections, with some contemporary and later corrections and marginalia; collated by Goodspeed. Vol. 2, ff. 2v-5v. [Κεφάλαια for Luke]. Greek. Κεφάλαια (83) for Luke; f. 5, blank; f. 5v, full page miniature of Luke. Vol. 2, ff. 6-118. [Gospel of Luke]. Greek. Gospel of Luke in 340 sections, with some contemporary and later corrections and marginalia; collated by Goodspeed. Vol. 2, ff. 118v-119v. [Κεφάλαια for John]. Greek. Κεφάλαια (18) for John; f. 119: Miniature of John; f. 119v, ruled, but blank. Vol. 2, ff. 120-210v. [Gospel of John]. Greek. Gospel of John in 232 sections, with some contemporary and later corrections and marginalia. On ff. 153-154v, pericope, John 7, 53-8, 11, added in the thirteenth century; collated by Goodspeed.

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The electrical light for industrial uses: pamphlets

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Two copies of Rookes Evelyn Crompton's published pamphlet, each marked up, perhaps by the author, for another edition. Copy One includes six pages of handwritten text at the beginning, as well as a clipping regarding the Electrical Power Storage Company, a price list for and description of the Elmore Dynamo-Electric machine, and an annotation regarding the Crystal Palace Electrical Exhibition of 1882. Copy Two has extensive highlighting and annotation, including marginalia.

mssHM 83018-83019

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Britanniae Romanorum: manuscript

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An unfinished dictionary of persons, places, etc. associated with Roman Britain (entries A through C only), followed by working notes and extracts from other sources; with additional notes, in another hand, on medieval England. The manuscript is undated. Volume 1 is 351 pages. Volume 2 is 273 pages.

mssHM 154

Appareil à Gaz: manuscript, letter, diagram, and note

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