Manuscripts
Philosophia naturalis
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Carlo Maria Bonaparte university lecture notes
Manuscripts
Untrimmed, written in a neat cursive hand. Possibly lacking the first leaf with title to the first section. Text in Latin with some annotations in Italian. With 34 pen and ink drawings in the text.
mssHM 82471
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Delle forze in generale
Manuscripts
Anonymous physics manuscript. Text is written in bold cursive style present on gutter half of each page. Numerous diagrams and illustrations have been drawn opposite text pertinent to discussion of physical phenomenon. This is a meticulously written and illustrated Italian manuscript covering many aspects of pressure, force and mechanics. The margins contain various geometric and surveying diagrams along with scales, hoists and other machines and hydraulics. These subjects are covered in 133 numbered sections dealing with forces on objects, refraction, etc.
mssHM 82553
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The memorial : portrait of a family : manuscript
Manuscripts
A bound autograph manuscript by Christopher Isherwood; with a 98 word inscription to W. H. Auden, dated January, 1933. The final page is also dated: "London Sep. 1928" and "Berlin Nov. 1930," many of the pages have been trimmed to various lengths and there is some staining but no loss of text.
mssHM 83281
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The ancient phisicians last legacy to his country -- being what he has collected himself in forty nine years practice
Manuscripts
This is a manuscript transcription written in an unknown hand; bound in vellum with some staining to the covers and initial pages. According to a note by Alan Jutzi (former Chief Curator of Rare Books) "K Donahue at UCLA verifies that this has been copied from post 1742 printed text." The volume was previously in the library of Edward Alexander Tompkins, M.D. (1813-1880) at Grass Valley, CA.
mssHM 82864
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Physica generalis
Manuscripts
The volume contains the text for a manuscript entitled "Physica generalis" which may be written by Carlo Barletti. The manuscript is annotated by Alessandro Volta. The text and annotations are in Italian.
mssHM 72870
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Poetical manuscript commonplace book
Manuscripts
A verse miscellany, entitled "Poetical Manuscript Commonplace book" on the spine and "English Verses, Time of James and Charles the First" within the volume; it is written in a single neat italic hand, probably written in Oxford, England, approximately 1635, and associated with Christ Church College, Oxford University. The volume contains 108 poems, almost all of which are presented anonymously; there are mentions of race and skin color and more than 60 of the poems concern women, love, or marriage. Some of the poems are attributed to, among others, Thomas Carew, Richard Corbet, Robert Herrick, Ben Jonson, Henry King, Thomas Randolph, and William Strode. The volume has 19th-century foliation and a list of contents in the front. The volume is bound in contemporary calf, sewn on four alum-tawed slips, covers with a single gilt rule border, head of spine has some damage, and the end leaves were replaced in approximately 1830; also, with a catalogue cutting pasted inside front cover and a morocco-backed slipcase.
mssHM 84418