Manuscripts

Kamisei Shūchin Sanka Mokei

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Description: A manuscript version of Koichi Shibata's printed text on childbirth for students of obstetrics, probably created sometime between 1900 and 1910. The text is in Japanese. This manuscript is accompanied by two paper doll manikins and a paper pelvis used to demonstrate different birthing techniques. The manuscript also includes seven tipped-in hand-drawn illustrations depicting different positions of fetuses in the womb.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: between 1900 and 1910.
Call number: mssHM 83833
Creator: Shibata, K(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Kagerou Bunko, March 2019. Item was once owned by medical historian Miki Sakae.

William Davenport & Co. account book relating to ship voyages, 1777-1784

Manuscripts

An account book of William Davenport & Co. relating to voyages made by the ships Ann, Liverpool, Hero, Swift, and Hector, trading between Liverpool, Old Calabar, Sierra Leone, Dominica, Antigua, and Kingston, Jamaica. A huge variety of different articles shipped out on these voyages are recorded, among them clothing, fabrics, beads, foodstuffs, tools, cutlery, wine, guns and gunpowder. These items presumably were intended for sale both in Africa and the West Indies. Also listed are various sales of slaves in Jamaica, Dominica, and throughout the West Indies. The volume is written in two directions with the text beginning at one cover then turned over and beginning again (tête-bêche style) and contains entries written in several hands; with original paper labels titled in manuscript pasted to the center of each cover. Pages 1-11, 24-50, 52-77 record accounts for the Hector, Liverpool, Hero and Swift (with pages 12-23 sometime excised and p. 51 omitted); then reversed and beginning at the other end of the volume, the remaining 93 pages record accounts for the Ann and cutter Bee, with 10 blank pages between the two sections.

mssHM 82854

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Philosophia naturalis

Manuscripts

Scientific manuscript containing the text of lectures delivered by Rinaldini at the University of Padua. As well as discussions of Galileo's work, the manuscript also contains an account of Rinaldini's own discoveries, including that of the convection of heat. Latin text in a neat cursive hand with many illustrative diagrams in the text. Contemporary vellum-backed boards covered in paper with decorative floral motifs, with some damp staining but no loss of text.

mssHM 83384

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Recipe book on gynecology and pediatrics

Manuscripts

Manuscript is a compendium of "home remedies" concerning obstetrics and complications of pregnancy, as well as diseases of young children. The recipes include: inducing birth, when the baby in utero is weak, how the mother should be cleansed after wards, causes of miscarriage, care of the breast, and others. Also included are general recipes for post-partum mothers (often involving wine); newborn children who refuse to sleep; against children's "plague;" night sweats; coughs; screaming; headaches; chicken pox or measles; and both "red" and "white" dysentery. The volume was probably written in south Germany. Written in German cursive in brown ink on paper; bound in contemporary red-stained velum with remains of ties.

mssHM 83499

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A discourse of the privilege and practice of the high court of Parliament in England collected out of the common lawes of this land: manuscript

Manuscripts

This manuscript includes discussions about the duties, privileges, and practices of Parliament in England. Unknown date; sometime before 1660. The volume is mostly blank pages.

mssHM 30887

Entertainment at Ashby: manuscript, 1607

Manuscripts

A partly autograph presentation manuscript by John Marston of the masque presented for the family of Henry Hastings, fifth Earl of Huntingdon. Staged at the family seat at Ashby, Leicestershire, in 1607, the show is devised as pastime for a visit by the Earl's mother-in-law, Alice Spencer, dowager Countess of Derby. Binding: gold-tooled vellum. Paper, 15 quarto leaves; main text written probably in a single professional hand, in alternating italic and secretary scripts. The dedication (f. 1r) and all of ff. 14r-15r in Marston's hand, as are probably occasional deletions, corrections and additions throughout the text. Written in 1607. Also includes a tipped-in a separate manuscript of verses relating to Lady Derby and Lady Huntingdon (beginning "As this ys endelesse, endelesse be yor ioyes"), in a secretary hand, subscribed 'W: SK:' [i.e. William Skipton], on the first two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

mssEL 34 B 9

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Battlefields in front of Nashville where the United States Forces commanded by Major General Geo. H. Thomas defeated and routed the Rebel Army under General Hood December 15th & 16th 1864

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Kashnor notes, "Indicates the respective positions of the Federal and Confederate Armies at the different stages of the engagement." Kashnor dates as [1865]. RLIN record notes Washington as place of publication. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: MS note: 352.

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