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Start Over Collection Miscellaneous mss., 2100 BCE-1992 Year 1820 to 1821

An Ethiopian amulet or ketab in Amharic., 19th century - Bound Bound

Date:
19th century -
Scope Content:
Probably (?) 19th century. Rubricated and with decorations and miniatures in red, black and green. Contains a number of small tracts in 3 or 4 different hands bound together between wooden boards, as follows: (a) blank, f. 1: trials of the pen (fatina bere) in red and black, f.2r; a charm? ff.2v-4r with a magic diagram on f.4v. (b) Golgota (Salot), prayers of the Blessed Virgin Mary, on Mount Golgotha, ff.5r-32r; blank, f.32v (only the stub of f. 32 remains) (c) Various prayers and incantations, beginning "'Esaged lamalakoteka" and ending with an invocation to the Blessed Virgin Mary, ff.334-50r, with a sketch for a miniature of St George and the dragon on f.45r; a miniature of the archangels Michael and Gabriel shown as the protectors of a holy Theodore (qedus Tiwoderos), not further identified, on f.45v; a miniature of St. George slaying the dragon (the background painted in blood) on f.50r; blank f.50v (d) Prayers and incantations, beginning "Basam abe wawalid wamanfas kidusam" and in most of which the Blessed Virgin Mary is invoked (her name has been written in over an erasure in many of the rubrics towards the end), ff.51r-86v. See Rene Basset: Les Prieres de la Vierge a Bartos et au Golgotha. Paris, 1895. (Les Apocryphes ethiopiens, 5) Deborah Lifchitz: Textes ethiopiens magico-religieux. Paris, 1940. (Institut d'Ethnologie. Travaux et memoires, 38) p. 15. Accompanied by a card (5 x 8 cm.) in German. A translation follows: "Abyssinian magic and prayerbook from the year ca. 800. H Selata Egzitina / Mariam gologota Prayer to the Virgin Mary to be prayed in Jerusalem in addition to a few incantations (formulas of magic). 86 leaves. Amhara. Acquired 1904. It is said to have been decorated with human blood. The imperial royal court library wants to acquire (bids) this book for 900 Kcrowns. It is one of the oldest books known to date. M. R. Schmerha"
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Compendium of Physic and Surgery., 1780-1829 - Bound Bound

Date:
1780-1829 -
Scope Content:
Leather back cover and quarter of front cover missing Attributed to Joseph Flowerden, published by J. Nourse, London, 1769 Medical work concludes: Finis April 15, 1780 Further medical directions include: Howards Receipt for Curing the Lame Distemper, Yaws, or almost any Corrupt Blood and To Cure a Cancer Dates inscribed in volume are: January 30, 1793 (weather record); 1798 (farm record); 1829 (pencilled note), Alexander Bourbon Kentucky? At end of volume, written dos-a-dos, are 18 pages of songs (2 leaves detached) copied by Alexander Barnett, chiefly while at Camp Hicks Creek in South Carolina, Dec. 28, 1780-Jan. 12, 1781 Names of John Brown, Congressman, and James Barnett, Capt. Jno. Barnett, John Dykes, Solomon Levi, and John Taliaferro also appear
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Contemplation., 19th century - Bound Bound

Date:
19th century -
Scope Content:
"Principally written during a tour in North America" Canto I - 40 stanzas; Canto II - 48 stanzas; Canto III (number only) Begins: The circling year again with steady course/Renews its infant days...and ends: Farewell. This book is now indeed my last,/And these bright scenes and hours will be forever past Poem commemorates the beauty and storms of nature in the New World (I-31), America (I-3, II-1), Hudson River (II-8), Trenton River (II-12), Lake Erie (II-24, 28), Niagara (II-29, 37), the name of Washington (II-1,2), and states: But Man is not my theme; again I turn/To thee sweet Nature... (II-3) Blank leaves: 37 Watermark: J Green Son 1825
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Daybook of European merchant., 1821, May 22-1830, December 30 - Bound Bound

Date:
1821, May 22-1830, December 30 -
Scope Content:
Bound in vellum boards Records details of transactions including price paid in country of origin, freightage, insurance, lighterage, commission, warehouse rent, brokerage, sales in country of destination Profit figure in red ink Goods include: cotton, coffee, oranges, goat skins, gold, cork, almonds, copper, calicoes, sugar, shank bones, baskets, butter Places of origin and destination: Rouen, Lisbon, London, Antwerp, St. Petersburg, Bahia, Rio, Trieste, Hamburg, Pernambuco Remainder of volume used as scrapbook for clippings, some dated between 1866-1875 Bookplate of Sutton Sharpe, Hampstead
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Delambre, Jean Baptiste Joseph, 1749-1822, astronomer. Paris. To Joseph Nicolas Nicollet. Announces to Nicollet that he is to share half of the Royal Academy of Sciences award for 1820 for his "grand travail" on the libration of the moon with the German astronomer Johann Franz Encke for his observations of the comet named for him at the public meeting on March 27., 1820, March 24 - box 4

Date:
1820, March 24 -
Scope Content:
French Written by a secretary but signed by Delambre.
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