Copy in Turkish (Ottoman) with marginal commentary in Arabic Talik script in black and red, text ruled in gold Decorative motif in gold, aqua, pink and blue following index Bears stamp of copier, Khalil bin Muhammand, fl. 1768 Bound in black cloth
In ink With corrections in pencil, and a few other words in pencil Removed from Georg Weis, Gloria Universitatis Carolo-Ferdinandeae Pragensis... 1672 (Lilly LF1462.5 .W426) in 1980
Bound in contemporary vellum In Italian In ink The title page, table of contents, and the first five and one-third pages of the text are written in one hand; the remainder of the manuscript is in another hand and an index at the end of the text of nine and one-half pages, corrected with pasted strips over page numbers (contemporary). It is arranged geographically. Urbano Cerri was named secretary of the congregation of Propaganda Fide in 1675 and is so identified on the title. Sir Richard Steele, in An account of the State of the Roman Catholic religion... London, Printed for rJ. Roberts, 1715 (Lilly BX1361 .C4), includes the dedication to Clement XI presumed to be by Bishop Benjamin Hoadly. Steele's edition was made from a copy in the library at St. Gallen and sent to England. In 1716 a French edition was published in Amsterdam. Christian Gottlieb Jocher, Allegemeines Gelehrten-Lexicon... Hildesheim, 1960, supplement II, col. 220 (Lilly Z1010 .J63 v.6). The translation was done by Michael de la Roche, and the dedication to the pope done by another who was better versed in ecclesiastical history than Sir Richard Steele. Biographia Brittanica. London, 1778-1793, VI, part 1, p. 3830 (Lilly DA28 .B7 v.8). According to Robert Streit there are only three manuscripts of this text: one in Italian at Munich, one in Italian at Rome, and one in Italian and Spanish at Madrid. The provenance of the Lilly Library manuscript is also mostly English. It carries the inscription "Payne" (18th cent.) in the upper right-hand corner on the inside of the front cover; has the armorial engraved bookplate of the bibliophile and Hellenic scholar Frederick North, 5th earl of Guilford (1766-1827), founder of the Ionian University at Corfu; and is more recently from the famous collections of Sir Thomas Phillips (Phillips ms. 7826). It was sold by Sotheby in 1913 and purchased by the Lilly Library from Lathrop C. Harper, 8 W. 40th Street, New York, New York. It also bears on the title page the stamp (19th century?): "Ex Bibl. Ios. Ren. Card. Imperialis," whose identity it was not possible to trace.
Signed: Carolus In Swedish Address leaf bears broken red wax seal Accompanied by dealer's description of book from which the document was removed. Typescript document signed, 1 p., 27.5cm., 1935, Nov. 22, signed in ink by Whitman Bennett, 1883-1968, author, movie producer, rare book dealer. Removed from The History of Charles XII, King of Sweden, by Voltaire, translated by John Joseph Stockdale. London, 1807 (Lilly DL732 .V913 1807). Note in front cover reads: "Military doc. Charles XII of Sweden. Height of his success, while fighting Russians in Lithuania." Includes dealer's description of document as well as description of volume from which it came
4 3/4" x 7 1/4" leather notebook containing 80 pages filled with approximately 50 entries, including: "Death's Final Conquest by Shirley" "A Dirge. By D'Urfey" "A Character from Ramsays American Revolution / Aug 27th, 1782" An extract from "Ramsays American Revolution / New York Nov: 25th 1783" "The Wanderer: to the evening Star by Richard Nesbit" "Mary Queen of Scotts Farewell to France" "The Wizard of the Rock / W. M. Smith" "Verses written by the Sea , in a Heavy Gale / Freneau" "From Moore's Irish Melodies / 'The Vale of Avoca'" An "Extract from Goldsmith's England" "Extract from the Lady of the Lake / a Poem by Walter Scott, Esq." "Lines written by Sir Walter Raleigh the night before his execution" An extract "From Miss Bowdler's Essay on Politeness" An extract "From Davis's travels in America / Philadelphia, Autumn of 1797" "Sonnet to Pocahontas by Mr. Rolf" "Extract from Wilson's Pedestrian excursion to the Falls of Niagara. 1800" "Sonnet to a Fly... Decr 6th 1815" "Thank you, pretty cow... Nursery Rhyme"
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