All Exhibition Items 27 items

Items from "Capturing Feathers" exhibition and images used in the coloring book pages, "Coloring Feathers".

2. Bible, Latin

Call number:
48.1, 113.2, and Electronic Resource
Description:
Commonly known in English as the Gutenberg Bible, also known as the Mazarine Bible., WHS copy has 12 leaves supplied from other copies and 5 leaves supplied in facsimile; the 17 leaves are vol. I fo. 1 and vol. II fo. 1, 17, 25, 46, 70, 149, 155, 156, 191, 217, 235, 268, 270, 275, 279, and 305., and Princeton copy 2: A single imperfect paper leaf from the Gutenberg Bible, the first printed Bible. The leaf is vol. II fo. 122 (the 2nd leaf of quire 13), with text of the last verses of Ezekiel 33, all of Ezekiel 34, and beginning verses of Ezekiel 35. The leaf comes from an otherwise lost copy of the Gutenberg Bible. It is one of nineteen such leaves, all belonging to quires 13 and 14 of volume II, that were cut down to a smaller size and pasted together to create pasteboard for some unidentified bookbinding, probably in the sixteenth century. About a dozen copies of the Gutenberg Bible, most of which were printed on vellum, are known only from fragmentary preservation as bookbinding materials. These cut-down paper leaves came to light when the Vienna bookdealers Gilhofer & Ranschburg offered them leaf by leaf in an auction of 3 April 1911. Two other leaves from this group are at the Library of Congress, a third is at Dartmouth College Library, and a fourth is at the State Library of New South Wales in Sydney. The rubrication of the copy is simple, using only red ink.
Date:
1456
Exhibit Tags:
heron

4. Kupfer-Bibel, in welcher die Physica sacra, oder, geheiligte Natur-wissenschafft derer in Heil / Schrifft natürlichen Sachen, deutlich erklärt und bewährt von Joh. Jacob Schevchzer ... ; anbey zur Erläuterung and Zierde des Wercks in künstlichen Kupfer-tafeln ausgegeben und verlegt durch Johann Andreas Pfeffel ...

Creator:
Scheuchzer, Johann Jakob, 1672-1733
Call number:
Oversize 5366.816q and Electronic Resource
Type:
Early works to 1800 and Pictorial works
Description:
Half title: Joh. Jacob Schevchzers Physica sacra., Vol. 1-2 paged continuously ([62], 672 p.), as are v. 3-4 (1426 p.); plates numbered continuously through v. 1-4 (750 [i.e. 766] leaves of plates)., Engraved head-piece., "Verzeichnis der Avctorvm und derselben in diesem Wercke angeführten schrifften": v. 1, prelim. pages 14-46., Includes indexes., and Vol. 1 contains dedicatory note in manuscript by Joh. Phil. Benk. of Frankfurt.
Date:
1731-1735
Exhibit Tags:
QuailColoring featherspheasant

5. 富嶽百景 / [前北齋為一改画狂老人卍筆]. and Fugaku hyakkei / [zen Hokusai nari ichiaratame Gakyō Rōjin Manji hitsu].

Creator:
Katsushika, Hokusai, 1760-1849 and 葛飾北齋, 1760-1849
Call number:
NE1310 .R81, ND1059.K15 A327 1834, and Electronic Resource
Type:
In art
Description:
Vols. 1-2 The "falcon feather" edition. Salmon pink covers embossed with scenes of Lake Biwa., Wrappers lacking., Vols. called: Shohen, ni-hen, san-hen., Carved by: Egawa Tomekichi., Vol. 3 published by: Bishū : Eirakuya Tōshirō., Vol. 3 date unknown; date approximated from publisher's advertisements., On double leaves, oriental style., In case., Vols. called: 初編, 二編, 三編., Carved by: 江川留吉., Vol. 3 published by: 尾州 : 永樂屋東四郎., and 国総: 7:18.
Date:
1834-1847
Exhibit Tags:
Coloring feathers

6. Titmouse hanging on a Camellia branch

Creator:
Ando Hiroshige, 1797-1858
Call number:
E Row 1/GC063/Box 04/Normal/Gillett Griffin Gift GA 2008.01170 and Electronic Resource
Type:
In art
Description:
Medium: Nishiki-e (color woodblock print), Date of original print: Early 1830s., Depiction: Bird hanging upside-down on tree branch., Format: Ôtanzaku tate-e., Inscribed [poem]: Tsubaki kare ochiru shite kara haki josô (Withered camellias--all the sweeping that goes on after they’ve fallen). -- Translated by Alfred H. Marks., Provenance: Purchased at one of three 1947 sales at Parke-Bernet or at Gimbels Department Store, New York City., Sealed: Ichiryûsai., and Signed: Hiroshige hitsu.
Exhibit Tags:
TitmouseColoring feathers

7. Arizona, Hopi, Pueblos : photograph album, 1901

Creator:
Vroman, A. C. (Adam Clark), 1856-1916
Call number:
C0938 no. 21bq
Type:
Photograph albums, Morocco bindings (Binding), and Photographs
Description:
Title from cover.
Date:
1901.

8. [Album of miniatures and specimens of calligraphy of Indian origin].

Call number:
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 102G and Electronic Resource
Type:
Composite portraits, Portraits, Art, Illustrations, and Pictorial works
Description:
Ms. codex., Title supplied by cataloger., The album consists of 55 folios measuring 485 x 280 mm., and Origin: The signed paintings and calligraphies are attributed to Mīr ʻAlī, Sulṭān ʻAlī al-Mashhadī, Muḥammad ʻAẓīm al-Ikthīr, ʻImād al-Ḥusaynī, Muḥammad Muʻīn ʻAlī Tajallī (= Shāh Muḥammad Muʻīn ʻAlī Tajallī Chishtī, fol. 32a), Muḥammad Ibrāhīm, ʻAbd Allāh, Muḥammad ʻAlī, Muḥammad Badīʻ al-Iṣfahānī, Tajallī ʻAlī Shāh, Muḥammad Karīm, Anūp Chator (Chatar, Chitor: see Titley), Mīr Muḥammad Māh Ḥusaynī, Zayn al-Ḥaqq, Zarrīn Raqam, Muḥammad Afḍal, Ghulām Muṣṭafá Khān, Muḥammad Aṭhar, Asad Allāh, Mughalkhān, Ghulām Jamāl Allāh Khān, Sayyid ʻAlī Būkhārī Rūshan Raqam, Jawāhir Raqam-i Thānī, Muḥammad Ḥusayn, Muḥammad ʻAlī Gawhar, Muḥammad al-Fakhkhār, Abū al-Baqāʼ al-Mūsawī, Kifāyat Khān, Ismāʻīl, Ilyās Bahādur, Aḥmad Shāh, Muḥammad Dalīr, and date from 1014H. [1630 or 31] to 1189 [1775]. Other undated paintings can be dated to 18th-19th century India and 16th or early 17th century Central Asia. One piece is dated Awrangābād, [1]203 [1788 or 9] (fol. 22a).
Date:
1600-1899

9. Study of myna birds

Call number:
E Row 1/GC063/Box 07/Normal/Gillett Griffin Gift GA 2008.01209 and Electronic Resource
Description:
Unidentified Artist (Shijô-style artist) [artist], Medium: Ink and color on paper, Provenance: Purchased at one of three 1947 sales at Parke-Bernet or at Gimbels Department Store, New York City., and Unsigned.
Exhibit Tags:
Myna Bird

10. Visits to the Leverian Museum : containing an account of several of its principal curiosities, both of nature and art ; intended for the instruction of young persons in the first principles of natural history

Call number:
Eng 18 34068
Type:
Publishers' catalogs and Juvenile literature
Description:
Fold-out engraved frontis. (15 x 20 cm. unfolded) of Leverian Museum rotunda, signed "S. Potter, sc."; backed with (possibly later) fabric; undated unlike that cited by Moon (which is dated Nov. 12, 1805), Preface signed by Anthony Ella., Publisher's catalog on [5] p. at end listing 31 numbered titles: "instructive and superior books, for children and young persons of both sexes, [that] have just been published.", and Cotsen copy: "John Lawson"--Printed bookplate on front pastedown.
Date:
1805
Exhibit Tags:
owlostrichParrotCrow

11. history of British birds / by Thomas Bewick and A history of British birds / by Thomas Bewick

Creator:
Bewick, Thomas, 1753-1828
Call number:
NE642.B4 A32, NE642.B4 A36, and Electronic Resource
Description:
Letterpress: vol. I by Ralph Beilby, revised by Bewick; vol. II erroneously attributed to Henry Cotes who revised Bewick's text. Cf. Roscoe p. 71-73., Synopsis (vol. I, xxxvi p. at end) and revision of nomenclature by John Hancock. Cf. publisher's advertisement, vol. I p. [xli]., and Title vignettes; head- and tail-pieces. In this edition are published for the first time vignettes designed for Bewick's History of British Fishes. Cf. publisher's advertisement, vol. I p. [xli].
Date:
1847
Exhibit Tags:
heronfeathers

12. Study of sparrows

Call number:
E Row 1/GC063/Box 07/Normal/Gillett Griffin Gift GA 2008.01210 and Electronic Resource
Description:
Unidentified Artist (Shijô-style artist) [artist], Medium: Ink and color on paper, Provenance: Purchased at one of three 1947 sales at Parke-Bernet or at Gimbels Department Store, New York City., and Unsigned.
Exhibit Tags:
sparrow

13. Prometheus bound

Creator:
Nast, Thomas, 1840-1902
Call number:
E South 01/GC002/Box 02/Normal/Harper's Weekly (1867-1868/10/10) GA 2008.01272 and Electronic Resource
Type:
Caricatures and cartoons
Description:
Medium: Wood engravings and Signed in block, lower center: "Th: Nast".
Date:
1867
Exhibit Tags:
eagle

14. Prepatory drawing (shita-e) of cranes, various floral motifs, and hiro artist seal

Creator:
Utagawa Hiroshige, 1826?-1869
Call number:
E Row 1/GC063/Box 06/Normal/Gillett Griffin Gift GA 2008.01191 and Electronic Resource
Description:
Medium: Ink and color on paper, Provenance: Purchased at one of three 1947 sales at Parke-Bernet or at Gimbels Department Store, New York City., and Unsigned. The diamond-shaped hiro seal was the artistic seal used by Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) and his followers.
Date:
1835-1865
Exhibit Tags:
crane

15. Edward Lear's ABC .

Creator:
Lear, Edward, 1812-1888
Call number:
Eng 20 10231
Description:
CTSN copy: Inscription on front free endpaper: For Maidie with love from Dad Christmas 1913. and CTSN copy: White Cotsen bookplate dated 2/84 on front pastedown.
Date:
1913
Exhibit Tags:
QuailColoring feathers

16. British and Foreign Birds. A new game moral, instructive and amusing; designed to allure the minds of youth to an acquaintance with the wonders of Nature.

Call number:
Eng 18 / board games 61131
Description:
The playing board features oval illustrations of birds, the track enclosed by a coiled serpent., Instruction booklet included with rules and detailed, scientific descriptions of birds., Advertisements for 'Instructive and Amusing Games in Geography, &c.,' on rear wrapper of instruction booklet., Housed with instruction booklet, CID 61132., and good condition.
Date:
1820
Exhibit Tags:
peacockvultureowleagledoveQuailCrowParrotturkeychickenostrich

19. Garrett Ethiopic Magic Scroll No. 44

Call number:
Garrett Ethiopic Magic Scrolls, box 2, no. 44
Description:
3 pieces of parchment sewn together. 1 col., written in black with rubrics in a reasonable hand (4-5mm), framed within a linear border with traces of yellow wash. 4 well executed talismanic drawings. and Forms part of: Robert Garrett Collection of Ethiopic Magic Scrolls.
Date:
1770-1830
Donor:
Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961
Exhibit Tags:
wingsangels

20. Copybook of arithmetic problems.

Creator:
Binford, John
Call number:
ManuscriptsQ 46473
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger (title wanting), Leaves, which are numbered in upper left, are wanting for 1, 7, 16, 32, and 67., 2. Numeration, 3. The species of arithmetic, 4. Addition, 5. Addition in whole numbers, 6. Addition of mony, 8. Apothecaries weights, 9. Averdupoise weights, 10. Wine measures, 11. Dry measure in addition, 12. Cloth measure, 13. Long measure in addition, 14. Land measure in addition; 15. Subtraction, 17. Subtraction of gold weights or troy weights, 18. Subtraction of Averdupoise, 19. Subtraction of Wine measures, [20?]. Subtraction of dry measures, 25. Questions in subtraction; 26. Multiplication, 27-29. Multiplications, rule, 30-31. Questions in multiplication, 33. Divisions rule of 1 wai[?], 34. Divisions rule, 35-39. Questions in division, 40. Reductions rule, 41-51. Reductions of min, ...mony, ...troy, ... apothecary weights, ... averdupoise..., ...wool..., ...wine, ...dry measure, ...elot (land)..., ... long ..., ...time, 52-53. Questions in reduction, [*] Double selling, [**]. Subtraction of long measures, [***]. ... time, 55-56. Rule of three, 57-65. {these alternate use of golden rule and rule of 3 for the following: troy, apothecary weights, averdupoise, wine, dry measures, cloth, long measures, elot, & [?]}, 66, 68-70. Backward rule of three, 71-79. Arithmetical progression, 80-83. Geometrical progression, 84 Practice, 85-89. Practice rule..., 90-102. Practices best way, 103- 105. All practice art included, 106. Variety of Practice art..., 107. Another variety of practice, 108-109. Merchants merrour of practice, 110. Merchandising, 111. Fellowship, 112. Fellowship of time, 113-116. Simple Fellowship., Dated from the word problem under heading 'Questions in subtraction' : "Mr Blundels free School in Tiverton was built in the year of 1604 how many Years Since is it to this year 1715..."., Elaborately illustrated and ornamented by the talented student, including a portrait, presumably of his Schoolmaster Joseph Shallis, aged 25 on l. 84. Many typical ornaments: angels, control of pen exercises terminating in grotesques, historiation of capitals, but also drawings of the Emperor of Germany and the King of Poland, a charming illustration of a cat playing the fiddle as mice dance "The cat doth play and after slay...", a hedgehog, heraldic dolphins "naiant" and "ludent", a cameleopard and a goat, as well as a variety of elaborately knotted and interlaced initials. On leaf 34 is a tribute to King George I., and Entertaining mnemonic verses for some of the operations.
Date:
1715
Exhibit Tags:
hawk

21. A, was an archer and Picture alphabet of nouns.

Call number:
Pams / Eng 19 / Box 028 6325
Description:
Series statement at head of title., Illustrations are hand colored., Final leaf pasted down to wrapper., Leaf 1 printed on two sides., "1000--11, 59"--P. [4] of cover., and Date inferred from publisher's code. Dean & Son operated at 11 Ludgate Hill from 1857 to 1865, cf. Brown, P.A.H. London publishers and printers, p. 55.
Date:
1859

22. Codex Aubin : manuscript, [between 1775 and 1825].

Call number:
C0744.02 (Garrett Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 1) and Electronic Resource
Type:
Texts, Watercolors, Paper, and Sources
Description:
Decoration: watercolor illustrations throughout.
Date:
[between 1775 and 1825].
Donor:
Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961
Exhibit Tags:
eagle

24. Codex cuara, [16--?].

Call number:
C0744.02 (Garrett Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 14) and Electronic Resource
Type:
Texts, Paper, Pen works, Watercolors (paintings), and Unbound sheets (Binding)
Description:
Decoration: 19 full-page pen-and-ink and watercolor drawings. Plate 1 depicts Miguel Cuara seated below a device surmounted by an eagle. There are simple plans of properties and show fields, houses, and water courses. It includes a fragmentary leaf with a calendar wheel with golssed European month names; the months from May through September are shown by crescent moons and human faces. The nine remaining pages containing drawings of men, women, and children in Indian costume. and Other titles: Códice de la Familia Cuara; Genealogía de la Familia Cuara; Genealogía de los Caciques Cuara Irecha de Patzcuaro.
Date:
[16--?].
Donor:
Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961
Exhibit Tags:
eagleColoring feathers

26. Emblemata amatoria = Emblemes d'amour en quatre langue

Creator:
Ayres, Philip, 1638-1712
Call number:
N7710 .A97 1690 and Electronic Resource
Type:
Emblem books
Description:
Engraved throughout., Latin, Italian, French, and Dutch., Date of publication taken from Landwehr, J. Dutch emblem books, 63., and Used as a twentieth-century Commonplace book, with history lessons, lists of United States, signers of the Declaration, etc.
Date:
1690
Exhibit Tags:
wingsangelsfeathers