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
  • 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.
  • 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
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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
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.
  • Vol. 1 contains dedicatory note in manuscript by Joh. Phil. Benk. of Frankfurt.
Date:
  • 1731-1735
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5.
  • 富嶽百景 / [前北齋為一改画狂老人卍筆].
  • Fugaku hyakkei / [zen Hokusai nari ichiaratame Gakyō Rōjin Manji hitsu].

Creator:
  • Katsushika, Hokusai, 1760-1849
  • 葛飾北齋, 1760-1849
Call number:
  • NE1310 .R81
  • ND1059.K15 A327 1834
  • 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.
  • 国総: 7:18.
Date:
  • 1834-1847
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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
  • 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.
  • Signed: Hiroshige hitsu.
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7.
  • 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
  • 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."
  • Cotsen copy: "John Lawson"--Printed bookplate on front pastedown.
Date:
  • 1805
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8.
  • history of British birds / by Thomas Bewick
  • A history of British birds / by Thomas Bewick

Creator:
  • Bewick, Thomas, 1753-1828
Call number:
  • NE642.B4 A32
  • NE642.B4 A36
  • 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].
  • 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
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9.
  • Study of sparrows

Call number:
  • E Row 1/GC063/Box 07/Normal/Gillett Griffin Gift GA 2008.01210
  • 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.
  • Unsigned.
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10.
  • 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
  • Electronic Resource
Type:
  • Caricatures and cartoons
Description:
  • Medium: Wood engravings
  • Signed in block, lower center: "Th: Nast".
Date:
  • 1867
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11.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Unsigned. The diamond-shaped hiro seal was the artistic seal used by Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) and his followers.
Date:
  • 1835-1865
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12.
  • 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.
  • good condition.
Date:
  • 1820
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13.
  • 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.
  • CTSN copy: White Cotsen bookplate dated 2/84 on front pastedown.
Date:
  • 1913
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15.
  • Codex Aubin : manuscript, [between 1775 and 1825].

Call number:
  • C0744.02 (Garrett Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 1)
  • Electronic Resource
Type:
  • Texts
  • Watercolors
  • Paper
  • Sources
Description:
  • Decoration: watercolor illustrations throughout.
Date:
  • [between 1775 and 1825].
Donor:
  • Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961
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16.
  • Codex cuara, [16--?].

Call number:
  • C0744.02 (Garrett Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 14)
  • Electronic Resource
Type:
  • Texts
  • Paper
  • Pen works
  • Watercolors (paintings)
  • 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.
  • 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
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18.
  • 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.
  • 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

19.
  • [Album of miniatures and specimens of calligraphy of Indian origin].

Call number:
  • Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 102G
  • Electronic Resource
Type:
  • Composite portraits
  • Portraits
  • Art
  • Illustrations
  • Pictorial works
Description:
  • Ms. codex.
  • Title supplied by cataloger.
  • The album consists of 55 folios measuring 485 x 280 mm.
  • 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

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.
  • Entertaining mnemonic verses for some of the operations.
Date:
  • 1715
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22.
  • Emblemata amatoria = Emblemes d'amour en quatre langue.

Creator:
  • Ayres, Philip, 1638-1712
Call number:
  • N7710 .A97 1690
Description:
  • Engraved throughout.
  • Latin, Italian, French, and Dutch.
  • Date of publication taken from Landwehr, J. Dutch emblem books, 63.
  • Used as a twentieth-century Commonplace book, with history lessons, lists of United States, signers of the Declaration, etc.
Date:
  • 1690
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23.
  • Study of myna birds

Online Collections:
Call number:
  • E Row 1/GC063/Box 07/Normal/Gillett Griffin Gift GA 2008.01209
  • 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.
  • Unsigned.
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24.
  • Catecismo pictórico Otomí : manuscript, [between 1775 and 1825].

Online Collections:
Call number:
  • C0744.02 (Garrett Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 3a)
  • Electronic Resource
Type:
  • Texts
  • Watercolors (paintings)
  • Paper
Description:
  • Decoration: watercolor illustrations throughout.
Donor:
  • Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961
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25.
  • Garrett Ethiopic Magic Scroll No. 44

Online Collections:
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.
  • Forms part of: Robert Garrett Collection of Ethiopic Magic Scrolls.
Donor:
  • Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961
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