Language: Latin - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, 13th to 16th century (bulk)

Extent:: 53 manuscripts
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Held at: Bryn Mawr College [Contact Us]

Gerard van Swieten dictata in materia medica, 1733-1756 (inclusive)

Extent:: 8.0 volumes
Abstract:: Gerard van Swieten (1770-1772) was a Dutch-Austrian physician who served as the personal physician to Austrian Empress Maria Theresa in 1745 and transformed the Austrian health services as well as medical university education. This collection consists of eight volumes of medical writings in Latin concerning nutrition, pharmacy, and surgery. Several pages at the beginning of Volume I, and a few pages elsewhere, are translated into English on the facing pages.

Held at: Library Company of Philadelphia [Contact Us]

Major Steps in Steelmaking: A Schematic Layout, circa 1940 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.10 linear feet (1 folder)
Abstract:: Illustration of a schematic layout of steel manufacturing printed by the American Iron and Steel Institute.

Held at: Science History Institute Archives [Contact Us]

Carol Hoffecker Delaware bookplate collection, 1891, circa 1920-1940 (inclusive)

Extent:: 77 item
Abstract:: The Carol Hoffecker Delaware bookplate collection comprises 76 bookplates belonging to prominent early twentieth-century Delawareans and regional organizations. Individuals represented include statesmen, businessmen, and members of distinguished families, such as the du Pont and Warner families.

Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]

William Augustus Brewer bookplate collection, circa 1700-2000 (inclusive)

Extent:: 16 linear foot (17 boxes) and 7 oversize box
Abstract:: The William Augustus Brewer bookplate collection comprises 12,870 printed bookplates dating primarily from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, many of which were from the libraries of famous individuals or produced by significant artists. The collection also contains additional material relating to Brewer's collection, including Mrs. Augusta LaMotte Brewer's address book and printing plates and blocks, as well as reference material relating to bookplates.

Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]

Edith Gerselda Lynch autograph book, 1935

Extent:: 1 volume
Abstract:: This item is a 1935 autograph book that belonged to Edith Gerselda Lynch, a student in the class of 1937 at Howard High School in Wilmington, Delaware. The book contains signatures and messages from Lynch's friends, acquaintances, and family, including a signature from Howard High School teacher and librarian Pauline A. Young. The pages provide a glimpse of student life at a Delaware-based African American high school prior to desegregation.

Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]

Liber de consideratione quintae essentiae omnium rerum, 1400-1499 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 volume ([52 leaves], last leaf blank)
Abstract:: This unattributed fifteenth-century manuscript copy of Johannes de Rupescissa's alchemical medical textDe consideratione quintae essentiae rerum omniumcomprises 52 leaves on parchment, likely the work of more than one scribe.

Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]

Book of hours : Use of Noyon, approximately 1500s (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 volume (130 leaves)
Abstract:: Book of hours, probably for the Use of Noyon.

Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]

Analytical herbarium : designed for the use of students and private collectors, 1886-1887 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.33 linear foot (1 volume)
Abstract:: Analytical Herbarium : Designed for the Use of Students and Private Collectors was published in Farmington, Maine, in 1886 and used to collect botanical samples between May and June 1887.

Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]

Laurentius Terpager and Johanne Frisio, Tyopgraphiae Natalibus in Dania Schedula Historica, circa 1860 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 volume
Abstract:: This volume contains a circa 1860 manuscript copy of Laurentius Terpager and Johanne Frisio’s history of Danish printing and typography, De Typographiae Natalibus in Dania Schedula Historica, originally printed in 1707.

Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]

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