New Digitization Roundup, Part V
Houghton Library Blog 2013-09-19
Another batch of new digitization has us nearly caught up! This week’s highlights include an illuminated medieval manuscript, early printed music, and the biography of a 19th century tattooed sideshow performer. Casanova, Giacomo, 1725-1798. Opuscoli miscellanei, [1780]. IC7 C2633 780o
Catholic Church. Psalter with canticles : manuscript, [ca. 1300]. MS Lat 394
Delaware language collection, ca. 1779-1806 and undated. MS Am 767 (4) MS Am 767 (5) MS Am 767 (6)
Direttorio per ben visitare la nova Gierusalemme o sia il S. Sepolcro di Varallo, 1715. Ital 4941.21
Drury’s resurrection, or The drama versus the menagerie, 1812. Thr 465.20.94
Gesualdo, Carlo, principe di Venosa, ca. 1560-1613. Madrigali a cinque voci, 1619. Mus G3352 B619m
Good words for the young. The Amalgamated Robin Redbreasts, 1869. EC85 M1456 868g
Hurwitz, Hyman, 1770-1844. Catalogue of the library of Hyman Hurwitz Esq., professor of Hebrew at University College, London, 1846. B 1827.457.10
Keats, John, 1795-1821. John Keats collection, 1814-1891. MS Keats 1-6 Much of this collection has been digitized. See finding aid for details.
Lastic Saint-Jal, Pierre Henri Alfred, vicomte de, b. 1803, collector. Catalogue de la collection de la caverne de Bruniquel : manuscript, 1878 Oct. 9. MS Fr 2
Life of Frank Howard, the most wonderful tattooed man ever known in the civilzed world : a sketch of his life and the manner in which he became tattooed, [188-?] Thr 1229.2
Mallarmé, Stéphane, 1842-1898. [Le livre] : manuscript, [undated]. MS Fr 270
Partly dissected: or Plain truth. A poem. By a plain dealer, 1770. *EC75 A100 770p
Prado, Jerónimo de, 1547-1595. Compendio de la segunda parte de los comentarios sobre el propheta Ezechiel : manuscript, [before 1596]. MS Typ 754
The resolute fair, or The courage of love; a musical drama in 3 acts : manuscript. TS 4581.627
Sá de Miranda, Francisco de, 1481?-1558. Comedia dos Vilhalpandos, 1560. Port 5470.31.1
Sorel, Charles, 1582?-1674. Histoire amovrevse de Cleagenor et de Doristée, 1621. Madame de Pompadour’s copy. FC6.So683.621h
Strada, Jacobus, d. 1588. Illustrations of Graeco-Roman coins. MS Typ 411
Taylor, Bayard, 1825-1878. Literary manuscripts, [ca. 1863-1894]. MS Am 275.2
Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901. Incidental music to Pathé Frères film d’art “Il trovatore”, arranged by Charles P. Müller, c1910. M176.V484 T7 1910