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  Letters and Reports on the Publication of Voyages Métallurgiques

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  Four letters and two reports concerning the posthumous publication by Gabriel Jars (1729-1808) of Voyages Métallurgiques, written by his brother Antoine-Gabriel Jars (1732-1769). The papers date from 1770 to 1779 and include three letters written by Gabriel Jars from Lyon, France: one two-page letter (including address), dated 1770, October 20, is addressed to Auguste Denis Fougeroux de Bondaroy in Paris; one item consists of the last page a letter, dated 1772, 30 August, to an unidentified recipient; and one two-page letter, dated March, 1779, to "Monsieur." Also includes one letter, dated 1773, written from Paris by Fougeroux de Bondaroy to Monsieur Berlin care of Monsieur Parent[?]-fils (one page); and two unattributed reports, one entitled Rapport d'un Ouvrage de Monsieur Jars and dated 1779 (3 pages) and one untitled, undated report (10 pages, including one page consisting of sketches). Each of these reports contain annotations, including in the margins.

  mssHM 83036-83041

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  Traicté de peyne : [manuscript]

  Manuscripts

  ff. 1-20v; f. 21r-v blank. Traicté de peyne. Incipit: Apres avoyr par longtemps travaille/ Couru trote longuement et sans cesse. Explicit: En payement ils prendront si leur plaist/ De par nous troys ce present tel qu'il est./ Faict et conclus en vos pays et marches/ Par troys amys dont les troys ne sont qu'ung/ Les penitens de vostre mayson d'arches/ Dont l'escripvain feust et sera"Tant brun.". French. f. 1r-v blank; ff. 2-3, dedication; ff. 3-20v, text; f. 21r-v blank. E. Paillet, ed., Le Traicté de peyne, poëme allégorique dédié à Monseigneur et à Madame de Lorraynne, manuscrit inédit du XVIe siècle (Paris 1867) from this manuscript (only known copy) in a limited edition, of which one copy on vellum, now Huntington Library RB 194320.

  mssHM 49

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  De animalibus : [manuscript]

  Manuscripts

  ff. 1-98v. [Aristotle] [De animalibus]. Incipit: Quedam partes corporum animalium dicuntur non composite et sunt partes que. Explicit: que accidunt non ex necessitate sed propter aliquid et propter causam finalem et propter causam moventem. Explicit liber aristotilis de naturis animalium. Sed intitulatus est et distinctus secundum novam translationem et sunt in hoc volumine 18 lib[ri, x] de hystoriis animalium, 3 de partibus animalium et v de generatione animalium, vii de progressu animalium hic deficit cum quo essent xix. Rubric: Incipit liber primus aristotilis de naturis animalium quem transtulit magister michael scotus de greco in latinum et habet in se x libros. Rubrica. Latin. Aristotle, De naturis animalium, De partibus animalium, De generatione animalium, trans. Michael Scot, completed by 1220; text not printed in full. See AL 80-81 and 245 where this manuscript is described. The text here is complete: the scribe erroneously repeated the rubric of Book VII on f. 26, thus his calculations at the end of the manuscript were off by one. Marginalia and nota marks by various readers of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

  mssHM 1035

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  Jean Frédéric Ostervald letters

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  Five letters written by Jean Frédéric Ostervald and one manuscript by an unidentified writer. Two of the five letters are addressed to Monsieur [Jean] Clogenson (1785-1876), a librarian in Alençon, and one letter, dated 1825, is addressed to Professor [Marc-August] Pictet (1752-1825), an influential editor and researcher who was a professor of natural philosophy at the Academy of Geneva. The recipients of the other two letters are unidentified. The letters are in French; one was written from Paris, France, while the origin of the others is unspecified. The four-page manuscript, also written in French, possibly by Ostervald, describes routes and travel times between numerous destinations, mostly within Switzerland.

  mssHM 82714-82719

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  Gospels in Greek : [manuscript]

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  Vol. 1, f. 1 blank; f. 1v. [Miniature of Matthew]. Greek. Vol. 1, ff. 2-4; f. 4v blank. [Chronicle]. Greek. On added leaves, a chronicle, similar in part to that of Hippolytus of Thebes, from the creation to ca. 1250; printed from this manuscript by E. J. Goodspeed, "The Bixby Gospels," University of Chicago Historical and Linguistic Studies in Literature related to the New Testament ser. 1, 2 (1915) 123-52. Transposed in binding, folios 2 and 3. Vol. 1, ff. 5-11; ff. 11v-12 blank. [Menology]. Greek. Menology, 1 Septermber-31 August, but with loss of 2 leaves after f. 6 containing 12 December-22 January. Vol. 1, ff. 13-14. [Gospel readings]. Greek. List of gospel readings for Saturdays and Sundays in Lent. Vol. 1, ff. 14-20. [Synaxarium]. Greek. Vol. 1, ff. 20v-21. [Letter of Eusebius to Carpianus]. Greek. Vol. 1, ff. 21-22v. [Eusebian canon tables]. Greek. Vol. 1, ff. 23-24v. [Κεφάλαια for Matthew]. Greek. Ὑπόθεσις of the gospel of Matthew; printed in H. von Soden, Die Schriften des Neuen Testaments in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Text gestalt (Göttingen 1913) I:1, p. 314 [120]; Κεφάλαια (68) for Matthew; four verses in honor of Matthew: ματθαίου τοδε ἔρχου . . . βροτὸν αὐτὸν ἐόντα; printed in von Soden, I:1, p. 373, 5; note added in a modern hand, τετραευάγγελον μονῆς τοῦ παντοκράτορος καὶ σωτῆρος χριστνῦ τὸν ἐν τῶ ᾄθω. Test of transliterated Greek: tetraeuángelon monē̃s toũ pantokrátoros kaì sōtē̃ros khristnũ tòn en tō̃ áͅthō Vol. 1, ff. 25-124v. [Gospel of Matthew]. Greek. Gospel of Matthew in 357 sections, with some contemporary and later corrections and marginalia; cf. Goodspeed, p. 128. Vol 1, ff. 125-127v. [Κεφάλαια for Mark]. Greek. Vol. 1, f. 125, ruled, but blank; f. 125v, full page miniature of Mark; f. 126, ruled, but blank; ff. 126v-127v, Κεφάλαια (48) for Mark. Vol. 1, ff. 128-196v. [Gospel of Mark]. Greek. Gospel of Mark in 234 sections, with some contemporary and later corrections and marginalia; collated by Goodspeed. Vol. 2, ff. 2v-5v. [Κεφάλαια for Luke]. Greek. Κεφάλαια (83) for Luke; f. 5, blank; f. 5v, full page miniature of Luke. Vol. 2, ff. 6-118. [Gospel of Luke]. Greek. Gospel of Luke in 340 sections, with some contemporary and later corrections and marginalia; collated by Goodspeed. Vol. 2, ff. 118v-119v. [Κεφάλαια for John]. Greek. Κεφάλαια (18) for John; f. 119: Miniature of John; f. 119v, ruled, but blank. Vol. 2, ff. 120-210v. [Gospel of John]. Greek. Gospel of John in 232 sections, with some contemporary and later corrections and marginalia. On ff. 153-154v, pericope, John 7, 53-8, 11, added in the thirteenth century; collated by Goodspeed.

  mssHM 1081

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  The electrical light for industrial uses: pamphlets

  Manuscripts

  Two copies of Rookes Evelyn Crompton's published pamphlet, each marked up, perhaps by the author, for another edition. Copy One includes six pages of handwritten text at the beginning, as well as a clipping regarding the Electrical Power Storage Company, a price list for and description of the Elmore Dynamo-Electric machine, and an annotation regarding the Crystal Palace Electrical Exhibition of 1882. Copy Two has extensive highlighting and annotation, including marginalia.

  mssHM 83018-83019