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A Tongve-Combat, Lately Happening Betvveene Tvvo English Souldiers In The Tilt-Boat Of Grauesend, The One Going To Serue The King Of Spaine, The Other To Serue The States Generall Of The United Prouinces. Wherein The Cause, Course, And Continuance Of Those Warres, Is Debated, And Declared., Henry Hexham

English Historical Library of Wallace Notestein

No abstract provided.

Phantastes Chapter 14: Winter's Tale, William Shakespeare

German Romantic and Other Influences

William Shakespeare (1564-1616), The Winter’s Tale, published in 1623 in the First Folio.

Tychonis Brahe Astronomiae Instauratae Progymnasmata, Tycho Brahe, Bruxelles, Culture Et Civilisation

Before the Textbook

A volume on astronomical phenomena prepared for publication after the author's death by Johannes Kepler who also wrote the appendix.

Rb 002 Guide To Herman Detering Book Collection On Psychiatry And Photography, Detering Family

Rare Books Finding Aids

The Herman Detering History of Photography and Psychiatry collection contains 324 books.. This collection was also processed as a manuscript collection so that the materials in the collections could be discoverable. This collection explores the relationship and history of photography and psychiatry, especially 19th century photography and the “insane.” The primary focus of the collection is the treatment and study of people suffering from various forms of mental illness. See more at RB 002.

Completorium Romanum, Primus Et Secundus Chorus: Alma Redemptoris, Ave Regina Coelorum, Giovanni Asola

Marian Sheet Music

Compline, or night prayers of the Divine Office, with two additional in honor of Mary, "Alma Redemptoris" and "Ave Regina Cœlorum." This piece is the tenor part of a work composed for three voice parts.

Tabvla Asiae Vii, Giovanni Antonion Magini, Ptolemy

Documents and Reports

Publication: [Agrippinensium Colonia?] : [Excudebat Petrus Keschedt?], [1597?]

Physical Description: 1 map ; 14 x 18 cm, on sheet 17 x 23 cm

Language: Latin

Cartographic Mathematical Data: Scale not given, (E 49°35ʹ--E 82°05ʹ/N 43°33ʹ--N 26°01ʹ).

Notes: Ptolemaic map covering central Asia, including the Persian Gulf, Caspian Sea, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India.

Relief shown pictorially.

Uncolored.

Copper-plate map.

Verso is page 22 of an unidentified text in Latin, with heading: Asiae Tabvla VI.

Taken from an early edition of Giovanni Antonio Magini's Ptolemy's Geographia, tentatively identified as: Ptolemy. Geographiae vniuersae tum veteris, tum nouae abolutissimum opus, duobus voluminibus districtum. …

Phantastes Chapter 15: Campaspe, John Lyly

German Romantic and Other Influences

Campaspe, an Elizabethan play by John Lyly (1584). The lines quoted are from Act 3, Scene 4, and they indicate the notion of a Platonic beauty, an ideal beauty that the artist can never capture perfectly

Concordia (Book Of Concord, 1581), Jakob Andreae, Martin Chemnitz, Martin Luther, Matthes StöCkel, Gimel Bergen

16th Century Reformation Materials

The Book of Concord (Concordia) is the foundational collection of Lutheran confessional teachings. It includes the three ecumenical creeds (Apostles' Creed, Nicene Creed, Athanasian Creed), the Augsburg Confession of 1530, the Apology to the Augsburg Confession, the Smalcald Articles of Martin Luther, the Treatise on the Power and Primacy of the Pope, the Small Catechism of Martin Luther, the Large Catechism of Martin Luther, the Epitome of the Formula of Concord, and the Declaration of the Formula of Concord.

The definitive edition of the book was first published in Dresden, Germany, in 1580 by the printers Stöckel and …

Excerpt, New Found Worlde Or Antarticke, André Thevet, Tami Toms

Early Visions Bucket

"The 1568 English translation of The New Found Worlde or Antarctike, provides a window into how Europeans imagined the Spanish-claimed territory. The reader is invited to see the 'wonderful and strange things' that Thevet has compiled, including an early description of the buffalo."

Poem, Commendation Of Thomas Stutely, Robert Seall, Michael Sadler

Early Visions Bucket

"Registered and printed around July of 1563, this English broadside ballad is the only work attributed to the author, Robert Seall, and it focuses on Thomas Stukeley. A man steeped in controversy since birth, Stukeley (Stucley, Stukely, Stutely–scholars have collected up to 24 spellings) was rumored to be a bastard child of Henry VIII and led a long life of piracy. The ballad was a public relations move to improve Stukeley’s image after a long life of alleged piracy and his revealing plans of an Anglo-Huguenot venture to Florida to a Spanish ambassador in London."

Excerpt, Relaçam Verdadeira, Gentleman From Elvas, Alisa Roberts, Amelia Zimmerman

Early Visions Bucket

"The Gentleman of Elvas, as he is semi-anonymously referred to, wrote an account of the de Soto expedition."

Vonn Dem Bad Pfeffers In Oberschwytz Gelegen : Tugenden, Krefften Unnd Würckung, Ursprung Unnd Herkommen, Regiment Und Ordinantz / Durch Den Hochgeleerten Doctorem Theophrastum Paracelsum Rc., Paracelsus

The Robert E. Schlueter – Paracelsus Collection

No abstract provided.

Rb 003 Guide To Dow Collection On Dentistry, Thomas D. Dow (1876-1960)

Rare Books Finding Aids

Thomas Dow, DDS was a dentist in Michigan who collected books on dentistry and records of dental society during the first half of the 20th century. His collection was international and, while focused on late 19th century and early 20th century works, contains some manuscripts dating to the 1600s. In the early 1960’s the University of Texas Dental Branch (UTDB) Library purchased his collection. In 2010, Dr. Dow’s collection and other historical books on dentistry were transferred to The TMC Library. See more at RB 003.

Selected Pages From Des. Erasmi Roterodami In Novum Testamentum Ab Eodem Tertio Recognitum, Annotationes : Item Ab Ipso Recognitæ & Auctario Neutiq Poenitendo Locupletatae., Desiderius Erasmus

Selections from Special Collections

[8], 629 p. ; 35 cm.

Some of the pages in this document were selected as part of a class project for Professor Garth Bond’s History of the Book seminar, Fall 2012.

Book Of Hours (Use Of Rouen), Master Of The Ango Hours, Active 1515-1531

Rare Books

Illuminated manuscript by the Master of the Ango Hours, approximately 1520-1530.

145 vellum leaves, 20 lines per page, ruled in red; written in brown ink with red rubrics. Includes 14 large miniatures with gold borders; 20 smaller miniatures throughout. Binding is late sixteenth or early seventeenth French red morocco with gilt tooling.

Contents: Calendar -- Sequence of the Gospels -- Passion sequence -- Obsecro te, O intemerata and other prayers to the Blessed Virgin Mary -- Hours of the Virgin (Use of Rouen) in the mixed form with the Hours of the cross and the Hours of the Holy Spirit …

Rb 005 Guide To Mcgovern Collection On The History Of Medicine, John P. Mcgovern (1921-2007)

Rare Books Finding Aids

The McGovern Collection contains over 5,500 titles focused on the development of the medical specialties in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth. There are significant sections on pediatrics, allergy and cardiology. The collection emphasis has been American Imprints and English language materials. There are a small number of titles in French or German from the eighteenth century. See more at RB 005.

The Spanish Settlements Within The Present Limits Of The United States, 1513-1561.

Florida Heritage

A history of Spanish colonisation of the United States from 1513-1561.

Heures A L'Usage De Rouen, Catholic Church

Rare Books

112 leaves. 19 woodcut and metal-cut full-page illustrations; borders illustrating religious and secular subjects with captions in French. Initials and line endings in gold on red or blue background.

Antoine Vérard, publisher; Chambolle-Duru, binder.

The letters Ro at the bottom of pages in some sections denotes the Use of Rouen, a variation specific to that region.

See Hilary Maddocks, “A book of hours by Anthoine Vérard in the University of Melbourne Library,” University of Melbourne Collections 16 (June 2015):15-24 about a similar copy in the University of Melbourne Library, providing background on the publisher, artists, and book trade in early …

Rb 006 Guide To Menninger Collection On Psychiatry And Psychoanalysis, John P. Mcgovern Historical Collections & Research Center

Rare Books Finding Aids

In June, 2003, the Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library became the owner of the Menninger Foundation’s Library of Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis. This fine gift included their clinical library of books and journals, the historical and rare book collections, and complete runs of the Menninger publications. This is a wide-ranging rare book collection of more than 3000 titles pertaining to psychology, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis in both adults and children. The publications by and commentaries about Sigmund Freud are extensive. See more at RB 006.

Selected Pages From Liber Chronicarum, Hartmann Schedel

Selections from Special Collections

Liber cronicarum. [20], cclxvi, [6], cclxvii-ccxcix, [3] ℓ.; leaf [6] (of 3d group) and 2 last leaves blank. : woodcuts: illus.,maps. ; f. 70 cm.

Some of the pages in this document were selected as part of a class project for Professor Garth Bond’s History of the Book seminar, Spring 2012.

Vellum Leaf From A Medieval Manuscript Connected To Otto Ege, Catholic Church

Rare Books

Manuscript leaf on vellum: 175 mm x 132 mm (112 mm x 69 mm)

18 lines of black gothic script with red and blue initials, rivers-style pen flourishing in red.

Leaf from a devotional manuscript containing a psalter, broken up and sold by Otto Ege and his wife Louise, with his label identifying it as number 43 from his collection. Ege sold other leaves from this manuscript as leaf 43 in his Fifty Original Leaves from Medieval Manuscripts portfolios. This leaf contains Psalms 9:37 through 11:5 (Septuagint numbering).

Identified by Ege’s label as a from a book of hours, although …

Fragment. Book Of Hours, Author Unknown

Medieval Manuscript Fragments

No abstract provided.

Annunciation: Manuscript Leaf From A Book Of Hours, Catholic Church

Rare Books

Manuscript leaf on vellum: 166 x 110 mm, color illustrations, illuminations

Annunciation miniature from Matins, the first hour of the Office of the Virgin. From a book of hours produced in the mid-15th century. Floral border on shell gold surrounds miniature of Gabriel kneeling before Mary on recto; floral border on left side of verso outlined in red next to 16 lines of gothic script in black ink with illuminated initials and line-fillers.

Fragment. Golden Legend, Jacobus De Voragine

Medieval Manuscript Fragments

No abstract provided.

French Missal, Author Unknown

Medieval Manuscript Fragments

No abstract provided.

Fragment, Livy, Giacomo Curlo

Medieval Manuscript Fragments

No abstract provided.

La Presse, V. 48 N. 52 (December 15, 1931), La Presse

La Presse

La Presse volume 48 number 52, Edition Americaine.

Pages 7A and 8A missing.

Calendar From Book Of Hours; Use Of Paris, Catholic Church

Rare Books

Manuscript on vellum (13 unnumbered leaves), bound: color illustrations, illuminations; 167 x 135 mm, bound to 172 x 140 mm

Calendar of saints' feast days from a French Book of Hours, use of Paris, which was evidently intact in the late 18th century when the descriptive note on the original first flyleaf was handwritten and dated 4 February 1792 by one 'Rouxeau', priest of Le Loroux-Bottereau. Rouxeau is assumed to be Julien-Pierre Rouxeau (1734-1811); the calendar as currently bound includes the 19th century bookplace of H. Arthur Baker.

Date is estimated from the 18th century owner's handwritten comment: "Ces heures, …

Rb 001 Guide To Burbank-Fraser Collection On Arthritis, Rheumatism And Gout, John P. Mcgovern Historical Collections & Research Center

Rare Books Finding Aids

The Burbank/Fraser Collection contains over 3,600 volumes, including books, pamphlets, bound reprints, and translations. With publications ranging from a sixteenth century manuscript to the modern works of John Talbott and Charles Short, this collection documents the changing regimens for rheumatic diseases and the foundations of the modern specialty of rheumatology. With publications from over 20 countries, the collection offers innumerable opportunities for research on the history of the rheumatic diseases and the cross-cultural transference of medical information. The collection equals 337.4 linear with titles that date from 15th Century to the early 20th Century. See more at RB 001.

Donatus (Aelius) Ars Grammatica Cum Commento Marginali Incerti Auctoris Fragmenta Saec. Xiii., Aelius Donatus

Medieval Manuscript Fragments

No abstract provided.