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2003

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• Bible. Latin. Gospel of Mark. Italy, 12th century.This is an early example of a glossed manuscript of the Bible. The Gospel is surrounded by a variorum commentary, elucidating the text. The elaborate and subtle layout of the pages is complemented by the elegance of the script. An attractive historiated initial appears at the beginning of the text, and the volume is preserved in an early medieval chain binding of reversed leather over wooden boards. The pastedowns are from an earlier liturgical manuscript

• Peter Comestor (ob. ca. 1178). Historia Scholastica. Rochester, England, ca. 1190.

  This illuminated manuscript on vellum was probably written at the priory of St. Andrew at Rochester about 1190, and it remained there until the priory was surrendered in 1540. The text, in Latin, provides a continuous history from the Creation until the end of the Acts of the Apostles and was based on the narrative books of the Bible. This copy was made soon after the composition of the work, and its continued currency and use are attested to by the variety of marginal additions, corrections, and interpolations, including learned comments citing sources, expanding contexts, or providing scholastic distinctions, written over a period of two centuries.

• Conrad of Brundelsheim. Sermones. Hollfeld, 1412.

  This late medieval collection of sermons by Conrad of Brundelsheim was copied by the scribe Konrad Hildebrand in Hollfeld (near Bamberg) in 1412. The chain binding is original and includes pastedowns from a ninth-century manuscript in Beneventan script containing portions of Orosius' Historia adversus paganos, of which it is among the earliest surviving manuscript witnesses. These pastedowns apparently derive from a manuscript that was in the court library of Emperor Otto III at Bamberg around the year 1000, and appears to have remained in the area of Bamberg until being recycled by a binder in the early fifteenth century.

• Corradino de Belmesseri. Regulae grammaticales. Italy, 15th century.

  This late medieval collection of sermons by Conrad of Brundelsheim was copied by the scribe Konrad Hildebrand in Hollfeld (near Bamberg) in 1412. The chain binding is original and includes pastedowns from a ninth-century manuscript in Beneventan script containing portions of Orosius' Historia adversus paganos, of which it is among the earliest surviving manuscript witnesses. These pastedowns apparently derive from a manuscript that was in the court library of Emperor Otto III at Bamberg around the year 1000, and appears to have remained in the area of Bamberg until being recycled by a binder in the early fifteenth century.

• Corradino de Belmesseri. Regulae grammaticales. Italy, 15th century.

  Apparently the earliest surviving manuscript of this rare grammatical treatise, Corradino's work is still unpublished, and there appear to be only two other recorded manuscripts of the text. This manuscript, preserved in its original vellum wrappers, has a large decorated initial on the opening page.

• Agostino Dati. Elegantiolae, ca. 1480.

  One of the many editions of this popular grammatical text by the Sienese writer Agostino Dati (1420-78), which was printed all over Europe. This copy contains extensive prose and verse passages written in a contemporary English hand.

• Kilian, Ritter von Mellerstadt. Chiliani equitis Mellerstatini Comedia gloriose parthenices & martiris Dorothee agoniam passionique despingens. Leipzig, 1507.

  The first edition of the first play on the martyrdom of St. Dorothy. Chilianus's treatment, based on the Legenda Aurea, is a noteworthy contribution to the "Christian Terence" movement, with its classical five-act structure, mainly prose text, and verse prologues, boasting (like Hrotswitha herself, whose collected plays were published in 1501) that nymphs, lovers, and corrupt servants have been banished from the stage, to give place to a truly worthy heroine. This copy has been densely annotated throughout by a scholarly contemporary reader.

• Joris Hoefnagel. Archetypa studiaque Patris Georgio Hoefnagelii. Frankfurt, 1592.

The first edition, first issue, of this beautiful and influential pattern book, one of the principal sources of seventeenth-century still-life painting. The work was engraved by the teenaged Jacob Hoefnagel, court painter to Emperor Rudolph II of Prague from 1602, under the supervision of his father Jours (1542-1601), last of the great Flemish miniaturists and manuscript illuminators. The work comprises 4 engraved titles and 48 engraved plates.

• Giovanni dalla Torre. Dialogo della Giostra fatta in Trivigi l'anno MDXCVI. Treviso, 1598.

The first edition of a description of a pageant-joust which had taken place during Carnevale the previous year. The arrival of each of the eleven participants is described, together with details of his costume and those of his attendants and horses. His device, an illustration of which heads the section, is then fully described and discussed with many citations from contemporary writers on emblematic theory. Of particular interest is the account of the participants in the pageant; some were comparatively simple, others spectacular. One, Camillo Gandino, was accompanied by Tartars on foot carrying fireworks, Tartars on horseback, twenty more horsemen followed a troupe of Wild Men and giants leading a lion, a bear, a tiger, and a wild boar. 3Beinecke funds

• William Somner. The Antiquities of Canterbury. London, 1703.

This interleaved and copiously annotated work provides a glimpse into the early days of English antiquarianism. The notes, by at least five readers with antiquarian interests, substantially add to Somner's text and illuminate some of the sources used by the reader. Additional leaves have been bound in, containing material that supplements the text.

"Costumes de theatre." 117 original watercolor drawings of actors and actresses in costumes for French plays, dating from 1739-1826, with manuscript annotations on the verso of many of the cards.

• William Stukeley, "the father of English archaeology."

  His collection, assembled in 1750, of his own topographical, archaeological, and imaginative engravings, many in proof form. This marvelous assembly represents the artist-antiquary's choice of his own work, in presumably the best strikes he possessed. Accompanied by an album of drawings by Stukeley, including two hitherto unrecorded portraits of his friend Sir Isaac Newton.

• Samuel Richardson. Autograph letter to Mary Delany, 16 May 1750.

  In this letter to the flower artist and friend of Swift, Richardson discusses, among other things, a new edition of his novel Clarissa.

St. Petersburg

• Mikahil Ivanovich Makhaev. Plan de la ville de Saint-Pétersbourg avec ses principales vües (St. Petersburg, 1753). Eight views of the city in single and double-sheet plates, issued in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the city.

American Financial Documents

A collection of letters, receipts, checks, currency, and other financial papers, manuscripts, and printed items, 1774-1874. This significant group of material was formerly in the collection of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, Inc.

A Family Archive from Early New Mexico

131 documents on paper, all but 2 in Spanish, from Rio Arriba, Truchas, Santa Fe, El Embudo, and elsewhere in New Mexico. 1775- 1900.

Ordinary people, not officials sent from Madrid, Mexico City, or Washington, fill the pages of this collection with the details of their achievements, problems, and tragedies. Most of the collection is composed of retained copies of notarial documents: land transfers, wills, inventories of possessions, sales of houses, and depositions related to estate and inheritance matters. Personal and family papers from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century New Mexico are extraordinarily scarce. Poetry from that time is extremely rare and surviving manuscripts not already in institutional holdings are even rarer, but this collection contains six examples. It also includes a short but highly evocative diary of a young man on the point of leaving his family for the first time. The collection even reveals that there was at least one collector of erotic tapestries living on the edge-the edge, apparently, not only of Hispanic American settlement, but of acceptable social behavior. New Mexican ownership of Indians is hinted at in a document of 1788, and in the 1880s one finds an American army sergeant practicing the time-honored pastime of forging a pass for leave.

East India Company

A collection of manuscript and printed material from the papers of Sir William Fitzherbert (1748-91), comprising a manuscript letter, signed, from Walter Patterson, governor of Prince Edward Island, to Fitzherbert, ca. 1770-72, on the matter of native white pines in the northern American colonies; two unrecorded broadsides, one concerning the rates of freight from London to the West Indies in 1777, the other Copy of the petition of the West-India planters and merchants, presented to the King, Dec. 16, 1778; six possibly unique issues of the Barbados Mercury (January to July 1781); eleven items relating to the East India Company, including three unrecorded broadsides and two manuscript items; an unrecorded broadside concerning mining in Wales (1778); and an undated (mid 18th- century) manuscript proposal for an export duty on tobacco.

• Daniel Defoe. Robinson Krusoe. Neu bearbeitet. Leipzig, 1779-80.

The first edition of Johann Karl Wezel's reworking of Robinson Crusoe. Simultaneously, the publisher Joachim Heinrich Campe began issuing his German version of Defoe's novel, and a controversy ensued as to which rendition was superior. Many reviewers accepted both, the Campe version for children, Wezel's for adults. A prolific author of stories and novels, Wezel (1747-1819) uses the story of Robinson Crusoe to probe issues of social theory and the philosophy of history.

• Susanna Nicklin. "An Introduction to Geography and History for the Use of Young Ladies." Stanford Hall, Leicestershire, ca. 1780.

An apparently unpublished manuscript, prepared by a governess in the Cave family of Stanford Hall. The text is a rigorous course on elementary astronomy for a pupil already versed in mathematics, in question and answer form, most sections being followed by copious problems or illustrations. The volumes testify to an exacting governess and the intensive education, in which science took a prominent part, of an aristocratic young lady around 1780.

Naval Tactics at the Time of Yorktown

Jean-François du Cheyron, chevalier du Pavillon. Tactique navale, pour l'armée du Roi, commandée par Monsieur le Comte de Grasse, lieutenant général des armées navales, commandeur de l'Ordre royal & militaire de Saint Louis, commandant l'armée du Roi, en 1781. Brest, 1781.

This edition of Du Pavillon's treatise on naval tactics was prepared at the time of the Yorktown campaign with a view to De Grasse's last American campaign, which ended with his defeat at the Saintes on 12 April 1782. Du Pavillon perished during that encounter.

• Friedrich Christian Laukhard. Briefe eines preußischen Augenzeugen über den Feldzug des Herzogs von Braunschweig ge gen die Neufranken im Jahre 1792. Altona, 1794-98.

Laukhard's eyewitness account covers the invasion of revolutionary France in 1792 by a coalition of troops from Prussia and Braun-schweig, through the recapture of Mainz from the French the following year. The continuation (in the last three of seven "packs" or books), of uncertain authorship, covers ensuing events through the Peace of Basel, April 1795.

Laukhard (1758-1822) was trained in theology and philosophy but led the life of an educated vagabond until joining the military. Posing as a deserter during the 1792 campaign, he tried to bribe a French commander, but the plan went awry and he was transported to central France. Laukhard's graphic and realistic account of the 1792 military action under the Duke of Braunschweig is an especially important addition to the German Literature Collection because Goethe described the same events, quite differently, in his Campagne in Frankreich, 1792, published in 1822 as part five of his autobiography.

La Revellière Lépeaux Papers

A moderate republican from the region of Maine-et-Loire, Louis-Marie de La Revellière Lépeaux (1753-1824) reached prominence after the fall of Robespierre in 1794 by becoming the first president of the Directoire - in effect, the president of the French Republic -, a position he retained for the next five years. He was particularly involved in Theophilanthropy, an attempt to launch a deistic form of religion. He refused to swear allegiance to Bonaparte after the coup d'état of 18 Brumaire 1799 and retired from political life.

The small archive now at the Beinecke contains some political documents from his life as a public official, as well as personal letters, documents about contemporary exploration and technology, and the manuscript of his memoirs, published posthumously by his son in 1873. Included are reports from around the world, assessing the reaction to the Revolution and its aftermath in various European countries and the impact on French possessions and interests in the Americas, as well as accounts of domestic problems. Among the many reports on England, Poland, the United States, Canada, Guiana, etc., is one notable account from Guadalupe entitled "Le Dernier Cri du désespoir."

There is a manuscript draft of instructions from the Directoire to Bonaparte in French-occupied Italy. The instructions, entirely in La RevelliŠre's hand and bearing many corrections, are signed by him and three of his fellow directors, Carnot, Reubell, and Letourneur. There are also many reports and documents concerning French relations with the United States, including, for example, reclamations requested by General Clarke and reports on how to strengthen the rapport between the two fledgling republics.

More recent documents include letters from Auguste Thiers in the 1820s and Jules Michelet in 1872 seeking permission from La RevelliŠre's son to examine his father's papers.

• Jean Paul. Hesperus, oder 45 Hundesposttage. Eine Biographie. Berlin, 1795.

• _____. Der Komet, oder Nikolaus Marggraf. Eine komische Geschichte. Berlin, 1820-22.

An early and a late novel, both in their first editions, by one of the most complex German writers of the early nineteenth century. Hesperus, the first of Jean Paul's whimsical and eccentric books to attain wide popularity, has the subtitle "45 dog post days," a reference to the novel's framing device: the chapters are supposedly brought to the author's friend by a Pomeranian.

Der Komet, a fragment in three volumes, owes something to Laurence Sterne in its manner, while its central character is a literary relative of Don Quixote. The son of an apothecary, Nikolaus Marggraf believes that he is descended from royalty. Suddenly rich from discovering how to make diamonds by means of alchemy, he sets out on a fool's journey through the world to discover his true father.

• Josephine Benison Arnold Papers

Correspondence, 1833-87, between Josephine Benison Arnold and Tom Arnold, Julia Arnold, Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Francis Arnold, Julia Huxley, W. T. Arnold, Frances Arnold-Forster, and other members of the Arnold family; letters from Matthew Arnold to his mother, Tom Arnold, and Frances Arnold; and other related correspondence and writings.

• Friedrich Ludwig Weidig. Reliquien. Zum Besten der Wittwe Weidig's hrsg. von einigen Freunden. Mannheim, 1838.

• Weidig (1791-1837), a schoolmaster and pastor, was a leader of the clandestine revolutionary movement in Hesse in the early 1830s. The playwright Georg Büchner was a member of his circle, and Weidig collaborated with Büchner on the writing, production, and distribution of the latter's political pamphlet Der Hessische Landbote (1834), a call to the peasants of the Grand Duchy of Hesse to rise up against their rulers. Weidig was eventually arrested and imprisoned without trial; he committed suicide in prison in 1837. Reliquien, which has not been on the auction market since 1950, is a compilation of Weidig's poems and sermons, issued to help support his widow. The book also contains an essay on Weidig's political influence and the government actions against him.

Wilhelm Weitling. Garantien der Harmonie und Freiheit. Vewey, 1842.

The illegitimate son of a German housemaid and a French officer, Weitling was apprenticed to a tailor. Instead of pursuing that trade, he began a life of travel that by 1838 led to Paris, where he became a leader among exiled German workers and published what is usually regarded as the first communist manifesto in German. In 1841 he went to Switzerland, where he wrote the present work, the principal statement of his political theories. Further travels led Weitling to Brussels, where he met Marx and Engels, but by then the movement had split, with Weitling and his followers in the minority. He eventually immigrated to the United States, where he edited various periodicals, raised a family, and died in poverty.

• Jason Fennimore Burr. Manuscript journal of whaling in the early 1840s, a voyag e around the world, service in the U. S. Navy, experiences in the California gold rush (1849-51), and life as a Connecticut farmer. Two manuscript volumes including more than 30 illustrations.

Jason Fennimore Burr was born on 1 February 1828 in Hartford, Connecticut. This detailed account of his experiences, running to more than 200,000 words on almost 700 pages, covers thirteen years of his life, from the time he signs on to a whaling ship at age 15 through his return from the California gold fields to take up farming in his native Connecticut. He hunts whales in the Atlantic and Pacific, visits Hawaii and China, sails around the globe, and fights in the Mexican War. In 1849 he travels to California as a member of the Connecticut Mining and Trading Company; there he engages in a variety of mercantile and mining activities for the company. Burr returned to Connecticut in 1851, and the final part of his journal records his experiences over the next five years, as he bought a large farm and settled into a comfortable life growing corn and wheat and became active in local politics.

• Uncle John's Panorama of America. Philadelphia, C.G. Henderson & Co., 1854.

A 22-panel accordion-bound book showing hand-colored engravings of the natives of North and South America, including Indians, Mexicans, and Esquimaux.

• Lizzie Doten. "Reconstruction Vox Populi, Voi Dei." Boston: [1866].

Broadside poem by Lizzie Doten, a spiritualist, medium, and trance speaker who claimed to have the wisdom of various departed spirits, including Edgar Allen Poe. Doten was a promoter for women's rights who advocated marriage reform and equal wages for women. She was the vice president of the first National Convention of Spiritualists held in Chicago in 1864.

Ninteenth-century Opera

• Amilcare Ponchielli. Holograph sketch of an apparently unrecorded aria, "Turbina o vento del deserto," followed by an instrumental postlude.

• Ambroise Thomas. Holograph manuscript of the revisions of his opera Le songe d'une nuit d'été‚ (1850) for the 1886 revival at the Opéra-Comique.

• Richard Wagner. Tannhaüser und der Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg. Dresden, 1860. First printed edition of the orchestral score, previously published in a lithographic edition in the composer's hand.

• Andrew Lang. The black thief. A new and original drama. (Adapted from the Irish). London, 1882. Private, anonymous printing of Lang's only play, written for his nephews and nieces, and hitherto known in one copy.

• Bethany Veney. Narrative of Bethany Veney: A Slave Woman. Worcester, Mass, 1889. A first edition of this uncommon title, including a frontispiece portrait of the author.

• Zane Grey. Diaries, correspondence with his wife Dolly, photographs, personal papers, and other papers relating to Zane Grey, Dolly Grey, and other members of the Grey family.
An extensive collection of papers preserved by one of Grey's granddaughters, including diaries from Grey's wife Dolly that record her early relationship with Grey as well as her role as his editor and chief publicist in the 1920s. Zane Grey's diaries in the collection cover the period 1905 through 1908 and are accompanied by more than 500 pages of correspondence between Dolly and Zane.

The collection joins two large collections of Grey manuscripts acquired in recent years, making Yale the principal repository of Grey matter.

• Norman Croome-Johnson. Manuscript diaries, 1905-62.

Previously deposited with the Savile Club in London, these diaries describe London life during the first half of the century, seen through the eyes of an ordinary Englishman. Many entries document the life of the Savile, including the purchase from the club in the late 1930s of the letters from Robert Louis Stevenson to his friend Charles Baxter by a rich American collector: Edwin J. Beinecke.

• Stefan George. Der siebente Ring. Berlin, 1907.

George's seventh major poem cycle is built around his "Maximin experience," his meeting in 1903 with the schoolboy Maximilian Kronberg, who became a profound influence on George's work. Max Kronberger was also the subject of the memorial book published by George in 1907 and described for our April 2000 meeting. Like Maximin. Ein Gedenkbuch, this first, limited edition of Der siebente Ring was designed by Melchior Lechter, who was responsible for the title page, sectional titles, borders, and text decorations. Printed on handmade paper, the book is in the original publisher's binding of purple cloth embellished in gold.

• The Poetry Club at the University of Chicago

Founded in 1917, the Poetry Club included Gladys Campbell, whose papers are represented here, Glenway Wescott, Ivor Winters, George Dillon, and Maureen Smith. These writers, somewhat younger than the high Modernist poets, published their work in Poetry, The Dial, and elsewhere. Dillon won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932, and Wescott and Winters became respected poets. Campbell received her PhD from the University of Chicago and taught there for many years.

• Negro Housewives' League of Detroit. Archive of printed materials. Detroit, [1930s].

A variety of printed materials, including event programs, promotional materials, The Housewives' League Bulletin, and "The Declaration of Purpose of the Negro Housewives' League."

Portuguese Moderism

A complete set of Presença, the most important Portuguese avant-garde literary periodical, published in 54 issues from 1927 until 1938, and briefly revived in 1939-40. This copy comes from Adolfo Casais Monteiro, its editor in chief from 1931 until 1938.

Czech Avant-garde

A collection of first and early editions of works by the avant-garde Czech poet Vitezslav Nezval (1900-58), including his first book, Most (Brno, 1922); Mensi ruzova zahrada (Prague, 1926), in the illustrated wrappers by Jindrich Strysky and Toyen and with the frontispiece portrait of the author by Josef Sima; Dobrodruzstvi noci a vejire (Pilsen, 1927), one of 35 copies, signed by the author; Basne noci (Prague, 1930); Tyranie nebo laska (Prague, 1931), with typography by Karel Teige, one of 200 copies; Pantomima (Prague, 1935), the second edition, with typography and collages by Teige and an illustration by Styrsky; Prazsky chodec (Prague, 1938), designed by Frantisek Muzika, illustrated with ten photomontages; and Orfeus a Eurydika (Prague, 1940), no. 28 from an edition of 70 copies, illustrated with three color lithographs by Muzika, signed by the poet and the artist. 3Edwin J. Beinecke Fund

A collection of early and limited editions of poems by Jaroslav Seifert (1901-86), 1984 Nobel Prize for literature, including Slezska pisen (Opava, 1932), with a two-color frontispiece by Jan Sladek, no. 9 from an edition of 200 copies, signed by the poet and the artist; Svetlem odena (Prague, 1940), illustrated with lithographs by Antonin Prochazk, no. 122 from an edition of 150 copies, signed by Seifert; Mala romance o knizeti Oldrichovi a jeho Bozene (Prague, 1940 [i.e. 1941]), with a frontispiece by Vladimir Sychra, inscribed by Seifert; Vymena strazi na hrade (Prague, 1948), illustrated with a drawing by Karel Svolinsky, signed by Seifert and Svolinsky on the cover; Petrin 1945-1948 (Prague, 1948), illustrated with drypoints by Svolinsky, signed by the author and the artist at the colophon; Pozdrav Frantiskovi Halasovi (Prague, 1949), illustrated with drawings by Fr. Bidlo, no. 19 from an edition of 50 copies; Poutni misto (n.p., 1983), illustrated with original photographs by Milos Korecek, no. 6 from an edition of 21, signed by the photographer and the poet; Vltava (Prague, n.d.), illustrated with five drypoints, signed, by Mario Stretti, and signed by Seifert at the colophon; Pisen o fletne (Brno, n.d.), illustrated with a drypoint, signed, by Cyril Bouda, no. 50 from an edition of 58, signed by Seifert

• Ruth Stephan. Letters to John Stephan, 1938-73.

Ruth Walgreen Stephan and John Stephan began Tiger's Eye, the extraordinary little magazine of the arts, during their years in Westport, Connecticut, in the 1940s. Although the magazine persisted for only nine issues, it made waves in the world of arts and letters. The letters are accompanied by a chronology prepared by the Stephans' son John J. Stephan, an expert in Russian history at the University of Hawaii.

• Sylvia Plath "Hear the crickets chirping...:" and "I saw a little birdie..." 16 May 1941.

Both poem manuscripts have scansion marks and feet; annotated by Aurelia Plath, on verso of Boston University stationery. Written by the author when she was 8 years old, these irresistible juvenilia artifacts complement other items in the collection of Betsy Beinecke Shirley.

• Thornton Wilder. 87 letters written to Irene Worth, 1955-70, and a script, "A Life in the Sun." Worth appeared in Wilder's Alcestiad at the Edinburgh Festival in 1955 and there followed a deep friendship.

"Curious George Goes to Hospital"

H. A. Rey's archive, 1964-72, for the children's classic, including 2 sketches for Curious George Goes to the Hospital, 2 sketches of Curious George for bookmarks, photographs of H. A. Rey, and a letter by Rey to "Mr. Lee." Accompanied by a copy of Curious George Goes to the Hospital. The vast majority of Rey's archives are housed at the University of Southern Mississippi. Separate items are very rarely found.

• Peter E. Palmquist Photography Collection

Regarded as one of the finest collections on the history and practice of photography ever assembled in private hands, the Palmquist Collection includes more than 100,000 vintage photographs ranging from pioneer daguerreotypes to recent images by western women photographe rs as well as an extraordinary range of photographic literature, supporting documentation, and Mr. Palmquist's own research and writing files. The fifth and final installment of the collection, which arrived in New Haven in early August, itself consisted of more than 900 boxes. When added to the existing resources of the Western Americana Collection, the Palmquist material makes the Beinecke one of America's premier photography collections.

From the Library of Tony Zwicker

• Guillermo Deisler. Make Up: Visual Poetry. [Halle? 1988] copy 22/50.

• _____. Figuren Gedichte u.a. oder eine Visualisierung von Lese-prozessen. Halle, 1990, copy 21/50.

• _____. Unlesbar & Sprachlos. Visuelle Poesie. Halle, 1990, copy 13/50.

• Warja Lavater. Die seltsame Spiegelgasse. Zürich, 1966.

• _____. Die Leute. Ein Punktogramm. Bern, 1979.

• _____. Leidenschaft und Vernunft = Passion et raison = Passion and reason. Paris, 1985.

• Dieter Wagner. Is da wirgle a rua, oder Goethes Fettflecken. Berlin, 1985.

A well-known collector and curator of livres d'artistes and beloved advisor and friend to artists, authors, and collectors, Tony Zwicker was born in Switzerland in 1925. She immigrated to the United States in 1951, and by the 1960s Ms. Zwicker had begun a long association with the National Arts Club. Her home in Gramercy Park became a mecca to those involved in the book arts. After her death in 2000, Ms. Zwicker's husband Moore Crossey (retired curator of Yale's African Collection at Sterling Library) offered a selection of her library for sale. Displayed are some of the titles acquired for the German Literature Collection.

Theorizing that language often chains the mind to a particular, often political interpretation of experience, the Chilean/German artist Deisler created what he called visual poetry, made up of typographic elements. The first Deisler title listed above might be translated "Unreadable and without Language."

Warja Lavater, who recently celebrated her 90th birthday in Zürich, has illustrated many children's books. The accordion format, used in the first and third titles listed above, has proved especially expressive of her representation of sequence. The Neue Zürcher Zeitung quotes Ms. Lavater on the nature of one of her books: "It has a beginning and it has an end - inside a binding."

Dieter Wagner's typographic interpretation of "Über allen Gipfeln ist Ruh" joins the collection as a particularly unusual piece of reception history. Goethe's well-known poem, rendered in Swiss dialect, is printed in large letters on the inner sides of the folded pages, in a greasy ink intended to migrate through the paper to produce ghost-like patterns on the other side (hence the subtitle, "Goethe's grease spots"). Wagner is a typographer who, since the early 1960s, has been experimenting with printing equipment made obsolete by computer technology.

• International Finance Center.

  A joint project of the International Center for Finance at the Yale School of Management and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. This collaborative undertaking with the International Center for Finance reflects the recognition that the preservation and study of historical documents is vital to the broader scholarship on the role of capital markets in society. The collection was founded in 2001 with an initial matching gift from an anonymous donor. Recent acquisitions include documents relating to the development of capital markets in Europe, Colonial America and the United States. Highlights of the early European material include a 1621 bond issued by the first modern corporation, the Dutch East India Company and a1648 perpetuity that continues to pay interest until today, the Lekdijk Bovendams water board. The early American financial documents include a significant portion of the former Donaldson, Lufkin, Jenrette Collection of materials relating to the financing of the American Revolution. Many of the current items in the collection can be viewed in electronic form in the Beinecke Digital Library by searching for the word Finance.

  The Beinecke collections include a number of other documents related to the history of Finance. Among these are the Spinelli Collection and a complete run of The New York Shipping and Commercial List. The latter contains the official price list of the New York Stock Exchange from 1816 to 1854, and can also be accessed in electronic form by researchers via the web-site of the International Center for Finance.To search Beinecke s collection for other materials related to finance, consult ORBIS, the Finding Aids Database, and the database of Uncataloged Accessions using subject headings, keywords, and format descriptions, such as: Finance History; Money History; stocks; and bonds. (Search results in ORBIS can be limited to Beinecke only.) The International Center for Finance at the Yale School of Management has a permanent exhibit of documents from the history of financial innovation on display at 46 Hillhouse Avenue. You may also visit the website for this exhibit.

• Boethius. De arithmetica . Germany, ca. 1000.

  This parchment bifolium derives from an elegant Ottonian manuscript of the most influential mathematical treatise of the Latin Middle Ages, Boethius' De arithmetica . In spite of its poor state of preservation, it is a model of calligraphy and an eloquent witness to an otherwise lost manuscript of considerable beauty. The text is heavily glossed by medieval readers, demonstrating that it was an object of intensive study in its early years.

• Jean Cuvelier. Bertrand du Guesclin. France, ca. 1400.

  Bertrand du Guesclin (1320-80) was one of France's first national heroes. This rhymed chronicle is among the last of the representatives of the genre of chansons de geste and is biographical as well as historical, much of the information reported in it coming from contemporaries of Guesclin. This illuminated manuscript was in the Bourbon library, as well as that of Etienne Tabourot, of Richard Heber, and of Sir Thomas Phillipps.

• Seneca. Tragedies . Italy, ca. 1400.

  Based on Greek models, Seneca's tragedies are the sole surviving representatives of the genre from ancient Rome. Virtually unknown in the Middle Ages, Seneca's tragedies were rediscovered by the early humanists in Padua and became enormously influential on the subsequent development of the genre in Europe. This manuscript is extensively annotated, providing insights into the understanding of the work in a humanist circle in late fourteenth-century Tuscany.

• Canon Table. Ethiopia, 15th century.

  This paper leaf from the Eusebian canon table comes from an early manuscript of the Ethiopic Gospels. Named for the fourth-century theologian and biblical critic who developed them, the canon tables identify in separate columns the parallel passages in the Gospels. The architectural and decorative motives in this example are in the style of Late Antique manuscripts, where such decorations were the earliest type of illustrations in Gospel books.

• Angela of Foligno. Liber Visionum et instructionum . Italy, 1492.

  Scion of a wealthy Umbrian family who in mid-life joined the order of Franciscan tertiaries, Angela of Foligno (ca. 1248-1309) was author of two important medieval mystical texts. Dictated to her confessor, Fra Arnoldo, the Book of Visions tells the story of Angela's ecstatic experiences. The Book of Instructions are her posthumously collected sayings and advice to other Franciscans on the search for God. This manuscript, dated 1492 by the scribe, preserves its original—if worn—binding.

• Ferial Psalter and breviary. Liege, 1499-1500.

  Signed in three places and dated in four by the scribe, Fr. Guetsen, this charmingly decorated Psalter was produced for use in the diocese of Liége at the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth century. The calendar and litanies include notice of saints peculiar to Liége, and the decoration is in a folksy style typical of early sixteenth-century work in the area.

• Universidad de Salamanca. Constitutiones apostolicas, y estatutos de la muy insigne Universidad de Salamanca. Recopilados nuevamente por su comision . Salamanca, 1625

  This printed collection contains the constitution and statutes of the University of Salamanca, an important center in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries for Catholic theology and a focus for the Counter-Reformation. This copy contains three appended cedulas not recorded in any other copy.

• Marin Mersenne. Traité de l'harmonie universelle. Où est contenu la Musique théorique & pratique des anciens & modernes, avec les causes de ses effets. Enrichie de raisons prises de la philosophie & des mathématiques . Paris, 1627.

  Father Mersenne (15881648) was one of the most distinguished scientists of his day as well as a friend and correspondent of Descartes. A disciple and editor of Galileo, he was among the first scientists to have a laboratory of his own and pioneered quantum physics. His most important work was in acoustics. In the words of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , Mersenne was "the first to formulate rules governing vibrating strings, based on an understanding of the variable factors on which pitch depends (length, diameter, tension and mass of the vibrating body), and the first to discern the nature of partials (harmonies) related to a fundamental note. He contributed to the theory of tuning and temperament through a synthesis of knowledge of earlier systems, and he advocated an equal temperament intended for practical application in the construction of certain instruments." The second part of the book discusses the "harmonies of the planets" and the systems of Tycho and Copernicus as well as Kepler's Harmonices mundi.

• A hitherto unrecorded early seventeenth-century volume containing ten texts, including an Elizabethan version of the Middle-English abridgement of Giraldus Cambrensis, with Edmund Spenser's Viewe of the Present State of Ireland . Cambrensis (ca. 1146-1227), a cleric in the service of Henry II, provides the principal first-hand account of the Norman conquest of Ireland, in this "modernized" Elizabethan version of the abridged Middle-English translation of his Expugnatio Hibernica .

• Molière. L'imposteur ou le Tartuffe . Paris, 1669.

  Tartuffe , one of Molière's greatest and most complex plays, was, along with Dom Juan , the one that put him into the most political trouble. The first three acts were performed in May 1664, under the title L'Hipocrite , during great feasts at Versailles. Owing to the play's religious context, a cabale was immediately formed around the Queen Mother and the play was banned. The King's sisterinlaw, Henrietta of England (daughter of Charles I), had a private performance arranged later in the same year, and the full play was first given before another royal princess at the invitation of the Prince de Condé. The first public performance took place in August 1667, under the new title L'imposteur, but once again the play was immediately banned. More private performances followed, but it was only in 1669 that the ban was lifted and the play was performed and published.

  This first issue of the first edition is entitled L'imposteur ou le Tartuffe , whereas others have it the other way round. It is also notable for the omission of one character, Elmire, Orgon's wife. The omission was corrected in a contemporay hand in this copy, bound in a late eighteenthcentury French binding. It comes from the collection of the English poet and bibliophile Frederick Locker-Lampson and joins the seven other 1669 printings of Tartuffe in the Molière collection of Walter Pforzheimer, the most distinguished outside France.

• Jewish Colonial Documents

  This collection of 58 manuscript documents, covering the years 16911801, was formed by Samuel Oppenheim, former director of the American Jewish Historical Society in Boston. Many are findings or judgments in lawsuits. Others are receipts for merchandise and promisory notes. The names represented include some of the wealthiest and most prominent members of the Jewish communities, chiefly Sephardic, in New York and Philadelphia. Among them are Lewis Gomez, Barnard Gratz, Ephraim Hart, Manuel Josephson, Isaac Moses, the silversmith Myer Myers (recently the subject of an exhibition at the Yale University Art Gallery), Jonas Phillips, Benjamin and Gershom Mendes Seixas, as well as the Bueno, Da Costa, Franks, Hays, Levy, and Nathan families.

• Early 18th century verses and ballads.

  The individual manuscripts in this collection, in a variety of anonymous hands, are pasted down and inserted into this volume from the library of Lord Braye. Many years ago James Osborn acquired the Braye Lute Book, one of the Osborn Collection's great treasures, from the same source. The Braye Lute Book is one of the earliest sources of English lute music and also contains verses, including the full text of the song that Benedict sings in the last act of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing , "The god of love that sits above…."

• Christina Rosina Spitzel. Poetische Ergötzungs-Stunden . Augsburg, 1731.

  Previously unrepresented in the Yale collections, Christian Rosina Spitzel was born in Augsburg in 1710, the daughter of the engraver Johann August Corvinus (who engraved the frontispiece in this book). Christina was also active as an engraver, but died at the age of 30, before her career as either an artist or a poet could mature. Her poems, which cover a broad range of subjects, seem to hover between the baroque and the Enlightenment.

• Johann Christian Trömer. Von Kron-Prince Friederic wie Ihr Keburhß-Tagk war, Ihr Kneckt, die Deusch-Francos Sie wünsch kut neue Jahr . Dresden, 1741.
  

• _____, Willkomm Groß Koenigkin, Willkomm die Dritt August, die Deusch-Francos wünsch Klück aus von sein treue Brust . Dresden, 1743.

  Two occasional poems, in honor August III, king of Poland and elector of Saxony, and his oldest son, Friedrich Christian. We have transcribed the titles in detail to give a sense of the amusing dialect employed by Johann Trömer, a curious late-baroque German humorist who adopted the persona of a Frenchman trying to write German—hence his sobriquet "Deusch-Francos." Trömer was in fact not French. He was born in Dresden, worked as a bookseller's apprentice, and then became attached to the court of the Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels, perhaps as something of a court jester. His longer works, which were quite popular at the time, are illustrated with often scurrilous engravings.

• Continental Lottery Collection

  A group of 41 documents related to the scheme devised by the Continental Congress in 1776 to raise funds for the war effort. This varied lot of manuscript and printed documents includes accounting sheets, lists of agents, receipts, a printed ticket for the third class (1779-80) lottery, and letters from lottery agents in Pennsylvania, Virginia, New Hampshire, Maryland, and Connecticut.

• Johann Jakob Hottinger. Briefe von Selkof an Welmar . Zurich, 1777.

  Goethe and Hottinger maintained a friendly relationship, despite the fact that Hottinger wrote parodies of several Goethe texts. This epistolary novel, letters from the young Selkof to his older, philosophical friend Welmar, satirizes The Sorrows of Young Werther and in its time was seen as a roman à clef about Zurich society.

• Bernard Romans . A chorographical map of the Northern Department of NorthAmerica, drawn from the latest and most accurate observations. Amsterdam, 1780.

  The Swissborn Bernard Romans (ca. 172084) lived in the British colonies from 1757 to 1780. He settled in Connecticut in the early 1770s and in 1775 published the book he is famous for, A concise natural history of East and West Florida . In 1775, he accompanied Benedict Arnold on his expedition to Fort Ticonderoga and was involved in the capture of Fort George.

  As a cartographer, Romans is closely associated with Connecticut and New Haven, where he formed a partnership with the engraver Abel Buell, who printed several of his larger maps, including the first issue of this chorographical map of the Northern Department, of which two examples are now known. Of this reissue by Covens and Mortier, only one other example is recorded. The map shows the then disputed territories of Vermont, New Hampshire, and upstate New York, as well as part of Connecticut and Massachusetts.

• Johann Gottlieb Naumann. "Auf den Auen wandlen wir." Autograph score of a setting of Goethe's poem. Copenhagen, 1785.

  The German composer and conductor Naumann lived in Stockholm from 1777 to 1786, with guest appearances in Copenhagen and Dresden. This score for female voice and piano is his only Goethe setting, and the only manuscript of the song known to survive. The poem is a translation of a French song; Goethe sent the text to the countess Tina von Brühl, who in turn sent it to the composer.

• William Hayley. Essai satirique et amusant sue les vieilles filles . Paris, 1788.

  The first edition in French of Hayley's Philosophical and Historical and Moral Essay on Old Maids, first published in 1785. Hayley's study of the character, position, and history of older single women_including examples of literary old maids in English literature_was reviled by contemporary women writers. Anna Seward said that the book "so wantonly betrayed the cause it affected to defend that she could wish it had never passed the press".

• SaintCharles. Autograph report, ca. 179599.

• D'Aubignasc. Autograph letter, signed, to Marshal Pierre Augereau, duc de Castiglione, 31 August 1812.

• The first document is an intelligence report from an agent named SaintCharles to government officials in the later years of the French Revolution, on missions in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. At the head of the report is a note from the official who read it.

  The second document, in the hand of a copyist, is a report from Hamburg (then under French administration) from an intelligence agent to Marshal Augereau, concerning the arrival in the Hamburg suburb of Attona (Altona) of an agent of the Hessian Elector, just come from Gothemburg and travelling with an Englishspeaking woman and a French grenadier who had deserted from the army then engaged in Spain against the Wellingtonled English troups. D'Aubignasc suggests that relevant intelligence could be obtained from them and recommends that they be immediately arrested and their papers seized.

• Taschenbuch für Freunde der Freude und des gesellschaftlichen Gesanges . Leipzig [ca. 1800].

  This charming anthology, despite its estimated imprint date, contains poets of the generation just before Goethe, members of the so-called Göttingen Hainbund. These writers—Hölty, Voss, and the counts Stolberg, among others—revered Klopstock and wrote mostly nature poetry. The volume contains 100 pages of music, including a setting of Schiller's "Ode to Joy" by Müller, perhaps the J. Christian Müller whom Goedeke identifies as having set the poem soon after its first appearance in 1786.

• Mary Elliott. My father . Philadelphia: Marshall, Clark and Co.; Providence: Marshall, Brown and Co., 1834

  A popular children's title that was republished often in the early part of the nineteenth century, this copy contains the unique addition of poems copied in the hand of its young owner, one Benjamin Franklin Bliven. As was common with this format of hand-colored book, the pages were printed only on one side, leaving half of the folded openings blank. Young master Blivens has supplied a number of poems, likely learned at school or church, including "The Bower of Prayer" and "God Always Sees Me."

• Giacomo Meyerbeer . L'Africaine . Holograph shortscore manuscript, 1843.

  L'Africaine , officially the last of Meyerbeer's operas, premiered at the Paris Opera in 1865 (the year after his death), is the one with the longest and most complex history. As this recently discovered manuscript shows, a first version of the work was completed in November 1843. This version was planned as early as 1837, the libretto being adapted by Eugène Scribe from the Millevoye play Le mancenillier , about a lovestruck young woman committing suicide by breathing the odor of the poisonous tree. The project was derailed when Cornélie Falcon, the star of the Paris Opera (who had premiered Les Huguenots and La Juive ), lost her voice permanently at the age of 24, and Meyerbeer then started working on Le prophète while completing the present work.

  The libretto as set here is based on a love quadrangle: a Spanish naval officer Fernand; his fiancee Inez; his slave Selika, who falls in love with him; and his rival Salvator. In the new version Meyerbeer started working on in 1853, Fernand became Vasco de Gama, which became the title of the opera, though Fétis, who prepared the work for the posthumous premiere, eventually reverted to the original title. This early draft, apparently never before available to scholars, reveals that some of the original music was recycled: Selika's Act 5 cavatine, "La haine m'abandonne," is here set to the music that subsequently became Fidès's famous Act 5 aria "O toi qui m'aban-donnes" in Le prophète .

• Henry James. The Europeans . The first 13 leaves of the 1878 novel, preceding the rest of Chapter One that has long been in the Yale Collection of American Literture.

• Jeu de la peche. Magnetic fishing game. Paris: L. Saussine, ca. 1880.

  A fascinating piece that brings together many interests—fishing, printing history, simple mechanics, and childhood amusements—, this game consists of a rotating "pond" filled with printed fish that must be caught using the supplied fishing rods while music plays (but watch out for the old boot!). The complete set of lithographed game pieces are housed within a beautifully illustrated case that has survived remarkably well since its creation, around 1880.

• Kurd Lasswitz. Nie und immer. Neue Märchen. Leipzig, 1902.

  Known in Germany as one of the founders of science fiction, Kurd Lasswitz (1848-1910) was much read in his time, especially the novel Auf zwei Planeten , which addresses social problems in a tale of peaceful invaders from Mars. The title page, text decoration, and endpapers in this collection of "new fairy tales" are by the Jugendstil artist Heinrich Vogeler, founder of the artists colony at Worpswede. Lasswitz's books were banned by the Nazis, but his reputation is growing once again. Germany's major science fiction literary prize is named for him.

• Harrison Cady. Original illustrations for "The Happychaps," [1908]

  Two scenes from the popular children's book by the humorist Carolyn Wells show the insectomorphic inhabitants of a child's fantasyland. In one, General Happychap is measured for a suit of clothes. The other depicts "A Pleasant Conversation" between a young lady and her suitor. a Jockey Hollow Fund

• Joachim Ringelnatz. Die Schnupftabaksdose . Munich, 1912.
  

• _____. Matrosen . Berlin, 1928.

  The nonsense verse in Schupftabaksdose (Snuffbox) is illustrated throughout by the Cologne artist Richard Seewald (1889-1976). The collection is an early publication of the humorist Hans Bötticher (1883-1934), who in 1912 had not yet adopted the pseudonym by which he is commonly known, Joachim Ringelnatz ("Ringelnatz" is a harmless water snake). Matrosen , about sailors and the sea, contains poems, narratives, bits of memoir, photographs, drawings (also by Ringelnatz), and several sea chanteys in the original English with German translations. Ringelnatz went to sea as a young man and was a naval officer during the First World War.

• Marjorie Bowen. Papers

  Gabrielle Margaret Vere Campbell (18861952) was one of the most prominent popular writers of her age, producing histories, biographies, and (especially) historical novels under the names Marjorie Bowen (the one she used most often), Robert Paye, George Preedy, John Winch, and, from 1932 onwards, Joseph Shearing, which she used most often for her crime fiction. As she kept those pseudonyms secret, except to her publishers, it may be that she wrote under further ones.

  Her bestknown work is probably Forgetmenot (1932, also published as Lucile Cléry, A Woman of Intrigue , and The Strange Case of Lucile Cléry ), a highly fictional novelization of the notorious assassination of the Duchess of Praslin by her husband in 1847. "Lucile Cléry," painted in particularly dark colors, was in real life Henriette DeluzyDesportes, who later emigrated to America and married the Reverend Henry Field of Stockbridge and New York. Rachel Field was prompted to respond by a novel of her own (also much romanticized), the bestseller All This, and Heaven Too (1938).

  The collection acquired by the Beinecke includes all of Bowen's extant papers, including unpublished works.

• Nelson Morpurgo. Papers

  This collection of papers of the Cairoborn Italian futurist (1899-1978) comprises early literary fragments, the manuscript of his poem Il fuoco delle piramidi (published in 1923), autobiographical texts written in the 1960s, photographs, and an issue of La semaine égyptienne for 31 October 1932 containing an article on Morpurgo by Jean Moscatelli as well as a contribution from Valentine de Saint Point.

• Tullio D'Albisola. L'anguria lirica . Roma and Savona, 1933.

  D'Albisola (18991971) is one of the great names of the second futurist generation: a ceramist as well as a poet, he produced books on metal, two of which are considered among the finest achievements of the period: the first, already in the Beinecke collections, is Parole in libertà , on texts by Marinetti himself; the second, L'anguria lirica (The lyrical watermelon), is a "long passionate poem," with an introduction by Marinetti, "of the Italian Academy," and illustrations by the futurist poet and artist Bruno Munari. It seems that far fewer than the announced 101 copies were actually produced, and fewer still survive.

• Ralph Bates. Papers

  Born in 1899 in Swindon, Ralph Bates started working as a carpenter at the age of 16. One year later, he enlisted and served in the Royal Flying Corps until the end of the First World War. In 1923 he went to Spain, where he worked as a mechanic, living first in the Pyrenees region, later on the Costa Brava. Spain was the backdrop to his first two novels, Sierra (1933) and Lean Mean (1936). The next, The Olive Field (1936), is based on the events that led to the Spanish Civil War, in which Bates was an active participant. He became editor of Volunteer for Liberty , the magazine of the International Brigades. Sent on a mission by the Spanish government to the United States, he met his future wife, Eva Salzman. After the Republican defeat, he and his wife lived in Mexico, which inspired the novel Fields of Paradise (1940), eventually settling in New York, where he taught at N.Y.U. until his retirement in 1968. He returned to Spain after Franco's death and, shortly before his own in November 2000, at the age of 101, was honored in Berlin for his participation in the Spanish Civil War.

  The papers just acquired by the Beinecke comprise his extant archive, including manuscripts of published and unpublished books (the latter including a journal on the island of Naxos, where the Bateses sojourned frequently in his last three decades), correspondence, and personal papers.

• Vicki Hearne. Papers.

  The poetry manuscripts, essays, and books on animal behavior in this collection document Vicki Hearne's career as an animal trainer who used poetry and prose to express her belief that pets possess courage, wisdom, and intellect. She taught at Yale, 1984-86, and was a fellow at the Institution for Social Policy Studies at Yale from 1989 until 1995.

• Vicki Hearne. The Parts of Light . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1994.

• John Knowles. Papers.

  The manuscripts of all Knowles's books are present, save A Separate Peace, which was given to Philips Exeter Academy, the site of its inspiration. The collection includes photographs, correspondence, business papers, and tear sheets of his many articles for Holiday and other magazines.

• James Merrill. The Thousand and Second Night . Athens: Privately Printed at the Christos Christom Press [1963].

  One of 50 copies printed and one of some 20 copies that Merrill embellished with hand-painted watercolors of a sun and a moon. This copy is inscribed to Stephen Yenser.

• Jackson Mac Low. The Pronouns: A Collection of 40 Dances . New York: Tetrad, 1971.

  This edition of 75 copies includes nine silkscreen prints by Ian Tyson. Signed by the poet and artist. Because many copies were destroyed in a flood, this is a particularly scarce edition of an important modern title.

• Jorie Graham. All Things. Iowa City: Empyrean Press, 2002.

  Printed in an edition of 315 copies. A pastel drawing by Ronald Cohen was re-created on the title page and printed from photopolymer plates. The title poem of this collection appears in this edition only.