Bound Manuscripts in the George Peabody Library

Early Modern and 18th Century
 
"Album amicorum et patronorum."  Fifteen examples. Mostly German, mostly mid-17th-century. Mostly in oblong octavo format, most in elaborately tooled contemporary bindings. One of them has a number of musical quotations.
Peabody R.B. 091 A345 Duodecimo

Calder, James. "Surveyor's book of Baltimore County in the province of Maryland, 1771": with the signatures of the landholders at the time. Chiefly description of plats, in MS. of James Calder, Deputy Surveyor of Baltimore County. 275 p. ; 32 cm. Pages 255-258 lacking. “Two thirds of a dollar. No. 5347" (issued at Annapolis, 1774) mounted on fly-leaf. A few sheets of other MS. material of different periods laid in.
Peabody R.B. 333.3 C146 QUARTO (on shelves above duodecimos, 1/06)

"Christoforus Parisiensis. Lucidarium." [S.l., 15--?]. [3], 137 p. : illus. ; 22 cm. Manuscript, partly in Spanish, mostly in Latin, concerning early chemistry and medicine. Many marginal notes in a later hand.
Peabody R.B. 540 C556

[Gilpin, William.] Pattenden, Thomas. “Extracts from the remarks on forest scenery.” Dover: transcribed for my own use by me, Th Pattenden, 1796. Manuscript extracts from William Gilpin’s Remarks on forest scenery (London 1791; Peabody Stacks 634.942 G489), with wash drawings reproducing some of Gilpin’s hand-colored aquatints.
MSEL Special Collections Bib # 2557872 (2005), but purchased for Peabody. A work that was influential in popularizing the sensibility of the “picturesque.”

Haya, Deigo de la. "Chronologia geographica historial, y resumen particular, y general de los crecidos gastos que de la real hacienda se executan cada año para mantenerlo. Origen de los ramos que entran en sus arcas, lo que produce cada uno, y para que efecto se constituyeron. Como tambien las medidas de el reyno, y sus provincias; las ciudadas, villas, pueblos, fortalezas, y cassas; infantes, vecinos, hombres de armas, artilleria, municiones, y otras cosas segun se hallan en este presente año de MDCCXVI."
Description:  [8], 352, [7] l. ; 31 cm. [Manuscript.] First page of introduction illuminated, and with silk guard-sheet.
Peabody R.B. 918.6 H413 QUARTO

Harden, I. Collection of escutcheons emblazoned in their proper colours / [MS. with 20 leaves of hand-colored drawings]. Petworth, 1778.
Peabody Stacks 929.642 H259

Islamic MSS: two examples, both probably c18 or later. One may be a book of selections from the Koran in a 19th-century(?) Islamic-style binding, flap broken off. The other may be a Persian MS, bound in a worn 19th-century(?) painted binding.
Peabody R.B., Incunables cabinet.

[Le Rouge, George Louis.] "Fortifications des frontieres de France." 1755. 89 leaves of pen-and-ink and watercolor plans of French forts (including New Orleans and Quebec). Bound with a copy of the index from the printed edition. Finely bound in contemporary gold-tooled morocco, with formerly "gilt" endpapers (now green). Peabody R.B. 623.1944 L617 1755

Compare with the printed edition:
Le Rouge, Georges-Louis. Recueil des fortifications, forts, et ports de mer de France, lavé au pinceau. Paris, Le Rouge [ca. 1760]. Peabody R.B. 623.1944 L617 1760

Patterson, William. “The commercial receipt-book of William Patterson, merchant of Baltimore, prest. of the old Bank of Maryland, and father-in-law to Jerome Bonaparte, containing original names of the most prominent men of Baltimore-Town in early days, also many original signatures of the old defenders, together with a variety of old original letters &c. of the province of Maryland and Baltimore-Town, 1750, 1760, 1785, 1790.” Cover title: “Baltimore Town. The Bonaparte Patterson papers. 1785.” N.B. there is another volume apparently from the same series at Garrett, with Signers collection.
Peabody R.B. 975.26 P318.

“Po Ku T’ou.” Manuscript of rare work on ancient Chinese bronzes, Japanese edition. 18th- or 19th-century. Provenance: Heber Bishop sale (1906).
Peabody Stacks 709 .B622 Quarto Bishop sale no. 2954.

Quesnel, Pasquier, 1634-1719. "Petit extrait du Nouvau Testamt de Noste seigneur Jesus Christ: avec l'Abrégé de la moreals de l'Evangile, ou pensées chrestiennes sur le texte des quatre evangelistes." 1720. [1] leaf, 492, [6] p. [Manuscript]; 14 cm. Excerpts from each chapter of the Gospels and Acts are followed by excerpts from Quesnel.
Peabody R.B. 226 1720 Duodecimo

Rider, Cardanus. "Rider’s British Merlin." (London 1745). Interleaved (presumably as issued); the interleaved pages are filled with contemporary manuscript notes mostly on geographic subjects (descriptions of the countries and cities of the world, comments about navigation, a summary of the central tenets of the Koran, etc.)
Peabody R.B. 314.2 R888 1745 duodecimo.

Sullivan, Thomas. "Elements of geometry: containing those of Euclid with many useful additions. Wrote by Thomas Sullivan, teacher of the Practical Mathematics." [MS.]. [S.l], 1796. 4to. Pages (eg. 173) ruled in blind for writing. Large portions devoted to astronomy. Many drawings (diagrams), woodcuts, and engravings tipped and pasted in. No obviously corresponding published book listed in OCLC or ESTC, 5/07.
Peabody R.B. 513 S952 QUARTO.

19th-Century

"Father Abraham." Farmer’s Almanack (Baltimore: Warner and Hanna, 1806).
Bound with 25 pages of manuscript in a contemporary hand. Includes a list of members of Congress; lists of ships in naval battles of 1805 and 1806, including Cadiz and Trafalgar; a few paragraphs on Maryland legal matters.
Peabody RB 529.43 F233 1805

Foster, Joseph, 1844-1905. Bar book of Lincoln's Inn / [ms.]. (fol. ledger book in vellum binding). Peabody Stacks 340.7 L741F QUARTO

Johnson, Reverdy, Jr., 1826-1907. "Seeings and doings in foreign parts." Manuscript journal from Aug. 7, 1843, to April 12, 1845. Three volumes.  Peabody R.B. 914 J68

"Proces verbaux des seances du Consistoire de l'église de Genève, 1544-1814." [introd. 1853]
xvii, 459 p. ; 28 cm. Manuscript. Notes extracted from the Registres du consistoire de l'église de Genève. Introduction signed: A.C.
Peabody Stacks 274.94 G328 QUARTO

Puchta, Georg Friedrich, 1798-1846. "Pandekten" / [MS.]. Berlin, 1844-1845. Bequest of Reverdy Johnson, Jr.
Peabody Stacks 349.375 P977 QUARTO

Ranke, Leopold von, 1795-1886." Bemerkungen uber die gesichte der neuesten zeti" / [MS.]. Berlin, 1844. 17 cm. Bequest of Reverdy Johnson, Jr.
Peabody Stacks 909 R198B DUODECIMO

Vangerow, Karl Adolph von, 1808-1870. "Pandekten" [MS.]. Heidelberg, 1845-1846. Bequest of Reverdy Johnson, Jr.
Peabody Stacks 349.37 V253P QUARTO
 
Vangerow, Karl Adolph von, 1808-1870. "Geschichte des roemischen privatrechts" [MS.]. Heidelberg , 1845. Bequest of Reverdy Johnson, Jr.
Peabody Stacks 349.3709 V253 QUARTO
 
Vangerow, Karl Adolph von, 1808-1870. "Institutionen des roemischen rechtes" [MS.]. Heidelberg, 1844. Bequest of Reverdy Johnson, Jr.
Peabody Stacks 349.37 V253 QUARTO

Zoepfl, Heinrich. "Allgemeines und europaeisches voelkerrecht" / [MS.]. Heidelberg, 1845. Bequest of Reverdy Johnson, Jr. Printed form pasted to rear pastedown: “Vorlesungen von Professor Dr. Zöpfl ... Für Herrn Akademiker Johnson.”
Peabody Stacks 349.94 Z85A QUARTO

Zoepfl, Heinrich. "Deutsche staats-und rechtsgeschichte" / [MS.]. Heidelberg, 1845. Bound with: Zoepfl, Heinrich. "Lehnrecht "/ [MS.]. Heidelberg, 1845.  Bequest of Reverdy Johnson, Jr.
Peabody Stacks 349.44 Z85 QUARTO