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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