Manuscripts by Melville and Mozart, and drawings by Thackeray and Vizetelly, are among this month’s newly digitized items. [Thanks to Emilie Hardman, Public Services/Metadata Assistant, and Susan Pyzynski, Associate Librarian for Technical Services, for contributing this post.]
Barras, Charles M. The black crook.
[n.p., ca. 1866]
MS Thr 271 (2)
Manuscript with revisions and stage directions in an unidentified hand of this “ORIGINAL MAGICAL and SPECTACULAR DRAMA” The Black Crook, wrote Mark Twain, “debauched many a pure mind” and was certainly a spectacle on the stage, though the page offers amusement as well: a cast list of immortals including “Stalacta” (the Queen of the Golden Realm), other assorted sprites, naiads, “submarine monsters,” and a chorus of some hundred amphibea [sic] (including the characters Hackletooth, Stickleback, Eeleye and Mulletmug). Among the primary dramatis personae are Count Wolfenstein (evil mastermind), Rodolphe (artist, starving), Hertzog (the hideous magician) and Von Puffengruntz (the rubicund steward).
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:4645388
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Benvenga, Michele. La Santa Casa in Italia.
In Venetia: Appresso Gio: Francesco Valuasense, 1683.
*IC6.B4474.683s
17th century Italian poetry.
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:4657007
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Boemus, Joannes, ca. 1485-1535. Omnium gentium mores leges et ritus ex multis clarissimis rerum scriptoribus.
Augustae Vindelicorum : Excusa in officina Sigismundi Grim[m] medici, ac Marci Vuirsung, anno virginei partus, 1520, mense Iulio.
Typ 520.20.223
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:4677296
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Censuras do comento de Mel de Faria Os Luziadas de Camões.
Manuscript, 17th century.
Port 5280.381*
A collection of original documents for the trial, including the Informacion which Manuel de Faria e Sousa wrote in his own defense. This last is in his own hand, signed and dated: 10 de julho de 1640.
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:4661449
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Three volumes from the library of Emily Dickinson’s home library:
Dana, Charles A. (Charles Anderson), 1819-1897. The household book of poetry.
New York : D. Appleton and Company, 1860.
EDR 445
The voluminous volume contains sections with expected themes of love, friendship, tragedy and sorrow, as well as more unique sections on the themes of ambition, sentiment and reflection, and the imagination.
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:4628700
Milton, John, 1608-1674. Paradise lost : a poem, in twelve books.
Philadelphia : B. Warner; Griggs & Co., 1819.
EDR 523
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:4630192
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.The old curiosity shop, and other tales.
Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1842.
EDR 566
Read more about Emily Dickinson’s unexpected use of this book at Houghton’s Modern Books and Manuscript’s blog.
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:4629541
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Hook, Theodore Edward, 1788-1841.Tekeli; or, The siege of Montgatz. A melo drame in three acts.
London, C. and R. Baldwin, 1806.
*EC8 H7638 806c [No. 8]
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:4661450
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Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Billy Budd.
Manuscript, 19th century.
MS Am 188 (363)
The centerpiece of Houghton’s extensive collection of Herman Melville’s papers is the manuscript for Billy Budd. Use of the original is restricted due to the fragility of the many tipped-in slips of paper containing additions and changes. The manuscript is now fully digitized, showing both the slips and the text underneath.
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:4686413
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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791. Drafts for the sinfonia concertante, K. 364.
Manuscript, ca. 1779.
MS Mus 177
Recto: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:4678747?buttons=y
Verso: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:4678748?buttons=y
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Otley, Matthew, compiler. Cittern tablature.
Manuscript, 17th century.
MS Mus 181
Commonplace book with 109 compositions for cittern in tablature, as well as 12 consort pieces. Detailed description with incipits of all c. 1600 tablatures in John M. Ward’s “Sprightly and Cheerful Musick: notes on the cittern, gittern and guitar in 16th- and 17th-century England.” The Lute Society Journal 21 (1979-81).
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:4686836
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Rime per le nozze del nobilissimo cavaliere il signor marchese Tommaso Arrigoni marchese di Villadeati con la nobilissima dama la signora marchesa Costanza Strozzi.
In Verona : Per Giovanni Alberto Tumermani librajo, 1738.
*IC7.A100.738r
18th century Italian poetry.
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:4646629
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Sforza, Giovanni Maria, 17th cent. Lamento della regina d’Inghilterra, nella morte del re suo marito, decapitato dal popolo d’Inghilterra.
In Macerata : Nella stamparia di Serafino Paradisi. 1649.
*IC6.Sf579.649ℓ
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:4677295
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The Court of Momus : being a choice collection of original jests, bon-mots, repartees and anecdotes, calculated to dissipate melancholy, promote mirth and expel care.
London : Printed for J. Scales … by J. M’Gowen, [1802?]
*EC8 A100 B809j [No. 4.]
Early 19th century jest book.
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:4692849
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Tritto, Giacomo, 1733-1824. La vergine del sole : dramma per musica.
Napoli : [s.n.], 1786.
*2004T-377
18th century libretto.
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:4692851
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Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863. Drawings for Adventures of a French count.
Drawings, 1830s.
HEW 12.12.6
Album annotated (in unidentified hand): “Adventures of a French Count, unpublished story in 19 pictures, with text, by W.M. Thackeray. From the collection of Eyre Crowe. One of the finest Thackeray items in existence! This should be published as it is one of the most humorous works.”
Comic drawings in pencil and ink bound together in an album. This album belonged to the family of Eyre Evans Crowe (1799-1868) while they were living in Paris, in the late 1830s. Thackeray was a cousin who would visit in the evening and, to amuse the children, told stories while sketching. The drawings apparently poke fun at Thackery’s friend, artist John Grant Brine. The album reportedly remained in the hands of the Crowe family from that time on.
See items marked “Click for color digital images” in finding aid:
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou00206
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United States. Marshals Service. Entry, prize rum &c.
Manuscript, 1814-1815.
MS Am 1068
An account book of captured British “prize goods,” assessed by Thomas G. Thornton, Marshal of Maine.
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:4634515
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Vizetelly, Frank, 1830-1883.
Drawings, 1861-1865 and undated.
MS Am 1585
All drawings in this collection, including the detailed annotations and sketches on the versos, are now available digitally. Vizetelly’s drawings, primarily depicting scenes from the American Civil War, were created over the time he served as a British war correspondent for The Illustrated London News.
See items marked “Click for color digital image” in finding aid:
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou00067
