Houghton Library Blog

Here are the complete works and collections we’ve digitized in the last three months. Highlights include programs from the Ballets Russes, a 16th century manuscript map of the Mediterranean, and the typescript of a play by Henry James.

Les adieux d’un cosmopolite aux Marseillois; traduit de l’anglois par l’abbé Ouvière.
Fr 1345.13.5.5 no.2

Alger, William Rounseville, 1822-1905. The solitudes of nature and of man; or, The loneliness of human life, 1867. Herman Melville copy.
AC85 M4977 Zz867a2

Ballets Russes. Programs, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées. Saison Russe 1913.
MS Thr 965 (7)

Bell’Haver, Thomaso. Dottrina facile, et breve per ridurre l’hebreo al conoscimento del vero Messia, & Saluator del mondo, 1608.
IC6.B4168.608d

Bononcini, Giovanni, 1670-1747. Astianatte ; Calfurnia : manuscript, [ca. 1727].
M1505.B724 A85 1727

Costa, Margherita. Cecilia martire : poema sacro, 1644.
IC6 C8234 644c

Costa, Margherita. La selva di Cipressi : opera lugubre, 1640.
Typ 625.40.299

Divine examples of God’s severe judgments upon Sabbath-breakers, in their unlavvful sports, 1671.
EB65 A100 B675b v.3

Drum beat (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.), no. 1-12, [Feb.] 22-March 5, 1864.
US 6090.33

Dupaty, Charles-Marguerite-Jean-Baptiste Mercier, 1746-1788. Justification de sept hommes condamnés par le Parlement de Metz en 1769 sur les seules dépositions de juifs-plaignans, 1787.
FC7 D9255 787j

Fairchild, Blair, 1877-1933. Dame Libellule : ballet-pantomime, op. 44, c1919.
M1523.F2 D3 1919

Felton, C. C. (Cornelius Conway), 1807-1862. Papers : concerning spiritualism : manuscript, 1857.
MS Am 735

Foerster, Wendelin, 1844-1915, copyist. Gliglois [Manuscript transcription and notes by Foerster and J. Müller of MS L. IV 33 (later burnt in 1904 fire) of the National Library of Turin.]
MS Fr 506

Ford, John, 1586-approximately 1640. ‘Tis pitty shee’s a whore. acted by the Queenes Maiesties Seruants, at The Phoenix in Drury-lane, 1633.
STC 11165

France. Parlement (Metz). Arrest du Parlement Cour des momroyes, 1763.
FC7 F844P8 763a

Francisco A. Colombo en sus cincuenta años de labor gráfica : palabras pronunciadas en su homenaje, 1942.
LAC9.C7174.942f (A)

Fuller and Horsey (Firm). The Soho mint, near Birmingham : a catalogue of the valuable machinery and plant of the Soho mint, 1850.
89-582

Harvard Semitic Museum. Handlist of Arabic MSS. Manuscript, [ca. 1959].
Z6621.H27 A7 1959

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911. Correspondence, 1843-1911.
MS Am 1162.10

James, Henry, 1843-1916. The outcry. A comedy in three acts : typescript mimeograph? copy (some signed); Lamb House, Rye, ca. 1909.
MS Am 1237.12 (3)

Lawes, William, 1602-1645. Music for three lyra viols : manuscript, [16–].
MS Mus 70

Libertus, bp. of Berissa, supposed author. Auszlegung und bedeutnusz der creutz so yetzo fallen, durch den hochwirdigen fursten und hern Libertum, bischoff zu Gerice zesamen gelesen und beschriben, [ca. 1500]
24277.25*

Maggiolo, Vesconte, active 1504-1549. [Portolan chart of the Mediterranean] : manuscript, 1513 Aug. 29.
MS Ital 144

O’Byrne, Michael, copyist. Ag so Duainaire Aodha mac Seain Ui Bhruin ó Glen Moluara : manuscript, 1726-1728.
MS Ir 6

Palfrey, John Carver, 1833-1906. Private journal of the siege of Port Hudson, La., 1863, 1903.
MS Am 1704.15 (51)

Polanzani, Francesco, 1700- La penna da scrivere all’ uso corrente, [1768?]
TypW 725.68.706

Progetto [Prospectus proposing the construction of what would become the Teatro Carlo Lodovici in Livorno], 1803.
IC8.A100.803p

Sapho : souvenir program, 1900.
MS Thr 712 (87)

Seymour, Henry, 1860- The genesis of anarchism in England. Manuscript, undated.
MS Am 1614 (359)

Simons, Joseph, 1593-1671. Theoctistvs, sive, Constans in aula virtus, 1653.
EC65.Si575.653t

[Syriac] Extracts from theological texts : manuscript, 1896.
MS Syriac 45
Religious stories : manuscript, 1885.
MS Syriac 166
Hassan bar Bahlul, active 10th century. Leksiqon : manuscript, 1969-1972 [1658-1661].
MS Syriac 54

Taitbout de Marigny, Edouard, chevalier. Voyage en Circassie, 1821.
Slav 3425.2.5* Suppl.

Tchernicheva, Lubov. Lubov Tchernicheva papers.
MS Thr 464

Traslado de vna carta, que fue embiada de las yslas de Camboja y de Sian, tierra del rey Galllnato. [Spain : s.n., 1609].
49-708