#Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

[garadinervi]

Sketch of Emily Dickinson with signature in the hand of William Austin Dickinson, n.d. [Yale University Library, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, CT]

#drawing #sketch #poetry #emily dickinson #william austin dickinson #yale university library #beinecke rare book and manuscript library #no date

[nextstopwonderland]

Kind of obsessed with the Cipher Manuscript (aka the Voynich Manuscript) as seen on Mystery Files. Here’s some of the photos from The Beinecke.

The book has been fully digitized by them and is available here.

#voynich manuscript #mystery files #cipher manuscript #watcher #watcher entertainment #beinecke rare book and manuscript library

[nyxshadowhawk]

The Ars Notoria!

This is one of the grimoires of the Solomonic tradition of ceremonial magic. The Ars Notoria is technically part of the Lemegeton, but sometimes it’s treated as a separate text. I was expecting it to be in Latin, so I was pleasantly surprised to find that it was in English — very readable English, and in beautiful handwriting! It’s a translation of earlier Latin versions, but it has the feel of a personal Book of Shadows. A human wrote this. There are lines crossed off, words squeezed into the margins or added with little carrots.

This book is a great example of the fact that there’s a very fine line between a prayer and a spell. It mostly consists of a series of prayers and psalms, but it has some “voces magicae”-esque recitations of sacred names or multilingual incantations.

Did you know that hydromancy, pyromancy, and chiromancy count amongst the Liberal Arts? The Solomonic grimoires really make it clear how much magic is intertwined with the Liberal Arts (i.e. mathematics, philosophy, theology, grammar, rhetoric, astronomy, etc.). Many of the demons listed in the Ars Goetia teach these subjects (no wonder Faust was a scholar). The Ars Notoria says that you have to study certain liberal arts on specific days, just as you have to perform rituals on specific days and during specific planetary hours and so forth. And recite long mystical incantations before studying philosophy. Just like folk spells, these long prayers are supposed to have specific magical effects, like improving your memory and speech.

The Ars Notoria isn’t nearly as exciting as the Ars Goetia. I only found two magical figures in it. It took me way too long to realize that the mystical figures that surround the second one are, in fact, the alphabet. I guess that’s what you get when your grimoire is in English? Well no, actually. That figure actually demonstrates a handy spell that uses a magnetized needle (that’s what the symbol in the middle is meant to represent) to communicate with a friend at a long distance, using a method similar to an ouija board or one of those pendulum boards that you can get. As the needle turns, it spells out the message that your friend wants to send to you. Kind of interesting that this book includes a whole magical operation for something that we can do with our phones in an instant, and with much greater accuracy.

I looked up who Bernard Zufall was. Zufall was known for his ability to memorize anything, and had the largest collection of books dedicated to mnemonics, which was then donated to Yale University. He was more of a stage magician than a ceremonial magician. I’m not sure how or why he acquired an Ars Notoria, but I’m grateful that he did, because that means I get to see it.

#Ars Notoria #grimoire #manuscript #lesser key of solomon #solomonic magic #ceremonial magic #magic #occult #occultism #rare books #beinecke rare book and manuscript library #yale university

[darkarfs]

The walls in the Beinecke Library in New Haven, Connecticut are made of thin marble of varying colors with no windows. It lets in just the right amount of ambient light to protect the books.

#beinecke rare book and manuscript library

[returntomytilene]

Violet (Gaff) Shillito, also known as Violette, no date, unknown photographer.

Mabel Dodge Luhan Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Box 74, folder 2064a

#Photographies #Violet Shillito #Violette Shillito #Violet Gaff Shillito #VS photographie #Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library #Mabel Dodge Luhan Papers

[capn-o-my-soul]

just been scrolling through the beinecke library's digital manuscript collection and saw this gay little dude over a landscape staring at me

Source: Hours, use of Rome c. 1500. Published in Lyons, written in Latin and Middle French. Book of Hours in Latin with full calendar in French. From Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Digital Collections.

#book of hours #yale #beinecke rare book and manuscript library #art #medieval period

[benkaden]

Ansichtskarte / Vintage Postcard

The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

#New Haven #USA #Connectictut #Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library #Bibliothek #Philokartie #Bibliotheksphilokartie #deltiology #Bibliotheksarchitektur #LibraryArchitecture #GordonBunshaft #Architekturgeschichte #BeineckeLibrary #LibraryLife

[quejamasdespierte]

#beinecke rare book and manuscript library

[toomanyarguments]

#manuscript #calligraphy #visual writing #geometry #book #'abd al ghanī ibn ismā'īl al nābulusī #yale university library #beinecke rare book and manuscript library #1720s

[popsixesq]

Part of Collection — Box: 54, Folder: 956

Call Number: YCAL MSS 76, Series I

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas papers

Writings of Gertrude Stein, 1894-1947

GERTRUDE STEIN BIBLIOGRAPH

Matisse

Holograph manuscript, [1909]

#ARCHIVES.YALE.EDU #Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library #Yale University Library #Gertrude Stein #Alice B. Toklas #Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas papers #Writings of Gertrude Stein #1894 #1947 #1890s #1800s #1940s #1900s #GERTRUDE STEIN BIBLIOGRAPH #Matisse #Holograph manuscript #1909 #YCAL MSS 76 #Series I #Box: 54 #Folder: 956

[gregdotorg]

The Beinecke Library at Yale holds Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas' papers. The collection includes the photo at top, of Stein seated, with a shaggy poodle, and holding an unframed portrait of the poodle between them.

Stein and Toklas had three dogs over their life together, each they named Basket. This portrait is of Basket II, and it was painted by Marie Laurencin. It is illustrated above, in a gold frame, and is also in the Beinecke.

Many artworks in the Beinecke's collection migrate to the Yale University Art Gallery collection, but Laurencin's Basket II has not. One impact of that is the cataloguing data categories are different, and the painting's dimensions are not published. But it looks to be about 50 x 40 cm.

I really really do not want to be a dog painting person, but how can I look into those eyes and resist?

Thank you art historian Michael Lobel on Bluesky for helping me on my journey by posting this.

#marie laurencin #basket #basket ii #dog painting #gertrude stein #gertrude stein & alice b toklas #the beinecke rare book and manuscript library

[garadinervi]

Yayoi Kusama to Georgia O'Keeffe, (New Year's card), 1962 [Alfred Stieglitz / Georgia O'Keeffe archive, Box 199, Folder 3414, Yale University Library, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, CT]

#art #pattern #texture #collage #card #yayoi kusama #georgia o'keeffe #yale university library #beinecke rare book and manuscript library #1960s

[rhianna]

King of Spades

Description

                                   Title                                          [Court cards, Aces and tarots of German tarot]                                  

      Published / Created                                          1770 (circa)          

                               Publication Place                                          Germany      

                                  Description                                          Back: rosettes and diamonds, red

Borders: Square

Composition of Deck: 54 of 78 [A, K, Q, C, J, 10-2, trumps I-XXI, Fool], lacking AS, AC, KD, 6-2S, 10-5H, 10-5D, 5-2C.

Corners: Square

Court Cards: KS with sun face on chest; QS in left profile, with fleurs-de-lis; JS with leaping dog; KH with orb and sword; Münchener Kindl on chest; KC with shield at feet: LH: JC: Antontoni Fedtcher: Minchen.

Notes and References: D. Hoffmann and E. Kroppenstedt 1967, p. 13, no. 2.

Process: Block and stencil

Stance of Court Cards: Single Figure

Suit System: French

Trumps: Trump I depicts jester carrying rack of wursts; IV, cat and bird; XVI, bird and fountain; XXI, man with bear and pole.

Type: Animal Tarock                                          Extent                                          111 x 60 mm.                                          Extent of Digitization                                          Completely digitized                

https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/10609545

           Found In:          

         Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Court cards, Aces and tarots of German tarot]        

#Found In: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Court cards Aces and tarots of German tarot]

[nyxshadowhawk]

…it had been built to the Platonic ideal (the building was a temple), employing ratios used by some typesetters for their pages (the building was a book), that it’s marble had been quarried in Vermont (the building was a monument). The entrance had been created so that only one person was permitted to enter at a time, passing through the rotating door like a supplicant.

—Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

#beinecke rare book and manuscript library #yale university #ninth house #leigh bardugo #dark academia #dark acadamia quotes

[unsavory]

Selected pages from the Rothschild Canticles, c. 1300.

The canticles live in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and are fully digitized. :)

#manuscript #medieval art #Flemish art

[returntomytilene]

Mary Foote, Mabel Dodge Luhan, 1912?, Mabel Dodge Luhan Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Mabel Dodge Luhan Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Box 66, folder 1795

#Mabel Dodge Luhan #Mary Foote #art #Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library #Mabel Dodge Luhan Papers