Author: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University: Marston manuscripts
Author: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
The Medieval Book
Author: Barbara A. ShailorPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802068538
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Originally published by Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 1988.
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Music of Charles Ives
Author: James B. SinclairPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300076011
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
This catalogue of the music of Charles Ives contains 728 entries covering all of the prolific composer's works. James Sinclair's book presents information produced by recent Ives scholarship and generous commentary on each of Ives's compositions. It completes the work begun by musicologist John Kirkpatrick in 1955, when Ives's music manuscripts were deposited in the Yale Music Library. Ives's works are arranged alphabetically by title within genres. Whenever possible, each entry includes the main title and any other titles the composer may have used; the forces required; the duration; headings of movements; publication history; citation of the first known performance and first recording; the derivation of the work, listing music on which it may be modeled or from which it may borrow material; the principal literature treating the piece; and commentary on these and other matters. The catalogue also provides musical incipits for all Ives's extant works, seven appendixes (covering his work lists, 'Quality Photo' lists, his songbooks, a chronology of his life, recordings made by Ives, and his private publications and commercial publishers), three concordances, and four extensive indexes (addresses, names, titles, and musical borrowings).
Voynich Manuscript
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9781626542174
Category : Ciphers
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
A facsimile of an object of unknown authorship that has been the source of study and speculation for centuries and remains undecipherable to this day.
A Modern World
Author: Yale University. Art GalleryPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300153019
Category : Decorative arts
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Draws upon the renowned collection of American decorative arts at the Yale University Art Gallery to explore the appearance and dissemination of modern design in the United States. This catalogue organizes roughly 300 examples of silver, glass, industrial design, furniture, medals, jewelry, and printed textiles into thematic groups that chart the aesthetic and social trends that defined American design from the Jazz Age to the Space Age. The authors consider modernism broadly--from handmade luxury goods to mass-produced housewares--establishing a context for the objects within larger international developments in architecture, avant-garde art, and scientific innovation."--Publisher description.
Alchemy and the Occult
Author: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alchemy
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict
Author: Austin ReedPublisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 0812986911
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The earliest known prison memoir by an African American writer—recently discovered and authenticated by a team of Yale scholars—sheds light on the longstanding connection between race and incarceration in America. “[A] harrowing [portrait] of life behind bars . . . part confession, part jeremiad, part lamentation, part picaresque novel (reminiscent, at times, of Dickens and Defoe).”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE In 2009, scholars at Yale University came across a startling manuscript: the memoir of Austin Reed, a free black man born in the 1820s who spent most of his early life ricocheting between forced labor in prison and forced labor as an indentured servant. Lost for more than one hundred and fifty years, the handwritten document is the first known prison memoir written by an African American. Corroborated by prison records and other documentary sources, Reed’s text gives a gripping first-person account of an antebellum Northern life lived outside slavery that nonetheless bore, in its day-to-day details, unsettling resemblances to that very institution. Now, for the first time, we can hear Austin Reed’s story as he meant to tell it. He was born to a middle-class black family in the boomtown of Rochester, New York, but when his father died, his mother struggled to make ends meet. Still a child, Reed was placed as an indentured servant to a nearby family of white farmers near Rochester. He was caught attempting to set fire to a building and sentenced to ten years at Manhattan’s brutal House of Refuge, an early juvenile reformatory that would soon become known for beatings and forced labor. Seven years later, Reed found himself at New York’s infamous Auburn State Prison. It was there that he finished writing this memoir, which explores America’s first reformatory and first industrial prison from an inmate’s point of view, recalling the great cruelties and kindnesses he experienced in those places and excavating patterns of racial segregation, exploitation, and bondage that extended beyond the boundaries of the slaveholding South, into free New York. Accompanied by fascinating historical documents (including a series of poignant letters written by Reed near the end of his life), The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict is a work of uncommon beauty that tells a story of nineteenth-century racism, violence, labor, and captivity in a proud, defiant voice. Reed’s memoir illuminates his own life and times—as well as ours today. Praise for The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict “One of the most fascinating and important memoirs ever produced in the United States.”—Annette Gordon-Reed, The Washington Post “Remarkable . . . triumphantly defiant . . . The book’s greatest value lies in the gap it fills.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “Reed displays virtuosic gifts for narrative that, a century and a half later, earn and hold the reader’s ear.”—Thomas Chatterton Williams, San Francisco Chronicle “[The book’s] urgency and relevance remain undiminished. . . . This exemplary edition recovers history without permanently trapping it in one interpretation.”—The Guardian “A sensational, novelistic telling of an eventful life.”—The Paris Review “Vivid and painful.”—NPR “Lyrical and graceful in one sentence, burning with fury and hellfire in the next.”—Columbus Free Press
Yale Papyri in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library IV
Author: HLNE. CUVIGNYPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 1954731000
Category : History
Languages : de
Pages : 369
Book Description
Examines a group of papyri held at Yale's rare book library, the Beinecke
The Plains and the Rockies
Author: Henry R. WagnerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780815001430
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
German Baroque Literature
Author: Yale University. Library. Yale Collection of German LiteraturePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baroque literature
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description