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Giuseppe de Lama bound book of annotated poems
Collection
Call Number: MS C104
Overview
Bound book of poems, annotated. Fair copy (holograph?) made apparently to present to the dedicatee, "Madame la Comtesse Blanche Uggeri de la Somaglia" (Somaglia, Bianca Uggeri Capece della, 1743-1822, of Piacenza). The volume includes social verses with semi-biographical notes on the Parisians who inspired them and their own poems. There are also some political allusions.
Dates:
1795 - 1796
Saint Sauveur book of medical and technological receipts
Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS D156
Overview
Primarily medical receipts (informal directions for compounding and administering folk-remedies); some horse-medicine; also directions for making pigments, for fishing, for removing ink-spots, for secret writing, for catching birds, for making varnish, for mending china...
Dates:
approximately 1739