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Beinecke Library Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut,
Image © Iwan Baan
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Browse over one million newly digitized images from Yale’s Beinecke Library from Literary Hub
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Manuel synthétique & pratique du tarot
https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/32466484
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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Manuel synthétique & pratique du tarot
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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
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Beinecke Rare Book Library at Yale University,
New Haven, Connecticut, United States,
Gordon Bunshaft, 1963,
Photo: Pete J. Sieger
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
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Solomon Sir Jones films
Identifier: Call Number WA MSS S-2636
Date: Creation 1927, undated
Duration: 00:11:23
Description: Scope and Content Note
Shrinkage 0.8-1.4%, 10 splices, few ripped and torn perforations. Time codes correspond to digital video reference copies.
48th Annual Sessions of National Baptist Convention, Dr. J. E. Wood, President, Dr. Madison and Dr. Jones, Secretaries, Denver, CO, 1927 September 9
00:00:00 -00:03:01 Madam E. Baul, Tulsa, OK, footage of photographs, 1927
00:03:02 - 00:03:16 Hooker Studio, Hooker and Lane Baggage and Transfer, Muskogee, OK, undated
00:03:17 - 00:03:40 Footage of water, gardens, zoo animals, undated
00:03:41 - 00:06:20 Ragsdale Brothers, Funeral Home, Muskogee, OK and funeral service, undated
00:06:21 00:08:22 Sunrise Baptist Association, Reverend H. Fletcher, Mod, Frederick, OK, 1927 August 18
00:08:23 - 00:10:10 Blank
00:10:11- 00:10:41 Footage of photographs and slates, undated
00:10:42 - 00:11:02
Container Summary (272 feet)
Format: film reels (16 mm)
Rights Statement: Restricted fragile material. For further information consult Access Services.
Publisher: Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University Library.
Source Metadata URI:
https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/11/archival_objects/480150
Preferred Citation:
Film 29, 1927, undated. Solomon Sir Jones Films. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/11/resources/1296.
48th Annual Sessions of National Baptist Convention, Dr. J. E. Wood, President, Dr. Madison and Dr. Jones, Secretaries, Denver, CO
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The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library is one of the world's largest buildings devoted entirely to rare books and manuscripts and is Yale's principal repository for literary archives, early manuscripts, and rare books. The Beinecke Library's robust collections are used to create new scholarship by researchers from around the world.
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