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garadinervi · 1 year
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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]
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popsixesq · 1 year
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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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“Around which the point of fire fastens the top of the immovable world”
These words are a rough and partial translation from this beautiful book and describe how the pole star (Polaris) remains fixed at a point in the sky that the rest of the stars rotate around
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This beautiful page is taken from the Cosmographia, originally published in the 1500’s
This page caught my attention for this image in particular
The title reads “Prima Pars Cosmo: Instrumentum Theoricae Solis, Aux Solis” which roughly translates to “The First Part of the Cosmos: A Theoretical Instrument of the Sun (to the sun)”
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This image shows many of the features that are used to track the sun or calculate information about the sun. The outer rings are calendars and describe the relative position of the sun in the constellations during different months of the year. The inner two diagrams are method to calculate unequal hours (used to determine the number of daylight hours for a day during the year) and a shadow square (used to determine the height of celestial objects like the sun)
This collections of features are a common astronomical features used on the back of an astrolabe
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This design choice matches an 18th Century Arabic North African astrolabe
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The back contains 6 scales of the following types: Altitude; Zodiacal signs; Calendar; Unequal hours; Shadow square. The back is inscribed: with a miscellaneous marked as الحمد لله هذا الأسطرلاب حبس على المسجد الأعظم من ثغر طنجة علاه الله بمنه آمين (Praise be to God. This astrolabe was given as a bequest to the Grand Mosque of the port of Tangiers, may God elevate it with His grace. Amen)
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Mich beisst der Floch
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bulllfinch · 5 months
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Lund University, Sweden, 2023
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moodboardmix · 7 months
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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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teachingforthesoul · 2 years
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Yale University, Sterling Library
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readlikeido · 10 months
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ninth house // hell bent
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nyxshadowhawk · 7 months
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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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unisucksbutohwell · 9 days
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20/03/24
The migraine is stronger than ever I can't focus
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garadinervi · 29 days
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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]
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popsixesq · 1 year
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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]
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00-notana-00 · 2 months
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Real shit
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Friday study session between Galileo's notebook and the mighty Gutenberg bible at Yale's Beinecke Library, the only one I hadn't visited on campus.
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intothestacks · 25 days
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More than just books: Things you can borrow from libraries around the world
Toboggans
The Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale offer toboggans for students to take out during the winter semester. 
The library is so well-known among the law students of Yale for its unconventional catalogue items that the library has been likened to the Room of Requirement from Harry Potter (which is always filled with whatever a person has most need of).
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