Table talk

Description

Title: Table talk
Creator: Selden, John, 1584-1654
Contributor: Selden, John,--1584-1654--Table-talk
Southwell, Edward,--1671-1730
Published / Created: [late 17th century]
Abstract: Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, consisting of aphorisms, axioms, and pithy commentary on such subjects as "Wisdom, "Money," "Retalliation," and "Parliament." Concerning "Popery," the author writes, "We charge the prelaticall clergy with the popery to make them odious tho we know they are guilty of no such thing. Just as heretofore they called Images Mammetts and the adoration of Images Mammetry, that is Mahomet & Mahometry odious names, when all the world knows the Turks are forbidden Images by their Religion."
Description: Binding: stitched, loose in Middle Hill boards.
For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator.
Note in same hand on first page: "Out of a manuscript called the discourse of Mr. Selden lent by the Earl of Arlington to Sir Robert Jenkinson."
Pasted in: inside front cover, dealer's description of manuscript, "said by T. F. Fenwick to be in the hand of Edward Southwell, and perhaps copied by him as a boy before the first (posthumous) publication of the 'Table Talk' in 1689."
Phillips, Ms. 10149.
Extent: 1 v. (81 p.) ; 22 x 17 cm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: still image and text
Genre: Commonplace books
Manuscripts
Material: still
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain--Politics and government--1603-1649
Subject (Name): Selden, John,--1584-1654--Table-talk
Southwell, Edward,--1671-1730
Subject (Topic): Aphorisms and apothegms--17th century
Conduct of life--17th century
Conduct of life--Quotations, maxims, etc

Access: Public
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Citation: John Seldon, Table Talk. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.