Manuscript, in a single hand, of a detailed plan for a public music school in England, to be established at the Foundling Hospital in London. Burney, with his friend violinist Felice Giardini, gives reasons why the plan would be financially beneficial to the hospital and economically effective for the country, how the school would "contribute greatly to the maintenance & instruction of a considerable number of the children of the Hospital," how the school would help remedy "the neglect of music as a profession" in Great Britain, and how to find students among "numerous charity schools, work houses, etc." He also includes a proposed schedule and salary for its instructors.
Description:
Binding: marbled-paper wrapper., For a very similar version of this manuscript, see MS Osborn c32., and For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Social life and customs--18th century
Subject (Name):
Burney, Charles, 1726-1814 and Giardini, Felice, 1716-1796
Subject (Topic):
Charity-schools--England--London, Music--England--18th century, Music--England--London--18th century, Music--Instruction and study, and Orphanages--England--London
Manuscript play, heavily corrected, of Act I only of a comedy concerning "libertine" student life at Cambridge. The author's preface notes that "the university characters in this play are of those despicable wretches only, who dishonor a college....For I should take no pleasure in drawing those descriptions which scandalize the place of my education, were it not to inform the Libertine that a college is sacred in a double sense: to Learning, &, what is beyond it, to Religion."
Description:
Binding: blue Middle Hill boards., Dealer description pasted on rear pastedown attributes play to Kemble [Charles, 1775-1854?]: 150 Cambridge. The Humours of the University, or the Merry Wives of Cambridge, a Play, original MS, probably by Kemble, unpublished 4to. Phillipps sale, June 6-11 1898., Inscription on front pastedown: Bt. of Bowes and Bowes, Cambridge, for 155., and Ownership inscription on front flyleaf: E.H.W. Meyerstein, May 1940.
Subject (Name):
Meyerstein, Edward Harry William,--1889-1952,--ownership inscription. and University of Cambridge--Students--Conduct of life.
Subject (Topic):
Comedy--England--18th century., English drama--18th century., Student life--Great Britain--18th century., Students--Conduct of life--Early works to 1800., and Temperance--Drama.
Autograph MS. and Travel diary containing numerous accounts of hospitals visited; included is a printed column entitled: "Description of the Venus de Medicis, In the Florentine Gallery."
Description:
For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator. and Modern pagination in pencil, rectos. Pages 168-179 blank, not digitized.
Manuscript, in multiple hands, of about 36 essays and verse translations on various subjects. The collection begins with an essay titled "Character & Design of the Author," which compares his collection of works to the Spectator, Tatler, and Guardian. In addition to subsequent essays which address such topics as "A Vision on human Life," "Against ignorant Pretenders to Politicks," and a letter "on the present state of the Theatre from Will. Drama," the manuscript also contains verse translations of classical works such as those of Silius Italicus and Theocritus.
Description:
Binding: half calf., In English., and Table of contents at beginning of manuscript.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Intellectual life--18th century
Subject (Name):
Hardwicke, Philip Yorke,--Earl of,--1720-1790, Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius, and Theocritus
Subject (Topic):
English periodicals, English poetry--18th century, Philosophy, and Theater--England
Two manuscript volumes containing logbook entries, journal entries, rental accounts, and descriptions of voyages by Thomas Bowrey. The logbook volume contains "Some particular Remarks at Kedgerry on Bengall River By Thos. Bowrey, Commander the Ship London," which are log entries from July 1 to November 4, 1701. Entries document weather conditions, arrivals and departures of other ships, supplies taken on, and trading. These are followed by seven astronomical and navigational charts, accompanied by an entry, dated December 23, 1695, recounting navigating through "fields of ice" and offering "a description of the plans of the country....during the course of my voyage endeavoring to find the northwest passage." This volume also contains a copy of Bowrey's will, as well as a drawing of the plans for Bowrey's monument and a copy of his contract with its mason; a three-page autobiography covering his life from birth to his retirement from sea in 1702; a chart of the Malabar Coast opposite Fort St. George; and copies of several poems by Shakespeare and others in a different hand.
Alternative Title:
Account Book
Description:
Binding: both volumes bound in tooled full reverse calf; logbook (vol. 1) has red morocco spine label with "Account Book" in gilt letters. and Thomas Bowrey (ca. 1650-1713), pilot, East India merchant, and investor, was the compiler of the first published Malay-English dictionary (1701).
Subject (Geographic):
Bengal (India)--Commerce, Bengal (India)--Description and travel, Bengal, Bay of--Commerce, Bengal, Bay of--Maps, India--History--1526-1765, Malabar Coast (India)--Description and travel, Malabar Coast (India)--Navigation, Northwest Passage--Description and travel, and Northwest Passage--Discovery and exploration--British
Subject (Name):
East India Company and English Company Trading to the East-Indies
Subject (Topic):
Astronomy--Observations, Explorers--Great Britain, Nautical charts--Malabar Coast (India), Spice trade--England--17th century, and Spice trade--Great Britain--17th century
Manuscript volume containing dozens of detailed recipes for cloth dye, accompanied by small fabric swatches dyed in the intended colors. Some entries accompanied by slips containing cloth orders and batch results.
Description:
Bound in contemporary full white parchment., In English., Purchased from Ken Spelman on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2007., and Title from title page: William Butt's Dye Book, Nov. 24 1768.
Subject (Topic):
Dye industry--England--Early works to 1800, Dye industry--Great Britain--18th century, Dyers--Great Britain--18th century, Dyes and dyeing--Great Britain--18th century, Dyes and dyeing--Handbooks, manuals, etc, and Workshop recipes--Early works to 1800
Autograph manuscript of a poem on the debate contest at King Darius' court chronicled in I Esdras 3-4. In the end Darius promises to rebuild Jerusalem and the Temple as Zerubbabel's prize for his winning oration which argued that "women were more strong than wine; the ample pow'r of kings to them decline; but truth the strongest." The dedicatory preface quotes and compares several examples of classical and biblical verse, and explains that the Muses which he invokes in the poem are only a metaphor for natural poetic inclinations.
Description:
Binding: stitched, Marbled-paper endsheets, with handwriting beneath. and Dedication: To my ever-honoured father, Joseph Rose of Alesbury in the County of Bucks.
Subject (Name):
Rose, Aquila,--1695-1723 and Zerubbabel--(Biblical figure)
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--O.T.--Apocrypha.--Esdras, 1st, Bible--History of Biblical events--Poetry--Early works to 1800, English poetry--18th century, and Religious poetry, English--18th century
Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of a collection of about 176 astrological diagrams.
Description:
Binding: black morocco., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., In pencil on p. 3: "Jan 28. 40 m. past 3 OClock afternoon. A Horse." Similar commentary appears on p. 10, 11, 33, 146, and 175., and Inside back cover: diagram charting the unions of various zodiac signs.
Subject (Topic):
Astrology, Astrology--Manuscripts, Charts, diagrams, etc, and Zodiac