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- Published / Created:
- 1642
- Call Number:
- OSBORN FB94
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1
- Image Count:
- 3
- Description:
- 1642 Oct 31-Nov 10 The Hague. 1 p., 33 x 21 cm. "The Queen hath demanded ships and appointed the 17th of this month to depart from hence..." Discussion of affairs at the Hague including a note about plans to raise money by pawning jewels. folder 14.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Civil War. Collection of letters and state papers, apparently from the papers of John Pym (OSBORN FB94) > Osborn fb94 > STRICKLAND, WALTER, D. 1670 > ALS to John Pym.
- Call Number:
- Osborn c651
- Image Count:
- 114
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript in a single hand containing copies of more than 60 poems, both secular and religious. Poets include Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Joseph Addison, and George Lyttelton. Among the religious poems are five poems by Mehetabel Wesley Wright, the sister of John and Charles Wesley; these include "To an Infant at the Point of Death" and "A Farewell to the World." The volume also contains copies of Thomas Gibbons' "On the Death of Mordecai Andrews" and "On the Deity, by a dissenting Clergyman at Bristol."
- Description:
- In English., Annotated in pencil on recto of front flyleaf: found amongst Miss Martyns things. Mary [Marshall] Amphlett., and Binding: contemporary marbled paper wrappers.
- Subject (Name):
- Wesley family. and Wesley, Mehetabel, 1697-1750.
- Subject (Topic):
- English poetry, Methodism, Religious poetry, English, and Women poets
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commonplace book containing poems and epigrams, [ca. 1730-1750
- Creator:
- Wantage, Harriet Sarah Loyd-Lindsay, Baroness, 1837-1920
- Call Number:
- Osborn d315
- Image Count:
- 65
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Holograph diary kept intermittently by Harriet Sarah Loyd from her sixteenth birthday in 1853 until May of 1858. Topics include family life, friends and social events such as dances and country house visits, travel in England and on the Continent, and personal reflections
- Subject (Name):
- Wantage, Harriet Sarah Loyd-Lindsay, Baroness, 1837-1920.
- Subject (Topic):
- Women authors and Young women
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Diary, 1853-1858
- Creator:
- Rigaud, Stephen Francis Dutilh, 1777-1861
- Call Number:
- Osborn d76
- Image Count:
- 468
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript describes the career of John Francis Rigaud (1742-1810) in detail and includes discussion of his painting techniques. There are frequent mentions of the Royal Academy. Accompanied by seven related pieces concerning the Rigaud and Dutilh families
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Dutilh family., Rigaud family., Rigaud, J. F. 1742-1810. (John Francis),, Rigaud, Stephen Francis Dutilh, 1777-1861., and Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists, Painting, and Technique
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Facts and recollections of the XVIIIth century in a memoir of John Francis Rigaud Esq., R.A. : member of the Clementine Academy of Bologna, Royal Academician of Stockholm, and historical painter to Gustavus IV. King of Sweden. With poetical remains of Mrs. Mary Rigaud by their son Stephen Francis Dutilh Rigaud, member, and one of the founders of the First Society of Painters in Water Colours, instituted in 1805, 1854
- Creator:
- Fribourg & Treyer (Firm)
- Published / Created:
- 1798 June 1-1803 June 27.
- Call Number:
- Osborn fc215
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 995
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript daybook in unidentified hands, recording daily sales of snuff, cigars, and other products by Fribourg & Treyer. Entries list customer names and addresses; varieties and prices of snuff and cigars, with amounts purchased by weight or container; destinations and transportation costs for orders sent by coach or river boat; and notes indicating payments received or entry into accounts. Notes on preliminary pages include names and accounts relating to suppliers and employees. Over 10,000 sales are listed, including entries for Queen Charlotte, George IV, as Prince of Wales, Beau Brummell, Charles Stanhope, Earl of Harrington, and others in their social circle
- Description:
- Fribourg & Treyer, 34 Haymarket, London, manufactured and sold snuff, cigars, and other tobacco products, 1720-1981. From 1780 to 1803, Fribourg & Treyer was owned by G. A. (Gottlieb Augustus) Treyer and Martha Evans Treyer., In English., and Binding: full sheep, with blind-tooled border; spine broken.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England, London., London, and London (England)
- Subject (Name):
- Brummell, Beau, 1778-1840., Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818., George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., Harrington, Charles Stanhope, Earl of, 1780-1851., Treyer, G. A. (Gottlieb Augustus), Treyer, Martha Evans., and Fribourg & Treyer (Firm)
- Subject (Topic):
- Cigar industry, Snuff, Tobacco industry, Tobacco use, Tobacco workers, Upper class, Social life and customs, and Economic conditions
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Fribourg & Treyer daybook : manuscript
- Creator:
- Taylor, Joseph
- Call Number:
- Osborn fc185
- Image Count:
- 378
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of about 390 entries in verse and prose, which present satirical as well as sentimental and elegiac perspectives on the subjects of love, women, religion, and death. Titles include A reflection on death; On the death of a mother; Written in consequence of the execution of a young man for forgery, by Mrs. Taylor; Hymn by Miss Scott; To a lady who sung in too low a voice; On kissing; On female neatness after marriage; Advice to a young lady lately married; Unbeliever's creed; Sir Isaac Newton's creed; and numerous humorous epigrams and epitaphs. Several anonymous poems are labeled "Forton Prison" and dated 1795; the collection also includes poems by Tobias Smollett, Samuel Bishop, Samuel Rogers, Samuel Butler, and William Cowper
- Description:
- In English., 16-page index at beginning of manuscript., Title from title page. Also on title page: Vol 1., Laid in: newspaper clipping from the Daily Telegraph dated April 16, 1974., and Binding: half calf over paper-covered board; back cover missing. In gilt on spine: Gleanings.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Bishop, Samuel, 1731-1795., Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680., Cowper, William, 1731-1800., Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727., Rogers, Samuel, 1763-1855., Taylor, Joseph., and Forton Gaol.
- Subject (Topic):
- Elegiac poetry, English, English wit and humor, Epigrams, Epitaphs, Occasional verse, English, Sentimentalism in literature, Verse satire, English, Women authors, Women, Conduct of life, and Religious life and customs
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Gleanings in prose and verse, 1799
- Creator:
- Petrus, Comestor, active 12th century
- Published / Created:
- circa 1225-1249.
- Call Number:
- Osborn fa75
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 322
- Abstract:
- Manuscript volume, on paper, containing the complete text of Peter Comestor's Historia scholastica, with marginal glosses and later annotations. This work is preceded in the volume by the Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi of Peter of Poitiers, with complex genealogical diagrams in color. It is followed by the Prophesies of Pseudo-Methodius and the Allegoriae of Hugh of St. Victor
- Description:
- In Latin., Two original flyleaves. Manuscript preceded by three paper leaves to which bibliographical and historical notes about the texts contained in the volume have been affixed., Script: small gothic book script., Decoration: chapter headings in red; red and blue penwork initials., and Binding: twentieth-century full red morocco.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Jesus Christ and Petrus, Comestor, active 12th century.
- Subject (Topic):
- Genealogy, History Bibles, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Historia scholastica, with other works
- Creator:
- Urquhart, Thomas, 1611-1660
- Call Number:
- Osborn fb217
- Image Count:
- 563
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, probably in Urquhart's hand, of over one thousand numbered epigrams in ten books, accompanied by an alphabetically arranged subject index of them and several miscellaneous "characters" and dialogues in prose and verse
- Description:
- Dedicated to "James Marquis of Hamilton, Earle of Arran and Cambridge.", Final page of text annotated: "Sir Thomas Urchard's work" and "Liber Georgi Ogilvie Master of Banff: 1683.", Accompanied by notes on the epigrams and on the ownership history of the volume., Spine title: Urquhart's Epigrams"., Bookplate: "Sum Caroli Whibley"., and Binding: modern vellum.
- Subject (Topic):
- English poetry and Epigrams, English
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Ten books of epigrams; the curiositie whereof, for conception, stile, instruction, and other mixtures of show, and substance, being no lesse fruitfull, then pleasing to the diligent peruser, are intituled Apollo, and the Muses, [ca. 164-?].
- Creator:
- Stow, John, 1525?-1605, author
- Published / Created:
- [1580]
- Call Number:
- Osborn pa105
- Image Count:
- 1258
- Resource Type:
- text
- Alternative Title:
- Annales of England and Chronicles of England from Brute unto this present year of Christ 1580
- Description:
- BEIN 1987 303: 20 cm. Imperfect: final leaf 4G8 wanting; bled at edges with some loss of text. Few manuscript annotations throughout. Armorial bookplate of Edward Herbert, Viscount Clive., BEIN Osborn pa94: 20 cm. Manuscript pencil annotations concerning provenance; early manuscript ink annotations and corrections throughout. Ownership inscription of Margaret Barrie on page [32] at beginning indicates this book was left to her by her father Burton, read by her in 1675, and read by Oliver in 1679. Armorial bookplate of John Wodehouse, Earl of Kimberley. Bookplate of Michael Scott. Binder's stamp of Riviere and Son. Stamp of H. Sotheran, with explanation in manuscript that the book was actually bought from Pickering. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya., BEIN Osborn pa105: Quires ²[par.]-3[par.]⁴ (the table and errata) bound at end. Manuscript shelfmark "942" written on shelf label. Armorial bookplate of the Bishopsgate Institute, with its blind stamp on multiple pages throughout and ink stamp on title page verso, no. "1627" and classification "942" written in manuscript. Ink stamp of Quenby Library also on title page verso. Few manuscript annotations throughout, with a manuscript genealogical table on rear flyleaves in what appear to be two different hands. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya. Bound in 16th-century full English calf, with stamp: Sober Society. Accompanied by: bookseller's description (1 leaf)., "Apparently the first edition of the 'Chronicles' in the complete form"--BM., Later editions published as: Annales., Actual printer's name from STC., Signatures: [par.]⁴, ²[par.]-3[par.]⁴ A-3I⁸ 3K⁸(-3K7,8) 3L-4G⁸., Final page blank., Engraved title page showing the descent of sovereigns from Edward III., and Includes index.
- Publisher:
- By [Henry Bynneman for] Ralphe Newberie, at the assignement of Henrie Bynneman
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Topic):
- History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The chronicles of England from Brute vnto this present yeare of Christ 1580