Pembroke, Anne Clifford Herbert, Countess of, 1590-1676
Published / Created:
1600-1602.
Call Number:
Osborn b27
Image Count:
86
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper, in a single secretary hand, of personal accounts on behalf of Lady Anne Clifford. The manuscript records gifts from various sources, such as gold "geven by my Lady of Warwick to my La. Anne at the court," and money allowed by her mother, Lady Cumberland, as well as its expenditure on clothes, charity, and play. Entries include sums "Given by my La. Anne for a reward to a poore woman that brought her Lap. apples & cakes," "for half a thousand of pynnes," "delivered to Mrs. Taylor for buying a white parchmt fanne for my Lady Anne," "geven by my Lady Anne to ii poore men in the fields," and "lost at cardes." The manuscript also records sums borrowed by Lady Anne, and the names of her creditors.
Description:
Binding: limp parchment., Dos-a-dos, two pages of pen trials and proverbs., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., and Signatures of Anne Clifford appear throughout the manuscript.
Subject (Geographic):
England--Social life and customs
Subject (Topic):
Account books, Accounting, Maxims, Nobility--England, Women--Conduct of life, and Women--Social life and customs
Manuscript, on paper, in cursive bookhand, produced in England and dated May 27, 1582.
Description:
A note on f. 18v reads: "A verry tratoroos Worke pretended to bee the answers of Peyres Plowman to the prynted interrogatores of alleageaunce. Butt in treuthe a Waye to instruct papists how to answer tratorooslye & defende the trators for Martyrs that dyed at Tyburne in August 1582." and Binding: vellum wrapper, with front cover cut away. Disbound. Box also contains remains of silk binding thread in separate envelope.
Subject (Name):
Langland, William,--1330?-1400?--Piers Plowman
Subject (Topic):
Catholic Church--England--Controversial literature, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Tyburn gallows (London, England)
Holograph., Imperfect: Boards loose., and Musical notation for treble, tenor, bass, and psalterer opposite each psalm. Also contains Directions for Tuning and Playing the Psalterer.
Subject (Topic):
Hymn tunes--Great Britain, Musical instruments--Instruction and study--Great Britain --18th century, Psalms (Music)--Early works to 1800, and Tune-books--Early works to 1800
Nell Reeves describes the 1851 trip from Illinois to Oregon of the wagon train commanded by Captain John A. Powell. She uses extracts from accounts by Jane Powell, daughter-in-law of Captain Powell, and S. Hamilton, a member of the train. Both narratives were taken from "The Powell History," privately printed in 1922.
Description:
Nell W. Reeves, of Madison, Connecticut, was the grandniece of Jane Peeler Powell.
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.)--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Hamilton, S., 1833- and Powell, Jane Peeler, 1830-
Subject (Topic):
Overland journeys to the Pacific and Overland journeys to the Pacific--1851
This manuscript, a contemporary scribal copy of the work, is not included among the fifteen recorded in the Variorum Edition of Spenser's Prose Works. Textually, it stands between D2 (Cambridge University Library) and F (Folger Shakespeare Library), and most probably was the manuscript from which F was copied.
Description:
Belonged to Sir Henry St. George (1581-1644), Garter King of Arms, and was acquired with the St. George Manuscripts in 1852 by Sir Thomas Phillipps. and Dibound copy in hands of six scribes, all with similar cursive scripts.