- Creator:
- Hall-Stevenson, John, 1718-1785
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS 1264
- Collection Title:
- John Hall-Stevenson letters and manuscripts
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder 1
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Correspondence, autograph manuscripts, and one printed broadside song documenting aspects of the social and creative life of the poet John Hall-Stevenson. Contents include manuscripts of verses by John Hall-Stevenson and Robert Lascelles; letters by members of his club and social circle, including a lengthy letter by Jean-Baptiste Tollot discussing Laurence Sterne's character and good nature (1762 April 4) and another describing events in Geneva immediately after the expulsion of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1764 January 8); and related correspondence, including a letter of advice from Hall-Stevenson to his grandson John Wharton and several business letters received by Wharton. The printed broadside song, "Trout Hall," is extensively annotated in Hall-Stevenson's hand.
- Description:
- Formerly owned by William Durrant Cooper. Purchased from Paul Grinke on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 1972., John Hall-Stevenson (1718-1785), was a poet, a country gentleman, and a close friend of Laurence Sterne, whom he met at Cambridge and who based the character of Eugenius in Tristram Shandy on him. Hall-Stevenson founded a club of "Demoniacks," which met at "Crazy Castle," his country seat, and was loosely modeled on Sir Francis Dashwood's Monks of Medmenham. His published works included Crazy Tales and Fables for Grown Gentlemen, both of which were reprinted several times during his lifetime. He died at home in March, 1785., and The collection also contains a photocopy of W. Durrant Cooper's "Seven Letters Written by Sterne and His Friends;" a copy of the bookseller's catalogue; and a handwritten finding aid for the collection.
- Subject (Topic):
- Authors, English--18th century and English literature--18th century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > "Epitaph" Manuscript verses in Latin and English
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- Creator:
- Lascelles, Robert
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS 1264
- Collection Title:
- John Hall-Stevenson letters and manuscripts
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder 7
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Correspondence, autograph manuscripts, and one printed broadside song documenting aspects of the social and creative life of the poet John Hall-Stevenson. Contents include manuscripts of verses by John Hall-Stevenson and Robert Lascelles; letters by members of his club and social circle, including a lengthy letter by Jean-Baptiste Tollot discussing Laurence Sterne's character and good nature (1762 April 4) and another describing events in Geneva immediately after the expulsion of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1764 January 8); and related correspondence, including a letter of advice from Hall-Stevenson to his grandson John Wharton and several business letters received by Wharton. The printed broadside song, "Trout Hall," is extensively annotated in Hall-Stevenson's hand.
- Description:
- Formerly owned by William Durrant Cooper. Purchased from Paul Grinke on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 1972., John Hall-Stevenson (1718-1785), was a poet, a country gentleman, and a close friend of Laurence Sterne, whom he met at Cambridge and who based the character of Eugenius in Tristram Shandy on him. Hall-Stevenson founded a club of "Demoniacks," which met at "Crazy Castle," his country seat, and was loosely modeled on Sir Francis Dashwood's Monks of Medmenham. His published works included Crazy Tales and Fables for Grown Gentlemen, both of which were reprinted several times during his lifetime. He died at home in March, 1785., and The collection also contains a photocopy of W. Durrant Cooper's "Seven Letters Written by Sterne and His Friends;" a copy of the bookseller's catalogue; and a handwritten finding aid for the collection.
- Subject (Topic):
- Authors, English--18th century and English literature--18th century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > "Upon a Yorkshire Lady" in Latin + English
- Creator:
- Lyttelton, Thomas Lyttelton, Baron, 1744-1779
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778 - Published / Created:
- 1774
- Call Number:
- Z38 75 1
- Image Count:
- 11
- Description:
- Bound with several other titles. and Jay-DuBois collection, v. 1.
- Subject (Name):
- Quebec (Province).--Quebec Act
- Subject (Topic):
- Amer tracts--1774
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A letter from Thomas Lord Lyttelton to William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, on the Quebec bill.
- Creator:
- Peithmann, Lewis Theophilus
- Published / Created:
- 1809
- Call Number:
- 1976 1811
- Image Count:
- 20
- Description:
- Imperfect: front cover wanting.
- Publisher:
- W.H. Wyatt
- Subject (Name):
- MacCallum, Pierre Franc and Royal Military College, Sandhurst
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A refutation of Pierre Franc M'Callum's remarks on the Royal military college : proving that institution to be a most salutary, useful, and excellent establishment, reflecting the greatest honor on H. R. H. the Duke of York : dedicated to the gentlemen ca
5.
- Creator:
- Colet, John, 1467?-1519
Lily, William, 1468?-1522
Robertson, Thomas, fl. 1520-1561 - Published / Created:
- 1611
- Call Number:
- Gk4 109c
- Image Count:
- 85
- Alternative Title:
- Brevissima institutio, seu, Ratio grammatices.
- Description:
- "Brevissima Institutio, Sev Ratio Grammatices congnoscendæ ... 1611": leaves E8-Q8, with special title page (with royal arms on verso)., A compilation of rules for Latin grammar, by William Lily, John Colet and Thomas Robertson, with many additions by later revisers; commonly called "Lily's grammar.", Interleaved, with numerous manuscript additions in a contemporary hand, apparently Henry Vernon, whose name is inscribed on leaf facing the title page., Royal arms on verso of title page. Woodcut of the tree of knowledge on last page., and Signatures: A-Q8 (A1 blank, except for signature-mark on recto).
- Publisher:
- Printed by Iohn Norton, Printer to the Kings Maiesty in Latine, Greeke and Hebrew
- Subject (Name):
- Vernon, Henry--Inscription and Vernon, Henry--Ms. notes
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin language--Grammar and Latin language--Grammar--1500-1799
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A short introduction of grammar, generally to be vsed : compiled and set forth for the bringing vp of all those that intend to attain to the knowledge of the Latine tongue.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1575]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 43
- Image Count:
- 28
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on paper of extracts from Laudabile sanctum. There follows on ff. 1r-7v an extended series of longer and shorter alchemical recipes and procedures, probably including excerpts from standard sources, a passage on transmutation, a brief account of the planets, etc., often with marginal captions. With a poem in English.
- Description:
- Binding: Parchment wrapper made from a bifolium of a late 13th-century French (or possibly English?) canon law manuscript written by two hands, one of them using a classical Littera parisiensis, the other slightly more rounded, the writing partly scraped away on what is now the front cover of the wrapper, the outer side of the lower cover with an inscription in a very large hand which has not been read., Script: Written by a single hand, very small (sometimes minute) and mostly very neat, using a good cursive italic for the Latin passages, and a secretary hand for the English, both sloping somewhat to the right., and Watermark: an extended hand with a five-pointed star extending on a stem from the middle finger, a quatrefoil (?) at the wrist, which is sharply cut off, the fingers partly articulated, of the type of Briquet 11341 and following, but more refined.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy--Early works to 1800, English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700, Formulas, recipes, etc, Latin poetry, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Alchemical miscellany.
7.
- Creator:
- Ponet, John, 1516?-1556
- Published / Created:
- 1556
- Call Number:
- Me45 M333 D4
- Image Count:
- 92
- Description:
- Bound with Marcourt, Antoine de. A declaration of the Masse. Wyttenberge, 1547. and Imperfect: some head-lines and side-notes bled.
- Publisher:
- Christopher Froschauer I],
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > An apologie fvlly avnsvveringe by scriptures and aunceant doctors : a blasphemose book gatherid by D. Steph. Gardiner, of late Lord Chauncelar, D. Smyth of Oxford, Pighius, and other Papists ...
- Creator:
- Haslewood, Joseph, 1769-1833
- Published / Created:
- Undated
- Call Number:
- Osborn d20
- Image Count:
- 121
- Abstract:
- Autograph manuscript and print commonplace book. Collection of notes, engravings, and print cuttings concerning archery. Print items include announcements of meetings of the Robin Hood Society; playbills, reviews, and excerpts from stage adaptations of the legend of Robin Hood; announcements of equestrian archery shows and Robin Hood re-enactments. Also includes clippings of news items, short poems, an account of William Tell, an editorial on women archers and membership in the Toxopholitic Society, with a watercolor depicting a woman archer. Engravings of: the Liberty of Switzerland; the dress of royal archers (1795); men's fashion and archery costumes (in color, 1829).
- Description:
- Binding: Full calf, gilt borders and spine with blind-tooled flowers and gilt title: Archery Scrap Book., Bookplate: Joseph Haslewood., Inscription on front pastedown: J.W. Remington Wilson. Ent in Cat., Items dated in ink, from 1724-1829., Paper watermarks: 1799, 1813, 1818., and The book later belonged to John Matthew Gutch (1776-1861) who added to it; Gutch later used the book as the basis for an article in The Reliquary (XIX [1787-1789]: 157-160) where he wrote "Some of the following vestiges of English archery are contained in a commonplace book formerly belonging to Mr. Haslewood, collected by him as an appendix to a meditated edition of Robin Hood Ballads; others have been collected by the present writer" (The Reliquary XIX: 157); this description is copied on a tipped-in leaf in the volume. A few of the items mentioned by Gutch are no longer present in the volume.
- Subject (Name):
- Robin Hood Society (London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Archers--Women, Archery--Great Britain--History, and Robin Hood (Legendary character)--Drama
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Anecdotes of archery: A thing of shreds and patches
- Creator:
- Millington, Edward, d. 1703
- Published / Created:
- 1700
- Call Number:
- X348 M622 1700/4/22
- Image Count:
- 21
- Alternative Title:
- Catalogus variorum librorum theologicorum, philologicorum prae-caeteris selectiorum bibliothecae instructissimae, R.D.D. H. Cornwalli
- Description:
- Imperfect: title page and pp. 1-6 mutilated, affecting text. Bookplate: Gertrude Dale. Annotated with prices., Several blank pages at front and end not digitized., and Signatures: pi1 A-C².
- Publisher:
- Catalogues may be had at Mr. Thurlburn's ... Mr. J. Pindar's coffee-house in Cambridge, and of Edw. Millington ... London,
- Subject (Name):
- Cornwall, H.--Library--Catalogs and Dale, Gertrude--Bookplate
- Subject (Topic):
- Catalogs, Booksellers'--England--Cambridge--Early works to 1800
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bibliotheca Cornwalliana, sive, Catalogus variorum librorum theologicorum, philologicorum prae-caeteris selectiorum bibliothecae instructissimae, R.D.D. H. Cornwalli ... quorum auctio ... 22 die Aprilis 1700 / per Edoard. Millingtonum, Bibliop. Lond.
10.
- Creator:
- Bradley, Thomas, 1597-1670
- Published / Created:
- 1663
- Call Number:
- Mhc8 4
- Image Count:
- 20
- Alternative Title:
- A present for Cesar
- Description:
- Bound with twelve other titles.
- Publisher:
- Printed by Alice Broade, and are to be sold by Richard Lambert at the Minster-gates
- Subject (Topic):
- Sermons, English --17th century, Taxation --Great Britain, and Tithes
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Cesars due and the subjects duty, or, A present for Cesar : in a sermon preach’t in the Minster at Yorke at the assizes there holden Aug. 3, 1663 by way of recantation of some passages in a former sermon preached in the same place and pulpit at the last assizes immediately before it / both of them by Thomas Bradley