Anonymous MS. and Music scored for piano, with orchestral instrumentation indicated. Many directions in MS for the different dances, such as the Lancers, Quadrilles, Pantalon, etc. Two dance figures are written in French. 23 blank pages at end unscanned.
Subject (Topic):
Dance music--England--19th century, Dance--England, Dance--History--19th century--Handbooks, manuals, etc., Dance--Study and teaching--Great Britain, and Fiddle tunes--England
A selection of extracts from John Wilson's English Martyrologe (1608) concludes with "Certayne Additions in the late Englishe Martyrs, which came to the Authors knowledge after the printing of the former catalogue.", Manuscript on paper in good secretary hand containing saints' lives and related material, including a saints' days calendar and several prayers and hymns in Welsh. Opening with a selection of Welsh lives headed "Buchedh y Seintiau", the volume includes "Vita St. Dewi, archiepiscopi, authore Ricemarcho" (Rhygyfarch); "Vita St. Albani ex lingua Anglica in Latinam translata, per Gulielmum Albanensem Monachum, qui claruit Anno 1170"; and several other lives in Latin and English., and The most extensive text in the volume is a lengthy English translation of Robert of Shrewsbury's life of St. Winifred, attributed to "Mr. Edward Morgan of Bechfield, a supposed catholique Prieste", who may well have been the Rev. Edward Morgan executed at Tyburn in 1642.
Description:
"P: Legh" written on blank verso preceding the "Table.", "Vita St. Dewi" colophon identifies the scribe as "Gulielmus Farrarus pbr.", Binding: Contemporary decorated calf, spine full-gilt, remains of label on spine., and For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator.
Subject (Name):
David, Saint, active 6th century, Farrar, William, Leigh, Philip, Morgan, Edward, d. 1642, Rhygyfarch, 956-1099, Robert of Shrewsbury, d. 1167, Wilson, John, approximately 1575-approximately 1645?--English martyrologe, and Winifred, Saint
Subject (Topic):
Catholics--England, Catholics--Wales, and Christian saints--Biography
Manuscript, in multiple hands, of a collection of 35 poems, bound in together. The verses are primarily lighthearted and address the subjects of love and women, occasionally in the form of occasional verse. Titles include A tale of Fidelia’s quarrell with her looking-glass; On a robin redbreast that in a stormy day flew in at a window and settled on a lady’s breast; The dangler; A prologue spoken at the opening of Punches Theatre at Bath; To Mrs Catherine Flemming at the Lord Digby’s at Coleshill; and The comical dreamer. Two comic poems address the marriages of Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess Strathmore. The collection also includes Colley Cibber’s Ode for the new year as well as poems by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and Anne Finch, countess of Winchilsea.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain --Social life and customs --18th century
Subject (Name):
Cibber, Colley, 1671-1757, Montagu, Mary Wortley, Lady, 1689-1762, Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of, 1647-1680, Strathmore, Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of, 1749-1800, and Winchilsea, Anne Kingsmill Finch, Countess of, 1661-1720
Subject (Topic):
English poetry --18th century, Humorous poetry, English, Occasional verse, English, Women authors, and Women --Conduct of life
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of fourteen serious verses, many on the subjects of death and religion. Entries include the Prologue to Cato by Alexander Pope (1688-1774), and the Epilogue to Cato by Sir Samuel Garth; a hymn by Joseph Addison; On Indifference, by Frances Anne (Greville) Crewe, lady Crewe and addressed to the Countess of Carlisle, as well as the Countess of Carlisle’s reply; a fable by John Gay; poems by Thomas Parnell and James Thomson; and various religious songs.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain --Religious life and customs --18th century
Subject (Name):
Addison, Joseph, 1672-1719, Crewe, Frances Anne (Greville) Crewe, Lady, d. 1818 --Poetry, Garth, Samuel, Sir, 1661-1719, Gay, John, 1685-1732, Parnell, Thomas, 1679-1718, Pope, Alexander, 1688-1774, and Thomson, James, 1700-1748
Subject (Topic):
Death --Poetry, Elegiac poetry, English, English poetry --18th century, and Religious poetry, English
F. 23r digitized at high resolution. and Manuscript, in various hands, of a collection of several hundred primarily lighthearted or satirical poems on the subject of women and love. In addition to such titles as On a maidenhead; Choice of mistress; How to chose a wife; A hater of women; and On a blacke wench, the manuscript includes six anagrammatic poems on the names of six women under the title The virgin knott of honor, written by Francis Lenton and presented to the Earl of Dorset; and Shakespeare's second sonnet (f. 54v). The collection also contains numerous songs, including On a freind's absence and A parallel betwixt bowling and preferment; as well as a substantial number of poems on death, such as On the death of a twinne; On a death's head thought to be a virgins when twas taken out of the grave; Upon the death of Sir William Candish; and On one that died of the small pox. Dos-a-dos, the manuscript contains enigmas and epigrams.
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Binding: full calf; gilt decoration. Remains of metal clasps., Foliation is sequential although book continues from back to front after 91v., and Pen trials on flyleaves, as well as the name "Mathew" and the inscription "Goe little booke salute that gentle hand of..."
Subject (Name):
Newcastle, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1592-1676--Poetry and Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Subject (Topic):
Elegiac poetry, English, English poetry --17th century, English wit and humor, Enigmas, Epigrams, English, Songs, English--17th century, Verse satire, English, and Women--Conduct of life
Dos-a-dos are several dozen primarily cooking recipes, for such dishes as barley broth, cherry wine, and lemon cream; as well as instructions on fishing. At the beginning of the manuscript are recipes for making ink and treating chilblains. and Manuscript, in a single secretary hand, of a collection of several dozen satirical poems and, dos-a-dos, several dozen household recipes. The poetry is mainly political, anti-Catholic, and academic, and includes works of Henry Denne of Trinity College and Joshua Barnes, as well as such titles as On a papist's ghost; On the queen being with child; The man of honour; England's triumph at sea in Sept. 1691; and The prologue to the music speech spoken in the Theatre July 8, 1693, being the time of the act, by Mr Smith of University College. Other items include an epitaph on Thomas Shadwell and a list of anagrams on the word "Parliament."
Description:
Armorial bookplate inside front cover., Binding: full calf; gilt decoration., Marbled endpapers., and The compiler was evidently a member of Cambridge University.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain --Intellectual life --17th century and Great Britain --Politics and government --1603-1714
Subject (Name):
Barnes, Joshua, 1654-1712 and Shadwell, Thomas, 1642?-1692
Subject (Topic):
Anti-Catholicism --England, Cooking, English, English poetry --17th century, Fishing --England, Latin poetry, Political poetry, English, Traditional medicine --Great Britain --Formulae, receipts, prescriptions, and Verse satire, English --17th century
A collection of 80 dances, with a description of steps and tunes.
Description:
34 blank leaves at end unscanned., Contents organized by numbered openings, not paginated or foliated., and Holograph MS.
Subject (Topic):
Dance music--England--18th century, Dance--England--Early works to 1800, Dance--History--18th century--Handbooks, manuals, etc., Dance--Study and teaching--Great Britain--Early works to 1800, and Fiddle tunes--England--Early works to 1800