Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of about 17 original songs, many of them love songs, written in an interleaved copy of Rider's British Merlin, 1698. Titles include "The Deceitful Lover," "The scolding wife," and "Beauty's advocate or the Charms of beauty." The manuscript also includes numerous memoranda and accounts of receipts, primarily relating to copying legal papers. A memorandum dated May 8 1721 mentions the Mayor having "given consent to the players to have the Moothall for playing in."
Description:
In English., Several pages throughout are written in a different hand, some in pencil, which include crude drawings of owls, a strawberry, and a pot of flowers, a list of names including "Isabela Larmouth" whose name also appears on the flyleaf, and a partially obliterated short narrative about "a naughty boy who cryed.", Inscription on flyleaf: "George Cuthbertson. Sept. 13, 1717" and "Isbla Larmouth Lerneth.", Inscription on p. 4: "George Archibauld James.", Marbled endpapers., and Binding: full calf; blind-tooled decoration; remains of metal clasps.
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Cuthbertson, George.
Subject (Topic):
Account books, English literature, English poetry, Love songs, Memorandums, and Songs, English
Khalīl ibn Isḥāq al-Jundī, -1365? خليل بن إسحاق الجندي، -1365؟
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 198
Image Count:
30
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manual of Maliki law
Description:
Incomplete at end., Title from: Brockelmann, II, 84., Compared in parts with the lithographed edition of 1900., Compared with Ahlwardt 4599, the last chapter heading is found on leaf 316 recto, so that probably only one or two leaves are missing., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm ... Yaqūlu ... Khalīl ibn Isḥāq al-Mālikī ... al-Ḥamdu lillāh ḥamdan yuwāfī mā tazāyada min al-niʻam ...", Two coarse Maghribī hands, fairly modern (18th century?)., Profuse interlinear and marginal notations throughout., and Loose leaves.
Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1203-1283
Call Number:
Persian MSS +28
Image Count:
212
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Cosmography, translated from the Arabic into Persian
Alternative Title:
ʻAjāʾib al-makhlūqāt. Persian
Description:
Fairly modern (18th century?) nastaʻlīq, in red and black., ʻUnwān in gold and colors on leaf 1 verso; copious illustrations in colors., On fly-leaf: "D.D. Cunnighame.", and Islamic binding, covered with needlework, mostly eaten away.