Bookplate and bookstamp on binding of Frederick Perkins. Bookplate of Lucius Wilmerding. Bookplate of Sir John Arthur Brooke. Bookplate of Charles J. Rosenbloom. Bookplate of William Amherst Tyssen-Amherst Amherst. Autograph of James Birchenough, 1745. Autograph of William Newall Allen, 1810., Colophon: Emprynted at London in the Flete-strete at the sygne of ÿ Sonne by Wynkyn de Worde. In the yere of oure Lorde.MCCCCC.viii. ÿ.xvi.day of ÿ moneth of Juyn., and Signatures: aa-yy8.4zz8[?]6.
Publisher:
Wynkyn de Worde,
Subject (Name):
Perkins, Frederick,--1780-1860--Bookplate, Perkins, Frederick,--1780-1860--Stamp, Rosenbloom, Charles J.--Bookplate, and Wilmerding, Lucius,--1880-1949--Bookplate
The papers consist of correspondence, financial records, personal and professional papers, and legal documents pertaining to the lives of Thomas Saunders and his Sebright descendants. Much of the correspondence dates from between 1650 and 1700 and concerns financial matters such as personal debts; law cases; agriculture, and family news. The family papers include accounts, inventories of goods and money, itemized bills, a perpetual almanac, a large collection of medical and cosmetic recipes, a manuscript titled "The Government of the Thoughts," and a guide to the decanting and repair of various wines. A group of papers concerning aspects of the common law was probably compiled by Thomas Saunders during his attendance at the Inns of Court. and Thomas Saunders' service as agent for the Committee for Sequestration during the 1640s is documented in a small group of papers, which include "A Particular of Debts owing to divers Papists and Malignants;" notes on specific cases brought before the committee; and Parliamentary orders, as well as a 1644 discharge by the committee for Saunders himself.
Description:
Imperfect: some pages mutilated with loss of text.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--History--Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660 and Great Britain--Social life and customs--17th century
Subject (Name):
England and Wales.--Parliament.--Committee for Sequestration of Delinquents' Estates, Inner Temple (London, England), and Saunders, Thomas
Subject (Topic):
Administration of estates--England, Attachment and garnishment--England, Family--England--Domestic relations, Law--Study and teaching--Great Britain, and Manors--England--Herefordshire
Inserted folding leaf : ""Effigies tabvlae smaragdinae."" : 2 representations of the emerald tablet of Hermes. In Hebrew on the left and an exotic tongue (representing Chaldean?) on the right.
Description:
Engraved plate, 185 x 235 mm., tipped in inside front cover., MS consists of 3 loose quires in cover., On paper., and Single columns 175 x 120 mm. bordered in pencil, without ruling.
Subject (Name):
Hermes, Trismegistus. Tabula smaragdina
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy and Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis
Manuscript, in a single secretary hand, of a collection of several dozen Scottish Presybterian tracts in English and verses in Latin. The collection includes David Hume's De unione tractatus secundus, 1605; William Bradshaw's Treatise of the nature and use of things indifferent, 1605; John Knox's Sermons, 1563; the Recantation of Master Patrick Adamson, 1598; and other short pieces against the authority of bishops addressed to the king. The manuscript also includes Latin poetry on similar religious and political subjects, by such authors as George Buchanan and Joseph Juste Scaliger.
Description:
Binding: limp parchment; leather ties., In Latin and English, often with Scottish spellings., and Stitching loose and some pages missing; incomplete at end.
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland--Politics and government--1625-1649 and Scotland--Religious life and customs
Subject (Name):
Hume, David,--1560?-1630?, Knox, John,--1505-1572, and Scaliger, Joseph Juste,--1540-1609
Subject (Topic):
Latin poetry, Presbyterian Church--Doctrinal and controversial works, and Presbyterian Church--Scotland
Anonymous manuscript, consisting of poems, riddles, proverbs, copies of political documents and correspondence, personal notes from varied sources, satires and a travel journal. All in an unknown hand.
Description:
Includes: Confession of fayth by Sir Francis Bacon; A declaration how the King ...; Choicest English proverbs collected out of Howell's ...; Then tell me why?
Autograph manuscript of a collection of about 250 primarily light, satirical, or amatory English poems by various authors. In addition to twelve poems by Robert Herrick, primarily on love, the manuscript also contains poems by Thomas Carew, John Donne, Ben Jonson, Sir John Harington, Michael Drayton, George Wither, and others, as well as 17 poems in Latin. Other items include several pieces relating to Cambridge University and Suffolk, as well as numerous bawdy poems, drinking songs, political and religious verse satires, epigrams, and epitaphs both humorous and serious. Titles of these poems include An epitaph on Luce Morgan; Upon the Parliament 1624; A Puritan and A Papist; and several poems on Prince Charles' and the Duke of Buckingham's journey to Spain in 1623. Also in the manuscript is a copy of the love poem titled ""Shall I die?,"" attributed to Shakespeare in a Bodleian manuscript. At the end of the manuscript are notes and verses in later hands.
Description:
Disbound and separated into 21 folders., Marbled endpapers. Binding: full calf; blind-tooled cover., and Written on flyleaf: "Tobias Alston his booke," several times, as well as other names, including "Henricus Glisson" and "Harris Norton." In a later hand, "E L John Whitehead."
Subject (Name):
Alston, Tobias, 1620-ca. 1639, Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of, 1592-1628, Carew, Thomas, 1595?-1639?, Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649, Donne, John, 1572-1631, Drayton, Michael, 1563-1631, Harington, John, 1589-1654, Herrick, Robert, 1591-1674, Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637, Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, University of Cambridge--Poetry, and Wither, George, 1588-1667
Subject (Topic):
Bawdy poetry--England, English poetry--17th century, English wit and humor, Epigrams, English, Epitaphs, English, Latin poetry, Love--Poetry, Political satire, English--17th century, Songs, English--17th century, Verse satire, English, and Women--Conduct of life