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1. A collection of witt and learning : (miscellaneously digested wherein the substance, as well as froth of the times, may be seen) consisting of verses, poems, songs, sonnetts, ballads, lampoons, libells, letters, discourses; remarques, speeches, orations, declamations, dialogues in all languages and of all nations throughout the universe, with other curiousityes, phancyes, and invention, 1666-1681
- Call Number:
- Osborn b54
- Image Count:
- 16
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- MS in unknown hand(s). Contains political verse and humour
- Description:
- Mostly in English with some French and Latin., Perhaps the third volume in a collection as pagination begins with p.858., and Film: 4x5 negatives of p. 1012 and 1013.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Satire, English, Ballads, English, Proverbs, English, and English poetry
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A collection of witt and learning : (miscellaneously digested wherein the substance, as well as froth of the times, may be seen) consisting of verses, poems, songs, sonnetts, ballads, lampoons, libells, letters, discourses; remarques, speeches, orations, declamations, dialogues in all languages and of all nations throughout the universe, with other curiousityes, phancyes, and invention, 1666-1681
2. A paradice of ye delights of Italy, [late 17th century].
- Creator:
- Bell, Henry, Captain
- Call Number:
- Osborn fb139
- Image Count:
- 78
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, in a single secretary hand, of a tour guide of Italy, including descriptions of notable sights as well as directions from "London to Rome as also from one Citie to another in all Ittaly." The text is organized by city, and "translated out of the high Germane into the English tongue by Captayne Henry Bell." Includes some verses in Latin and English
- Description:
- Phillipps MS 16427. and Binding: cloth covered boards.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Italy
- Subject (Name):
- Bell, Henry, Captain.
- Subject (Topic):
- English poetry, Latin poetry, Travel, Description and travel, and Religious life and customs
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A paradice of ye delights of Italy, [late 17th century].
3. Commonplace book containing poems and epigrams, [ca. 1730-1750
- Call Number:
- Osborn c651
- Image Count:
- 114
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript in a single hand containing copies of more than 60 poems, both secular and religious. Poets include Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Joseph Addison, and George Lyttelton. Among the religious poems are five poems by Mehetabel Wesley Wright, the sister of John and Charles Wesley; these include "To an Infant at the Point of Death" and "A Farewell to the World." The volume also contains copies of Thomas Gibbons' "On the Death of Mordecai Andrews" and "On the Deity, by a dissenting Clergyman at Bristol."
- Description:
- In English., Annotated in pencil on recto of front flyleaf: found amongst Miss Martyns things. Mary [Marshall] Amphlett., and Binding: contemporary marbled paper wrappers.
- Subject (Name):
- Wesley family. and Wesley, Mehetabel, 1697-1750.
- Subject (Topic):
- English poetry, Methodism, Religious poetry, English, and Women poets
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commonplace book containing poems and epigrams, [ca. 1730-1750
4. Commonplace book, circa 1756
- Call Number:
- Osborn c135
- Image Count:
- 24
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of eleven English poems on such subjects as happiness, ambition, nature, and friendship. Titles include A pastoral tale; On happiness; Ode in praise of friendship; Meditations and reflections on a storm of thunder and lightning; and To a lady with some of the author's verses. The collection also contains sonnets on ambition and on the death of a child; and, pasted in, a poem in Latin titled On Holbein's picture of Lord Cromwell
- Description:
- In English and Latin., Inside front cover: bookplate of Philip Yorke, 2nd earl of Hardwick., Marbled endpapers., and Binding: full red morocco; gilt decoration.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Topic):
- Elegiac poetry, English, English poetry, Friendship, Nature, Occasional verse, English, Sonnets, English, and Social life and customs
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commonplace book, circa 1756
5. Elegie panegiricall & votive upon the Ladye Mary Cholmondley, August 15 1625
- Creator:
- Lytler (Littler), Thomas
- Call Number:
- Osborn b203
- Image Count:
- 47
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, in a single Italic hand, of a 38-page elegiacal poem praising Lady Mary Cholmondley's Holford ancestors and herself. The poem is heavily annotated in the same hand. Prefaced by a dedication to Lady Cholmondeley's son Thomas, a dedication in Latin to Sir Richard Grosvenor, 1st bart., and ten verses in Latin and English addressed to various members of the Cholmondeley family, including an anagram and a chronogram. The main poem is followed by several short Latin poems, including one concerning the Holford motto
- Description:
- Available on microfilm, In English and Latin., On flyleaf: list of accounts, as well as pen trials and the signature "R. Cholmondeley.", Signature in back of John Grosvenor., Marbled endpapers., and Binding: full morocco; gilt decoration.
- Subject (Name):
- Cholmondeley, Mary Holford, Lady, 1563-1625., Cholmondeley, Hugh, Sir, 1513-1596., Grosvenor, Richard, Sir, 1585-1645., and Lytler (Littler), Thomas.
- Subject (Topic):
- Anagrams, Elegiac poetry, Latin poetry, English literature, English poetry, and Genealogy
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Elegie panegiricall & votive upon the Ladye Mary Cholmondley, August 15 1625
6. English miscellany on travels, foreign countries, Catholicism and politics
- Published / Created:
- [between 1550 and 1625]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 621
- Image Count:
- 178
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper containing 1) Anthony Jenkinson (1529-1610/11), Relation of a travel to Russia and Persia. 2) Anonymous sonnet in praise of Queen Elizabeth I. Probably an autograph. 3) Anonymous treatise in four parts attacking the apology which Cardinal William Allen (1532-1594) published in 1587 for Sir William Stanley's action in the Netherlands in the preceding year. 4) Accounts regarding tenements; one is headed "Lambeth". 5) Account of a journey through the Middle East, made in 1578 and attributed by another hand to an unrecorded Sir Anthony Standen. 6) Definition of terms related to the Turkish empire encountered in art. 5. 7) Description of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany under Francesco Maria de' Medici (1541-1587). 8) Ferdinand Alvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva (1508-1582), Proposal addressed to King Philip II of Spain regarding the conquest of Portugal, made 25 May 1579, in English translation. 9) Description of the Benedictine convent of Camaldoli near Arezzo. 10) Short description of England and Scotland. 11) Accounts signed William Garnett; the last one is dated from the 33d year of Queen Elizabeth (1591/1592). The upper outer corner of the page is missing, with loss of text. 12) Collection of state letters. 13) Estate accounts partly dating from 1586/1587 and addressed to unknown person
- Description:
- In English., Script: Part I (between 1550 and 1600): Art. 1, 3 and the group 5-10 are each written by a different scribe, all writing Gothica Cursiva Libraria (Secretary). The quotations and headings in art. 3 are in Humanistica Cursiva. Art. 2 is also written in Humanistica Cursiva. Art. 4 is in Gothica Cursiva Currens (Secretary)., Script: Part II (between 1600 and 1625): Written by one hand in Gothica Cursiva Currens (Secretary), some quotations and headings in Humanistica Cursiva., Script: Part III (between 1575 and 1600): Written by one hand in Gothica Cursiva Formata (Secretary)., and Binding: Seventeenth century (?). Brown (?) sheepskin over pasteboard, rebacked. On the spine the gold-tooled titles (s. XIX-XX) "JENKINSON RELATION 1561" and "STATE PAPERS?? MS.".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., England, Middle East, Russia, and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Allen, William, 1532-1594., Jenkinson, Anthony., and Standen, Anthony, Sir.
- Subject (Topic):
- English poetry, English prose literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, Description and travel, History, and Politics and government
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > English miscellany on travels, foreign countries, Catholicism and politics
7. MS being a choice farrago of new poems lately collected from the papers of that wonder-worker S. Simpson of Coventry, Weaver....in his garret in the High Street, 1773 Jul 10.
- Creator:
- Simpson, Stephen
- Call Number:
- Osborn c563
- Image Count:
- 108
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript in Simpson's hand containing fair copies of 26 poems in a variety of genres, many labeled as "Imitations" of published pieces. Titles include "Dedication: To Miss Sally Leaper;" "A Monody in Imitation of Milton's Lycidas;" "The Almshouse: An Elegy in Imitation of Jerningham's Magdalen and Nun;" "A Song Written at School;" "The Servants: A Tale;" "The Degree below Mediocrity;" "To Aurelia--Written Immediately upon Perusal of Pope's Eloisa to Abelard;" "Lorenzo, in Imitation of Parnell's Hermit; and "The Charms of Contentment." "The Happy Quadrumvirate: A Tale" is annotated with the names of the friends described and the comment, "Written when really happy on a suppositious plan of a journey to Oxon." and This group of poems is followed by a short verse and the note: "Stephen Simpson and Miss Sarah Leaper were married in St. Werburgh's by the Revd. Mr. Hope on the 27th of June 1776." The volume concludes with "Edwin," signed and dated "21 April 74."
- Description:
- Front flyleaf signed, "Ste. Simpson.", Spine title reads "Poems.", and Binding: contemporary (?) full calf; banded and gilt-stamped spine. Red morocco label.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain., Great Britain, and Coventry (England)
- Subject (Topic):
- English poetry, Occasional verse, English, Weavers, Working class, Books and reading, and Intellectual life
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > MS being a choice farrago of new poems lately collected from the papers of that wonder-worker S. Simpson of Coventry, Weaver....in his garret in the High Street, 1773 Jul 10.
8. Miscellaneous poems, 1744
- Creator:
- Amelia, Princess, daughter of George II, King of Great Britain, 1710-1786
- Call Number:
- LWL Mss Vol. 14
- Image Count:
- 81
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of about 125 primarily lighthearted and satirical poems and songs. Most of the entries are on the subject of love, drinking, gossip, and the disappointments of marriage; many include pastoral scenes; and most of the songs make reference to the name of the tune to which they are to be sung. The volume contains: The vicar of Bray, a poem satirizing religious and political events from Charles II to George I; another poem "to the tune of King John" satirizing George I and such political figures as Charles Spencer, Earl Sunderland and James, Lord Stanhope; as well as several satirical songs on the Italian singers Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni, including one sung "to the tune of 'Oh London is a fine town." Other entries include: The bush aboon Tranquair by Robert Crawford; Sung by a fop just come from France; and The Sussex toast, a song
- Description:
- Incomplete manuscript, pagination begins with p. 9., On penultimate leaf: 1744., On last page, in same hand: Princess Amelia's book., Index at end of manuscript., Pencilled note inside front cover: Not in Prs. Amelia's hand., Binding: full calf; blind-tooled decoration., Princess Amelia (1711-1786), daughter of Georg August (1683-1760), electoral prince of Hanover (after 1727 elector of Hanover and King George II of Great Britain), and his wife, Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1683-1737). Her full names were Amelia Sophia Eleonora., and In English.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Amelia, Princess, daughter of George II, King of Great Britain, 1710-1786., Bordoni, Faustina, 1700-1781., Cuzzoni, Francesca, 1696-1778., Stanhope, James Stanhope, Earl, 1673-1721, Sunderland, Charles Spencer, Earl of, 1674-1722, and Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
- Subject (Topic):
- English poetry and Politics and government
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Miscellaneous poems, 1744
9. Poems by a lady, [1790].
- Creator:
- Craik, Helen, 1750?-1824
- Call Number:
- Osborn c375
- Image Count:
- 94
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in a single hand, of about 40 poems on various subjects dated between 1772 and 1782. The collection includes epitaphs and occasional verse, several "Charades," an epistolary poem titled "Helen, An Old Scots Tale" which is prefaced by a historical account of a certain Helen Kirkconnell in Annandale, and a two-part poem titled "The Indian Maid, A Tale, Intended for a Companion to the Harp" about a young Indian captive, "written by Mr. Macneil." The volume also contains a 4-line stanza in the hand of the author's friend, Robert Riddle , signed "R.R., 1790," as well as the 4th stanza of "Sensibility How Charming," written in the hand of Robert Burns
- Description:
- In English., Table of contents at end of manuscript., Note by E. H. W. Meyerstein dated 1949 on verso of flyleaf regarding the manuscript., Drawing on flyleaf: bust labeled "Ponpeo.", and Binding: full calf; gilt decoration and stamped crest with motto "Hab Shar Virtus Maturuit."
- Subject (Name):
- Burns, Robert, 1759-1796., Craik, Helen, 1750?-1824., and Meyerstein, Edward Harry William, 1889-1952.
- Subject (Topic):
- English literature, English poetry, Epitaphs, Love songs, Occasional verse, English, and Women authors
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Poems by a lady, [1790].