Collection of poems, songs, epitaphs, epigrams and riddles, partly original and partly by friends and other writers; some of the verses carry dates of composition as early as 1713, and many were written during visits to Tunbridge Wells, England.
Autograph manuscript of a collection of didactic material. The manuscript begins with specimens of calligraphy, labeled Courte hande, Chancerie hande, Secretarie hande, cloven hande, curled hand, chayned hand, and Roman hande, as well as examples of writing in reverse and recipes for making ink, red wax, and white letters on black paper. This section is followed by arithmetic tables; measurements and conversions for dry goods as well as salmon, eels, wine, and oil; a sample genealogical chart drawn as a tree; instructions on how to use counters for counting; and a chart of the names of English kings and the years of their reigns up to James I, dated 1607. The bulk of the collection, however, consists of several hundred Latin proverbs on such topics as error, excellence, faith, honor, and ingratitude, followed by English proverbs and admonitions, and then several English proverbs translated into Latin. This section includes excerpts from King James' Basilikon Doron and How to live and that well by William Perkins. These proverbs are followed by "prettie and necessary rules for such as use to deale in merchandize, easy to be had in memorye," and, at the end of the manuscript, genealogical information for the Hill family, beginning in 1568.
Description:
Imperfect: some pages mutilated with loss of text.
Subject (Name):
Hill family, James I, King of England, 1566-1625, and Perkins, William, 1558-1602
Subject (Topic):
Arithmetic--Handbooks, manuals, etc, Calligraphy --England, Children--Conduct of life, English poetry --17th century, Genealogy--England, Proverbs, English, Proverbs, Latin, Recipes--Great Britain, and Weights and measures--England
Collection of English verse, epitaphs, copies of letters, and descriptions of voyages to Germany; contents include: "A Journey to Duderstadt, with a description of the Ceremony of The Nuns taking The Veil, as performed there, ... Sunday 13th June: 1751".
Description:
Anonymous manuscript. and Binding: contemporary vellum, without title.
Arnaldus, de Villanova, d. 1311 Carpenter, Richard, d. 1670? Ripley, George, d. 1490?
Published / Created:
circa 1570
Call Number:
Mellon MS 41
Image Count:
15
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper roll of George Ripley (?), Alchemy, in English verse, with additional verses attributed to Richard Carpenter. With Arnold of Villanova, Visio mystica, anonymously translated into English.
Alternative Title:
Ripley scroll
Description:
One roll with multiple illustrated sheets. and Paper rotulus consisting originally of thirteen folio sheets and half-sheets of differing lengths glued together, averaging 540 mm. in width (lateral margins and broad bordering line in black ink partly trimmed away), slightly defective with small losses at beginning and end; now cut into thirteen sections measuring about 435 x 540 each, except for the last which measures 625 x 540.
published according to act of Parliament May 7, 1761.
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 764 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Before title page. Catalogue of the pictures, sculptures, models, drawings, prints, &c. / exhibited
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Frontispiece to the catalogue of the pictures exhibited by the Society of Artists, at their first exhibition in Spring Gardens; Britannia standing in a rocky landscape, filling a watering can from a fountain with lion's head spout and a bust statue of George III in a niche surmounted by a crown, lettered 'Georgius III Rex. MDCCLXI.'; the watering can pours onto three short trees growing in a clump at right, favouring the one with the trunk labelled 'Architecture' and, to a lesser extent, the tree labelled 'Painting'; the tree 'Sculpture', on slightly lower ground, is not in the line of the spray."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Et spes & ratio studiorum in Caesare tantum. Juv
Description:
Title and state from Paulson., State with quotation from Juvenal etched below image, and the citation "Just." corrected to "Juv."., 1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 20.3 x 15.9 cm, on sheet 21.9 x 16.4 cm., Mounted on leaf 59 x 46 cm., Plate 67 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works., and With contemporary annotation in ink at bottom of sheet: Frontispiece to Catalogue of Pictures &c. at Exhibition of Society for Encouragement of Arts, Manusfacturers & Commerce, 1761.
published according to act of Parliament May 7, 1761.
Call Number:
49 3885.2 v.1
Collection Title:
Before title page. Catalogue of the pictures, sculptures, models, drawings, prints, &c. / exhibited
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Frontispiece to the catalogue of the pictures exhibited by the Society of Artists, at their first exhibition in Spring Gardens; Britannia standing in a rocky landscape, filling a watering can from a fountain with lion's head spout and a bust statue of George III in a niche surmounted by a crown, lettered 'Georgius III Rex. MDCCLXI.'; the watering can pours onto three short trees growing in a clump at right, favouring the one with the trunk labelled 'Architecture' and, to a lesser extent, the tree labelled 'Painting'; the tree 'Sculpture', on slightly lower ground, is not in the line of the spray."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Et spes & ratio studiorum in Caesare tantum. Juv
Description:
Title and state from Paulson., State with quotation from Juvenal etched below image, and the citation "Just." corrected to "Juv."., and Bound in before title page of: A catalogue of the pictures, sculptures, models, drawings, prints, &c. / exhibited by the Society of Artists of Great-Britain at the Great Room in Spring-Garden, Charing-Cross, May the 9th, 1761 ... (no. 3 in Horace Walpole's bound collection of catalogues).
Title devised by curator., Date based on time period when Charles Cornwallis was known as "The Lord Cornwallis"., Text within banner below shield: Virtvs vincit invidiam., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Laid in an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
The Philadelphia vocabulary, English and Latin: : put into a new method, proper to acquaint the
Image Count:
7
Description:
Autograph and inscription by Joseph Ward on back flyleaf.
Subject (Topic):
Latin language --Glossaries, vocabularies, etc. --Early works to 1800, Latin language --Readers --Early works to 1800, and Picture books for children --Early works to 1800
Collection Created:
Philadelphia: : Printed by Carey and Co. and sold by all the booksellers., M,DCC,LXXXVII. [1787]