Manuscript commonplace book, in a single hand, containing copies of several letters of advice and copies of many lyric poems, sonnets, and epitaphs. Authors represented include Byron, Burns, Anna Barbauld, and R. S. Hawker. In addition, there are verses identified as written by members of the owner's social circle, including "Miss Bode."
Description:
Binding: original full diced calf, worn.
Subject (Topic):
Conduct of life, English poetry--19th century, and English prose literature--19th century
Manuscript on paper of a commonplace book. The work contains four sections. (1) "Loci animadvertendi in legendi epistolis, ad quos etia[m] om[n]ia quae annotaderis referenda sunt." This lists types of epistles under eight headings, or "libri," but the extensive framework is very incompletely annotated. (2) "Here are written divers notes phrases words & sentences collected out of severall bokes. 15 Novembr 1586. A[nn]o Reg.ie Eliz. 28." This is actually a seventeen-page selection from the "A Touchstone for the Time" section of George Whetstone's A Mirrour for Magistrates.... (London, 1584). It is preceded by a two-line entry quoting Mary Queen of Scots as saying at Fotheringay, "I come not as a criminal." (3) "Epistolae commendatiae Praecepta," summarizing extracts from the Epistolae of Paulus Manutius. (4) "Quaedam collecta ex liber The Breviarie of Health, compiled by Andrew Boorde." Eight pages of various entries in English from Boorde's work, including descriptions of and remedies for "scurffe," greensickness, "sikness of the prisones, "chappe," and nosebleed.
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Binding: 18th century full calf, blind stamped, spine banded with gilt decorations., Bookplate: Maurice Johnson of Spalding, 1735., Bound with: 17th century manuscript on paper of legal precedents in a chancery hand. Most are from the reign of James I. The name "Richarde Wolfe" appears in an Italic hand on the last page., Ex libris Maurice Johnson. Purchased from Arthur Freeman on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2002., In English and Latin., Several copies of prayers throughout in a later hand., Spine title reads, "M.S.S. 1586.", and Title page for volume (supplied by Johnson) in red and black lettering attributes the commonplace book to "Richardum Ogle Eq. Aur."
Subject (Name):
Manuzio, Paolo,--1512-1574 and Whetstone, George,--1544?-1587?
Subject (Topic):
Law--Great Britain, Medicine, Popular, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Rhetoric, Renaissance
Manuscript, on paper, of music copied by Gostling, consisting of 26 anthems by John Blow, Pelham Humfrey, Henry Purcell, and William Turner, and one chant by Purcell. Laid in is an additional version of the tune for Turner's O Praise the Lord. Some anthems include corrections, performance instructions, or dates of composition.
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Annotation in an unidentified hand: Lot 16 S. Ja. 26 [corrected to 31] /49., Binding: contemporary full calf, worn., Ex libris William Gostling. Purchased from J. & J. Lubrano on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2006., Index of titles by Gostling on inside front cover; index and other notes of a former owner are laid in., John Gostling, English cathedral bass singer and music copyist., and Pages numbered 1-[186]; page numbers 102 and 107 are repeated.
Subject (Name):
Blow, John, -1708., Blow, John, -1708. I will hearken., Blow, John, -1708. Lord is my shepherd., Blow, John,---1708., Gostling, John,--ca. 1650-1733., Gostling, William,--1696-1777--Bookplate., Humfrey, Pelham, 1647-1674., Humfrey, Pelham, 1647-1674. By the waters of Babylon., Humfrey, Pelham, 1647-1674. I will always give thanks., Humfrey, Pelham,--1647-1674., Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695., Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. My beloved spake., Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Why do the heathen so furiously rage?, Purcell, Henry,--1659-1695., Turner, William, 1651-1740., and Turner, William,--1651-1740.
1 photomechanical postcard in folder 1 digitized.
1 TLS with manuscript friendship contract on verso in folder 5 digitized.
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6 folders.
Subject (Name):
Bellamy, Dodie and Killian, Kevin
Subject (Topic):
American literature--20th century, American poetry--20th century, Authors, American--20th century--Archives, Authors--United States--20th century, Gay authors, LGBTQ resource, Poets, American--20th century--Archives, and Poets--United States--20th Century
Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, containing two speeches relating to the prosecution of seamen as pirates who had been fighting under King James' commission. The first piece consists of Oldys's testimony before the Lords of the Council and Commissioners of the Admiralty, in which he refused to prosecute these men, declaring that "pyrates are common enemies to all mankind, having no Legal Authority for what they do, but these shew a Commission signed James Rex," while the Lords of the Council argued that James II had no power to write such a commission, having been deposed by King William III. The second piece consists of the speech to Parliament by the prisoners John Golding, Thomas Jones, John Ryan, Darby Collins, Richard Shevers, Patrick Quidly, John Slaughter, and Constaine De Hartley, in which they appeal the decision to condemn them as traitors.
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Binding: Middle Hill boards., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., Phillipps MS 4851., and Title taken from title page.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Politics and government--1603-1714.
Subject (Name):
England and Wales.--Council of State., Great Britain.--Admiralty., Great Britain.--Parliament., James--II,--King of England,--1633-1701., Oldys, William,--1636-1708., and William--III,--King of England,--1650-1702.
Subject (Topic):
Law--England., Pirates., Privateering--England., and Treason--England.
Inscription on back flyleaf recto. and Manuscript on paper in a secretary hand of the complete text of Stephen Hopkins' translation of de Granada's Libro de oracion y meditatcion.
Alternative Title:
Of prayer and meditation, wherein are conteined fowertien deuoute meditations for the seuen dayes of the weeke..., [circa 1584]
Description:
Annotation on blank p. 684: "Elizabeth Cottan.", Annotation on p. 1: "Ex Bib. S. Wilfredi.", Binding: blind-ruled parchment; fragments of parchment ms. (ca. 1600) used as liners., No title page, but Hopkins is identified as the author in the Prologue to the Dedicatory Epistle, which includes his attack on the English Puritans and which opens the work., Purchased from Arthur Freeman on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2003., and Text follows the 1584 Rouen edition.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions--English, Hopkins, Stephen,--d. 1594?, and Luis, de Granada,--1504-1588--Translations
Subject (Topic):
Catholics--England, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Meditations (Religious), Meditations--Catholic Church, and Puritans--England--Controversial literature