- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1612]
- Call Number:
- Osborn b144
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, in several hands, of Latin quotations grouped by philosophical and moral subjects such as Bellum; Fortuna; Humilitas; Ingratus; Patientia; and Virtus Moralis. Other entries include several religious poems; medical recipes "for the stone"; Biblical quotations; a history of England from William the Conqueror to 1502; and a prayer which asks God to bless "thy servant James by thy grace...King defender of the true ancient CS A. F. In all causes and over all persons...Blesse the noble queene Ana & let not the scepter depart from prince Henry nor thy gratious goodnes from all the Roial progeny."
- Description:
- Binding: full sheep; blind-stamped decoration on covers., Pen trials inside front and back covers, including several drawings of cats, mice, and a bird., Signature of Robert Cottesford on end-paper., and Table of contents to the Latin quotations appears on pp. 172-5.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain--History--1066-1687, Great Britain--Intellectual life--17th century, and Great Britain--Religious life and customs--17th century
- Subject (Name):
- James--I,--King of England,--1566-1625
- Subject (Topic):
- English poetry--17th century, Latin poetry--17th century, Medicine, Meditations (Religious), Philosophy, and Prayers
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Commonplace book], [ca. 1612].
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- Creator:
- Feilding (Fielding) family
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1684]
- Call Number:
- Osborn b226
- Image Count:
- 10
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of a collection of about 73 entries, including prayers, poems on primarily romantic subjects, and culinary and medicinal recipes for such items as "orange water the Countess of Desmonds way"; black pudding; "to make hair black"; and "for Hot Sore Eyes." Other include one titled "upon my Lady Desmonds Reproaching of me Rongfully" and another addressed to "Aminta" which asks her to "think on thy Feildings dying grones." The volume also includes genealogical information on members of the Feilding family born between 1637 and 1651.
- Description:
- Binding: covers and spine embroidered in flower pattern with metal and fabric threads. and For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain--Religious life and customs--17th century and Great Britain--Social life and customs--17th century
- Subject (Name):
- Feilding (Fielding) family
- Subject (Topic):
- Cooking, Elegiac poetry, English, Embroidery, English poetry--17th century, Medicine, Popular, Medicine--15th-18th cent, Meditations (Religious), Religious poetry, English, Sentimentalism in literature, and Women authors
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Commonplace book]
- Creator:
- W. S
- Call Number:
- Osborn b230
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, containing about 43 entries including religious meditations; Biblical notes; religious poems and verse paraphrases on Biblical subjects; sermon extracts; a play titled "The Tragedye of Jepthas daughter;" a treatise on dueling "according to the unjustifiable Custome of this age by a true Lover of honnour;" and a collection of medicinal recipes. Elsewhere, a brief description of "the nature of the irish, who are cal'd naturall Irishe, out of Campion's History" is annotated, "This being a booke of Commmon place this comes not out of order." The volume begins with a letter addressed to the author's son, in which the author describes the contents of this manuscript as "the fruits of my solitude whilst under restraint" as a royalist prisoner at Exeter, ca. 1651-53.
- Description:
- Binding: full sheep., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., In English., Pasted into front cover: newspaper clipping which describes the manuscript., and Phillipps MS 18904.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain--Politics and government--1642-1660 and Great Britain--Religious life and customs--17th century
- Subject (Name):
- Campion, Edmund,--Saint,--1540-1581
- Subject (Topic):
- Dueling--Great Britain, English drama--17th century, English poetry--17th century, Medicine, Popular, Medicine--15th-18th cent, Meditations (Religious), Religious poetry, English, and Sermons, English--17th century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Commonplace book], [ca. 1651-1653].