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- Creator:
- Grosvenor, Francis
- Published / Created:
- [1620?]
- Call Number:
- Osborn b349
- Image Count:
- 19
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of notes and quotations, in two hands. Notes in a secretary hand include instruction for the branle and tables of """"The rates of ffynes for Respitt of homage"""" and other fees. Notes in an Italic hand include comments on witchcraft, didactic phrases and sentences, and notes on geography and cosmology.
- Description:
- Binding: early 17th century limp vellum., Blank leaves not reproduced digitally., Flyleaf annotated: """"Francis Grosvenor."""", and Teaching resource: English Paleography Examples, 16th-18th century.
- Subject (Topic):
- Geography and Witchcraft
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Commonplace book], [1620s?]
- 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
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- Published / Created:
- [after 1718]
- Call Number:
- Osborn Music MS 25
- Image Count:
- 22
- Resource Type:
- Music (Printed & Manuscript)
- Description:
- Musical commonplace book: MS in two or
- Subject (Name):
- Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759 and Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695
- Subject (Topic):
- Hymns, English -- Great Britain, Music--Instruction and study--England--Early works to 1800, Oratorios -- Excerpts, and Songs, English -- Great Britain
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Songbook]
- Creator:
- From the Collection: Southcomb family
- Published / Created:
- 1696-1731
- Call Number:
- OSB MSS 156
- Container / Volume:
- Box 2, folder 2
- Image Count:
- 194
- Description:
- "Maundy Thursday Apr. 15, 1731." "Religious Wisdom" "Seraphic Suit for Grace" "Divine Life Perfected" "Celestial Ejaculation"
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Southcomb family papers (OSB MSS 156) > Series I: Commonplace Books of Lewis Southcomb, (1653-1733) > "Poetical Aspirations: Or Divine Breathings Part 2nd" a manuscript volume of devotional poems including:
- Call Number:
- Osborn c391
- Image Count:
- 209
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- MS in several hands and Collection of verse (including original poems), letters, drawings, etc., compiled by Martha, Ann, and William Dickinson (1746-1823); mentions John Dickinson (1815-1876); accompanied by a small quantity of loose papers
- Description:
- Title on spine: Common Place Books of
- Subject (Topic):
- Women authors
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Commonplace books], [late 18th/early 19th century].
- Published / Created:
- circa 1787
- Call Number:
- Osborn c138
- Image Count:
- 31
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of 8 primarily melancholy poems copied from various authors, on such subjects as love, solitude, and loneliness. The collection contains Alexander Pope's Eloise to Abelard; Mrs. Madan's Abelard to Eloisa; Aaron Hill's Alone in an inn at Southampton Court; and William Congreve's To a candle. Other titles include The late Lord Harvey to Mr. Fox; The castle top, wrote by a lad at Winchester School; and A hermit's meditation.
- Description:
- Binding: full parchment. and Imperfect: p. 34-35 wanting.
- Subject (Name):
- Héloïse,--1101-1164--Poetry, Hill, Aaron,--1685-1750, Madan, Judith,--1702-1781, and Pope, Alexander,--1688-1744
- Subject (Topic):
- Elegiac poetry, English, English poetry--18th century, Solitude--Poetry, and Women authors
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commonplace book, circa 1787.
- Published / Created:
- [18th century]
- Call Number:
- Osborn c258
- Image Count:
- 54
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of 43 primarily sentimental, melancholy, and religious poems on such subjects as death and divine and human love. Titles of poems include Seraphick love; To melancholy; On death; On the day of judgment; On love; Love undiscovered; Friendship in absence; On beauty; and The vanity of man in the similitude of a bubble. The poems are by various authors, whose identities are indicated only by their initials.
- Description:
- Autograph on front cover: Anne Woolfe. Other pen trials also appear on front cover., Binding: paper. Written on front cover: A Collection of Poems., and For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain--Religious life and customs--18th century
- Subject (Topic):
- Death--Poetry, English poetry--18th century, Love poetry, English, Religious poetry, English, and Sentimentalism in literature
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Commonplace book]
- Creator:
- Marsham, John, Sir, 1602-1685
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1670]
- Call Number:
- Osborn b420
- Image Count:
- 61
- Abstract:
- Holograph notebook on paper, in an Italic hand, containing detailed reading notes in English and Latin on John Selden’s History of Tithes and Uxor Hebraica, as well as notes in Latin toward a revision of Marsham’s own Chronicus Canon.
- Subject (Name):
- Cotton, Robert, Sir, 1571-1631 --Library, Marsham, John, Sir, 1602-1685, Selden, John, 1584-1654. Historie of tithes, and Selden, John, 1584-1654. Uxor Ebraica
- Subject (Topic):
- Antiquarians, Chronology, Historical, and Learning and scholarship --Great Britain
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commonplace book
- Creator:
- Rainstorp, Walter., creator
- Published / Created:
- [late 18th century]
- Call Number:
- Osborn Music MS 12
- Image Count:
- 52
- Abstract:
- A collection of 80 dances, with a description of steps and tunes.
- Description:
- 34 blank leaves at end unscanned., Contents organized by numbered openings, not paginated or foliated., and Holograph MS.
- Subject (Topic):
- Dance music--England--18th century, Dance--England--Early works to 1800, Dance--History--18th century--Handbooks, manuals, etc., Dance--Study and teaching--Great Britain--Early works to 1800, and Fiddle tunes--England--Early works to 1800
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Commonplace book]