- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1640].
- Call Number:
- Osborn b62
- Image Count:
- 78
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript consisting of a collection of poems in English by various authors, all in one unidentified hand. Includes works attributed to Walton Poole; Henry King (1592-1669); Sir John Davies (1569-1626); Giles Hayward and Richard Corbet (1582-1635)., Manuscript on paper, in a single secretary hand, of a collection of about 144 English poems, primarily on the subjects of love, women, and marriage. Many poems are addressed to their authors' mistresses, including To Ones Mistress Thinking Her Selfe Too Younge; To His Mistress Having Stayed Long From Her; and John Donne's To His Mistress Going to Bed. The volume also contains several occasional poems, including one on King James' death and another on a son of King Charles I, and numerous satirical verses; several are dedicated to physicians, lawyers, and usurers, one mocks "a Puritan maide," and another satirizes "Sr Robert Carr Earle of Sommerset.", and P. [24] digitized at high resolution.
- Description:
- Binding: stitched; no covers.
- Subject (Name):
- Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649, Corbet, Richard, 1582-1635, Donne, John, 1572-1631, James I, King of England, 1566-1625, King, Henry, 1592-1669, and Randolph, Thomas, 1605-1635
- Subject (Topic):
- Anagrams , Elegiac poetry, English, English poetry--17th century, Epigrams, Metaphysics--Poetry, Occasional verse, English, Verse satire, English, and Women--Conduct of life
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Commonplace book]
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- Creator:
- Alston, Tobias, 1620-ca.1639.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1639]
- Call Number:
- Osborn b197
- Image Count:
- 97
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Autograph manuscript of a collection of about 250 primarily light, satirical, or amatory English poems by various authors. In addition to twelve poems by Robert Herrick, primarily on love, the manuscript also contains poems by Thomas Carew, John Donne, Ben Jonson, Sir John Harington, Michael Drayton, George Wither, and others, as well as 17 poems in Latin. Other items include several pieces relating to Cambridge University and Suffolk, as well as numerous bawdy poems, drinking songs, political and religious verse satires, epigrams, and epitaphs both humorous and serious. Titles of these poems include An epitaph on Luce Morgan; Upon the Parliament 1624; A Puritan and A Papist; and several poems on Prince Charles' and the Duke of Buckingham's journey to Spain in 1623. Also in the manuscript is a copy of the love poem titled ""Shall I die?,"" attributed to Shakespeare in a Bodleian manuscript. At the end of the manuscript are notes and verses in later hands.
- Description:
- Disbound and separated into 21 folders., Marbled endpapers. Binding: full calf; blind-tooled cover., and Written on flyleaf: "Tobias Alston his booke," several times, as well as other names, including "Henricus Glisson" and "Harris Norton." In a later hand, "E L John Whitehead."
- Subject (Name):
- Alston, Tobias, 1620-ca. 1639, Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of, 1592-1628, Carew, Thomas, 1595?-1639?, Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649, Donne, John, 1572-1631, Drayton, Michael, 1563-1631, Harington, John, 1589-1654, Herrick, Robert, 1591-1674, Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637, Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, University of Cambridge--Poetry, and Wither, George, 1588-1667
- Subject (Topic):
- Bawdy poetry--England, English poetry--17th century, English wit and humor, Epigrams, English, Epitaphs, English, Latin poetry, Love--Poetry, Political satire, English--17th century, Songs, English--17th century, Verse satire, English, and Women--Conduct of life
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Commonplace book]
- Creator:
- Magalotti, Lorenzo, conte, 1637-1712, collector
- Published / Created:
- [late 17th century].
- Call Number:
- Osborn fb66
- Image Count:
- 130
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- A collection of copies of about 36 English poems, in various hands, many of them satirical and bawdy. Political and social satires include Thomas Brown's Melting Downe The Plate, Or The Pisspotts Farewell; John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester's Satire Against Reason and Mankind; and an excerpt from Samuel Butler's Hudibras. The volume also contains several sexually explicit satires against women, as well as numerous serious poems, which include an excerpt from Contention Of Ajax And Ulysses by James Shirley, attributed in the manuscript to the Earl of Orrery; an excerpted description of heaven from Abraham Cowley's Davideis; and John Denham's Cooper's Hill.
- Description:
- Binding: enfolded by a paper cover., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., and The piece titled "A Song composed by the Earle of Orrery" is accompanied by a letter signed "Thomas Style" and addressed to "Signor Lorenzo Magallotti."
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain--Politics and government and Great Britain--Social life and customs--17th century
- Subject (Name):
- Brown, Thomas, 1663-1704, Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680--Hudibras, Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667, Denham, John, Sir, 1615-1669, Donne, John, 1572-1631, Dryden, John, 1631-1700, Magalotti, Lorenzo, conte, 1637-1712, Orrery, Roger Boyle, Earl of, 1621-1679, Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of, 1647-1680, and Shirley, James, 1596-1666
- Subject (Topic):
- English poetry--17th century, English wit and humor, Political poetry, English, Verse satire, English, and Women--Conduct of life
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Poesie Inglesi