Anonymous manuscript collection of verse and prose by various authors. The volume includes "A Peaceable and Friendly Address to the Nonconformists written upon their desiring an Act of Toleration without the Sacramental Test," a possibly unpublished poem by Edmund Waller (1606-87) and works by Rochester, Dryden, Roscommon, Congreve, Sidney Godolphin, Addison and others. A later owner, signing himself Sam.[?pson] Estwick on the endpaper, has used the leaves at the end of the book for historical, scriptural and legal memoranda, and has on p. 37 made a note on "Some anthems proper for our Choire..."
Subject (Name):
Estwick, Sampson,--ca. 1657-1739
Subject (Topic):
Church music, Dissenters, English poetry--17th century, and Test Act--(1673)
Bishop Corbet to his son Vincent Corbet two years of age, Dean Swifts translation of a Latin inscription written by Dean Smedley ..., Lines of Dean Swifts, Ode to contemplation, and Ode to memory
Collection of poems and other items such as neatly drawn vignettes, and two neatly inserted engravings; author is probably Robert Cholmeley, of St. John's College.
Description:
Anonymous manuscript. and Binding: red morocco, without title.
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a large collection of poems. The first volume contains primarily occasional poems and satirical verse; titles include "To a Fellow, who after the Author had done Him Some Service, endeavour'd to ridicule Him in a stupid Print" and "Writ under the Print of a Chimney Sweeper, Squeezing a Cat." The first volume also contains a dedication to the Princess of Wales," requesting Her Royal Highness graciously to patronize a Subscription, for printing Poems on Several Occasions," and is followed by a dedicatory poem to her, which mentions a fable "presented to His late Royal Highness at Leicester House, in 1751, which was most graciously receiv'd, & the Author had the honour to kiss the Princess' Hand." The other three volumes contain more occasional poems, political verse, "imitations and translations," and songs. Titles in these volumes include "Verses on the Demise of the late King: & the Accession of His present Majesty," "The Willow and the Peach-Tree, from a Chinese Poem," "The Victory at Cullden: gain'd by His Royal Highness...set by Mr. Handel, & Sung by Mr. Lows, in Vauxhall Gardens," and "Anniversary Song; for the Cyder Counties on the repeal of the Cyder Act (The Tune, Bumper Squire Jones)." The third volume also contains numerous dramatic pieces, including a "Prologue to the Conscious Lovers, acted in Covent Garden Theatre," "Yarico: an American pastoral Drama, set to music by Mr. John Christopher Smith: & writ for Buckingham House," "Elfrida: an Opera set to Music by Mr. John Christopher Smith," and "Moses: an Oratorio."
Description:
Binding: quarter contemporary leather., On flyleaf of vol. 1: copy of a poem titled "To my worthy Friend M. John Lockman: on His Poems on various Occasions," by Michael Clancy, dated 1762., and Pasted into Vols. 1, 2, and 4: printed copies of Lockman's poems inside front cover and throughout the manuscripts.
Subject (Name):
George--III,--King of Great Britain,--1738-1820, Handel, George Frideric,--1685-1759, Lockman, John,--1698-1771, and Smith, John Christopher,--1712-1795
Subject (Topic):
English drama--18th century, English literature--18th century, English poetry--18th century, Music--England--18th century, Occasional verse, Political poetry, English, and Verse satire, English
Before the text, an epistle is dedicated "To ye right honorable ye Ladie vicount Hereford" from P.M. The manuscript also includes a dedication to Edward Devereux, Lady Hereford's husband. Peter Mowle's commonplace book (Oscot College MS. Case B II) discusses the manuscript: "Anno 1595 I dedicated to ye Right Honerable the Ladie vicount Hereford of Parham in Sussex... a Booke for a new yeares gifte, conteyninge five principall meditaciouns, whereof ye first treateth of ye Agonie of Death. The second of the particvler Iudgement of ye sovle. The third of ye Daye of ye Generall Iudgement. The fourth of ye Tormentes of Hell. The fift and late of ye Ioyes of Heaven, with severrall Argumentes to eyther of them and five Peticions to our Blessed Saviour Iesv vppon ye former meditaciouns...", Manuscript, on paper, in English cursive bookhand, produced in England during the years 1595-1622. The text is a devotional poem in five books, dedicated to Lady Viscount Hereford and dated January 1, 1595. It is bound with the commonplace book of Nicolas Hanslopp (ff. 22r-75v)., and The first poem in the collection is the same as that of Osborn a5, "The Foure-Fould Meditations," by Philip Howard, Earl of Arundel.
Alternative Title:
Sartaine most holsome meditations verey meete to bee dulie considered, 1595-1622.
Description:
Among the marginal notes appear the names Robert Worral, John Radford, and the inscription "William Sutton, His Booke" (on f. 71v, 72r, and 74r)., Bequest of James M. Osborn, 1976., Binding: nineteenth-century boards., Bound with the commonplace book of Nicolas Hanslopp. Digital images captured without original binding., Hanslopp's commonplace book includes medical recipes, prayers, and several crude drawings, including one of "Twoo Giants Fiting.", and Peter Mowle seems to have had the job of copying and circulating the works of Catholic writers (including himself) to the chief Catholic families of the day.
Subject (Name):
Hanslopp, Nicolas and Mowle, Peter,--1554-?
Subject (Topic):
English poetry--16th century and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Christ surrounded by one hundred bobwhites
, Everything is wanting…, Freedom, Revolt, and Love
, I wanted to be a family man…
, New poems by Frank Stanford, and The Jungle
Subject (Name):
Stanford, Frank, 1949-
Subject (Topic):
American poetry--20th century and Poets, American--20th century--Archives
Manuscript on paper, in various hands, of a collection of 72 satirical verses and songs, primarily commenting on events and political and literary figures in 1688-89. A poem titled The Invasion declares, "O! The year 88 that shall in story be prais'd, for a Parliament sunk, and Six Regiments rais'd;" another is mockingly addressed "For her Royall Highness the Princess Anne of Denmark on the Birth of the Duke at Gloster sung att Hampton Court." A Satyr On The Poets mocks such poets as Wycherley and Shadwell; other items include A Satyr on The Most Eminent Court Ninnys; Advice To The Test-Holders; On The Speakeing Wooden Head; The Lovers Session; New Letter to Julian; A Poem On Matrimony by Sir Charles Sedley; and The Puritans Lecture by Abraham Cowley.
Description:
Binding: no covers., Index, in another hand, at beginning of manuscript, which lists many more items than appear in the collection., and This collection was evidently made in London for a gentleman resident with Sir George Strode (1583-1633) in Dorset, the individual poems being sent down separately as they were acquired; several have postmarks.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Politics and government--1660-1714, Great Britain--Religious life and customs--17th century, and Great Britain--Social life and customs--17th century
Subject (Name):
Anne,--Queen of Great Britain,--1665-1714, Cowley, Abraham,--1618-1667, Grafton, Henry Fitz Roy,--Duke of,--1663-1690, Great Britain.--Parliament, Heveningham, Henry, Sedley, Charles,--Sir,--1639?-1701, Shadwell, Thomas,--1642?-1692, William--III,--King of England,--1650-1702, and Wycherley, William,--1640-1716
Subject (Topic):
Courts and courtiers--England, English poetry--17th century, English wit and humor, Religious satire, English, Satirical verse, English, and Songs, English--17th century
Manuscript, on parchment, in Anglicana script, produced in England during the early fourteenth century.
Alternative Title:
Destruction of Jerusalem.
Description:
Binding: nineteenth-century brown morocco with gilt Derby crest., One of the flyleaves has the name Thomas Redyng in a late sixteenth-century hand., The text is incomplete, ending at line 4902 of 5166 lines., and Volume interleaved with blank paper pages between each parchment page. These blank pages are not digitized.
Subject (Geographic):
Jerusalem--History--Siege, 70 A.D.--Poetry
Subject (Name):
Derby, Edward Smith Stanley,--Earl of,--1752-1834--Binding and Derby, Edward Smith Stanley,--Earl of,--1752-1834--Ownership
Subject (Topic):
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library and Titus and Vespasian (Middle English poem)
Autograph manuscript of a poem on the debate contest at King Darius' court chronicled in I Esdras 3-4. In the end Darius promises to rebuild Jerusalem and the Temple as Zerubbabel's prize for his winning oration which argued that "women were more strong than wine; the ample pow'r of kings to them decline; but truth the strongest." The dedicatory preface quotes and compares several examples of classical and biblical verse, and explains that the Muses which he invokes in the poem are only a metaphor for natural poetic inclinations.
Description:
Binding: stitched, Marbled-paper endsheets, with handwriting beneath. and Dedication: To my ever-honoured father, Joseph Rose of Alesbury in the County of Bucks.
Subject (Name):
Rose, Aquila,--1695-1723 and Zerubbabel--(Biblical figure)
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--O.T.--Apocrypha.--Esdras, 1st, Bible--History of Biblical events--Poetry--Early works to 1800, English poetry--18th century, and Religious poetry, English--18th century
Biggs and Cottle correspondence regarding Lyrical ballads.
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Folder: Letter 1
Image Count:
6
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Sixteen autograph letters, signed, and autograph manuscript poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, published their in Lyrical Ballads with Other Poems, volume II (London: Printed for T. N. Longman and O. Rees, by Biggs and Co., Bristol, 1800). The poems were written out by Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Dorothy Wordsworth between July 28 and December 23, 1800, in the form of letters to the printers Biggs and Cottle of Bristol, England. The sheets were folded and sent through the mail, and the poems used as setting copy for the volume. One letter, dated July 28, 1800, is addressed to Humphry Davy.
Alternative Title:
Letter 1. To Biggs and Cottle. 1800 July 28. Letter from Wordsworth to Mr. Davy (afterwards Sir Humphrey Davy)
Description:
Ellen Irwin., Heartleap well., The brothers (part), and There was a boy.
Subject (Name):
Biggs and Cottle., Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834, Davy, Humphry, Sir, 1778-1829 , Longman, R. G.--Ownership., Wordsworth, Dorothy, 1771-1855, and Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850
Subject (Topic):
English literature--19th century. and Poets, English--19th century.