John Huighen van Linschoten, his Discours of Voyages into ye Easte & West Indies
Image Count:
1
Description:
[Scale ca. 1:13,500,000]., Bound in following p. 32., and Map has several small brown marks on the left portion that can also be seen on the verso.
Subject (Geographic):
Borneo --Maps --Early works to 1800, China --Maps --1368-1644, Japan --Maps --Early works to 1800, Java (Indonesia) --Maps --Early works to 1800, and Sumatra (Indonesia) --Maps
Subject (Name):
Wolfe, John, d. 1601, printer
Subject (Topic):
Voyages and travels --Early works to 1800
Collection Created:
[London] : Printed at London by [John Windet for] Iohn Wolfe, printer to ye Honorable Cittie of London, [1598]
Bat. cum Privil. Ordin. Gener, Belgii Faederati--Title cartouche., Features include ornate title cartouche (top left) with cherubs, male and female figures and royal coat-of-arms supported by lion and unicorn, arms of Scotland supported by cherubs (above scale cartouche at top right), compass indicator and coasts shaded outwards., In Latin with some place names in English; explanations and title for index to places in Dutch and English., No. 7 of 69 maps bound together in composite atlas., Relief shown pictorially., Scale [ca. 1:960 000]., Scale statement reads: Milliaria Germanica Communia 15 in uno Gradu, with scale bar graded [0]-10; Milliaria Scotica Communia quorum 50 in uno Gradu, with scale bar graded [0]-34; Milliaria Gallica quae et Horae Itineris 20 in uno Gradu, with scale bar graded [0]-14., Shows grid, rivers and tributaries, lochs (shaded), trees, place and county names, settlements (symbols classified by importance in legend), territorial boundaries., Shows Scotland including the Hebrides and Orkney Islands., and The four cardinal points are written in the borders.
Autograph manuscript transcribed by William Partridge. Pages 67-137 contain "A compendium of logick, according to the modern philosophy, extracted from Le-grand & others their systems." This is followed by shorthand notes. Given by Partridge to Timothy Edwards, and later owned by Jonathan Edwards when a student at Yale in 1718. A note in F. B. Dexter’s hand says the book was also used by Warham Mather. On the verso of the first leaf: "Jonathan Edward’s Book 1751."
Subject (Name):
Harvard University --Students, Partridge, William, 1669-1693, Ramus, Petrus, 1515-1572, and Yale University --Students
Subject (Topic):
Logic --Study and teaching --Early works to 1800 and Shorthand--Early works to 1800
Holograph commonplace book containing excerpts from books, magazines and newspapers on a variety of subjects, including antiquities; recent history and politics; voyages of discovery; agriculture and agricultural improvement; natural history; methods of selecting books; and medical and household recipes. Bailye’s reading included Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France, Burney’s History of Music, Gibbons’ Decline and Fall, and Boswell’s Life of Johnson, from which he extracted two pages of "Dr. Johnson’s Remarks and Observations." There are five pages of quotations from Rousseau’s Emile. A number of entries concern Lichfield antiquities and monuments, including descriptions of Lichfield Cathedral and information on the cost of James Wyatt’s repairs to the choir. Bailye also copied documents related to the administration of the estate of David Garrick, with which he was involved. Pages 98-100 contain "Mr. Wallis’s Acct. of the Effects of the late D. Garrick Esq. 1783," which includes statements of revenue from properties and investments as well as payments on legacies and annuities and is followed by a quotation from a 1785 letter by Wallis apologizing for the partial distributions. A more detailed account of Garrick’s Hendon property is found on page 114.
Books and reading --Great Britain, Distribution of decedents’ estates --Great Britain, Learning and scholarship --Great Britain, and Recipes --Great Britain
From the Collection: Hanbury-Williams, Charles, 1708-1759
Published / Created:
1584 1717
Call Number:
LWL MSS 7
Container / Volume:
box 48, folder 11
Image Count:
37
Description:
The volume consists of five separate documents bound together; they are unrelated in hand, format, date, and topic though four of the five concern Ireland. Further content description and analysis was supplied at the item level by David Brown, Department of History, Trinity College Dublin, in December 2023.
The volume is in a stiff-board binding covered in brown paper with a blue cloth spine, with printed CH-W and Phillipps number labels on the spine. The Hanbury-Williams volume number is 42; the Phillipps number is 11409.
Manuscript on paper, in an Italic hand, of two elegiac poems titled "Funerall teares and consolations" and "Lachrymae funebres" mourning the death of Winifred Fitzwilliam (d. 1635), and dedicated to her father, Baron William Fitzwilliam of Liffer County, Donegal. Prefaced by a rhyming epitaph.
Description:
Binding: full sheep; remnants of gold-tooled decoration. and The paper on p. 44 is dyed black and written upon with silver ink.
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, English, English literature--17th century, English poetry--17th century, and Funeral rites and ceremonies