- Creator:
- Hill, William, 1574 or 1575-
- Published / Created:
- [early 17th century]
- Call Number:
- Osborn b234
- Image Count:
- 360
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Autograph manuscript of a collection of didactic material. The manuscript begins with specimens of calligraphy, labeled Courte hande, Chancerie hande, Secretarie hande, cloven hande, curled hand, chayned hand, and Roman hande, as well as examples of writing in reverse and recipes for making ink, red wax, and white letters on black paper. This section is followed by arithmetic tables; measurements and conversions for dry goods as well as salmon, eels, wine, and oil; a sample genealogical chart drawn as a tree; instructions on how to use counters for counting; and a chart of the names of English kings and the years of their reigns up to James I, dated 1607. The bulk of the collection, however, consists of several hundred Latin proverbs on such topics as error, excellence, faith, honor, and ingratitude, followed by English proverbs and admonitions, and then several English proverbs translated into Latin. This section includes excerpts from King James' Basilikon Doron and How to live and that well by William Perkins. These proverbs are followed by "prettie and necessary rules for such as use to deale in merchandize, easy to be had in memorye," and, at the end of the manuscript, genealogical information for the Hill family, beginning in 1568.
- Description:
- Imperfect: some pages mutilated with loss of text.
- Subject (Name):
- Hill family, James I, King of England, 1566-1625, and Perkins, William, 1558-1602
- Subject (Topic):
- Arithmetic--Handbooks, manuals, etc, Calligraphy --England, Children--Conduct of life, English poetry --17th century, Genealogy--England, Proverbs, English, Proverbs, Latin, Recipes--Great Britain, and Weights and measures--England
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Commonplace book], [early 17th century]
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- Creator:
- Southwell, Robert, Sir, 1635-1702
- Published / Created:
- [1653? and later]
- Call Number:
- Osborn b112
- Image Count:
- 301
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, containing brief quotations and maxims on approximately 500 primarily moral and philosophical subjects, arranged alphabetically under Latin headings. Sample headings include Ars, Consilio, Deus, Felicitas, Ingratitudo, and Veritas. Under Passio, the author writes, "There is noe heat of Affection but is joyn’d with some Impotence of brain"; under Vita, the author lists "Lives of persons written," including "Of Cowley, by Dr. Sprot, Of Mr. Herbert, Dr. Donne, Sr. Henry Wotton, & Mr. Hooker by Mr. Isaac Walton." The volume also includes commentary on the popes; the derivation of the phrase "Hocus Pocus"; and notes about political figures in Europe.
- Description:
- Imperfect: errors in pagination; pages 336-339 wanting.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Europe --Politics and government, Great Britain --Intellectual life --17th century, and Great Britain --Religious life and customs --17th century
- Subject (Name):
- Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667, Donne, John, 1572-1631, Herbert, George, 1593-1633, Hooker, Richard, 1553 or 4-1600, Southwell, Robert, Sir, 1635-1702, Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683, and Wotton, Henry, Sir, 1568-1639
- Subject (Topic):
- Aphorisms and apothegms, English literature --17th century, and Maxims
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Commonplace book]
- Creator:
- Thomas, of Ireland, approximately 1265-approximately 1329
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1495]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 380
- Image Count:
- 583
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- from Seneca, Book of Wisdom, etc. 3) Thomas
- Description:
- In Latin., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Huchet 7693., Script: Written by a single scribe in various styles of italic script; heavy annotations by the scribe and later hands., Several crude initials: f. 1r, 4-line gold initial on blue ground, infilled red, and 3-line red initial on gold ground; on f. 2r, 5-line red initial on blue ground; f. 72v, 4-line red initial on green ground with some flourishes and gold dots, infilled blue. Initials (2- and 1-line), names of authors (added in margins), paragraph marks and headings in pale red., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Quarter bound in brown, diced calf with a gold-tooled title on spine: "Miscellanea di Seneca, Petrarcha e d'altri". Orange, leather-grained paper sides. Rebacked.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Thomas, of Ireland, approximately 1265-approximately 1329.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Manipulus florum, etc
- Creator:
- Ogle, Richard, Sir, ca. 1554-1627
- Published / Created:
- 1586
- Call Number:
- Osborn a40
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of a commonplace
- Description:
- the commonplace book to "Richardum Ogle Eq
- Subject (Name):
- Manuzio, Paolo,--1512-1574 and Whetstone, George,--1544?-1587?
- Subject (Topic):
- Law--Great Britain, Medicine, Popular, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Rhetoric, Renaissance
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commonplace book, 1586.
- Creator:
- Chauncy, Charles, 1592-1672
- Published / Created:
- Undated
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS 488
- Collection Title:
- Chauncy family sermons, book inventory and commonplace book, 1631-1695
- Image Count:
- 168
- Description:
- Imperfect: some pages removed; other pages mutilated with some loss of text., In four sections according to orientation of text; each section paginated separately., and Volume contains a mixture of foliation, pagination and unnumbered pages as well as text written in both directions.
- Subject (Topic):
- Sermons --Early works to 1800 and Sermons, American --17th century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Chauncy family sermons
- Creator:
- Chauncy, Charles, 1592-1672
- Published / Created:
- Undated
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS 488
- Collection Title:
- Chauncy family sermons, book inventory and commonplace book, 1631-1695
- Image Count:
- 189
- Description:
- In three sections according to orientation of text; each section paginated separately. and Volume contains unnumbered pages as well as text written in both directions.
- Subject (Topic):
- Sermons --Early works to 1800 and Sermons, American --17th century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Chauncy family sermons
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- Creator:
- Caspar Harttung vom Hoff
- Published / Created:
- 1557
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 38
- Image Count:
- 95
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Personal commonplace book combining
- Description:
- Binding: Nineteenth century. Straight-grained black morocco, gilt single-line perimetric border for each cover and spine, gilt dentelles, and border of the same tools at head and foot of spine, modern tan leather spine label, with legend: HARTUNG V. HOFF VADE MECUM MANUSCRIPT AUSTRIA 1557, Denis Duveen, acquired from Thomas Heller (bookseller), New York, 1949; Mellon MS 71, acquired with the Duveen collection. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965., and Script: Written in a small, neat gothic cursive, additions in a neat italic hand and a rather irregular and sometimes scrawling cursive gothic, both perhaps about 1625.
- Subject (Name):
- Harttung vom Hoff
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Das Vade mecum