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
Horace Walpole (1717-1797), fourth earl of Orford, author, politician, and patron of the arts, youngest son of Robert Walpole, first earl of Orford (1676-1745), Britain's longest-serving prime minister., In English., Available in pdf format, Two volumes (1759 and 1771) bound in green vellum, one volume (1786) in red morocco with clasps. With Walpole's bookplate 2, in early state, in the 2nd volume and his seal as Lord Orford, type, in the 3rd volume. Each volume signed and dated., Photostat of vol.1 available, Unverified and incomplete transcripts of v. 1 (1759) and v.2 (1771)., and Two volumes in green vellum; one in red morocco with clasps. Bookplate 2 early state, in the second volume (1771); and seal as Lord Orford, type 1, in the third volume. Each volume signed and dated.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Subject (Topic):
Artists, Art, British, Art, Private collections, Historic buildings, Manors, Castles, Aristocracy (Social class), Homes and haunts, Politicians, Authors, English, Kings and rulers, History, and Social life and customs
Manuscript on paper of the personal handbook of a legal scholar (perhaps from Gloucestershire?) arranged according to subject and with internal cross references; some theological and literary notes interspersed (Latin texts, some with translations into English). Includes sections devoted to: Constable and Marshall, Preachers and Preaching, Creeds, Barons, Constables and Marshalls, Barons, Seales, Seals of the King, Indictments...London, Barons and Earles, Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, Corporations, Treason
Description:
In English., Watermarks: unidentified arms with fleur-de-lis and various counter-marks including IHS., Script: Written in a small cramped legal script by several writers., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Brown leather, flesh side out or very worn.
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of about 85 copies of primarily political documents pertaining to events between 1592 and 1632. The volume includes speeches and letters relating to the murder of Thomas Overbury and the trial of Walter Raleigh; a description of voyage to France to aid the Huguenot cause in 1626-7 and seige of La Rochelle; a factual account, with figures, of fighting in Thirty Years' War; "The examinations of the counterfett ghost that came into St James on fryday night the 13 of 9br 1612, beeing that day sennight after Prince Harries death," whose testimony was taken by Sir Thomas Chaloner and Sir John Holles; and the confession of Anne Lady Ross to the Star Chamber declaring that she had perjured herself by "accusing the said Right Honorable Countess of Exeter with an intent & purpose to poison" her. The volume also contains a copy of the will of Holles' father, Thomas Holles of Haughton, dated 17 March 1592 and "written in his owne hand"; and "A prayer wch my deere sister Wentworth did use, coppied from her owne hand, wch I had of my mother 24th Jan. 1631."
Description:
In English, French, and Italian., Arms of the 4th Duke of Newcastle stamped in gold on front cover., and Binding: full parchment. Printed on spine: "Copies of State Papers Etc. 1592 - 1632.
Subject (Geographic):
England., France, Great Britain., Great Britain, and France.
Subject (Name):
Chaloner, Thomas, 1595-1661., Holles, John, Earl of Clare, ca. 1565-1637., Overbury, Thomas, Sir, 1581-1613., and Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618
Subject (Topic):
Huguenots, History, Nobility, Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648, Treason, Trials, Wills, Foreign relations, Politics and government, and Social life and customs
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.
Two manuscript volumes containing logbook entries, journal entries, rental accounts, and descriptions of voyages by Thomas Bowrey. The logbook volume contains "Some particular Remarks at Kedgerry on Bengall River By Thos. Bowrey, Commander the Ship London," which are log entries from July 1 to November 4, 1701. Entries document weather conditions, arrivals and departures of other ships, supplies taken on, and trading. These are followed by seven astronomical and navigational charts, accompanied by an entry, dated December 23, 1695, recounting navigating through "fields of ice" and offering "a description of the plans of the country....during the course of my voyage endeavoring to find the northwest passage." This volume also contains a copy of Bowrey's will, as well as a drawing of the plans for Bowrey's monument and a copy of his contract with its mason; a three-page autobiography covering his life from birth to his retirement from sea in 1702; a chart of the Malabar Coast opposite Fort St. George; and copies of several poems by Shakespeare and others in a different hand.
Alternative Title:
Account Book
Description:
morocco spine label with "Account Book" in
Subject (Geographic):
Bengal (India)--Commerce, Bengal (India)--Description and travel, Bengal, Bay of--Commerce, Bengal, Bay of--Maps, India--History--1526-1765, Malabar Coast (India)--Description and travel, Malabar Coast (India)--Navigation, Northwest Passage--Description and travel, and Northwest Passage--Discovery and exploration--British
Subject (Name):
East India Company and English Company Trading to the East-Indies
Subject (Topic):
Astronomy--Observations, Explorers--Great Britain, Nautical charts--Malabar Coast (India), Spice trade--England--17th century, and Spice trade--Great Britain--17th century
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of 239 political poems expressing loyalty to James II and entreaties for him to resume the English throne. Titles of such poems include His majestie's royal farewell to England and The confinement by Sir Robert L'Estrange. Other entries consist of songs in praise of King James, including A health to the King's return; A song to the tune of the King shall enjoy his own again; and A loyal Jacobean song. Many other poems lampoon or eulogize specific figures, such as Elegy on Mr. Ashton; An acrostic on John Tillotson; and an Epitaph on Algernon Sidney. Numerous poems mock the figures of William and Mary, including On the coronation of K. William and Q. Mary; and On the late metamorphosis of an old picture of Oliver Cromwells into a new picture of King William, the head chang'd the hierogliphicks remaining; others satirize the Protestant Church, Parliament, the Church of England, and the nonjuror controversy that followed the Revolution of 1688.
Description:
Binding: contemporary red morocco; gilt decoration. In gilt on cover: the arms of King James II, to whom the manuscript was presented about 1700. Title on spine: "Loyal Poems &c.", Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Strange. On flyleaf: T. A. W. L. Strange., Marbled endpapers., Pasted on flyleaf: dealer's description of manuscript., Table of contents at beginning of manuscript, and index at end., and Title from title page.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--History--Revolution of 1688 and Great Britain--Politics and government--1660-1714
Subject (Name):
Great Britain.--Parliament |d (1689), James--II,--King of England,--1633-1701, L'Estrange, Roger,--Sir,--1616-1704, Mary II, Queen of England, 1662-1694, Russell, Archibald George Blomefield, 1879-1955, Sidney, Algernon,--1622-1683, Strange, Thomas,--Sir--Autograph, Tillotson, John,--1630-1694, and William--III,--King of England,--1650-1702
Subject (Topic):
English poetry--17th century, English wit and humor, Jacobites--Poetry, Nonjurors, Political poetry, English--Early modern, 1500-1700, and Verse satire, English