Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of quoted proverbs on such subjects as youth, wisdom, wealth and poverty, sin and wickedness, and virtue, drawn from contemporary collections such as John Clarke's Paroemiologia Anglolatina, George Herbert's Jacula Prudentum, and James Shirley's Wit's Labyrinth. The aphorisms are arranged alphabetically according to the first word; in the first volume, some of the letter tabs are still intact, while all the letter tabs are intact in the second volume. Dates appear throughout both volumes, indicating the years 1653 and 1654.
Description:
Binding: half calf over machine-grain morocco., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., In gilt on spine: English Proverbs., Marbled endpapers., Pasted inside front cover: binder's ticket which reads "Bretherton, ligavit, 1848.", and Phillipps MSS 12157 and 12158.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Social life and customs--17th century.
Subject (Name):
Clarke, John,--1609-1676., Herbert, George,--1593-1633., and Shirley, James,--1596-1666.
Subject (Topic):
Aphorisms and apothegms., Conduct of life--17th century., and Proverbs, English.
Manuscript, in Horace Walpole's hand, containing his notes from Pierre Bayle's A general dictionary, historical and critical. Some leaves have been torn out from the front; final page of notes on back pastedown
Description:
boards; "Commonplace" in ms. on spine.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797. and Bayle, Pierre, 1647-1706.
MS in several hands and Collection of verse (including original poems), letters, drawings, etc., compiled by Martha, Ann, and William Dickinson (1746-1823); mentions John Dickinson (1815-1876); accompanied by a small quantity of loose papers
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of 8 primarily melancholy poems copied from various authors, on such subjects as love, solitude, and loneliness. The collection contains Alexander Pope's Eloise to Abelard; Mrs. Madan's Abelard to Eloisa; Aaron Hill's Alone in an inn at Southampton Court; and William Congreve's To a candle. Other titles include The late Lord Harvey to Mr. Fox; The castle top, wrote by a lad at Winchester School; and A hermit's meditation.
Description:
Binding: full parchment. and Imperfect: p. 34-35 wanting.
Subject (Name):
Héloïse,--1101-1164--Poetry, Hill, Aaron,--1685-1750, Madan, Judith,--1702-1781, and Pope, Alexander,--1688-1744
Subject (Topic):
Elegiac poetry, English, English poetry--18th century, Solitude--Poetry, and Women authors
At back of volume, in a different hand: Mrs. Dillope�s dyeing instructions to her daughter taken from her own mouth. and Ladies Vavasor and Ingram are the writer�s sisters (p.1, 11.2-3); thus the author may have been Miles Stapylton (or Stapleton, 1660-1731).
Subject (Topic):
--Christianity --Prayer-books and devotions --English
Manuscript on paper, in a single secretary hand, of a collection of about 44 amorous, erotic, religious, and political verses, as well as some Latin prose on historical and philosophical subjects. The volume includes a series of religious satirical poems titled The Papists Rymes, followed by Protestants Answeare, in which topics as the Bible and the prophets are debated. Other short satirical verses include an epitaph on the Bishop of Oxford, Samuel Parker; another on Richard Talbot; and one titled Verses Made On Lawyer Hoy his Tryall For Bugering of a Boy; as well as a satirical poem titled Writt In A Bogghouse in Grays Time, in which the line "Hynd & Panther, Woolf & Bear" have been glossed, "Romanish & Church of England & al sorts of Fanatiques."
Description:
Binding: full calf., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., Printed waste endpapers; the printed matter is a Latin excerpt from "Aristotelis, De Moribus.", Signature in front and back of Edward Rawstorne., and Written in pencil, in a later hand, on the flyleaves: the poem "Winter" by James Thomson.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Religious life and customs--17th century. and Ireland--History--1660-1690.
Subject (Name):
Church of England--Controversial literature., Church of England--Doctrines., Parker, Samuel,--1640-1688., Rawstorne, Edward--Autograph., Thomson, James,--1700-1748., and Tyrconnel, Richard Talbot,--Earl of,--1630-1691.
Subject (Topic):
English poetry--17th century., Epitaphs., Religious poetry, English., and Satirical verse, English.
Binding: contemporary full parchment; extensive later 17th century annotations on covers, containing excerpts from Robert Wild's Iter Borealis and verses on the Popish Plot., In English and Latin., Inscribed on front endpaper: "Liber Richardi Fitzherbert," accompanied by other extensive annotations in a variety of hands., Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd. on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2008., and Richard Fitzherbert (d. 1653?) received his M.A. from New College, Oxford in 1605 and was appointed rector of Cucklington in Somerset in 1607. He was also rector of Stoke Tristor and Gussage All Saints from 1621, as well as Archdeacon of Dorset. In his later years in Cucklington he was "often plundered and imprisoned," and died circa 1653, leaving at least one daughter, Elizabeth.
Subject (Topic):
Aphorisms and apothegms, Classical literature--Quotations, Conduct of life--Quotations, maxims, etc, English prose literature--17th century, and Fathers of the church--Quotations
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of 43 primarily sentimental, melancholy, and religious poems on such subjects as death and divine and human love. Titles of poems include Seraphick love; To melancholy; On death; On the day of judgment; On love; Love undiscovered; Friendship in absence; On beauty; and The vanity of man in the similitude of a bubble. The poems are by various authors, whose identities are indicated only by their initials.
Description:
Autograph on front cover: Anne Woolfe. Other pen trials also appear on front cover., Binding: paper. Written on front cover: A Collection of Poems., and For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Religious life and customs--18th century
Subject (Topic):
Death--Poetry, English poetry--18th century, Love poetry, English, Religious poetry, English, and Sentimentalism in literature
Manuscript, in mutliple hands, of a collection of several hundred riddles, acrostics, and rebuses, lighthearted poems primarily on female behavior, and several dozen hand-colored satirical engravings and newspaper clippings pasted in. Poem titles include Female loquacity; An excellent new song written for a masquerade at Edinburgh; Epitaph on a talkative woman; and Chit-chat at a country ball. The engravings primarily satirize social subjects, while the newspaper clippings include brief biographies of nobility; a survey of the mail in South America; a poem by George Tucker of Virginia; a chart portraying the expenditure on in "all the Christian world"; and several clippings on the votes of Parliamentary members in Ireland and England on whether to let Catholics sit in Parliament. A number of the riddles involve musical notation. Many of the entries have been decorated and colored.
Description:
Binding: half black morocco over machine-grain morocco-covered boards. Front cover missing., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., In modern hand in pencil on flyleaf: Prob originating in Ireland (Plunkett family). Probably compiled by Lady Harriet Plunkett., and Marbled endpapers.
Subject (Topic):
Acrostics., Catholics--Ireland--Politics and government., English poetry--19th century., English wit and humor., Engravings, British., Rebuses., Riddles., Verse satire, English., Women authors., and Women--Conduct of life.
Holograph notebook on paper, in an Italic hand, containing detailed reading notes in English and Latin on John Selden’s History of Tithes and Uxor Hebraica, as well as notes in Latin toward a revision of Marsham’s own Chronicus Canon.
Subject (Name):
Cotton, Robert, Sir, 1571-1631 --Library, Marsham, John, Sir, 1602-1685, Selden, John, 1584-1654. Historie of tithes, and Selden, John, 1584-1654. Uxor Ebraica
Subject (Topic):
Antiquarians, Chronology, Historical, and Learning and scholarship --Great Britain