Manuscript on paper, in a single secretary hand, of an English translation of Macchiavelli's biography of Castracani. This volume also includes, in a variety of hands, "Short Collections on natural history," calculations for the "Dimensions of England," a multiplication table and conversion table for beer and ale, puzzles, a collection of recipes for making colored ink titled "Profitable receipts taken out of Mathers Yong mans companion," a Latin dialogue between "Puer" and "Preceptor" titled "Colloquia Familiaria," and a Latin text with 14 chapters titled "Ars Logica."
Description:
Binding: full sheep (front board missing)., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., On first flyleaf: "Charles Darwin, No. 112.", On last two pages: pen trials, including calligraphic drawings and the alphabet., Paper has gilt edges., and This translation differs widely from Edward Dacre's version, published in 1640.
Subject (Geographic):
Lucca (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Castracani, Castruccio,--1281-1328., Mather, W.--(William),--fl. 1695., and Niccolo Machiavelli,--1469-1527.--Vita di Castruccio Castracani.
Anonymous manuscript, consisting of poems, riddles, proverbs, copies of political documents and correspondence, personal notes from varied sources, satires and a travel journal. All in an unknown hand.
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Includes: Confession of fayth by Sir Francis Bacon; A declaration how the King ...; Choicest English proverbs collected out of Howell's ...; Then tell me why?
Waybill of distances encampments and all important points and streams from the Missouri River at Old Fort Kearney across the Plains to California or the new El Dorado of the far West
Description:
Page numbers have been added in pencil and are not continued from journal section.
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 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.