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- Creator:
- From the Collection: Southcomb family
- Published / Created:
- 1696-1731
- Call Number:
- OSB MSS 156
- Container / Volume:
- Box 2, folder 3
- Image Count:
- 186
- Description:
- Greek, Latin & English. Excerpts from Bishop Lauds'Devotions "Mr. Selden's Recantation" A copy of a letter written to Mr. Kirkham Aug 15, 1715 "Out of Parson's Christian Directory by Dr. Stanehope" Also Notes by John (III) Southcomb 1789-1840. From PretymansChristian Theology Also annotations by John Landeveze Hamilton Southcomb, 1817-1886.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Southcomb family papers (OSB MSS 156) > Series I: Commonplace Books of Lewis Southcomb, (1653-1733) > Notes on St. Augustine, prayers and notes for sermons, signed and dated on the first page: 6 July 1696.
- Call Number:
- Osborn c651
- Image Count:
- 114
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript in a single hand containing copies of more than 60 poems, both secular and religious. Poets include Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Joseph Addison, and George Lyttelton. Among the religious poems are five poems by Mehetabel Wesley Wright, the sister of John and Charles Wesley; these include "To an Infant at the Point of Death" and "A Farewell to the World." The volume also contains copies of Thomas Gibbons' "On the Death of Mordecai Andrews" and "On the Deity, by a dissenting Clergyman at Bristol."
- Description:
- In English., Annotated in pencil on recto of front flyleaf: found amongst Miss Martyns things. Mary [Marshall] Amphlett., and Binding: contemporary marbled paper wrappers.
- Subject (Name):
- Wesley family. and Wesley, Mehetabel, 1697-1750.
- Subject (Topic):
- English poetry, Methodism, Religious poetry, English, and Women poets
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commonplace book containing poems and epigrams, [ca. 1730-1750
- Creator:
- Taylor, Joseph
- Call Number:
- Osborn fc185
- Image Count:
- 378
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of about 390 entries in verse and prose, which present satirical as well as sentimental and elegiac perspectives on the subjects of love, women, religion, and death. Titles include A reflection on death; On the death of a mother; Written in consequence of the execution of a young man for forgery, by Mrs. Taylor; Hymn by Miss Scott; To a lady who sung in too low a voice; On kissing; On female neatness after marriage; Advice to a young lady lately married; Unbeliever's creed; Sir Isaac Newton's creed; and numerous humorous epigrams and epitaphs. Several anonymous poems are labeled "Forton Prison" and dated 1795; the collection also includes poems by Tobias Smollett, Samuel Bishop, Samuel Rogers, Samuel Butler, and William Cowper
- Description:
- In English., 16-page index at beginning of manuscript., Title from title page. Also on title page: Vol 1., Laid in: newspaper clipping from the Daily Telegraph dated April 16, 1974., and Binding: half calf over paper-covered board; back cover missing. In gilt on spine: Gleanings.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Bishop, Samuel, 1731-1795., Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680., Cowper, William, 1731-1800., Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727., Rogers, Samuel, 1763-1855., Taylor, Joseph., and Forton Gaol.
- Subject (Topic):
- Elegiac poetry, English, English wit and humor, Epigrams, Epitaphs, Occasional verse, English, Sentimentalism in literature, Verse satire, English, Women authors, Women, Conduct of life, and Religious life and customs
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Gleanings in prose and verse, 1799
- Creator:
- Cliff, Jer. Jeremiah?, apothecary at Tenterdon, Kent
- Call Number:
- Osborn c158
- Image Count:
- 500
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- early 17th-century books, including Remains
- Description:
- Her Book July the 18 1741. Given her by
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain. and England.
- Subject (Name):
- Camden, William, 1551-1623., Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731., Latimer, Hugh, 1485?-1555., Mist, Nathaniel, 1737., and Sylvester, Josuah, 1563-1618.
- Subject (Topic):
- Anti-Catholicism, Astrology, English poetry, Love, Recipes, Religious poetry, English, Sermons, English, Women, and Conduct of life
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Commonplace book], [1697-1728].
- Creator:
- From the Collection: Rawdon, Marmaduke, 1610-1669
- Published / Created:
- [n.d.]
- Call Number:
- OSBORN FB150
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1
- Image Count:
- 2
- Description:
- 3 p. Contemporary MS copy. An autobiographical poem. Martha Moulsworth was apparently the daughter of Robert Dorset (d. 1580), Canon of Christ Church.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Commonplace book] (OSBORN FB150) > OSBORN fb150 > MOULSWORTH, MARTHA (DORSET) PRYNNE THROUGOOD, B. 1576 > "The memorandum of Martha Moulsworth widdowe ... November the 10th 1632"