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1. Biographical anecdotes of one thousand distinguished characters & personages : including many in the circles of fashionable life...., 1800
- Creator:
- Rede, Leman Thomas, 1754 or 5-1810
- Call Number:
- Osborn d30
- Image Count:
- 4
- Alternative Title:
- Dr. Sam.l Johnson
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Biographical anecdotes of one thousand distinguished characters & personages : including many in the circles of fashionable life...., 1800
2. Noctes Atticae
- Creator:
- Gellius, Aulus
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1430, 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 83
- Image Count:
- 212
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae (abridged).
- Description:
- Binding: Fifteenth century, Italy. Sewn on three tawed skin, kermes pink slit straps nailed in channels on the outside of the wooden boards. Yellow edges. The plain wound endbands may have been resewn. The spine is lined with cloth. Covered in brown, originally tan, sheepskin with corner tongues. Blind-tooled with two rope interlace stars in a central panel bordered with concentric frames. Spine: bands outlined with double fillets; panels diapered with triple fillets. Two truncated diamond fastenings, the catches on the lower board (one wanting), the upper board cut in for straps attached with star-headed nails., Folio 1r with partial border in inner and lower margin (rubbed). Inner margin has scrolling vine, yellow, on parchment ground with red dots, with stylized foliage, flowers and fruit in green, red, purple and dove grey. Illuminated initial, 3-line, purple on dark green ground, is incorporated into border. In lower margin, wreathed medallion (unidentified mutilated arms: per pale, or and sable?) on pink ground, supported by two heraldic dragons, parchment colored (unfinished) against red ground. All of this decoration appears to be a later addition. Plain initials and headings in red., and Script: Written in fere-humanistic script by a single scribe, below top line.
- Subject (Name):
- Gellius, Aulus
- Subject (Topic):
- Commonplace-books
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Noctes Atticae
3. [Commonplace book], 1800-1841.
- Creator:
- Wayne, William Henry
- Published / Created:
- 1800-1841
- Call Number:
- Osborn fd34
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- annotated, "Best. See my scrap book given by Mr
- Description:
- Binding: contemporary vellum. Written on cover: William Henry Wayne. Gift of ALS 19 August 1800 Cavendish Bridge., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., In English., Partial index at beginning of manuscript., Pasted inside front cover: dealer's description of manuscript., and Pasted inside front cover: receipt dated 1792.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Russia--Description and travel
- Subject (Name):
- Catherine--II,--Empress of Russia,--1729-1796 and Wayne, William Henry
- Subject (Topic):
- Agriculture--Great Britain--19th century, Chemistry--Handbooks, manuals, etc, Coins, English poetry--19th century, English wit and humor, Epigrams, English, Mathematics--Handbooks, manuals, etc, Recipes--Great Britain, and Veterinary medicine
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Commonplace book], 1800-1841.
4. Sartaine most holsome meditations verey meete to bee dulie considered. [A poem in 5 books, dedicated to Lady Viscount Hereford]
- Creator:
- Hanslopp, Nicolas
Mowle, Peter, 1554-? - Published / Created:
- 1595, Jan. 1
- Call Number:
- Osborn a6
- Image Count:
- 150
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Mowle's commonplace book (Oscot College MS
- Alternative Title:
- Sartaine most holsome meditations verey meete to bee dulie considered, 1595-1622.
- Description:
- Bound with the commonplace book of
- Subject (Name):
- Hanslopp, Nicolas and Mowle, Peter,--1554-?
- Subject (Topic):
- English poetry--16th century and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sartaine most holsome meditations verey meete to bee dulie considered. [A poem in 5 books, dedicated to Lady Viscount Hereford]
5. Thomas Bowrey logbook and journal, [17--].
- Creator:
- Bowrey, Thomas, ca. 1650-1713
- Published / Created:
- [17--]
- Call Number:
- Osborn fc177
- Image Count:
- 174
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Thomas Bowrey logbook and journal, [17--].
6. [Commonplace book], [ca. 1651-1653].
- Creator:
- W. S
- Call Number:
- Osborn b230
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, containing about 43 entries including religious meditations; Biblical notes; religious poems and verse paraphrases on Biblical subjects; sermon extracts; a play titled "The Tragedye of Jepthas daughter;" a treatise on dueling "according to the unjustifiable Custome of this age by a true Lover of honnour;" and a collection of medicinal recipes. Elsewhere, a brief description of "the nature of the irish, who are cal'd naturall Irishe, out of Campion's History" is annotated, "This being a booke of Commmon place this comes not out of order." The volume begins with a letter addressed to the author's son, in which the author describes the contents of this manuscript as "the fruits of my solitude whilst under restraint" as a royalist prisoner at Exeter, ca. 1651-53.
- Description:
- Binding: full sheep., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., In English., Pasted into front cover: newspaper clipping which describes the manuscript., and Phillipps MS 18904.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain--Politics and government--1642-1660 and Great Britain--Religious life and customs--17th century
- Subject (Name):
- Campion, Edmund,--Saint,--1540-1581
- Subject (Topic):
- Dueling--Great Britain, English drama--17th century, English poetry--17th century, Medicine, Popular, Medicine--15th-18th cent, Meditations (Religious), Religious poetry, English, and Sermons, English--17th century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Commonplace book], [ca. 1651-1653].
7. Commonplace book containing letters and poetry, [circa 1812-1827].
- Published / Created:
- [circa 1812-1827]
- Call Number:
- Osborn d498
- Image Count:
- 20
- Abstract:
- Manuscript commonplace book, in a
- Description:
- Binding: original full diced calf, worn.
- Subject (Topic):
- Conduct of life, English poetry--19th century, and English prose literature--19th century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commonplace book containing letters and poetry, [circa 1812-1827].
8. Das Vade mecum
- 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