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
Autograph manuscript of a collection of about 250 primarily light, satirical, or amatory English poems by various authors. In addition to twelve poems by Robert Herrick, primarily on love, the manuscript also contains poems by Thomas Carew, John Donne, Ben Jonson, Sir John Harington, Michael Drayton, George Wither, and others, as well as 17 poems in Latin. Other items include several pieces relating to Cambridge University and Suffolk, as well as numerous bawdy poems, drinking songs, political and religious verse satires, epigrams, and epitaphs both humorous and serious. Titles of these poems include An epitaph on Luce Morgan; Upon the Parliament 1624; A Puritan and A Papist; and several poems on Prince Charles' and the Duke of Buckingham's journey to Spain in 1623. Also in the manuscript is a copy of the love poem titled ""Shall I die?,"" attributed to Shakespeare in a Bodleian manuscript. At the end of the manuscript are notes and verses in later hands.
Description:
Disbound and separated into 21 folders., Marbled endpapers. Binding: full calf; blind-tooled cover., and Written on flyleaf: "Tobias Alston his booke," several times, as well as other names, including "Henricus Glisson" and "Harris Norton." In a later hand, "E L John Whitehead."
Subject (Name):
Alston, Tobias, 1620-ca. 1639, Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of, 1592-1628, Carew, Thomas, 1595?-1639?, Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649, Donne, John, 1572-1631, Drayton, Michael, 1563-1631, Harington, John, 1589-1654, Herrick, Robert, 1591-1674, Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637, Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, University of Cambridge--Poetry, and Wither, George, 1588-1667
Subject (Topic):
Bawdy poetry--England, English poetry--17th century, English wit and humor, Epigrams, English, Epitaphs, English, Latin poetry, Love--Poetry, Political satire, English--17th century, Songs, English--17th century, Verse satire, English, and Women--Conduct of life
Manuscript on paper, in several hands, of Latin quotations grouped by philosophical and moral subjects such as Bellum; Fortuna; Humilitas; Ingratus; Patientia; and Virtus Moralis. Other entries include several religious poems; medical recipes "for the stone"; Biblical quotations; a history of England from William the Conqueror to 1502; and a prayer which asks God to bless "thy servant James by thy grace...King defender of the true ancient CS A. F. In all causes and over all persons...Blesse the noble queene Ana & let not the scepter depart from prince Henry nor thy gratious goodnes from all the Roial progeny."
Description:
Binding: full sheep; blind-stamped decoration on covers., Pen trials inside front and back covers, including several drawings of cats, mice, and a bird., Signature of Robert Cottesford on end-paper., and Table of contents to the Latin quotations appears on pp. 172-5.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--History--1066-1687, Great Britain--Intellectual life--17th century, and Great Britain--Religious life and customs--17th century
Subject (Name):
James--I,--King of England,--1566-1625
Subject (Topic):
English poetry--17th century, Latin poetry--17th century, Medicine, Meditations (Religious), Philosophy, and Prayers
Collection of poems, songs, epitaphs, epigrams and riddles, partly original and partly by friends and other writers; some of the verses carry dates of composition as early as 1713, and many were written during visits to Tunbridge Wells, England.
Autograph manuscript of a collection of didactic material. The manuscript begins with specimens of calligraphy, labeled Courte hande, Chancerie hande, Secretarie hande, cloven hande, curled hand, chayned hand, and Roman hande, as well as examples of writing in reverse and recipes for making ink, red wax, and white letters on black paper. This section is followed by arithmetic tables; measurements and conversions for dry goods as well as salmon, eels, wine, and oil; a sample genealogical chart drawn as a tree; instructions on how to use counters for counting; and a chart of the names of English kings and the years of their reigns up to James I, dated 1607. The bulk of the collection, however, consists of several hundred Latin proverbs on such topics as error, excellence, faith, honor, and ingratitude, followed by English proverbs and admonitions, and then several English proverbs translated into Latin. This section includes excerpts from King James' Basilikon Doron and How to live and that well by William Perkins. These proverbs are followed by "prettie and necessary rules for such as use to deale in merchandize, easy to be had in memorye," and, at the end of the manuscript, genealogical information for the Hill family, beginning in 1568.
Description:
Imperfect: some pages mutilated with loss of text.
Subject (Name):
Hill family, James I, King of England, 1566-1625, and Perkins, William, 1558-1602
Subject (Topic):
Arithmetic--Handbooks, manuals, etc, Calligraphy --England, Children--Conduct of life, English poetry --17th century, Genealogy--England, Proverbs, English, Proverbs, Latin, Recipes--Great Britain, and Weights and measures--England
Collection of English verse, epitaphs, copies of letters, and descriptions of voyages to Germany; contents include: "A Journey to Duderstadt, with a description of the Ceremony of The Nuns taking The Veil, as performed there, ... Sunday 13th June: 1751".
Description:
Anonymous manuscript. and Binding: contemporary vellum, without title.
Arnaldus, de Villanova, d. 1311 Carpenter, Richard, d. 1670? Ripley, George, d. 1490?
Published / Created:
circa 1570
Call Number:
Mellon MS 41
Image Count:
15
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper roll of George Ripley (?), Alchemy, in English verse, with additional verses attributed to Richard Carpenter. With Arnold of Villanova, Visio mystica, anonymously translated into English.
Alternative Title:
Ripley scroll
Description:
One roll with multiple illustrated sheets. and Paper rotulus consisting originally of thirteen folio sheets and half-sheets of differing lengths glued together, averaging 540 mm. in width (lateral margins and broad bordering line in black ink partly trimmed away), slightly defective with small losses at beginning and end; now cut into thirteen sections measuring about 435 x 540 each, except for the last which measures 625 x 540.
published according to act of Parliament May 7, 1761.
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 764 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Before title page. Catalogue of the pictures, sculptures, models, drawings, prints, &c. / exhibited
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Frontispiece to the catalogue of the pictures exhibited by the Society of Artists, at their first exhibition in Spring Gardens; Britannia standing in a rocky landscape, filling a watering can from a fountain with lion's head spout and a bust statue of George III in a niche surmounted by a crown, lettered 'Georgius III Rex. MDCCLXI.'; the watering can pours onto three short trees growing in a clump at right, favouring the one with the trunk labelled 'Architecture' and, to a lesser extent, the tree labelled 'Painting'; the tree 'Sculpture', on slightly lower ground, is not in the line of the spray."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Et spes & ratio studiorum in Caesare tantum. Juv
Description:
Title and state from Paulson., State with quotation from Juvenal etched below image, and the citation "Just." corrected to "Juv."., 1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 20.3 x 15.9 cm, on sheet 21.9 x 16.4 cm., Mounted on leaf 59 x 46 cm., Plate 67 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works., and With contemporary annotation in ink at bottom of sheet: Frontispiece to Catalogue of Pictures &c. at Exhibition of Society for Encouragement of Arts, Manusfacturers & Commerce, 1761.
published according to act of Parliament May 7, 1761.
Call Number:
49 3885.2 v.1
Collection Title:
Before title page. Catalogue of the pictures, sculptures, models, drawings, prints, &c. / exhibited
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Frontispiece to the catalogue of the pictures exhibited by the Society of Artists, at their first exhibition in Spring Gardens; Britannia standing in a rocky landscape, filling a watering can from a fountain with lion's head spout and a bust statue of George III in a niche surmounted by a crown, lettered 'Georgius III Rex. MDCCLXI.'; the watering can pours onto three short trees growing in a clump at right, favouring the one with the trunk labelled 'Architecture' and, to a lesser extent, the tree labelled 'Painting'; the tree 'Sculpture', on slightly lower ground, is not in the line of the spray."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Et spes & ratio studiorum in Caesare tantum. Juv
Description:
Title and state from Paulson., State with quotation from Juvenal etched below image, and the citation "Just." corrected to "Juv."., and Bound in before title page of: A catalogue of the pictures, sculptures, models, drawings, prints, &c. / exhibited by the Society of Artists of Great-Britain at the Great Room in Spring-Garden, Charing-Cross, May the 9th, 1761 ... (no. 3 in Horace Walpole's bound collection of catalogues).
Title devised by curator., Date based on time period when Charles Cornwallis was known as "The Lord Cornwallis"., Text within banner below shield: Virtvs vincit invidiam., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Laid in an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.