6p. of excerpts from Ovids ""Metamorphoses""., Last two pages contain signatures of several men in unpracticed 17th century hands, including "William Jacob his booke" and "John Winter of Buckland husbande.", Manuscript on paper in secretary hand containing over one hundred poems by Herrick, Jonson, Corbet, Raleigh, May, Gill, and many unidentified authors. The volume contains many occasional pieces, including poems on the deaths of Anne, queen of James I; Prince Henry; George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham; "the Palgraves' eldest son;" and Sir Thomas Overbury. Other topical pieces include "Dr. Dunn's counsel to the Ladyes and Gentlewomen to depart the citty;" "On a fart let in a Parliament," "Upon the birth of the Prince May the 29th," and "On Mr. Fenton, Preacher at Grays Inne.", One poem in Latin, ""Epistolae inter Horologium et Solarium""., P. 35 and [295] digitized at high resolution., Pagination errors throughout., and There are many love poems and songs such as "Come my Celia," excerpts from "Oberon's Feast," "Faustus and Cynthia," "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love," "To His Mistress going a Rowing," "To a Gentlewoman I would not marry," and a variety of sentimental or comic "Epigrams" and "Epitaphs." Other items include Corbet's "Iter Boreale", "On Ford's two Tragedies: Loves Sacrifice/The Broken Heart," and Gill's "Upon Ben Johnson's 'Magnetique Lady.'"
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Binding: 18th century boards. and Front endpaper inscribed, "Alex.r Popham. 1788."
Subject (Name):
Corbet, Richard, 1582-1635, Gill, Alexander, 1597-1642, Herrick, Robert, 1591-1674, Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637, and May, Thomas, 1595-1650
Subject (Topic):
English poetry --17th century, Epigrams, English, Love poetry, English, Occasional verse, English, and Verse satire, English
Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of 78 poems by Jane Cavendish. Many are addressed to family members, including one titled "On my sweete brother Charles," another called "On my Noble Uncle Sr Charles Cavendish Knight," and several to her father, as well as others addressed to her sisters, mother, grandparents, and the King and Queen. There are also poems on passion, the "chamber-mayde," and "A noble lady." The manuscript includes a poetic dialogue by her sister, Lady Elizabeth Brackley Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater, titled "A Pastorall," with a cast of witches, country wives, and shepherds, and which is preceded by a verse dedication to their father, William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle. The manuscript as a whole is prefaced by a dedication by Jane Cavendish to him.
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Binding: full black morocco; gilt decoration.
Subject (Geographic):
England--Social life and customs--17th century
Subject (Name):
Cavendish family, Cheiney, Jane Cavendish, Lady, Egerton, Elizabeth Cavendish, 1626-1663, and Newcastle, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1592-1676
Subject (Topic):
English literature--17th century, English poetry--17th century, English poetry--Women authors, and Nobility--Great Britain
Manuscript on paper of a fair copy of the ship’s journal kept by the first mate of the pink Batchelor from 2 November 1669, off the Cape Verde Islands, to 4 April 1670, off the coast of Patagonia. The daily entries contain details of the Batchelor’s voyage, including wind measurements, soundings, and sightings of land, and are particularly full for February and March of 1670, the period when the Batchelor lost contact during violent weather with its sister vessel the Sweepstakes, commanded by Sir John Narborough, and began its solo journey back to England.
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31 blank leaves at end not scanned., In ink., This copy, which is annotated by the Earl of Sandwich, may have been made for the Royal Navy’s investigation of the incident in early 1671, when the Sweepstakes was still supposed lost., and Verso of front flyleaf annotated by Edward Montagu, Earl of Sandwich identifying the pink Batchelor and its voyage to the Straits of Magellan "to make discovery of advantages to be had in Trade or otherwise There."
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain --History, Naval --Stuarts, 1603-1714, Great Britain. Royal Navy, Great Britain. Royal Navy --History --17th century, and South Atlantic Ocean --Discovery and exploration
Subject (Name):
Batchelor (Warship), Narbrough, John, Sir, 1640-1688, and Sandwich, Edward Montagu, Earl of, 1625-1672
Contemporary MS copy, titled, "The discourse of John Selden, Esq. or, his sense of various matters of wright and high consequence relating especially to religion and state." and This manuscript appears to be based on early manuscripts, and not on the printed edition of 1689.
Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, consisting of aphorisms, axioms, and pithy commentary on such subjects as "Wisdom, "Money," "Retalliation," and "Parliament." Prefaced by a dedication to Lord Chief Justice Matthew Hale, Edward Heywood, John Vaughan, and Rowland Jenkes, signed by Selden's secretary Richard Milward, who "had the opportunity to hear his discourse twenty years together."
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9 preliminary leaves, front and back, some lined but otherwise blank, not digitized., Armorial bookplate of Hugh Cecil Earl of Lonsdale., Binding: contemporary full leather., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., and Includes alphabetized table of contents.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Politics and government--1603-1649 and Great Britain--Religious life and customs
Subject (Name):
Hale, Matthew,--Sir,--1609-1676, Lowther, Hugh Cecil, Earl of Lonsdale--Bookplate, Milward, Ri.--(Richard),--1609-1680, and Selden, John,--1584-1654--Table-talk
Subject (Topic):
Aphorisms and apothegms--17th century, Conduct of life--17th century, and Conduct of life--Quotations, maxims, etc
Manuscript on paper, in a single secretary hand, of 15 sermons preached between January 7, 1654/5 and July 1, 1655. The first seven sermons are on Exodus 20:17; the next three on Ecclesiastes 12:13; a single sermon is on Lamentations 3:40; and the final four on Luke 11:1-2.
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Binding: Contemporary calf. and Teaching resource: English Paleography Examples, 16th-18th century
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--History and Great Britain--Religion--17th century
Subject (Topic):
Dissenters, Religious, Puritans --England--Sermons, and Sermons, English--17th century
Account of the caliphs and other royal personages who performed the pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina., Annotated by Ramaḍān Ḥalāwah about A.H. 1300 (A.D. 1882 or 3)., Copied in A.H. 1018 (A.D. 1609)., and Lacunae between leaves 41 and 42, and 61 and 62.
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Coarse naskhī, in red, green, and black., Marginalia., and With: 2 other titles.