Manuscript on paper of notes and quotations, in two hands. Notes in a secretary hand include instruction for the branle and tables of """"The rates of ffynes for Respitt of homage"""" and other fees. Notes in an Italic hand include comments on witchcraft, didactic phrases and sentences, and notes on geography and cosmology.
Description:
Binding: early 17th century limp vellum., Blank leaves not reproduced digitally., Flyleaf annotated: """"Francis Grosvenor."""", and Teaching resource: English Paleography Examples, 16th-18th century.
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. and Includes titles: XVII Accrostick on Miss Frances Jeffreys - Bath 1736, XVIII wrote when Queen Caroline was appointed regent, See Gulliver's Travels, CCXXIII a true account of a monster call'd a yahoo, CCXXIV answer, CCXXXII to Dean Swift, occasion'd by the following lines in his satire on Doctor D.
Epitaph on Josua Barnes the Greek professor, On the Parliament house by Dr. Swift, Swift upon his curat complaining of hard duty (extempore), and Wrote on Swift's window by Dr. Delane
Subject (Name):
Barnes, Joshua, 1654-1712 and Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745
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
Manuscript, in multiple hands, of a collection of several dozen secular and lighthearted poems, primarily on the subject of love, though a few poems concern drinking and tobacco. The manuscript contains numerous love poems by Sir John Suckling and Thomas Carew; other poets in the volume include Sir Robert Ayton, John Wilbye, and John Fletcher. An anonymous poem consists of a pastoral dialogue between Phyllis and Strephon; several are addressed to Chloris; and numerous others are set to the tunes of other songs.
Description:
Binding: full sheep.
Subject (Name):
Ayton, Robert,--Sir,--1570-1638, Carew, Thomas,--1595?-1639?, Suckling, John,--Sir,--1609-1642, and Wilbye, John,--1574-1638
Subject (Topic):
English poetry--17th century, Love poetry, English--17th century, Pastoral poetry, English, and Songs, English--17th century
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.
At back of volume, in a different hand: Mrs. Dillope�s dyeing instructions to her daughter taken from her own mouth. and Ladies Vavasor and Ingram are the writer�s sisters (p.1, 11.2-3); thus the author may have been Miles Stapylton (or Stapleton, 1660-1731).
Subject (Topic):
--Christianity --Prayer-books and devotions --English