1636 (Title page for ""The destruction of Troy..."") and 1668
Call Number:
Osborn pb53
Image Count:
189
Alternative Title:
The destruction of Troy, and essay upon the second book of Virgils Aeneis
Description:
Extensive manuscript notes and verse in Denham's hand on the original blank leaves preceding title page and throughout volume
Publisher:
Printed for H. Herringman
Subject (Name):
Denham, John, Sir, 1615-1669 --Ms. annotations, Geikie, James Stewart --Bookplate, Huth, Henry, 1815-1878 --Bookplate, and Steeves, G. Walter --Bookplate
Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of the diary of a dissenting divine living in Ireland who records, with close interest, the progress of the Dutch War and other domestic and foreign activities, including a famine in Ireland, the activities of Louis II de Bourbon Prince de Conde, persecutions against nonconformists in England, and notes about the American colonies. On November 16, 1675, he writes, """"I first heard of a War begun in N. England. Our first report is that the French joine with the Indians...A famine feared in N. England & Virginia by reason of 2 unseasonable yeares...The merchants forbid any more goods to bee sent from Londont o N.E. All the country, prepareing for war."""" Taylor mentions the work of John Eliot among the Indians and quotes a letter from Increase Mather. The manuscript also includes accounts of crimes, such as the description of an apprentice stabbed with a rapier hidden in a cane, notes on """"prodigies,"""" signs, and portents, and the description of """"an unusuall distemper which was generally called a cold, November 1675.
Description:
Teaching resource: English Paleography Examples, 16th-18th century
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Subject (Topic):
Anecdotes, Dissenters, Dissenters, Religious, Dutch War, 1672-1678, and King Philip’s War, 1675-1676
Herman Melville’s copy with his manuscript notes., In ink on title page: W. Bulkeley Shafor[?]., In pencil on dedication page verso: 47-Arthur W. Butler., In pencil on front flyleaf verso: "H. Melville / Sep 29, 1868 / N.Y." and Sady's / Rose Garden"., and In pencil on front flyleaf: Melville / Sady
MS note in ink and pencil, Notebook and first gathering foliated consecutively., One quarto notebook and two sewn folio gatherings of 44 pages each housed in two folders., Some errors in foliation., and Title revised and pasted in inside front cover of notebook.
Subject (Name):
House of Refuge (New York, NY)
Subject (Topic):
African American prisoners--New York (State), Juvenile delinquents --New York (State) --New York, Prison discipline--United States--History--19th century, Prison life--New York (State)--19th century, and Reformatories --New York (State) --New York