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172. Williams, Charles, 1634-1720
- Creator:
- From the Collection: Hanbury-Williams, Charles, 1708-1759
- Published / Created:
- 1717–1719
- Call Number:
- LWL MSS 7
- Container / Volume:
- box 52, folder 25
- Image Count:
- 84
- Description:
- Charles Williams was a native of Caerleon, and had a successful career in Smyrna when he fled Wales after killing his cousin in a duel. He returned to London as a financier in the 1690s and befriended John Hanbury. When he died in 1720 he left his estate to Hanbury, who entailed it for his son Charles, who then took the name Hanbury-Williams. For further information, see The Hanburys of Monmouthshire by Richard Hanbury Tenison (1995), chapter 4. and A volume of letters bound in gold-tooled and stamped green vellum, with a printed CH-W number label (and evidence of a Phillipps label, now missing) on the spine. The Hanbury-Williams volume number is 46; the Phillipps number is 10893.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Charles Hanbury-Williams Papers (LWL MSS 7) > Series IV: Capell, Coningsby, and Hanbury Family Papers > Hanbury Family Papers > Hanbury, John, 1664-1734 > Williams, Charles, 1634-1720
173. [Alchemical notebook]
- Creator:
- Grasshoff, Johann, d. 1623
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1620]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 50
- Image Count:
- 48
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Description:
- Binders leaves : ff. 4-16, 18, 20, 22, 24-25, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35, 38, 39-40, 43, 45, 47, 49, 51-83 mostly blank with several modern annotations in pencil., ff. 42 : anonymous additions written in England, ca. 1700 (missing from volume)., and On paper with modern foliation in pencil including binder's blanks.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Alchemical notebook]
174. [Collection of lives of British Catholic saints].
- Published / Created:
- [1620s]
- Call Number:
- Osborn fb229
- Image Count:
- 130
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- A selection of extracts from John Wilson's English Martyrologe (1608) concludes with "Certayne Additions in the late Englishe Martyrs, which came to the Authors knowledge after the printing of the former catalogue.", Manuscript on paper in good secretary hand containing saints' lives and related material, including a saints' days calendar and several prayers and hymns in Welsh. Opening with a selection of Welsh lives headed "Buchedh y Seintiau", the volume includes "Vita St. Dewi, archiepiscopi, authore Ricemarcho" (Rhygyfarch); "Vita St. Albani ex lingua Anglica in Latinam translata, per Gulielmum Albanensem Monachum, qui claruit Anno 1170"; and several other lives in Latin and English., and The most extensive text in the volume is a lengthy English translation of Robert of Shrewsbury's life of St. Winifred, attributed to "Mr. Edward Morgan of Bechfield, a supposed catholique Prieste", who may well have been the Rev. Edward Morgan executed at Tyburn in 1642.
- Description:
- "P: Legh" written on blank verso preceding the "Table.", "Vita St. Dewi" colophon identifies the scribe as "Gulielmus Farrarus pbr.", Binding: Contemporary decorated calf, spine full-gilt, remains of label on spine., and For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator.
- Subject (Name):
- David, Saint, active 6th century, Farrar, William, Leigh, Philip, Morgan, Edward, d. 1642, Rhygyfarch, 956-1099, Robert of Shrewsbury, d. 1167, Wilson, John, approximately 1575-approximately 1645?--English martyrologe, and Winifred, Saint
- Subject (Topic):
- Catholics--England, Catholics--Wales, and Christian saints--Biography
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Collection of lives of British Catholic saints].
175. [Commonplace book]
- Published / Created:
- [late 17th century]
- Call Number:
- Osborn b115
- Image Count:
- 91
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Dos-a-dos are several dozen primarily cooking recipes, for such dishes as barley broth, cherry wine, and lemon cream; as well as instructions on fishing. At the beginning of the manuscript are recipes for making ink and treating chilblains. and Manuscript, in a single secretary hand, of a collection of several dozen satirical poems and, dos-a-dos, several dozen household recipes. The poetry is mainly political, anti-Catholic, and academic, and includes works of Henry Denne of Trinity College and Joshua Barnes, as well as such titles as On a papist's ghost; On the queen being with child; The man of honour; England's triumph at sea in Sept. 1691; and The prologue to the music speech spoken in the Theatre July 8, 1693, being the time of the act, by Mr Smith of University College. Other items include an epitaph on Thomas Shadwell and a list of anagrams on the word "Parliament."
- Description:
- Armorial bookplate inside front cover., Binding: full calf; gilt decoration., Marbled endpapers., and The compiler was evidently a member of Cambridge University.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain --Intellectual life --17th century and Great Britain --Politics and government --1603-1714
- Subject (Name):
- Barnes, Joshua, 1654-1712 and Shadwell, Thomas, 1642?-1692
- Subject (Topic):
- Anti-Catholicism --England, Cooking, English, English poetry --17th century, Fishing --England, Latin poetry, Political poetry, English, Traditional medicine --Great Britain --Formulae, receipts, prescriptions, and Verse satire, English --17th century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Commonplace book]
176. [Commonplace book]
- Creator:
- Southwell, Robert, Sir, 1635-1702
- Published / Created:
- [1653? and later]
- Call Number:
- Osborn b112
- Image Count:
- 301
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- 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
- Subject (Name):
- Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667, Donne, John, 1572-1631, Herbert, George, 1593-1633, Hooker, Richard, 1553 or 4-1600, Southwell, Robert, Sir, 1635-1702, Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683, and Wotton, Henry, Sir, 1568-1639
- Subject (Topic):
- Aphorisms and apothegms, English literature --17th century, and Maxims
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Commonplace book]
177. [Emblematic Alchemy in English verse, with an English version of the Visio mystica of Arnold of Villanova]
- Creator:
- 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.
- Subject (Name):
- Ripley, George,--d. 1490?
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy, Astrology, and Occultism
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Emblematic Alchemy in English verse, with an English version of the Visio mystica of Arnold of Villanova]
178. [Frontispiece to The catalogue of pictures exhibited at Spring Gardens] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Grignion, Charles, 1721-1810, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- 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.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character) and Art
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Frontispiece to The catalogue of pictures exhibited at Spring Gardens] [graphic]
179. [Frontispiece to The catalogue of pictures exhibited at Spring Gardens] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Grignion, Charles, 1721-1810, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- 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).
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Britannia (Symbolic character) and Art
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Frontispiece to The catalogue of pictures exhibited at Spring Gardens] [graphic]