Leprince de Beaumont, Madame (Jeanne-Marie), 1711-1780
Published / Created:
1778
Call Number:
GENMSS VOL 562
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Manuscript in an unidentified hand, signed with the initials "D. T. B. B.", of a Spanish translation of this epistolary novel by Leprince de Beaumont.
Alternative Title:
Lettres de Madame Du Montier. Spanish
Description:
Former call number: Uncat MSS 699.
Subject (Name):
Leprince de Beaumont,--Madame--(Jeanne-Marie),--1711-1780
Subject (Topic):
French fiction--18th century, French literature--Translations into Spanish, Spanish literature--18th century, and Spanish literature--Translations into French
Chauncy family sermons, book inventory and commonplace book, 1631-1695
Image Count:
168
Description:
Imperfect: some pages removed; other pages mutilated with some loss of text., In four sections according to orientation of text; each section paginated separately., and Volume contains a mixture of foliation, pagination and unnumbered pages as well as text written in both directions.
Subject (Topic):
Sermons --Early works to 1800 and Sermons, American --17th century
Chauncy family sermons, book inventory and commonplace book, 1631-1695
Image Count:
189
Description:
In three sections according to orientation of text; each section paginated separately. and Volume contains unnumbered pages as well as text written in both directions.
Subject (Topic):
Sermons --Early works to 1800 and Sermons, American --17th century
Letters by Newman to various recipients and a manuscript transcription of 8 lines of Horace, signed by F. W. Newman. There are 40 ALS to John Chapman, dated 1847-1868; 9 ALS to Moncure Daniel Conway; and one ALS each to William Lloyd Garrison; W. H. Burrow; Frank Harrison Hill as editor of the Daily News; Houghton, Osgood & Co.; Alexander Ireland; Henry Malthus; David Nutt; and R. D. Webb.
Alternative Title:
[Letter : F. W. Newman, 1860 October 17 to Dr. John Chapman]
Description:
Francis William Newman, scholar and man of letters, brother of Cardinal Newman.
Subject (Name):
Burrow, W. H, Garrison, William Lloyd,--1805-1879, Ireland, Alexander,--1810-1894, Malthus, Henry, Newman, Francis William,--1805-1897, Nutt, David,--fl. 1844, and Webb, R. D
Extensive holograph annotations in The spectator (London: Printed by H. Hughs, for Messrs. Payne, Rivington, Davis ...,1789).
Description:
Armorial bookplate of Thomas Hughes in volumes 1-7., Binding: contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt. Spines gilt with red morocco gilt title labels., Formerly owned by Prince Albert. Ex libris Thomas Hughes. Formerly owned by the Carl H. Pforzheimer Library. Formerly owned by Paula Peyraud. Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd. on the Herman W. Liebert Book Fund, 2009., Hester Thrale Piozzi (1741-1821), author and diarist, published one of the first biographies of Samuel Johnson, Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson (1786); her Thraliana, a combined diary and commonplace book, was not published until 1942., and Piozzi's annotations range from brief notes on the text of the essays to lengthy anecdotes; quotations from and comments on other English authors; and social and historical observations. There are eight references to Samuel Johnson, and several to the Prince of Wales; other historical figures mentioned include the Duke of Marlborough and Lord Nelson. Historical observations include the disappearance of road signposts; changes in the staging of Shakespeare's plays; variations in women's fashions and in attitudes toward women authors. Piozzi also includes personal reminiscences and corrections to the text.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain --Social life and customs --18th century
Subject (Name):
Addison, Joseph, 1672-1719., Albert, Prince Consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1861--Autograph, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830--Anecdotes, Hughes, Thomas--Bookplate., Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784--Anecdotes, Peyraud, Paula, 1947-2008--Ownership, Pforzheimer, Carl H. (Carl Howard), 1879-1957, Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821, Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821--Autograph, Spectator (London, England : 1711), and Steele, Richard, 1629-1692.
Subject (Topic):
Books and reading --Great Britain, English literature --18th century, English poetry --18th century, English prose literature --18th century, and Women writers
Autograph manuscript transcribed by William Partridge. Pages 67-137 contain "A compendium of logick, according to the modern philosophy, extracted from Le-grand & others their systems." This is followed by shorthand notes. Given by Partridge to Timothy Edwards, and later owned by Jonathan Edwards when a student at Yale in 1718. A note in F. B. Dexter’s hand says the book was also used by Warham Mather. On the verso of the first leaf: "Jonathan Edward’s Book 1751."
Subject (Name):
Harvard University --Students, Partridge, William, 1669-1693, Ramus, Petrus, 1515-1572, and Yale University --Students
Subject (Topic):
Logic --Study and teaching --Early works to 1800 and Shorthand--Early works to 1800
Alabaster, William, 1567-1640 Brooke, Samuel, d. 1631 Hacket, John, 1592-1670 Hawkesworth, Walter, d. 1606
Published / Created:
[16--].
Call Number:
GENMSS VOL 214
Image Count:
80
Abstract:
Volume containing manuscript transcripts in an unidentified hand of 5 plays written in Latin for performance at Cambridge University in the 17th century. Includes Walter Hawkesworth's Leander and his Labrynthus (printed 1636); John Hacket's Laiola (printed as Loiola, 1648); Samuel Brooke's Scyros; and William Alabaster's Roxana (printed 1632).
Description:
From the library of Shipdham Church in Thetford, Norfolk County, England. and Some pagination is erroneous.