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- Creator:
- Ogle, Richard, Sir, ca. 1554-1627
- Call Number:
- Osborn a40
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of a commonplace book. The work contains four sections. (1) "Loci animadvertendi in legendi epistolis, ad quos etia[m] om[n]ia quae annotaderis referenda sunt." This lists types of epistles under eight headings, or "libri," but the extensive framework is very incompletely annotated. (2) "Here are written divers notes phrases words & sentences collected out of severall bokes. 15 Novembr 1586. A[nn]o Reg.ie Eliz. 28." This is actually a seventeen-page selection from the "A Touchstone for the Time" section of George Whetstone's A Mirrour for Magistrates.... (London, 1584). It is preceded by a two-line entry quoting Mary Queen of Scots as saying at Fotheringay, "I come not as a criminal." (3) "Epistolae commendatiae Praecepta," summarizing extracts from the Epistolae of Paulus Manutius. (4) "Quaedam collecta ex liber The Breviarie of Health, compiled by Andrew Boorde." Eight pages of various entries in English from Boorde's work, including descriptions of and remedies for "scurffe," greensickness, "sikness of the prisones, "chappe," and nosebleed
- Description:
- In English and Latin., Several copies of prayers throughout in a later hand., Bound with: 17th century manuscript on paper of legal precedents in a chancery hand. Most are from the reign of James I. The name "Richarde Wolfe" appears in an Italic hand on the last page., Title page for volume (supplied by Johnson) in red and black lettering attributes the commonplace book to "Richardum Ogle Eq. Aur.", Spine title reads, "M.S.S. 1586.", Bookplate: Maurice Johnson of Spalding, 1735., and Binding: 18th century full calf, blind stamped, spine banded with gilt decorations.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- Boorde, Andrew, 1490?-1549., Manuzio, Paolo, 1512-1574., and Whetstone, George, 1544?-1587?
- Subject (Topic):
- Law, Medicine, Popular, and Rhetoric, Renaissance
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commonplace book, 1586
3.
- Creator:
- Macartney, George Macartney, Earl, 1737-1806
- Call Number:
- OSB MSS 181
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1
- Image Count:
- 60
- Abstract:
- The papers are almost entirely concerned with Macartney's embassy to Russia in 1764-1767, and include notes, memoranda, drafts of the trade treaty he negotiated, and a final copy; accounts of travel in Russia and general descriptions of the country, including a treatise on the natural history of Siberia and fossils found there; descriptions of principal figures of the Russian Court and of court protocol; and copies of correspondence and The collection also contains a printed copy of a 1762 decree by Catherine II concerning Alexis Bestoucheff-Rumin; and a dispatch sent by Russia to China in 1792 during Macartney's mission in Peking. Accompanied by a microfilm of the Macartney Papers in the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland
- Description:
- George Macartney was born in Ireland and educated at Trinity College. In 1764, Lord Holland proposed him as envoy extraordinary to Saint Petersburg for the negotiation of a trade treaty. Knighted before departing England, Macartney returned in 1767 after concluding the treaty and receiving the Polish Order of the White Eagle. He spent much of the remainder of his career in colonial governorships, including that of Madras, and took his seat in the Irish Parliament in 1788. In 1792 he was sent as plenipotentiary on a mission to Peking, and upon his return from China undertook negotiations with the exiled Louis XVIII in Verona. Macartney thereafter retired from public life due to ill health. and In French and English.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain., Great Britain, Russia., Russia, and Siberia (Russia)
- Subject (Name):
- Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796. and Macartney, George Macartney, Earl, 1737-1806.
- Subject (Topic):
- Diplomatic and consular service, British, Diplomatic and consular service, Russian, Diplomats, Commerce, Foreign relations, Politics and government, Court and courtiers, and Description and travel
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > George Macartney papers, 1764-1792 (bulk 1764-1767).
4.
- Creator:
- Hallam, Henry, 1777-1859
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS 440
- Image Count:
- 4
- Abstract:
- Collection contains correspondence, writings and other papers (box 1). Correspondence includes letters to Henry Hallam from Thomas Butt, Lady Maria Callcott, Elizabeth Durbin Elton, Edward Craven Hawtrey, Leonard Horner, J. G. Lockhart, Samuel Rogers, William Smyth, John Sterling, Connop Thirlwall, Pishey Thompson, Victoria Maria Louisa, Duchess of Kent, William Whewell, Christopher Wordsworth, and others. Also included is one letter from Henry Hallam to his mother, Eleanor Roberts Hallam. Third party correspondence includes letters from George Frere to Julia Elton Hallam and Alfred Lord Tennyson to Julia Maria Frances Hallam Lennard. Writings contain one volume of dramatic dialogues and one volume of poems in Arthur Henry Hallam's hand, and one volume of his poems and one entitled "Verses addressed to Ellen on her birthday," both in the hand of Henry Hallam's daughter, Ellen Hallam. Also included are two holograph essays by an unidentified author entitled "Is Blakesley in Advance of His Age?" and "University Reform." Other papers include the autopsy report (in broadside) performed on Arthur Henry Hallam, in Latin, and a copy of John Hallam's epitaph in St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, in Latin and English
- Description:
- Henry Hallam, British historian and father of the poet Arthur Henry Hallam., Accompanied by a container list., and Chiefly in English, some materials in Latin.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- Butt, Thomas., Callcott, Maria, Lady, 1785-1842., Elton, Elizabeth Durbin, -1822., Frere, George., Hallam, Arthur Henry, 1811-1833., Hallam, Eleanor Roberts., Hallam, Ellen, 1816-1837., Hallam, Henry, 1777-1859., Hallam, John, 1750?-1822., Hallam, Julia Elton., Hawtrey, Edward Craven, 1789-1862., Horner, Leonard, 1785-1864., Lennard, Julia Maria Frances Hallam, 1818-1888., Lockhart, J. G. 1794-1854. (John Gibson),, Rogers, Samuel, 1763-1855., Smyth, William, 1765-1849., Sterling, John, 1806-1844., Thirlwall, Connop, 1797-1875., Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892., Thompson, Pishey, 1784-1862., Victoria Maria Louisa, Duchess of Kent, 1786-1861., Whewell, William, 1794-1866., and Wordsworth, Christopher, 1807-1885.
- Subject (Topic):
- Authors, English, Historians, and Poets, English
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Henry Hallam collection, 1792-1859
5.
- Creator:
- Hallam, Henry, 1777-1859
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS 440
- Container / Volume:
- 2 (Broadside)
- Image Count:
- 4
- Abstract:
- Collection contains correspondence, writings and other papers (box 1). Correspondence includes letters to Henry Hallam from Thomas Butt, Lady Maria Callcott, Elizabeth Durbin Elton, Edward Craven Hawtrey, Leonard Horner, J. G. Lockhart, Samuel Rogers, William Smyth, John Sterling, Connop Thirlwall, Pishey Thompson, Victoria Maria Louisa, Duchess of Kent, William Whewell, Christopher Wordsworth, and others. Also included is one letter from Henry Hallam to his mother, Eleanor Roberts Hallam. Third party correspondence includes letters from George Frere to Julia Elton Hallam and Alfred Lord Tennyson to Julia Maria Frances Hallam Lennard. Writings contain one volume of dramatic dialogues and one volume of poems in Arthur Henry Hallam's hand, and one volume of his poems and one entitled "Verses addressed to Ellen on her birthday," both in the hand of Henry Hallam's daughter, Ellen Hallam. Also included are two holograph essays by an unidentified author entitled "Is Blakesley in Advance of His Age?" and "University Reform." Other papers include the autopsy report (in broadside) performed on Arthur Henry Hallam, in Latin, and a copy of John Hallam's epitaph in St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, in Latin and English
- Description:
- Henry Hallam, British historian and father of the poet Arthur Henry Hallam., Accompanied by a container list., and Chiefly in English, some materials in Latin.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- Butt, Thomas., Callcott, Maria, Lady, 1785-1842., Elton, Elizabeth Durbin, -1822., Frere, George., Hallam, Arthur Henry, 1811-1833., Hallam, Eleanor Roberts., Hallam, Ellen, 1816-1837., Hallam, Henry, 1777-1859., Hallam, John, 1750?-1822., Hallam, Julia Elton., Hawtrey, Edward Craven, 1789-1862., Horner, Leonard, 1785-1864., Lennard, Julia Maria Frances Hallam, 1818-1888., Lockhart, J. G. 1794-1854. (John Gibson),, Rogers, Samuel, 1763-1855., Smyth, William, 1765-1849., Sterling, John, 1806-1844., Thirlwall, Connop, 1797-1875., Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892., Thompson, Pishey, 1784-1862., Victoria Maria Louisa, Duchess of Kent, 1786-1861., Whewell, William, 1794-1866., and Wordsworth, Christopher, 1807-1885.
- Subject (Topic):
- Authors, English, Historians, and Poets, English
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Henry Hallam collection, 1792-1859
6.
- Published / Created:
- [between 1300 and 1350]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 60
- Image Count:
- 5
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of 1-2) Registrum brevium. 3) Novae narrationes (in Anglo-Norman). 4) Part of an article of indenture (13 lines; 18th-century hand), in English, concerning William Jenninges of Birmingham
- Description:
- In Latin and Anglo-Norman., Script: Written in small, cramped anglicana by one scribe., Twelve illuminated initials (crudely drawn and much rubbed), in dark red, blue, gold, green, and orange, with simple borders extending the length of the folio. Paragraph marks in blue or gold throughout., Lower half of ff. 33, 78 torn; large portions of text stained and illegible., and Binding: 15th-16th centuries. Original sewing on four double, tawed cords laced into flush wooden boards. The covering extends over the endbands and is sewn around them. Traces of a secondary embroidery. Spine lined with tawed skin extending to outside of boards. Covered with tawed, cream-colored skin. A brass catch on the lower cover and traces of a clasp attachment on the first few leaves. Lower board detached, upper board and most of the spine covering wanting, probably for some time.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain., Connecticut, and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Anglo-Norman literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Law, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Registrum brevium and Novae narrationes
