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- Creator:
- Stone, Ben
- Published / Created:
- [early 17th century]
- Call Number:
- Osborn b208
- Collection Title:
- [Commonplace book]
- Image Count:
- 2
- Alternative Title:
- [Upon one Samborne Sheriffe of Oxfordshyre] and [Upon Samborne Sheriffe of Oxfordshyre]
- Collection Created:
- [early 17th century]
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Upon on Samborne Sheriffe of Oxfordshyre
- Creator:
- Strangways, John, Sir, 1584-1666
- Published / Created:
- [1645-1648]
- Call Number:
- Osborn b304
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Autograph manuscript containing original verse and translations, and notes and reflections written while a prisoner in the Tower of London. With some later verses, 1665.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Commonplace book]
- Creator:
- Pye, John, fl. 1640-1684
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1640-1684]
- Call Number:
- Osborn b52
- Collection Title:
- [Commonplace book]
- Image Count:
- 11
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Anonymous manuscript, consisting of poems, riddles, proverbs, copies of political documents and correspondence, personal notes from varied sources, satires and a travel journal. All in an unknown hand.
- Description:
- Includes: Confession of fayth by Sir Francis Bacon; A declaration how the King ...; Choicest English proverbs collected out of Howell's ...; Then tell me why?
- Subject (Topic):
- Political poetry, English and Riddles
- Collection Created:
- [ca. 1640-1684]
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Commonplace book]
- Creator:
- Grosvenor, Francis
- Published / Created:
- [1620?]
- Call Number:
- Osborn b349
- Image Count:
- 19
- Abstract:
- 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.
- Subject (Topic):
- Geography and Witchcraft
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Commonplace book], [1620s?]
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1612]
- Call Number:
- Osborn b144
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Commonplace book], [ca. 1612].
- Creator:
- Fitzherbert, Richard, d. 1653?
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1630-1670]
- Call Number:
- Osborn fb252
- Image Count:
- 2
- Abstract:
- brief commonplace book entries in Latin and
- Description:
- Binding: contemporary full parchment; extensive later 17th century annotations on covers, containing excerpts from Robert Wild's Iter Borealis and verses on the Popish Plot., In English and Latin., Inscribed on front endpaper: "Liber Richardi Fitzherbert," accompanied by other extensive annotations in a variety of hands., Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd. on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2008., and Richard Fitzherbert (d. 1653?) received his M.A. from New College, Oxford in 1605 and was appointed rector of Cucklington in Somerset in 1607. He was also rector of Stoke Tristor and Gussage All Saints from 1621, as well as Archdeacon of Dorset. In his later years in Cucklington he was "often plundered and imprisoned," and died circa 1653, leaving at least one daughter, Elizabeth.
- Subject (Topic):
- Aphorisms and apothegms, Classical literature--Quotations, Conduct of life--Quotations, maxims, etc, English prose literature--17th century, and Fathers of the church--Quotations
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commonplace book, circa 1630-1670.
8.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1640]
- Call Number:
- Osborn b25
- Image Count:
- 31
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in a single secretary hand, of a collection of several dozen Scottish Presybterian tracts in English and verses in Latin. The collection includes David Hume's De unione tractatus secundus, 1605; William Bradshaw's Treatise of the nature and use of things indifferent, 1605; John Knox's Sermons, 1563; the Recantation of Master Patrick Adamson, 1598; and other short pieces against the authority of bishops addressed to the king. The manuscript also includes Latin poetry on similar religious and political subjects, by such authors as George Buchanan and Joseph Juste Scaliger.
- Description:
- Binding: limp parchment; leather ties., In Latin and English, often with Scottish spellings., and Stitching loose and some pages missing; incomplete at end.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Scotland--Politics and government--1625-1649 and Scotland--Religious life and customs
- Subject (Name):
- Hume, David,--1560?-1630?, Knox, John,--1505-1572, and Scaliger, Joseph Juste,--1540-1609
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin poetry, Presbyterian Church--Doctrinal and controversial works, and Presbyterian Church--Scotland
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Collection of Scottish Presbyterian tracts and Latin verses, ca. 1563- 1635, Scotland], [ca. 1640].
9.
- Creator:
- Hobart, John
- Call Number:
- Osborn b108
- Image Count:
- 19
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of a collection of 15 verses primarily addressing religious, philosophical, and moral subjects. Poem titles include Humility; Prayer; Against Censure; Praeludia Mortis; Of Atheisme; and The Carrector of A Drunkard. The volume also includes a political and satirical poem against Cromwell titled A Protector Discribed which declares, "He is A Thing which wee Protector Call, From whome the king of kings Protect us all."
- Description:
- Binding: stitched., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., Note at end of last poem in manuscript: "I had this out of my Alamanac: 83 and doe thinke I had it formerly of Mrs. Astely which made enter it here supposing it composd by the same Author.", Note on back of manuscript: "Verses by old Mr. Hobartt & some others.", Signed on inside of first leaf: "this for my well beloved friend J.C. When sturdy to his Lo. friend. My very good friend Mr. R. Thixton.", and The signature "Ro. Doughty" appears on the front page.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain--Politics and government--1642-1660 and Great Britain--Religious life and customs--17th century
- Subject (Name):
- Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658, Doughty, Robert, 1616 or 1617-1670, and Hobart, John
- Subject (Topic):
- Elegiac poetry, English, English poetry--17th century, English wit and humor, Religious poetry, English, and Satirical verse, English
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A true coppy of severall verses made by John Hobart Esq.; who died Anno 1683. Obtaynd by ye favour of Madam Astley, August the 11th 1603.
- Creator:
- Assheton, Ralph, Sir, 1603-1680
- Call Number:
- Osborn b101
- Image Count:
- 88
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in a single secretary hand, consisting of about 37 prose and verse pieces, many on political, satirical, and topical subjects. Prose pieces include a tract titled Vox Populi, Or Newes from Spaine, Translated According to the Spanish Coppie; The Oath Sayd to bee Taken by Commanders in the Warre 1639; copies of proclamations, speeches, and warrants dated 1642 which pertain to the activities of Lord Fairfax's army in Yorkshire and the North; and an exposition of a system of shorthand titled The Art of Short Writeing Invented by ____ Laborer gouldsmith & Citizen of London, As Hee Taught Mee. Verses include a dialogue titled A Conference Held Att Angelo Castell Betweene the Pope, the Emperor and The King of Spayne; Verses uppon Prince Charle His Voyage For Spayne, in Febr. 1622; A Coppie of a Printed Ballade Called The Bishops Bridles, Lent by Will. Burton of Wakefield Oct 1639; satirical anagrams and verses on the word "Parliament"; and two verse libels written as petitions from the Lords and Commons in Parliament to King Charles I.
- Description:
- In English., The manuscript also includes one page of accounts, including a list of what "I owe to my Mother" and a list of wages for "John Sunderland," who had "begun his year the 5th of June (69).", Pasted in back flyleaf: dealer's description of manuscript., Inside front cover: Bookplate of Henry J.B. Clements, dated 1869, and the, On flyleaf: signature of Benjamin Heywood Bright, 1810., On second page: armorial bookplate with phrase "Sub Robore Virtus" and signature (undecipherable) beneath. Above bookplate: "Memoranda kept by Ralph Assheton.", and Binding: half calf; machine grain morocco.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain, Spain., Spain, and Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- Assheton, Ralph, Sir, 1603-1680., Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649., and Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, Baron, 1612-1671.
- Subject (Topic):
- Anagrams, English poetry, Occasional verse, English, Political poetry, English, Shorthand, Verse satire, English, Foreign relations, and Politics and government
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Commonplace book], [ca. 1646].