- Call Number:
- Osborn fb142
- Collection Title:
- [Commonplace book],
- Image Count:
- 1
- Alternative Title:
- Epigramma, Epitaph on a miser, Love after marriage, The happy life of a country parson, and Verses wrote on a lady's ivory table book
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain --Social life and customs --17th century and Great Britain --Social life and customs --18th century
- Subject (Topic):
- Elegiac poetry, English, English wit and humor, Occasional verse, English, and Satirical verse, English
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > An epitaph upon a child in Stilton (?)
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- Published / Created:
- 1694
- Call Number:
- Osborn fb143
- Image Count:
- 47
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of several hundred short verse epitaphs on both famous political and historical figures and unnamed citizens. The epitaphs are often humorous or satirical, as in On A Hocus-Pocus; On A Tallow-Chandler; and On A Gentleman Falling Of His Horse & Broke Hs Neck. An epitaph titled On A Collier declares, "Here Lies the Collier John of Nashes, By whome Death nothing Gaind he swore, For living he was dust & Ashes, And being dead he is no more." More serious elegies include On Sr. Philip Sidney; On King Charles Martyr; and On One Willm. Messe Grocer & His Wife. and P. 9, 33, and 36 digitized at high resolution.
- Description:
- Imperfect: mutilated with some loss of text. and Two blank pages not digitized.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain --Politics and government and Great Britain --Social life and customs --17th century
- Subject (Name):
- Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649 and Sidney, Philip, Sir, 1554-1586
- Subject (Topic):
- Courts and courtiers --England, Elegiac poetry, English --17th century, English poetry --17th century, English wit and humor, Epitaphs --England, and Verse satire, English
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Epitaphs collected 1694
- Creator:
- Codrington, Robert, d. 1665
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1650]
- Call Number:
- Osborn b87
- Image Count:
- 80
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, in an Italic hand, of two elegiac poems titled "Funerall teares and consolations" and "Lachrymae funebres" mourning the death of Winifred Fitzwilliam (d. 1635), and dedicated to her father, Baron William Fitzwilliam of Liffer County, Donegal. Prefaced by a rhyming epitaph.
- Description:
- Binding: full sheep; remnants of gold-tooled decoration. and The paper on p. 44 is dyed black and written upon with silver ink.
- Subject (Topic):
- Devotional literature, English, English literature--17th century, English poetry--17th century, and Funeral rites and ceremonies
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Funerall teares and consolations, [ca. 1650].