Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on paper, containing 8 chapters from a Latin manual on letter writing, with marginal and interlinear glosses. Chapters include: De principalibus partibus epistole; De accidentalibus epistolarum partibus; De titulorum epithetorum; De titulis et epithetis secularium et scholasticorum personarum; De kalendarum, nonarum et iduum invencione diversisque temporum annotacionibus; De annorum annotacionibus; De valedictorum positi. Also contains Samuel Karoch von Lichtenberg's Dialogus inter adolescentem et virginem, with marginal and interlinear glosses. Incipit: Dialogus Samuelis comico stilo exara[tus] incipit foeliciter
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In Latin., This manuscript is number 4 of 6 titles bound together. The other five texts are printed and include: 1) Iohannes Gerson (1363-1429), Sermo de Passione Domini, nuper e Gallico in Latinum traductus (Strasbourg, [Matthias Schuerer], 1510). 2) Petrus de Rosenheim (1380-1433), Rationarium evangelistarum omnia in se evangelia prosa, versu, imaginibusque quam mirifice complectens, with woodcuts ([Pforzheim], Thomas Anshelm, 1505). 3) Caius Iulius Solinus, De memorabilibus mundi diligenter annotatus et indicio alphabetico prenotatus, ed. J. Badius Ascensius (Speyer, Conrad Hist, 1512). 4) Baptista Spagnuoli Mantuanus OCarm (1448-1516), Parthenice tertia, divarum Margaritẹ, Agathes, Luciẹ et Apoloniẹ agonas continens, with the commentary of J. Badius Ascensius (Paris, Jean Petit, 1507). 5) Franciscus Florius (c. 1428-after 1480), De amore Camilli et Emilie ([Paris], Jehan Lambert, s.d.)., Script: copied by one hand in two levels of script: large and bold Gothica Semihybrida Libraria for the headings and part of the text; small Gothica Semihybrida Currens for the glosses and part of the text., Binding: sixteenth-century blind-tooled pigskin quarter binding over wooden boards. Two brass clasps attached to the rear board., Decoration: red stroking of the majuscules. Rubricated throughout., and The leaf containing the first imago for Matthew is missing and is kept separately as MS 907 vol. 2.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429.
Subject (Topic):
Church year sermons, Dialogues, Latin (Medieval and modern), Letter writing, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Palm Sunday
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a book of instruction for the author's daughter. Although the volume contains information on parts of speech, explanations of the meanings of words in the English language, basic mathematics such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, systems of government, and numerous prayers and meditations, the bulk of the volume is given to instruction on letter-writing and astronomy. The manuscript contains guidelines for how to address a queen, a duchess, or someone of one's own station; how to end letters; and how to write a "billet"; as well as form letters of thanks, consolation, recommendation, "congratulation for the recovery of health," and "to a lady newly come to London." The section on astronomy includes 7 diagrams and includes information on the positions of the planets, the phases of the moon, and eclipses
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Stanhope, Philip, second earl of Chesterfield (1633-1714), courtier and politician, was the eldest son of Henry Stanhope (d. 1634), and his wife Katherine (bap. 1609, d. 1667). He was involved in numerous duels, fleeing the country after having killed Francis Wolley, the son of a Hammersmith doctor, in a duel on 17 January 1660. Chesterfield was appointed on 24 February 1662 as lord chamberlain to Queen Catherine of Braganza, and on 13 June 1667 was made the colonel of a foot regiment, but it was disbanded following the treaty of Breda. That year he married his third wife, Lady Elizabeth Dormer (1653-1677). They had two sons and two daughters, one of whom was Lady Mary Stanhope, for whom the manuscript was written. He continued to be active in politics, supporting his tory son-in-law Thomas Coke in Derbyshire elections in 1701-2., Lady Mary (Stanhope) Coke, eldest daughter of Philip Stanhope, 2nd Earl of Chesterfield, married Thomas Coke of Melbourne, Derbyshire., In English., Note on verso of front endpaper: See 'a Prayer after the confession of sins.' and 'a Prayer for the Dead." both at the end of this M.S. 1814., Inscription on verso of front endpaper: Cecil Henry Southwell the gift of his dear Papa., Written on flyleaf: notes written by Thomas, 3rd Baron Southwell concerning the genealogy of the Stanhope family, including a biography of Lady Mary (Stanhope) Coke and her daughter, Mary Baroness Southwell. He mentions that Lady Mary (Stanhope) Coke was his great-grandmother., Written on verso of flyleaf: note by Mary Southwell dated 1756 explaining the manuscript was used to instruct her mother in "what was proper for a young Lady to know," and bequeathing the volume to her granddaughter Frances upon her death., Bookplate of Viscount Thomas Southwell, 3rd Baron Southwell., Marbled endpapers., and Binding: full calf; gilt decoration. Printed on spine: 1st Earl of Chesterfield to his D. L. M. Coke.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Aristotle., Chesterfield, Philip Stanhope, Earl of, 1633-1713., Cicero, Marcus Tullius., Coke, Mary Stanhope, Lady, 1664-1703., Homer., Southwell family., and Southwell, Thomas Southwell, Baron, 1721-1780.
Subject (Topic):
Astronomy, Letter writing, Nobility, Social life and customs, Women, Conduct of life, and Education
Date of publication from ESTC., Verse - "Charming ladies fair, I'll to you declare". - In four columns with the title and imprint, which is enclosed in square brackets, above the first two; the columns are not separated by rules., Mounted on leaf 60. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 3.
Publisher:
Sold by J. Evans, London
Subject (Geographic):
Oxford (England)
Subject (Topic):
Merchants, Cannibalism, Letter writing, Sibling rivalry, Parent and child, Shipwrecks, and Fathers and daughters
Title above first two columns., In four columns with the title above the first two; the columns are not separated by rules., Date of publication from English short title catalogue., Verse begins: "Lovers I beg lend an ear to this story,"., In this edition the initial word "The" is captialized., Mounted on leaf 79. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 3.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Barbados
Subject (Topic):
Love poetry, Parent and child, Cruelty, Merchants, Murder, Sailors, Ghosts, Letter writing, and Man-woman relationships
BEIN 1978 +S3 1: No. 28 of 55 works bound together with binder's title: Leisure hour library., Caption title., Text in three columns., and Advertising matter on p. 16.
A possibly female figure wearing male attire writing a letter at a table before a window in a study or library. Books fill shelves in the rear while two others lie open on the table, one title Le Code de Cithere
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Title devised by cataloger., Title from item., Imperfect; cropped within plate mark., Pencilled on verso: "pour Rʹetif avant lettre...", i.e. possibly an illustration from a work of Restif de La Bretonne., and Mounted to 27 x 23 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Eon de Beaumont, Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée d', 1728-1810.
Subject (Topic):
Letter writing, Interiors, Libraries (Rooms), and Writing