Plate [184] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Vignette to Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England'; portrait medallions of Selden, Spelman, Cotton and Leland along a tomb, with one of Ashmole leaning at right, before a ruined arch and surrounding buildings, a mountain in the background, a...
Alternative Title:
Antiquaries
Description:
Title from text within image.
Publisher:
Published 25 Feby. 1798, by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery
Holograph notebook on paper, in an Italic hand, containing detailed reading notes in English and Latin on John Selden's History of Tithes and Uxor Hebraica, as well as notes in Latin toward a revision of Marsham's own Chronicus Canon
Description:
Sir John Marsham (1602-1685) was a British antiquarian who published Chronicus Canon Ægypticus. Ebraicus, Graecius et Disquisitiones in 1665; an expanded version appeared in 1672.
The funerary placard for Vincent Corbet, containing three elegies for Corbet: "Vincent Corbet, farther knowne/ By Pointer's name than by his owne", by Richard Corbet; "Ad ejusdem Manes" ("Aeterna requie jaces beatus") by John Selden; and "On the Same"...
Description:
Manuscript on vellum.
Subject (Name):
Corbet, Richard, 1582-1635., Corbet, Vincent, d. 1619., Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637., Selden, John, 1584-1654., and St. Mary's Church, Twickenham (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Elegaic poetry, English, Funeral decorations, English poetry, and Latin poetry
Contemporary MS copy, titled, "The discourse of John Selden, Esq. or, his sense of various matters of wright and high consequence relating especially to religion and state."
Description:
This manuscript appears to be based on early manuscripts, and not on the printed edition of 1689.
