Manuscript volume on paper, in several hands, two-thirds of which contains numerous brief commonplace book entries in Latin and English arranged under alphabetical Latin headings. The most frequently quoted author is Seneca, but there are also passages from Cicero, Plutarch, Tacitus, Tertullian, Quintillian, Ambrose, Augustine, and Aquinas. Nearly all of the numerous quotations from the Bible are in English. The final third of the volume contains lengthier passages in English prose, arranged under headings such as "A Reformed Catholic," "Of Afflications," and "Idolatrie."
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
Accompanied by: The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New : newly translated out of the original tongues and with the former translations diligently compared and revised ...London: Henry Hills and John Field, 1660. Ownership and presentation inscriptions include "Dorothy Harvey her book Giuen me by my uncell Nicholas Jun 15 1686. Pray for NH, he pray for thee;" "Given to Anne the Hon.ble Ly. Middeleton by Mrs. Caroline Acton, Decr. 1836;" and "Jane Anne Broke from her Godmother Anne Hon.ble Lady Middleton July 28 1860." Bound in black gilt-panelled morocco, with a six-compartment gilt spine. Marbled endpapers. and Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, containing several works in verse and prose apparently composed by Dorothy Calthorpe. The volume opens with three poems in couplets: "Philismena to Philander," "Philander to Philismena," and "In commendations of a country Life it being so innocent," and a short prose "Discription of the Garden of Edden." These are followed by a longer prose narrative: "A Short History of the Life and Death of Sir Ceasor Dappefer, or els a pleasent histtory of Jewlious and Dorinda the truth of it was so lately represented that some of those worthy persons are stil liueing and ownes what is here repated." The story, which Calthorpe claims is based on the lives of her father and grandfather, traces the business success and courtships of a father and son. "A Castell in the aire, or the pallace of the man in the moone" is a prose work containing both religious reflection and descriptions of "visiones" of Roman gods, eagles and celestial gardens.
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Binding: contemporary speckled calf., Dorothy Calthorpe was probably connected to the Calthorpe family of Ampton in Suffolk, but she has not been further identified., Inscription on first page: A red marble Chappel Erected by my hand. Dorothy Calthorpe Jun 20 1684. Accompanied by a drawing of a chapel. Both in red ink., Inscription on front pastedown: Dorothy Calthorpe., Inscription on last page: Dorothy Calthorpe. I begane this book Janewary the 20 in the yeare 1672., Inscription on recto of front flyleaf: Anne L'Estrange Sa Livre. Mars 27 1738., and Purchased from Sotheby's on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2006.
Subject (Name):
Cowlthorp family and Middleton family
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, English--18th century, English fiction--17th century, English fiction--Women authors, English poetry--17th century, English prose literature--17th century, Pastoral poetry, English, Religious literature, English, and Women authors
