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1. James Marshall Osborn collection of poetry manuscripts, [ca. 1500-1900].
- Published / Created:
- Undated
- Call Number:
- Osborn Shelves Poetry Boxes
- Collection Title:
- James Marshall Osborn collection of poetry manuscripts
- Container / Volume:
- Box 5 | Folder P.B. V / 21-30
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- The collection consists of manuscript copies of several thousand individual English poems, dating from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. The majority of the items date from between 1650 and 1800.
- Alternative Title:
- Sonnet: By Avons stream the artless poet sung
- Subject (Topic):
- English poetry--16th century, English poetry--17th century, English poetry--18th century, English poetry--19th century, and English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > James Marshall Osborn collection of poetry manuscripts, [ca. 1500-1900].
2. James Marshall Osborn collection of poetry manuscripts, [ca. 1500-1900].
- Published / Created:
- Undated
- Call Number:
- Osborn Shelves Poetry Boxes
- Collection Title:
- James Marshall Osborn collection of poetry manuscripts
- Container / Volume:
- Box 5 | Folder P.B. V / 97-100
- Image Count:
- 2
- Abstract:
- The collection consists of manuscript copies of several thousand individual English poems, dating from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. The majority of the items date from between 1650 and 1800.
- Alternative Title:
- Prologue: We to this place where Shakespear dwelt of old ...
- Subject (Topic):
- English poetry--16th century, English poetry--17th century, English poetry--18th century, English poetry--19th century, and English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > James Marshall Osborn collection of poetry manuscripts, [ca. 1500-1900].
3. James Marshall Osborn collection of poetry manuscripts, [ca. 1500-1900].
- Published / Created:
- Undated
- Call Number:
- Osborn Shelves Poetry Boxes
- Collection Title:
- James Marshall Osborn collection of poetry manuscripts
- Container / Volume:
- Box 5 | Folder P.B. V / 1-10
- Image Count:
- 4
- Abstract:
- The collection consists of manuscript copies of several thousand individual English poems, dating from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. The majority of the items date from between 1650 and 1800.
- Alternative Title:
- Verses to the memory of my dearest sister Lady Barbara May
- Subject (Topic):
- English poetry--16th century, English poetry--17th century, English poetry--18th century, English poetry--19th century, and English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > James Marshall Osborn collection of poetry manuscripts, [ca. 1500-1900].
4. James Marshall Osborn collection of poetry manuscripts, [ca. 1500-1900].
- Published / Created:
- Undated
- Call Number:
- Osborn Shelves Poetry Boxes
- Collection Title:
- James Marshall Osborn collection of poetry manuscripts
- Container / Volume:
- Box 5 | Folder P.B. V / 11-20
- Image Count:
- 4
- Abstract:
- The collection consists of manuscript copies of several thousand individual English poems, dating from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. The majority of the items date from between 1650 and 1800.
- Alternative Title:
- To a lady upon her asking the author where he thought he should be that time [in] twelve month[s] and To a lady upon her asking the author where he thought he should be that time twelve month
- Subject (Topic):
- English poetry--16th century, English poetry--17th century, English poetry--18th century, English poetry--19th century, and English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > James Marshall Osborn collection of poetry manuscripts, [ca. 1500-1900].
5. James Marshall Osborn collection of poetry manuscripts, [ca. 1500-1900]
- Creator:
- Montagu, Mary Wortley, Lady, 1689-1762
- Published / Created:
- Undated
- Call Number:
- Osborn Shelves Poetry Boxes
- Collection Title:
- James Marshall Osborn collection of poetry manuscripts
- Container / Volume:
- Box 4 | Folder P.B. IV / 161-170
- Image Count:
- 3
- Abstract:
- The collection consists of manuscript copies of several thousand individual English poems, dating from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. The majority of the items date from between 1650 and 1800.
- Alternative Title:
- Upon the death of Lady Abergavenny by Lady Mary Wortley Mountague
- Subject (Name):
- Abergavenny, Katharine Neville, Lady, d. 1729
- Subject (Topic):
- English poetry--16th century, English poetry--17th century, English poetry--18th century, English poetry--19th century, and English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > James Marshall Osborn collection of poetry manuscripts, [ca. 1500-1900]
6. [Commonplace book], [ca. 1651-1653].
- Creator:
- W. S
- Call Number:
- Osborn b230
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, containing about 43 entries including religious meditations; Biblical notes; religious poems and verse paraphrases on Biblical subjects; sermon extracts; a play titled "The Tragedye of Jepthas daughter;" a treatise on dueling "according to the unjustifiable Custome of this age by a true Lover of honnour;" and a collection of medicinal recipes. Elsewhere, a brief description of "the nature of the irish, who are cal'd naturall Irishe, out of Campion's History" is annotated, "This being a booke of Commmon place this comes not out of order." The volume begins with a letter addressed to the author's son, in which the author describes the contents of this manuscript as "the fruits of my solitude whilst under restraint" as a royalist prisoner at Exeter, ca. 1651-53.
- Description:
- Binding: full sheep., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., In English., Pasted into front cover: newspaper clipping which describes the manuscript., and Phillipps MS 18904.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain--Politics and government--1642-1660 and Great Britain--Religious life and customs--17th century
- Subject (Name):
- Campion, Edmund,--Saint,--1540-1581
- Subject (Topic):
- Dueling--Great Britain, English drama--17th century, English poetry--17th century, Medicine, Popular, Medicine--15th-18th cent, Meditations (Religious), Religious poetry, English, and Sermons, English--17th century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Commonplace book], [ca. 1651-1653].
7. [Commonplace book], [ca. 1650-1725].
- Creator:
- Hale, John
- Call Number:
- Osborn b104
- Image Count:
- 2
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, of about 58 verse and prose pieces. Most of the poems concern love, including An Amorous Catch; Solicitation to a Married Woman; and Ben Jonson's In Defence of Women's Inconstancy. Other verses include The Tragedy of Mr. Christopher Love, rendered in five acts; and Roger L'Estrange's Loyalty Confined. The volume also contains several instructional prose texts, including Directions for Right Writing; Directions for Making Latine More Elegant or Pure; and An Introduction to Philosophy; as well as epigrammatic notes "collected out of Mr. James Howell's letters"; a letter titled "News out of Scotland by way of Letter the Author unknowne;" and "An imitation of Mr. Cleveland's letter of thanks sent to my Lord Westmorland who was pleased to send him an elegant paper in commendation of his poetry."
- Description:
- 31 pages at the beginning and end of the volume contain various accounts of payments received and made for various goods and services, including medicines, physicians' visits, hats, wool, and paper. This section also includes a list of names and birthdates for the writer's 9 children, and the date of the death of his wife, "7th of Nov. 1725.", Binding: full sheep., and On spine: "John Hale."
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain--Religious life and customs--17th century and Scotland--Description and travel
- Subject (Name):
- Cleveland, John,--1613-1658, Hale, John, Howell, James,--1594?-1666, Jonson, Ben,--1573?-1637, L'Estrange, Roger,--Sir,--1616-1704, and Love, Christopher,--1618-1651
- Subject (Topic):
- Accounting, English poetry--17th century, Epigrams, Epitaphs, Glees, catches, rounds, etc, Occasional verse, English, and Religious poetry, English
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Commonplace book], [ca. 1650-1725].
8. James Marshall Osborn collection of poetry manuscripts, [ca. 1500-1900]
- Published / Created:
- Undated
- Call Number:
- Osborn Shelves Poetry Boxes
- Collection Title:
- James Marshall Osborn collection of poetry manuscripts
- Container / Volume:
- Box VI | Folder P.B. VI 6-10
- Image Count:
- 4
- Alternative Title:
- Dido her last speach to Aeneas
- Subject (Topic):
- English poetry--16th century and English poetry--17th century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > James Marshall Osborn collection of poetry manuscripts, [ca. 1500-1900]
9. Writings, [1672-1684].
- Creator:
- Calthorpe, Dorothy
- Call Number:
- Osborn b421
- Image Count:
- 192
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- 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.
- Description:
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Writings, [1672-1684].
