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[Commonplace book]

Creator:
Feilding (Fielding) family
Published / Created:
[ca. 1684]
Call Number:
Osborn b226
Image Count:
10
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of a collection of about 73 entries, including prayers, poems on primarily romantic subjects, and culinary and medicinal recipes for such items as "orange water the Countess of Desmonds way"; black pudding; "to m...
Description:
Binding: covers and spine embroidered in flower pattern with metal and fabric threads.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Religious life and customs--17th century and Great Britain--Social life and customs--17th century
Subject (Name):
Feilding (Fielding) family
Subject (Topic):
Cooking, Elegiac poetry, English, Embroidery, English poetry--17th century, Medicine, Popular, Medicine--15th-18th cent, Meditations (Religious), Religious poetry, English, Sentimentalism in literature, and Women authors
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Commonplace book]

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[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 treati...
Description:
Binding: full sheep.
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].