- Creator:
- Traherne, Thomas, d. 1674
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1660-1665]
- Call Number:
- Osborn b308
- Image Count:
- 229
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, in a single Italic hand, of several hundred brief religious meditations divided into four "centuries" of 100 meditations each; the first and last centuries are incomplete. Topics include the God's love, doing good works, and hypostatical union. The author writes, "Light is not more Beautifull, and Healing in the Sun, then the Beams of his Gospel Shining in our chambers. We were before Like Dragons inhabiting the Parched Places of the Desart wildernes: now streams and Rivers flow upon the Top of evry Hill," and he describes human fallibility thus: "Man is in this Glorious world Environed with Delights and Spiritual Exaltations, Ineffable Joys and celestial Treasures. But is in the midst of all a filthy peece of Insensat Dirt, a careless Stupid & Repining Devil." The manuscript also includes several meditations in verse and a longer treatise on the soul.
- Description:
- Accompanied by newspaper article by James Osborn attributing the manuscript to Thomas Traherne., Binding: full sheep., and Scans include backlit images of pp. 226, 244, 246 to reveal watermarks.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain--Religious life and customs
- Subject (Name):
- Traherne, Thomas, d. 1674
- Subject (Topic):
- Devotional literature, English literature--17th century, English poetry--17th century, Meditations, Meditations (Religious), and Religious poetry, English
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Select meditations, [ca. 1660-1665]
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- 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 make hair black"; and "for Hot Sore Eyes." Other include one titled "upon my Lady Desmonds Reproaching of me Rongfully" and another addressed to "Aminta" which asks her to "think on thy Feildings dying grones." The volume also includes genealogical information on members of the Feilding family born between 1637 and 1651.
- Description:
- Binding: covers and spine embroidered in flower pattern with metal and fabric threads. and For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator.
- 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]
- 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].