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
Manuscript on paper, in several hands, of Latin quotations grouped by philosophical and moral subjects such as Bellum; Fortuna; Humilitas; Ingratus; Patientia; and Virtus Moralis. Other entries include several religious poems; medical recipes "for th...
Description:
Binding: full sheep; blind-stamped decoration on covers.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--History--1066-1687, Great Britain--Intellectual life--17th century, and Great Britain--Religious life and customs--17th century
Subject (Name):
James--I,--King of England,--1566-1625
Subject (Topic):
English poetry--17th century, Latin poetry--17th century, Medicine, Meditations (Religious), Philosophy, and Prayers
Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, containing about 14 sets of religious, political, and historical reflections, and about 76 original poems and verse translations on primarily religious subjects. The prose entries include 9 arguments against the...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain., England., and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Baker, Richard, Sir, 1568-1645., Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649., Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656., Strangways, John, Sir, 1584-1666., Church of England, and Tower of London (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Doctrines, English poetry, Law, Meditations (Religious), Religious poetry, English, Treason, Politics and government, and Religious life and customs
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
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 hypos...
Description:
Accompanied by newspaper article by James Osborn attributing the manuscript to Thomas Traherne.
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
