[Commonplace book]

Description

Title: [Commonplace book]
Creator: Feilding (Fielding) family
Contributor: Feilding (Fielding) family
Published / Created: [ca. 1684]
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.
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Extent: 1 v. (ca. 80 p.) ; 17 x 11 cm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: Commonplace books
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain--Religious life and customs--17th century
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
Women authors

Access: Public
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Citation: Feilding family, Commonplace Book. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.