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1.
A love song

Published / Created:
Undated
Call Number:
Osborn c546
Collection Title:
[Commonplace book],
Image Count:
2
Alternative Title:
Bishop Hall speaking of the dress of ladies in his time ..., Epigram on Dick, Epitaph, Epitaph on a grave stone ..., On the window of an inn in Guilford, and Return of spring
Subject (Name):
Lyttelton, William Henry, 1724-1808
Subject (Topic):
English poetry --18th century
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A love song

3.
An epitaph upon a child in Stilton (?)

Call Number:
Osborn fb142
Collection Title:
[Commonplace book],
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Epigramma, Epitaph on a miser, Love after marriage, The happy life of a country parson, and Verses wrote on a lady's ivory table book
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain --Social life and customs --17th century and Great Britain --Social life and customs --18th century
Subject (Topic):
Elegiac poetry, English, English wit and humor, Occasional verse, English, and Satirical verse, English
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > An epitaph upon a child in Stilton (?)

4.
Anecdotes of archery: A thing of shreds and patches

Creator:
Haslewood, Joseph, 1769-1833
Published / Created:
Undated
Call Number:
Osborn d20
Image Count:
121
Abstract:
Autograph manuscript and print commonplace book. Collection of notes, engravings, and print cuttings concerning archery. Print items include announcements of meetings of the Robin Hood Society; playbills, reviews, and excerpts from stage adaptations of the legend of Robin Hood; announcements of equestrian archery shows and Robin Hood re-enactments. Also includes clippings of news items, short poems, an account of William Tell, an editorial on women archers and membership in the Toxopholitic Society, with a watercolor depicting a woman archer. Engravings of: the Liberty of Switzerland; the dress of royal archers (1795); men's fashion and archery costumes (in color, 1829).
Description:
Binding: Full calf, gilt borders and spine with blind-tooled flowers and gilt title: Archery Scrap Book., Bookplate: Joseph Haslewood., Inscription on front pastedown: J.W. Remington Wilson. Ent in Cat., Items dated in ink, from 1724-1829., Paper watermarks: 1799, 1813, 1818., and The book later belonged to John Matthew Gutch (1776-1861) who added to it; Gutch later used the book as the basis for an article in The Reliquary (XIX [1787-1789]: 157-160) where he wrote "Some of the following vestiges of English archery are contained in a commonplace book formerly belonging to Mr. Haslewood, collected by him as an appendix to a meditated edition of Robin Hood Ballads; others have been collected by the present writer" (The Reliquary XIX: 157); this description is copied on a tipped-in leaf in the volume. A few of the items mentioned by Gutch are no longer present in the volume.
Subject (Name):
Robin Hood Society (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Archers--Women, Archery--Great Britain--History, and Robin Hood (Legendary character)--Drama
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Anecdotes of archery: A thing of shreds and patches

5.
Commonplace book

Creator:
Marsham, John, Sir, 1602-1685
Published / Created:
[ca. 1670]
Call Number:
Osborn b420
Image Count:
61
Abstract:
Holograph notebook on paper, in an Italic hand, containing detailed reading notes in English and Latin on John Selden’s History of Tithes and Uxor Hebraica, as well as notes in Latin toward a revision of Marsham’s own Chronicus Canon.
Subject (Name):
Cotton, Robert, Sir, 1571-1631 --Library, Marsham, John, Sir, 1602-1685, Selden, John, 1584-1654. Historie of tithes, and Selden, John, 1584-1654. Uxor Ebraica
Subject (Topic):
Antiquarians, Chronology, Historical, and Learning and scholarship --Great Britain
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commonplace book

6.
Epitaphs collected 1694

Published / Created:
1694
Call Number:
Osborn fb143
Image Count:
47
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of several hundred short verse epitaphs on both famous political and historical figures and unnamed citizens. The epitaphs are often humorous or satirical, as in On A Hocus-Pocus; On A Tallow-Chandler; and On A Gentleman Falling Of His Horse & Broke Hs Neck. An epitaph titled On A Collier declares, "Here Lies the Collier John of Nashes, By whome Death nothing Gaind he swore, For living he was dust & Ashes, And being dead he is no more." More serious elegies include On Sr. Philip Sidney; On King Charles Martyr; and On One Willm. Messe Grocer & His Wife. and P. 9, 33, and 36 digitized at high resolution.
Description:
Imperfect: mutilated with some loss of text. and Two blank pages not digitized.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain --Politics and government and Great Britain --Social life and customs --17th century
Subject (Name):
Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649 and Sidney, Philip, Sir, 1554-1586
Subject (Topic):
Courts and courtiers --England, Elegiac poetry, English --17th century, English poetry --17th century, English wit and humor, Epitaphs --England, and Verse satire, English
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Epitaphs collected 1694

7.
Extracts from various publications and particular papers / [ca. 1785]-1800, transcrib’d by R

Creator:
Bailye, Richard, 1718-1800
Published / Created:
[ca. 1785]-1800
Call Number:
Osborn c621
Image Count:
99
Abstract:
Holograph commonplace book containing excerpts from books, magazines and newspapers on a variety of subjects, including antiquities; recent history and politics; voyages of discovery; agriculture and agricultural improvement; natural history; methods of selecting books; and medical and household recipes. Bailye’s reading included Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France, Burney’s History of Music, Gibbons’ Decline and Fall, and Boswell’s Life of Johnson, from which he extracted two pages of "Dr. Johnson’s Remarks and Observations." There are five pages of quotations from Rousseau’s Emile. A number of entries concern Lichfield antiquities and monuments, including descriptions of Lichfield Cathedral and information on the cost of James Wyatt’s repairs to the choir. Bailye also copied documents related to the administration of the estate of David Garrick, with which he was involved. Pages 98-100 contain "Mr. Wallis’s Acct. of the Effects of the late D. Garrick Esq. 1783," which includes statements of revenue from properties and investments as well as payments on legacies and annuities and is followed by a quotation from a 1785 letter by Wallis apologizing for the partial distributions. A more detailed account of Garrick’s Hendon property is found on page 114.
Subject (Geographic):
Lichfield (England) --Antiquities
Subject (Name):
Bailye, Richard, 1718-1800, Boswell, James, 1740-1795 --Quotations, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797 --Quotations, Burney, Charles, 1726-1814 --Quotations, Garrick, David, 1717-1779 --Friends and associates, Garrick, David, 1717-1779 --Will, Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794 --Quotations, Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 --Quotations, Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778 --Quotations, Wallis, Albany, and Wyatt, James, 1746-1813
Subject (Topic):
Books and reading --Great Britain, Distribution of decedents’ estates --Great Britain, Learning and scholarship --Great Britain, and Recipes --Great Britain
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Extracts from various publications and particular papers / [ca. 1785]-1800, transcrib’d by R. Bailye

8.
Miscellaneous poems and translations &c. Johnson's collection of poems, MSS. Most of which were

Creator:
Johnson, Maurice, 1688-1755
Published / Created:
[early 18th century]
Call Number:
Osborn c229 1/2
Image Count:
150
Description:
Osborn Collection has vols. II and III. and Written on fore edge: MSS Poems II.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Miscellaneous poems and translations &c. Johnson's collection of poems, MSS. Most of which were never printed ... by several hands & on various subjects, many of them by gentlemen of his acquaintance, some about his relations

9.
Miscellaneous poems and translations &c. Johnson’s collection of poems, MSS. Most of which were

Creator:
Johnson, Maurice, 1688-1755
Published / Created:
[early 18th century]
Call Number:
Osborn c229 1/2
Image Count:
80
Description:
Osborn Collection has volumes II and III. and Written on fore edge: P III.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Miscellaneous poems and translations &c. Johnson’s collection of poems, MSS. Most of which were never printed...by several hands & on various subjects, many of them by gentlemen of his acquaintance, some about his relations, [early 18th century].

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