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2.
- Creator:
- Simpson, Stephen
- Call Number:
- Osborn c563
- Image Count:
- 108
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript in Simpson's hand containing fair copies of 26 poems in a variety of genres, many labeled as "Imitations" of published pieces. Titles include "Dedication: To Miss Sally Leaper;" "A Monody in Imitation of Milton's Lycidas;" "The Almshouse: An Elegy in Imitation of Jerningham's Magdalen and Nun;" "A Song Written at School;" "The Servants: A Tale;" "The Degree below Mediocrity;" "To Aurelia--Written Immediately upon Perusal of Pope's Eloisa to Abelard;" "Lorenzo, in Imitation of Parnell's Hermit; and "The Charms of Contentment." "The Happy Quadrumvirate: A Tale" is annotated with the names of the friends described and the comment, "Written when really happy on a suppositious plan of a journey to Oxon." and This group of poems is followed by a short verse and the note: "Stephen Simpson and Miss Sarah Leaper were married in St. Werburgh's by the Revd. Mr. Hope on the 27th of June 1776." The volume concludes with "Edwin," signed and dated "21 April 74."
- Description:
- Front flyleaf signed, "Ste. Simpson.", Spine title reads "Poems.", and Binding: contemporary (?) full calf; banded and gilt-stamped spine. Red morocco label.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain., Great Britain, and Coventry (England)
- Subject (Topic):
- English poetry, Occasional verse, English, Weavers, Working class, Books and reading, and Intellectual life
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > MS being a choice farrago of new poems lately collected from the papers of that wonder-worker S. Simpson of Coventry, Weaver....in his garret in the High Street, 1773 Jul 10.
3.
- Creator:
- Jean, Marcel, 1900-1993
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS 1599
- Container / Volume:
- Box 2
- Image Count:
- 748
- Abstract:
- Collection of four scrapbooks compiled by Marcel Jean between 1921 and 1940 containing over 150 tracts, exhibit catalogs, letters, advertisements, subscription forms, invitation cards, and other ephemera documenting Surrealism in France, Belgium, and other locations. Includes printed, typescript, and manuscript material relating to Surrealist exhibitions, publications, and political activity, including tracts on the Spanish Civil War and fascism. Printed ephemera feature artists and writers such as Salvador Dalí, Man Ray, Tristan Tzara, René Char, and André Breton. Correspondence includes letters from Georges Bataille, Henri Pastoureau, Remedios Varo, Sheila Legge, Wolfgang Paalen, Eduardo Westerdahl and others to Jean, 1935-1939. Contains one photograph of Benjamin Péret and Jean at Léo Malet's house, 1935 and Volume 1: 1921-1934. Volume 2: 1935-1936. Volume 3: 1937-1939. Volume 4: supplement, 1926-1940
- Description:
- Marcel Jean (1900-1993), French artist, member of the Paris Surrealist group and author of numerous publications on Surrealism., Largely in French., and Each volume includes original endpapers created by Marcel Jean with ex-libris and autograph list of contents.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Belgium., France., Belgium, France, and Spain
- Subject (Name):
- Bataille, Georges, 1897-1962., Breton, André, 1896-1966., Char, René, 1907-1988., Dalí, Salvador, 1904-1989., Jean, Marcel, 1900-1993., Jean, Marcel, 1900-1993, Legge, Sheila, 1911-1949., Man Ray, 1890-1976., Paalen, Wolfgang, 1907-1959., Pastoureau, Henri., Péret, Benjamin, 1899-1959, Tzara, Tristan, 1896-1963., Varo, Remedios, 1908-1963., and Westerdahl, Eduardo.
- Subject (Topic):
- Surrealism, Surrealism (Literature), Surrealist artists, Intellectual life, History, and Foreign public opinion
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Marcel Jean scrapbooks, 1921-1940
4.
- Creator:
- Pike, Sarah North, 1666-1716
- Call Number:
- OSB MSS 227
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 306
- Abstract:
- Autograph manuscript arithmetic notebook by Sarah North Pike, 1686, annotated with Pike family records, 1695-1771; and 18 birth certificates for members of the Pike family, printed forms completed in manuscript, dated at Cork, 1724-1776. Arithmetic notes include instructions and practice examples for addition, subtraction, multiplication, reduction, weights and measures, the golden ratio, and barter; calligraphic writing and drawings in colored inks; and brief references to the Sarah North Pike, her teacher Elizabeth Beane, and the North family. Birth certificates and family records document births, marriages, and deaths of children born to Sarah North Pike, 1695-1707, Agnes Riggs Pike, 1721-1723, Mary Randall Pike, 1723-1744, Anne Clibbon Pike, 1766-1771, and Katherine Hutchinson Pike, 1776. Birth certificates are signed by midwives, including male midwives, 1768-1776
- Description:
- Sarah North Pike (1666-1716) was a daughter of Mary North and Thomas North, of Lewin’s Mead, in Bristol, England. Sarah North married Thomas Pope in 1687; in 1693 she married Ebenezer Pike (1662-1724), of Cork, Ireland, a son of Elizabeth Jackson Pike (1636-1688) and Richard Pike (1627-1688). In 1720, Ebenezer Pike married Agnes Riggs Pike (circa 1690-1723). Children of Sarah North Pike and Ebenezer Pike included Richard Pike (1696-1763), who married Mary Randall Pike (1699-1775) in 1722; their children included Ebenezer Pike (1724-1785), who married Anne Clibbon Pike (1730-1801) in 1765, and Samuel Pike (1726-1796), who married Katherine Hutchinson Pike (1744-1813) in 1769. Members of the Pike family were Quakers and were active as merchants and bankers in Cork, where members of the family founded Pike’s Bank and the Cork Steamship Company., In English., Title page of arithmetic notebook: Sarah North her book, scholler to Eliz Beane, Mrs in the art of writing and arithmetic, anno 1686., and Binding of arithmetic notebook: full calf with gold-tooled covers and spine, page edges gilt, and marbled end papers.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Ireland, Cork, and Cork (Ireland)
- Subject (Name):
- Beane, Elizabeth., Pike, Agnes Riggs, approximately 1690-1723., Pike, Anne Clibbon, 1730-1801., Pike, Ebenezer, 1662-1724., Pike, Ebenezer, 1724-1785., Pike, Katherine Hutchinson, 1744-1813., Pike, Mary Randall, 1699-1775., Pike, Richard, 1696-1763., Pike, Samuel, 1726-1796., Pike, Sarah North, 1666-1716., and Pike family.
- Subject (Topic):
- Arithmetic, Study and teaching, Calligraphy, Midwifery, Midwives, Penmanship, English, Quakers, Women, Education, Women midwives, Weights and measures, Intellectual life, and Social life and customs
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sarah North Pike arithmetic notebook and Pike family records, 1686-1776
5.
- Creator:
- Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946
- Published / Created:
- c1933 (1934 printing)
- Call Number:
- Za W6453 Zz933S
- Image Count:
- 17
- Resource Type:
- text
- Description:
- BEIN Za St34 933A copy 5: Autograph of Norman Holmes Pearson., BEIN Za W6453 Zz933S: Ms. notes of Thornton Wilder. From the Thornton Wilder Papers., "Third printing, October 1934"--T.p. verso., and The life of Gertrude Stein written by herself as though it were the autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.
- Publisher:
- Harcourt, Brace and Company
- Subject (Geographic):
- Paris (France)
- Subject (Name):
- Toklas, Alice B.
- Subject (Topic):
- Intellectual life
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
6.
- Creator:
- Kerr, Christian, 1679- .
- Call Number:
- Osborn c102
- Image Count:
- 242
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection primarily of arithmetic problems and conversion tables interspersed with a large number of verses, both satirical and sentimental, on such subjects as marriage, the sexes, love, and friendship. The collection includes directions for addition, subtraction, multiplcation, and division; tables of weights and measures; and directions for calculating the number of minutes in years. Many of the poems are occasional, including two addressed to Mrs. Christian Kerr on her birthday and two to Mr Kerr of Chatto on his 71st birthday. The volume also contains several further entries concerning the Kerrs' neighborhood, including a copy of "a circular advertisement for the Douffs in Kelso district, the consecration of the yew at Sunlaws." The collection also contains brief journal entries on significant events, including a murder, a burnt house, and memoranda on wages paid and Dos-a-dos, the volume contains more arithmetic problems; financial accounts; household inventories; lists of books in her possession; and a list of expenses concerning her legal "affair with Hardon beginning 1727."
- Description:
- Christian Kerr, Lady of Chatto and Sunlaws, was the daughter of William Kerr of Chatto and Sunlaws, and inherited her father's estates in preference to her brother. She married her cousin, Charles Kerr, but left no children. In 1759, she entailed the estates of Chatto and Sunlaws on William Scott of Thirlestain., In English., Laid in: copy of a letter, in the same hand, concerning business and family matters., The manuscript contains several crude drawings, especially of faces., On back flyleaf: "William Kerr," "Mrs. Christian Kerr Her Arithmetick Boock.", Author's name on decorated flyleaf. Her name also appears on p. 83, again decorated., and Binding: full parchment; leather ties. Handwritten financial account written on back cover.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain., England, Great Britain, Great Britain, and Kelso (Scotland)
- Subject (Name):
- Chatto and Sunlaws, Christian Kerr, Lady. and Kerr family.
- Subject (Topic):
- Accounts, Arithmetic, Study and teaching, English poetry, Households, Inventories, Occasional verse, English, Private libraries, Sentimentalism in literature, Verse satire, English, Women authors, Intellectual life, and Social life and customs
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Commonplace book], 1716-1730
7.
- Call Number:
- Osborn b65
- Image Count:
- 323
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, containing extracts from philosophical, religious, and historical works; sermons; and numerous verses, both philosophical and satirical. The volume contains extracts from Thomas Aquinas; Fuller's History of the Holy War; Livy's History; Godwin's Catalogue of the Bishops of England; Jeremy Taylor's Exercises of Holy Living; and Reynold's God's Revenge Against Murder. Satirical verses include a copy of Thomas Randolph "Salting," which satirizes Randolph's contemporaries under the figure of dishes at a feast, as well as A Poet's Farewell To His Threadbare Cloake. The volume also contains such contemplative poems as Musarum Lachrymae; Ruines of Time; and Mr. Austin's Sepulcrum Domus Mea Est; and a list of English words and their Latin translations
- Description:
- In English and Latin., See Modern Philology, vol. 39, 1942 and English Literary Renaissance, vol. 12, no. 1, 1982., and Binding: full sheep; remains of metal clasps.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661., Godwin, Francis, 1562-1633., Livy., Randolph, Thomas, 1605-1635., Reynolds, John, fl. 1621-1650., Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667., and Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.
- Subject (Topic):
- Elegiac poetry, English, English poetry, Religious literature, English, Religious poetry, English, Sermons, English, Verse satire, English, Intellectual life, and Religious life and customs
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Commonplace book], [ca. 1630].
8.
- Creator:
- Meghen, Peter, scribe
- Published / Created:
- 1502.
- Call Number:
- Osborn a50
- Image Count:
- 300
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, containing copies of several treatises: 1) Tractatus de Sacramento Corpus Christi, by Baldwin, Archbishop of Canterbury (ff. 1-26); 2) De Vero Sapientia, Dialogus I and II, attributed here to Petrarch (now believed to be by Nicholas of Cusa) (ff. 27-50v); 3) De Invidia, Niccolò Perotti's translation of a sermon by Basil the Great, with a preface addressed to Pope Nicholas V (ff. 51-63); 4) De invidia et odio, Niccolò Perotti's translation of a work by Petrarch, with a preface addressed to Pope Nicholas V (ff. 63v-68v); 5) De fortuna virtute ve nominum: ad Nicolaum quintum pontificem maximum, by Niccolò Perotti (69-73v); 6) Epistle LXVII to Simplician, by St. Ambrose (ff. 74-79v); 7) Ex sermonibus quadragesimalibus: Sermone de correctione fraterna, by Leonardo di Utino, O.P. (80-86v); 8) Speculum regis Edwardii tercii, attributed here to Simon Islip, Archbishop of Canterbury (now recognized as the work of William Pagula) (ff. 87-148, with skip from 89 to 100); 9) De tenenda obedientia et evitanda superbia, by St. Augustine (ff. 148-152).
- Description:
- Peter Meghen (d. 1537), of 's-Hertogenbosch in Brabant; scribe who copied works for several English clients, including Christopher Urswick and John Colet, and served as a courier for Erasmus and Sir Thomas More. Meghen's other patrons included Cardinal Wolsey, and he became Writer of the King's Books in the 1520s and served until his death in 1537. His nickname, "Cyclops," referred to his having only one eye., In Latin., In a humanistic script., Original foliation in red, from i to clii, skips from lxxix to c., Rubrics and foliation in red. Historiated initial and full-page border on ff 1v.; seven large and twenty-two small illuminated initials, all in a Northern Netherlandish style ("Masters of the Dark Eyes")., Colophon (ff. 142v) in red states that the manuscript was written for Christopher Urswick by "Petrus Meghen monoculus.", Spine label: Vrsyke de sacra: euch:. Spine date at foot: MCCCCCII., and Binding: 19 century full paneled brown calf, blind-stamped. Five-compartmented spine.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., England, and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Meghen, Peter,, Nicholas V, Pope, 1397-1455., and Urswick, Christopher, 1448?-1522.
- Subject (Topic):
- Conduct of life, Envy, Kings and rulers, Duties, Lord's Supper, Sermons, Wisdom, Manuscripts, Medieval, Economic conditions, Intellectual life, and Politics and government
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Moral and theological treatises copied for Christopher Urswick].
