Pembroke, Anne Clifford Herbert, Countess of, 1590-1676
Published / Created:
1600-1602.
Call Number:
Osborn b27
Image Count:
86
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper, in a single secretary hand, of personal accounts on behalf of Lady Anne Clifford. The manuscript records gifts from various sources, such as gold "geven by my Lady of Warwick to my La. Anne at the court," and money allowed by her mother, Lady Cumberland, as well as its expenditure on clothes, charity, and play. Entries include sums "Given by my La. Anne for a reward to a poore woman that brought her Lap. apples & cakes," "for half a thousand of pynnes," "delivered to Mrs. Taylor for buying a white parchmt fanne for my Lady Anne," "geven by my Lady Anne to ii poore men in the fields," and "lost at cardes." The manuscript also records sums borrowed by Lady Anne, and the names of her creditors.
Description:
Binding: limp parchment., Dos-a-dos, two pages of pen trials and proverbs., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., and Signatures of Anne Clifford appear throughout the manuscript.
Subject (Geographic):
England--Social life and customs
Subject (Topic):
Account books, Accounting, Maxims, Nobility--England, Women--Conduct of life, and Women--Social life and customs
Dedicatory preface to "the right honourable my most deare mother the Lady Elizabeth Cope," offering her this volume as "speciall testimony of his duty." and Manuscript, on paper, in a single secretary hand of a travel narrative relating Cope's observations and experiences during an 18-month sojourn in France. Following some careful general notes on French geography and history, Cope details his journey to Paris, where he toured the principal cathedrals, palaces, public buildings and parks. He viewed the Carnival observances and attended services at the Jesuit church in St. Germain, hearing a sermon "against the protestant religion, and....cheifly against the English nation" which was also attended by "the English queene." Cope then traveled through Orleans to Saumur, where he lived and studied for a year. He calls it "a very little Citty....but one of the most agreeable in France" and carefully describes landscapes, gardens, bridges and buildings, the politeness of its citizens, and local pastimes such as golf, tennis and squittles [skittle]. He also took excursions to sites such as Richelieu's palace at Champigny, and lived for some months in Angers, which he found "stuffd with churches." Cope returned to England via Paris and Rotterdam.
Description:
Binding: contemporary full red morocco, decorated in gilt, with central gilt lozenges on both boards., Ex libris John Mordaunt Cope. Purchased from Arthur Freeman on the Hazel M. Osborn Fund, 2004., Shelf mark on front pastedown., and Sir John Cope was the third son of Sir John Cope of Hanwell by his second wife, Lady Elizabeth Fane, daughter of the Earl of Westmorland. He matriculated at Queen's College, Oxford in 1651; held a command at Dunkirk in 1662, and succeeded to the baronetcy in 1675. He married Anne Booth. Cope served as MP for Oxfordshire 1679-90, and for Banbury in 1699-1700. He died January 11, 1721 and was succeeded by his eldest son, also named John.
Subject (Geographic):
Angers (France)--Description and travel., France--Description and travel., Paris (France)--Description and travel., Saumur (France)--Description and travel., and Saumur (France)--Social life and customs.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Customs and practices., Cope, Elizabeth Fane,--Lady,--1610-1669., Cope, John Mordaunt,--Sir,--1732 or 33-1779--Bookplate., Cope, John,--Sir,--d. 1721., and Henrietta Maria,--Queen, consort of Charles I, King of England,--1609-1669.
Subject (Topic):
Carnival--France., Grand tours (Education), and Travelers' writings, English.
Manuscript on paper of a collection of writings by Paracelsus, speudonym of Aureolus Philippus Theophrastus Bombast ab Hohenheim, 1493-1541, compiled by the pharmacist Georgius Schrotter in 1676.
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth-century boards with rough calf back, worn, defective, and repaired, plain edges, probably an American binding., Mellon MS 159, acquired from Laurence Witten (bookseller), New Haven. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965., Script: Calligraphically written in a variety of scripts, most of the text in a skillful Fraktur, by a single hand except for a few later additions., Watermarks: Paper watermarked with a tall, thin pot with a single handle, plain and very crude, not identified., and Written in German with Latin headings and some cryptic writing. The ink, mostly very dark, has often bled into the paper and has sometimes had a corrosive effect.
Subject (Name):
Paracelsus,--1493-1541
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy--Early works to 1800 and Medicine--Early works
Manuscript notes of lectures by Tapping Reeve and James Gould, at the Litchfield Law School, taken between 1817 and 1818, by Josiah Houghton. and Reeve's lectures.
Description:
One (of three) volumes of lecture notes from Litchfield Law School.
Publisher:
Josiah Houghton
Subject (Name):
Litchfield Law School -- Students.
Subject (Topic):
Law -- Study and teaching -- Connecticut -- Litchfield. and Law students -- Connecticut -- Litchfield.
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of approximately 105 poems divided into "Miscellaneous Pieces," "Songs," "Cantatas," "Odes," Satirical Pieces," "Mock-Pieces relating to the Stage," and "Imitations." The first "Imitation" is a sonnet concerning an abortion scandal surrounding Mademoiselle de Guerchi in 1660, and is addressed in her voice to her aborted "embrio;" other poem titles include "An Ode, Inscrib'd to his grace the Duke of Buckingham, on his Embarking for France," "The paper Bonnets worn by Ladys," "On seeing lewd Women refus'd Admittance," "Fungus," "The poor & Rich Rogue," "Prologue to a Puppet-Show," and "The Shipwrack'd Sailors." The collection is prefaced by a dedication to Viscount Nessuno in the voice of an "orphan Muse" who writes, "should she beg your Lordship...to favour her with a corner of the Green-house in delightful Groves of Utopia; there to correct at Leisure, the numberless Reams she has scribbled within these twelve years: And should she afterwards implore your Lordship to assist the publication of her labours, by raising a handsom subscription among your friends for that purpose...she is certain your Lordship would not deny her one of them." Many additional poems, in a smaller hand and with numerous corrections, appear in the margins.
Description:
Additional poems, in a smaller hand and with numerous corrections, appear in the margins., Binding: full sueded calf., Laid in at the beginning of "Imitations": a piece of paper with an engraving in red ink., and Pasted onto pages at beginning at end: printed poems by Lockman, with handwritten corrections.
Subject (Name):
Lockman, John, 1698-1771
Subject (Topic):
English drama--18th century, English literature--18th century, English poetry--18th century, Epigrams, Occasional verse, English, and Verse satire, English
Manuscript notes of lecture by Tapping Reeve and James Gould, at the Litchfield Law School, taken between 1808 and 1809, by Ely Warner.
Description:
"A chronological chart of reporters of cases adjudged in the courts of law and equity in England"--volume 1, 4 preliminary leaves., Pages 459-542, volume 3, consist of reports of various courts from 1809-1814., Several blank leaves follow page 542 in volume 3, and are themselves followed by an index, unpaged., and Title page is in volume 3.
Manuscript notes of lecture by Tapping Reeve and James Gould, at the Litchfield Law School, taken between 1808 and 1809, by Ely Warner.
Description:
"A chronological chart of reporters of cases adjudged in the courts of law and equity in England"--volume 1, 4 preliminary leaves., Pages 459-542, volume 3, consist of reports of various courts from 1809-1814., Several blank leaves follow page 542 in volume 3, and are themselves followed by an index, unpaged., and Title page is in volume 3.
Manuscript notes of lecture by Tapping Reeve and James Gould, at the Litchfield Law School, taken between 1808 and 1809, by Ely Warner.
Description:
"A chronological chart of reporters of cases adjudged in the courts of law and equity in England"--volume 1, 4 preliminary leaves., Pages 459-542, volume 3, consist of reports of various courts from 1809-1814., Several blank leaves follow page 542 in volume 3, and are themselves followed by an index, unpaged., and Title page is in volume 3.
