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- Creator:
- Selden, John, 1584-1654
- Published / Created:
- [late 17th century]
- Call Number:
- Osborn b102
- Image Count:
- 94
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, consisting of aphorisms, axioms, and pithy commentary on such subjects as "Wisdom, "Money," "Retalliation," and "Parliament." Concerning "Popery," the author writes, "We charge the prelaticall clergy with the popery to make them odious tho we know they are guilty of no such thing. Just as heretofore they called Images Mammetts and the adoration of Images Mammetry, that is Mahomet & Mahometry odious names, when all the world knows the Turks are forbidden Images by their Religion."
- Description:
- Binding: stitched, loose in Middle Hill boards., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., Note in same hand on first page: "Out of a manuscript called the discourse of Mr. Selden lent by the Earl of Arlington to Sir Robert Jenkinson.", Pasted in: inside front cover, dealer's description of manuscript, "said by T. F. Fenwick to be in the hand of Edward Southwell, and perhaps copied by him as a boy before the first (posthumous) publication of the 'Table Talk' in 1689.", and Phillips, Ms. 10149.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain--Politics and government--1603-1649
- Subject (Name):
- Selden, John,--1584-1654--Table-talk and Southwell, Edward,--1671-1730
- Subject (Topic):
- Aphorisms and apothegms--17th century, Conduct of life--17th century, and Conduct of life--Quotations, maxims, etc
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Table talk
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- Creator:
- Selden, John, 1584-1654
- Published / Created:
- [17th century]
- Call Number:
- Osborn b300
- Image Count:
- 174
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, consisting of aphorisms, axioms, and pithy commentary on such subjects as "Wisdom, "Money," "Retalliation," and "Parliament." Prefaced by a dedication to Lord Chief Justice Matthew Hale, Edward Heywood, John Vaughan, and Rowland Jenkes, signed by Selden's secretary Richard Milward, who "had the opportunity to hear his discourse twenty years together."
- Description:
- 9 preliminary leaves, front and back, some lined but otherwise blank, not digitized., Armorial bookplate of Hugh Cecil Earl of Lonsdale., Binding: contemporary full leather., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., and Includes alphabetized table of contents.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain--Politics and government--1603-1649 and Great Britain--Religious life and customs
- Subject (Name):
- Hale, Matthew,--Sir,--1609-1676, Lowther, Hugh Cecil, Earl of Lonsdale--Bookplate, Milward, Ri.--(Richard),--1609-1680, and Selden, John,--1584-1654--Table-talk
- Subject (Topic):
- Aphorisms and apothegms--17th century, Conduct of life--17th century, and Conduct of life--Quotations, maxims, etc
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Table-talk]
