Manuscript, in two hands, of a collection of about 100 word puzzles and riddles, many in verse. The word "fortune," for example, is represented by the following rhyme: "My first is a Preposition/My second a Composition/And the whole an Acquisition." ...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Name):
Peach, Miss.
Subject (Topic):
Charades, English literature, English poetry, Puzzles, Riddles, Women authors, and Word games
Manuscript on paper, in a single secretary hand, of a tour guide of Italy, including descriptions of notable sights as well as directions from "London to Rome as also from one Citie to another in all Ittaly." The text is organized by city, and "trans...
Description:
Phillipps MS 16427.
Subject (Geographic):
Italy
Subject (Name):
Bell, Henry, Captain.
Subject (Topic):
English poetry, Latin poetry, Travel, Description and travel, and Religious life and customs
Manuscript containing approximately 60 pieces, most of which are drafts of verses by Thomas Hull, some heavily revised, including verses in memory of his friend William Shenstone; "Address to Solitude, a Cantata"; "Irregular Ode Written in a Garden"; ...
Manuscript fragment on paper of extracts from Laudabile sanctum. There follows on ff. 1r-7v an extended series of longer and shorter alchemical recipes and procedures, probably including excerpts from standard sources, a passage on transmutation, a br...
Description:
In Latin and English.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy, English poetry, Formulas, recipes, etc, Latin poetry, Medieval and modern, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper, in a single cursive hand, of an English version of Manrique's biography of Sister Ana de Jesus, a companion of St. Teresa of Avila who also founded Carmelite convents in France and the Spanish Netherlands
Description:
Done out of French.
Subject (Geographic):
England. and Spain
Subject (Name):
Ana de Jesús, 1545-1621., Manrique, Angel, ca. 1577-1649., Teresa, of Avila, Saint, 1515-1582., Discalced Carmelite Nuns., and Discalced Carmelite Nuns
Subject (Topic):
Catholics, Christian saints, Counter-Reformation, Devotional literature, English, English poetry, Mysticism, Catholic Church, Women, and Religious life
Manuscript on paper of a common-place book. The main texts of the manuscript, which are primarily devotional in nature, were written in East Anglia by an unidentified scribe toward the end of the 15th century; a second individual, identified as Robert...
Description:
Robert Melton was the co-executor of the estate of John Cornwallis (d. 1506), Lord of the Manors of Brome, Stuston, Okley, and Thranston, whose family possessed Brome Hall from early in the 15th to the 19th century.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Melton, Robert.
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, English (Middle)., English poetry, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
