Manuscript roll, on parchment, in a single hand, of a collection of Middle English and Latin prayers. Reverse of roll contains horizontal inscription suggesting that the item may have been intended as a birth girdle
Description:
In Middle English and Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, English (Middle), English literature, English poetry, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Prayers, Medieval
Manuscript on paper of 1) Thomas Hoccleve, Complaint. 2) Hoccleve, Dialogue with a Friend. 3) Hoccleve, Tale of Jereslaus' Wife. 4) Prose moralization of the text in art. 3, preceded by a prologue in verse. 5) Hoccleve, How to Learn to Die. 6) Hocclev...
Description:
In Middle English.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Hoccleve, Thomas, 1370?-1450?
Subject (Topic):
English literature, English poetry, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper in a neat bookhand of 57 devotional poems written in celebration of the feasts of the Roman Catholic Church from Trinity Sunday to the close of the Time after Pentecost. The volume opens with a 13 stanza poem, "For Trinitie Sunday,...
The funerary placard for Vincent Corbet, containing three elegies for Corbet: "Vincent Corbet, farther knowne/ By Pointer's name than by his owne", by Richard Corbet; "Ad ejusdem Manes" ("Aeterna requie jaces beatus") by John Selden; and "On the Same"...
Description:
Manuscript on vellum.
Subject (Name):
Corbet, Richard, 1582-1635., Corbet, Vincent, d. 1619., Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637., Selden, John, 1584-1654., and St. Mary's Church, Twickenham (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Elegaic poetry, English, Funeral decorations, English poetry, and Latin poetry
Manuscript, on paper, in English cursive bookhand, produced in England during the years 1595-1622. The text is a devotional poem in five books, dedicated to Lady Viscount Hereford and dated January 1, 1595. It is bound with the commonplace book of Nic...
Description:
Peter Mowle seems to have had the job of copying and circulating the works of Catholic writers (including himself) to the chief Catholic families of the day.
Manuscript, in Walpole's hand, of a brief autobiography from the date of his birth to his activities in 1779. He begins with information about his childhood, including his godparents, the date of his innoculation against smallpox, and his education; ...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771., Hume, David, 1711-1776., Voltaire, 1694-1778., Walpole family., Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797., Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745., Great Britain. Parliament., and Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Autobiographies (literary genre), English literature, English poetry, Nobility, and Social life and customs
