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73. [Scrapbook], 1832 Sep 22 [begun].
- Creator:
- Grimstone, Mary Leman (Rede)
- Call Number:
- Osborn fd56
- Image Count:
- 334
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in a multiple hands, of a collection of newspaper articles, prints, drawings, letters, and autobiographical text, primarily relating to Grimstone's published writing. The volume includes "my first prose [which] was the following letter inserted in the Polemical Inquirer. The Editors letter to me is on the oppposite side," numerous pieces of prose and verse which appeared in "The Ladies Monthly Museum" and "The Theatrical Inquisitor," and printed musical scores, of which she notes, "Part of my engagement with the proprietors of the Ladies Monthly museum, was to supply new words to the Irish melodies and other airs," as well as numerous business correspondence with editors and personal letters. The volume is prefaced by an introduction in which Grimstone gives an account of her recent "nervous disorder" during which she destroyed much of her writing. She declares, "My Own Scrap Book in which i mean to be as egotistical as I can and talk of nothing but myself, or what relates to myself. If I live to see the hundred and odd years, I am promised; I & this book shall like to converse together when perhaps few others will care to give me companionship. If I die early, then this book will be still a part of me remaining and speaking to those that loved me."
- Description:
- In English., Laid in at end: letters and scraps of paper with printed poems., Laid in at beginning: typed list of works attributed to Grimstone in the British Museum Catalogue., and Binding: half calf.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Grimstone, Mary Leman (Rede)
- Subject (Topic):
- English literature, English poetry, Letters, Music, Women authors, Women, Conduct of life, Periodicals, and Social life and customs
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Scrapbook], 1832 Sep 22 [begun].
74. [Songs], 1717
- Creator:
- Cuthbertson, George
- Call Number:
- Osborn c374
- Image Count:
- 200
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of about 17 original songs, many of them love songs, written in an interleaved copy of Rider's British Merlin, 1698. Titles include "The Deceitful Lover," "The scolding wife," and "Beauty's advocate or the Charms of beauty." The manuscript also includes numerous memoranda and accounts of receipts, primarily relating to copying legal papers. A memorandum dated May 8 1721 mentions the Mayor having "given consent to the players to have the Moothall for playing in."
- Description:
- In English., Several pages throughout are written in a different hand, some in pencil, which include crude drawings of owls, a strawberry, and a pot of flowers, a list of names including "Isabela Larmouth" whose name also appears on the flyleaf, and a partially obliterated short narrative about "a naughty boy who cryed.", Inscription on flyleaf: "George Cuthbertson. Sept. 13, 1717" and "Isbla Larmouth Lerneth.", Inscription on p. 4: "George Archibauld James.", Marbled endpapers., and Binding: full calf; blind-tooled decoration; remains of metal clasps.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Cuthbertson, George.
- Subject (Topic):
- Account books, English literature, English poetry, Love songs, Memorandums, and Songs, English
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Songs], 1717
75. [Verse and prose in Latin and Middle English].
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450-1475]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 94
- Image Count:
- 449
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on vellum and paper, in several hands, containing a collection of texts in Latin and Middle English. Almost two-thirds of the volume consists of an untitled collection of Latin sermons, followed by a Latin verse text, Stimulus compassionis. Middle English texts include The three kings of Cologne, a devotional work in prose; Prester John, a travel narrative; John Lydgate's Middle English poem Stans puer ad mensam; and the Middle English verses The myrour of mankind and The treatise of a gallant
- Description:
- In Latin and Middle English., Title devised by cataloger., Most of the volume is parchment; 15 leaves toward the end of the volume are paper., Bookseller's description tipped in at front of volume., Spine title in gilt: M. S. Vellum., Layout: single columns of 26-31 lines., Script: several English cursive bookhands (Anglicana and secretary)., Decoration: numerous initials in blue with red penwork., and Binding: early eighteenth-century sheep over pasteboards. Nineteenth-century green morocco case with spine title: Ancient English Poetry M. S.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451? and Prester John (Legendary character)
- Subject (Topic):
- Conduct of life, Devotional literature, English (Middle), English literature, English poetry, English prose literature, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sermons, Latin
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Verse and prose in Latin and Middle English].
