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
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