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28. [Commonplace book], [ca. 1650-1725].
- Creator:
- Hale, John
- Call Number:
- Osborn b104
- Image Count:
- 2
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, of about 58 verse and prose pieces. Most of the poems concern love, including An Amorous Catch; Solicitation to a Married Woman; and Ben Jonson's In Defence of Women's Inconstancy. Other verses include The Tragedy of Mr. Christopher Love, rendered in five acts; and Roger L'Estrange's Loyalty Confined. The volume also contains several instructional prose texts, including Directions for Right Writing; Directions for Making Latine More Elegant or Pure; and An Introduction to Philosophy; as well as epigrammatic notes "collected out of Mr. James Howell's letters"; a letter titled "News out of Scotland by way of Letter the Author unknowne;" and "An imitation of Mr. Cleveland's letter of thanks sent to my Lord Westmorland who was pleased to send him an elegant paper in commendation of his poetry."
- Description:
- 31 pages at the beginning and end of the volume contain various accounts of payments received and made for various goods and services, including medicines, physicians' visits, hats, wool, and paper. This section also includes a list of names and birthdates for the writer's 9 children, and the date of the death of his wife, "7th of Nov. 1725.", Binding: full sheep., and On spine: "John Hale."
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain--Religious life and customs--17th century and Scotland--Description and travel
- Subject (Name):
- Cleveland, John,--1613-1658, Hale, John, Howell, James,--1594?-1666, Jonson, Ben,--1573?-1637, L'Estrange, Roger,--Sir,--1616-1704, and Love, Christopher,--1618-1651
- Subject (Topic):
- Accounting, English poetry--17th century, Epigrams, Epitaphs, Glees, catches, rounds, etc, Occasional verse, English, and Religious poetry, English
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Commonplace book], [ca. 1650-1725].
29. [Commonplace book], [ca. 1651-1653].
- Creator:
- W. S
- Call Number:
- Osborn b230
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, containing about 43 entries including religious meditations; Biblical notes; religious poems and verse paraphrases on Biblical subjects; sermon extracts; a play titled "The Tragedye of Jepthas daughter;" a treatise on dueling "according to the unjustifiable Custome of this age by a true Lover of honnour;" and a collection of medicinal recipes. Elsewhere, a brief description of "the nature of the irish, who are cal'd naturall Irishe, out of Campion's History" is annotated, "This being a booke of Commmon place this comes not out of order." The volume begins with a letter addressed to the author's son, in which the author describes the contents of this manuscript as "the fruits of my solitude whilst under restraint" as a royalist prisoner at Exeter, ca. 1651-53.
- Description:
- Binding: full sheep., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., In English., Pasted into front cover: newspaper clipping which describes the manuscript., and Phillipps MS 18904.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain--Politics and government--1642-1660 and Great Britain--Religious life and customs--17th century
- Subject (Name):
- Campion, Edmund,--Saint,--1540-1581
- Subject (Topic):
- Dueling--Great Britain, English drama--17th century, English poetry--17th century, Medicine, Popular, Medicine--15th-18th cent, Meditations (Religious), Religious poetry, English, and Sermons, English--17th century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Commonplace book], [ca. 1651-1653].
30. [Commonplace book], [late 17th century].
- Published / Created:
- [late 17th century].
- Call Number:
- Osborn b213
- Image Count:
- 4
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in multiple hands, of a collection of several dozen secular and lighthearted poems, primarily on the subject of love, though a few poems concern drinking and tobacco. The manuscript contains numerous love poems by Sir John Suckling and Thomas Carew; other poets in the volume include Sir Robert Ayton, John Wilbye, and John Fletcher. An anonymous poem consists of a pastoral dialogue between Phyllis and Strephon; several are addressed to Chloris; and numerous others are set to the tunes of other songs.
- Description:
- Binding: full sheep.
- Subject (Name):
- Ayton, Robert,--Sir,--1570-1638, Carew, Thomas,--1595?-1639?, Suckling, John,--Sir,--1609-1642, and Wilbye, John,--1574-1638
- Subject (Topic):
- English poetry--17th century, Love poetry, English--17th century, Pastoral poetry, English, and Songs, English--17th century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Commonplace book], [late 17th century].
31. [Order and disorder: or, the world made and undone, being meditations upon the creation and fall, as it is recorded in the beginning of Genesis], [ca. 1664-1679].
- Creator:
- Hutchinson, Lucy, 1620-
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1664-1679]
- Call Number:
- Osborn fb100
- Image Count:
- 326
- Subject (Name):
- Apsley, Allen, Sir, 1616-1683 and Hutchinson, Lucy, 1620-
- Subject (Topic):
- English literature--17th century, English poetry--17th century, Religious literature, Religious poetry, English, and Women authors
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Order and disorder: or, the world made and undone, being meditations upon the creation and fall, as it is recorded in the beginning of Genesis], [ca. 1664-1679].
32. [Poems, with a few prose problemes]
- Creator:
- Donne, John, 1572-1631
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1620].
- Call Number:
- Osborn b114
- Image Count:
- 322
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Foliation errors throughout. and Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of a collection of 33 of Donne's poems and several of his other writings. The poems include Catholicism-inflected poems "A Lettanie" and "A Sonnett On the blessed Virgin Marie," as well as "Satira Prima" through "Satira Sexta," selections from his elegies, "The Flea," "Diamond in Glass" ["A Valediction of My Name, in the Window"], and sets of "Canzons," "Canzonettes," and "Airs and Angles." Other writings include several satirical prose "Problemes" such as "Why doe women delight so much in feathers" and "Why doth not gold soyle the fingers" and a copy of a letter by Donne to the Countess of Bedford accompanied by the poem "Obsequies on the Lord Harrington brother to the Countess of Bedford."
- Description:
- Binding: parchment. and For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church--England
- Subject (Topic):
- Elegiac poetry., English literature--17th century, English poetry--17th century, Metaphysics--Poetry, Religious poetry, and Verse satire, English
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Poems, with a few prose problemes]
33. [Poems]
- Creator:
- Wharton, Anne, 1632?-1685
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1700?]
- Call Number:
- Osborn b408
- Image Count:
- 6
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, in a single bookhand, of twenty-four poems by Anne Wharton and one by Edmund Waller. Texts include ""The Lamentations of Jeremiah"" and other Biblical paraphrases, as well as paraphrases of poems by Ovid, Virgil and Boileau; ""To Melpome
- Description:
- Several pages following the poem texts are headed with poem titles but are otherwise blank.
- Subject (Topic):
- English poetry --17th century, English poetry--17th century, Occasional verse, English, Religious poetry, English--17th century, and Women authors.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Poems]
34. [Poems], [mid 17th century]
- Creator:
- Cavendish, Jane, Lady
- Published / Created:
- [mid 17th century]
- Call Number:
- Osborn b233
- Image Count:
- 32
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of 78 poems by Jane Cavendish. Many are addressed to family members, including one titled "On my sweete brother Charles," another called "On my Noble Uncle Sr Charles Cavendish Knight," and several to her father, as well as others addressed to her sisters, mother, grandparents, and the King and Queen. There are also poems on passion, the "chamber-mayde," and "A noble lady." The manuscript includes a poetic dialogue by her sister, Lady Elizabeth Brackley Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater, titled "A Pastorall," with a cast of witches, country wives, and shepherds, and which is preceded by a verse dedication to their father, William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle. The manuscript as a whole is prefaced by a dedication by Jane Cavendish to him.
- Description:
- Binding: full black morocco; gilt decoration.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England--Social life and customs--17th century
- Subject (Name):
- Cavendish family, Cheiney, Jane Cavendish, Lady, Egerton, Elizabeth Cavendish, 1626-1663, and Newcastle, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1592-1676
- Subject (Topic):
- English literature--17th century, English poetry--17th century, English poetry--Women authors, and Nobility--Great Britain
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Poems], [mid 17th century]
