Pembroke, Anne Clifford Herbert, Countess of, 1590-1676
Published / Created:
1600-1602.
Call Number:
Osborn b27
Image Count:
86
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper, in a single secretary hand, of personal accounts on behalf of Lady Anne Clifford. The manuscript records gifts from various sources, such as gold "geven by my Lady of Warwick to my La. Anne at the court," and money allowed by her...
Description:
Binding: limp parchment.
Subject (Geographic):
England--Social life and customs
Subject (Topic):
Account books, Accounting, Maxims, Nobility--England, Women--Conduct of life, and Women--Social life and customs
Manuscript on paper, in a single mixed hand, containing a copy of an edition of William Penn's Some Fruits of Solitude. This version has 467 numbered precepts, aphorisms, and moral observations
Alternative Title:
Some fruits of solitude, in reflections and maxims relating to the conduct of human life
Description:
Six additional aphorisms, numbered 468-473, added at the end of the text in a later hand.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Penn, William, 1644-1718.
Subject (Topic):
Aphorisms and apothegms, Christian life, Conduct of life, Maxims, Military art and science, and Quakers
Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of this collection of lives of saints, Biblical figures, and political persons in recent European history, as well as portraits of ideal figures such as "The Good Wife," "The Good Husband," and "The Handicrafts M...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Name):
Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661. and Phillips, John, 1631-1706.
Subject (Topic):
Biography, Characters and characteristics, English poetry, Ethics, and Maxims
Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, containing brief quotations and maxims on approximately 500 primarily moral and philosophical subjects, arranged alphabetically under Latin headings. Sample headings include Ars, Consilio, Deus, Felicitas, Ingrat...
Description:
Imperfect: errors in pagination; pages 336-339 wanting.
Subject (Geographic):
Europe --Politics and government, Great Britain --Intellectual life --17th century, and Great Britain --Religious life and customs --17th century
Attributed to Horace Walpole in the British Museum catalogue. Now known not to have been created by Walpole or printed at Strawberry Hill. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of Horace Walpole, page 173 and his Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press, pag...
