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Campion, Edmund, Saint, 1540-1581. Commonplace book with many extracts from sixteenth century Latin authors, compiled ca. 1600.

Title: Commonplace book with many extracts from sixteenth century Latin authors, compiled ca. 1600.

Part I includes extracts from or notes on: Petrarch's Remediis utriusque fortunae; Justus Lipsius' letter to Abraham Ortelius, his Amphitheatrum and Epistolica institutio; Lodowick Lloyd's The tragicocomedie of serpents, 1607; speeches of Cooke, 1582, [Simon] Tripp, Thomas Doch -- possibly the Thomas Dochen of Magdalen College Oxford (on the death of Robert Onslow), Tobie Matthew (on the visit of Robert Dudley to Oxford, September 5, 1570), Elizabeth (at Oxford, 1566, and Cambridge), and Campion (before Elizabeth at Oxford, 1566 and his sermon on the death of Sir Thomas White, 1567). Also a poem on the seven liberal arts. Part I headings are letters of the alphabet. Part II includes notes on: Brentius, Marc Antoine Muret's Orationes and Epistolae, Aulus Gellius' Noctes Atticae, and a letter to Queen Elizabeth. Also a poem. Part II does not include headings.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. ; 19 x 14 cm.

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Slavery Collection, 1709-1899

Title: Slavery Collection 1709-1899

The Slavery Collection contains correspondence and legal and financial documents related to the North American slave trade, slave ownership, abolition, and political issues pertinent to slavery. Note that the Slavery Collection materials have been digitized and can be found here.

ArchivalResource: 2.75 Linear feet; (7 boxes)

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Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637. Collection of dramatic and poetical works, compiled ca. 1600-1620 [microfilm].

Title: Collection of dramatic and poetical works, compiled ca. 1600-1620 [microfilm].

Contains a compilation of plays, poems, epigrams, sermons and discourses ranging in dates from 1567 to 1620, with each work written in a different hand. Plays include: Antitamicamicategoria / by Andrews Melville, 1604 (v.1, leaves 2-5); Boot and spur, ca. 1615 (v. 2, leaves 19-23); Risus Anglicanus, 1614-1618 (v. 3, leaves 24-43v); A Christmas Messe, 1619 (v. 9, leaves 105-115v); Heteroclitanomalonomia, 1613 (v. 10, leaves 119-133); Periander / by John Sansbury, 1608 (v. 11, leaves 134-157v); Christmas his showe, an abridgment of Ben Jonson's play, Christmas his Masque, 1615 (v. 13, leaves 168-174v); Gigantomachia, or, Work for Jupiter, ca. 1615 (v. 15, leaves 186-200). Poems include: Iter boreale / by Richard Eedes, ca. 1584 (v. 7, leaves 83-91v); Secundum iter boreale / by Richard Corbet, ca. 1620 (v. 8, leaves 93-99v); Convivium Philosophicum, about a festive gathering, 1611 (v. 15, leaf 183) and an untitled English version attributed to John Reynolds (v. 15, leaf 184). Other works include: Musae responsoriae, Latin epigrams / by George Herbert, 1620-1622 (v. 1, leaves 7-17v); Funeral sermon of Thomas White / by Edmund Campion, (v. 4, leaves 44-46); Oneirologia, or, A briefe discourse of the nature of dreames / by Richard Haydock, 1605 (v. 5, leaves 47-63); Reasons for a subsidy attributed to Dr. Andrew Willet, 1617 (v. 6, leaves 71-80v); Especiall notes concerning her Majesties Navie, attributed to Sir Walter Raleigh, [possible early version of "Excellent observations and notes, concerning the Royal Navy." First published in Judicious and selected essays / by H. Moseley, 1650, (see Modern Philology, 85, no. 1 (August 1987), 12-26)] (v. 12, leaves 161-165v); A discourse touching a marriage between Prince Henry of England and a daughter of Savoye / [by Sir Walter Raleigh], ca. 1611 (v. 14, leaves 175-182v); Urbium Italicarum descriptio Thomas Edwardi Angli, [differs from version published in Adrianus Romanus' Parvum Theatrum Urbium, 1595] (v. 15, leaf 185). Also includes several pencil drawings, and a note in shorthand.

ArchivalResource: 15 v. in 1 box : ill.

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Willet, Andrew, 1562-1621. Collection of dramatic and poetical works, compiled ca. 1600-1620.

Title: Collection of dramatic and poetical works, compiled ca. 1600-1620.

Contains a compilation of plays, poems, epigrams, sermons and discourses ranging in dates from 1567 to 1620, with each work written in a different hand. Plays include: Antitamicamicategoria / by Andrews Melville, 1604 (v.1, leaves 2-5); Boot and spur, ca. 1615 (v. 2, leaves 19-23); Risus Anglicanus, 1614-1618 (v. 3, leaves 24-43v); A Christmas Messe, 1619 (v. 9, leaves 105-115v); Heteroclitanomalonomia, 1613 (v. 10, leaves 119-133); Periander / by John Sansbury, 1608 (v. 11, leaves 134-157v); Christmas his showe, an abridgment of Ben Jonson's play, Christmas his Masque, 1615 (v. 13, leaves 168-174v); Gigantomachia, or, Work for Jupiter, ca. 1615 (v. 15, leaves 186-200). Poems include: Iter boreale / by Richard Eedes, ca. 1584 (v. 7, leaves 83-91v); Secundum iter boreale / by Richard Corbet, ca. 1620 (v. 8, leaves 93-99v); Convivium Philosophicum, about a festive gathering, 1611 (v. 15, leaf 183) and an untitled English version attributed to John Reynolds (v. 15, leaf 184). Other works include: Musae responsoriae, Latin epigrams / by George Herbert, 1620-1622 (v. 1, leaves 7-17v); Funeral sermon of Thomas White / by Edmund Campion, (v. 4, leaves 44-46); Oneirologia, or, A briefe discourse of the nature of dreames / by Richard Haydock, 1605 (v. 5, leaves 47-63); Reasons for a subsidy attributed to Dr. Andrew Willet, 1617 (v. 6, leaves 71-80v); Especiall notes concerning her Majesties Navie, attributed to Sir Walter Raleigh, [possible early version of "Excellent observations and notes, concerning the Royal Navy." First published in Judicious and selected essays / by H. Moseley, 1650, (see Modern Philology, 85, no. 1 (August 1987), 12-26)] (v. 12, leaves 161-165v); A discourse touching a marriage between Prince Henry of England and a daughter of Savoye / [by Sir Walter Raleigh], ca. 1611 (v. 14, leaves 175-182v); Urbium Italicarum descriptio Thomas Edwardi Angli, [differs from version published in Adrianus Romanus' Parvum Theatrum Urbium, 1595] (v. 15, leaf 185). Also includes several pencil drawings, and a note in shorthand.

ArchivalResource: 15 v. in 1 box : ill.

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