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Han, William. [Commonplace book], [ca. 1644-1707].

Title: [Commonplace book], [ca. 1644-1707].

Manuscript on paper, in several different hands, of a collection of about 69 poems and prose entries, primarily on philosophical, religious, and metaphysical subjects. Prose pieces in the volume include a copy of Ethica Compendium, by Johann Stier; and The Life of Richard Marsh D. D. Archdeacon of York Vicar of Halifax, and Chaplain to King Charles 2nd From a Manuscript Written By His Descendant. Verses include numerous poems by John Donne; Song To A Coy Lady by Alexander Brome; and other poems by Cowley, Thomas Otway, and Richard Fanshaw. Pasted in on p. 263 is a contemporary MS copy of a poem, "Rise oh my sone wth thy desires to heaven," which the writer attributes to Sir Henry Wotton. The manuscript also includes a list of Middle English words titled "A few words from Urry's Chaucer that seem to have furnished several English families with surnames."

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (279 p.) ; 16 x 10 cm.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882. Passages read by Henry D. Thoreau at the John Brown memorial meeting : autograph manuscript : [Concord, Mass.], [1859 Dec. 2].

Title: Passages read by Henry D. Thoreau at the John Brown memorial meeting : autograph manuscript : [Concord, Mass.], [1859 Dec. 2].

Passages transcribed by Emerson and read by Thoreau at the memorial service for the abolitionist John Brown held in Concord, Mass. on Dec. 2, 1859.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (12 p.) ; 25 cm.

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Wotton, Henry, Sir, 1568-1639. Copy of The parallel between Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, and George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, 1633? [manuscript], ca. 1635.

Title: Copy of The parallel between Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, and George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, 1633? [manuscript], ca. 1635.

ArchivalResource: 18 leaves ; 30 x 19 cm.

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Southwell, Robert, Sir, 1635-1702. [Commonplace book], [1653? and later].

Title: [Commonplace book], [1653? and later].

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, Ingratitudo, and Veritas. Under Passio, the author writes, "There is noe heat of Affection but is joyn'd with some Impotence of brain"; under Vita, the author lists "Lives of persons written," including "Of Cowley, by Dr. Sprot, Of Mr. Herbert, Dr. Donne, Sr. Henry Wotton, & Mr. Hooker by Mr. Isaac Walton." The volume also includes commentary on the popes; the derivation of the phrase "Hocus Pocus"; and notes about political figures in Europe.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (ca. 600 p.) ; 19 x 15 cm.

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Smith family. Poetical miscellany and commonplace book of the Smith family, compiled ca. 1620-ca. 1665.

Title: Poetical miscellany and commonplace book of the Smith family, compiled ca. 1620-ca. 1665.

Part I: chiefly poems arranged as a commonplace book with headings: Epitaphs Laudatory, Epitaphs Merry & Satirical, Love Sonnets, Panegyrics, Satires, Serious Poems (last one labeled but not used); probably by a student at Oxford. Includes poems by Donne, Raleigh, Corbet, Strode, St. Clive, Henry Wotton, an epitaph on Shakespeare by Basse (leaf 3v) and Shakespeare's epitaphs on Sir Thomas and Sir Edward Standly (leaf 8). (In same had as copy in Portland MS see William Shakespeare A textual companion, 457.) Part II: Exercise book of declamations, epistles and verse in English and Latin, many by Thomas Smith and a few by John Smith, ca. 1659-1661.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. ; 19 x 14 cm.

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Dede, Henry, fl. 1630-1631. Poetical miscellany, 1630-1631, 1637.

Title: Poetical miscellany, 1630-1631, 1637.

A collection of poems, many of them associated with Oxford, attributed, among others, to Sir Henry Wotton, Henry King, Raleigh, Donne and A.G. and including "Shakespeare upon the king" (p. 131) and an epitaph on Shakespeare (p. 57), ca. 1650. Also, leaves [1-40], Cases heard in the parish church of Yoxford, Suffolk before Henry Dede, and in that of Todden Those heard in Yoxford in 1630-1631, Todden in 1637.

ArchivalResource: [40], 172 p. ; 18 x 15 cm.

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Commonplace book [Oxford?], 1640.

Title: Commonplace book [Oxford?], 1640.

Manuscript on paper, in two hands, of a collection of ten pieces, several of them extracts, on religious and historical subjects. Theological entries include a prayer by Mr. Chappell; 3 sermons preached at Oxford colleges; an essay by John Yonge on Catholic controversy, dated 1640; and A view of ecclesiastical history...to this present yeare 1640. Historical entries include a set of notes titled A Compendium Leadeing To Prophane Historie; Naunton's Fragmenta Regalia, a description of Elizabeth I's court; and, in a different hand than the previous pieces, Sir Henry Wotton's Of Robert Devereux Earle of Essex and George Villiers Duke of Buckingham.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (178 p., including blanks) ; 30 x 20 cm.

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State Tracts and Speeches, c.1602-1650

Title: State Tracts and Speeches c.1602-1650

ArchivalResource: 2 volumes

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Wotton, Henry, Sir, 1568-1639. The parralell between Rob[ert] Devoreux, late Earle of Essex and George Villiers, late Duke of Buckingham : with certain worthie observations in the times of their estates & favoures in court worthie of noate and readinge : manuscript, [ca. 1641].

Title: The parralell between Rob[ert] Devoreux, late Earle of Essex and George Villiers, late Duke of Buckingham : with certain worthie observations in the times of their estates & favoures in court worthie of noate and readinge : manuscript, [ca. 1641].

Text, which varies from the 1641 edition, presumably precedes publication.

ArchivalResource: 20 leaves in a single quire ; 19 cm.

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Wotton, Henry, Sir. Tratados de arquitectura.

Title: Tratados de arquitectura. [ca. 1700]

Recopilación de textos de arquitectura, sin autor ni título, excepto los "Elementos de arquitectura" de Henry Wotton, traducidos al castellano en 1698 (h. 69-115).

ArchivalResource: 186 h. + XV lám. pleg. 22 x 16 cm.

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Shakespeare Society (Great Britain). Papers submitted to the Shakespeare Society for publication [manuscript], 1840-1849.

Title: Papers submitted to the Shakespeare Society for publication [manuscript], 1840-1849.

Papers submitted to the Council of the Shakespeare Society for publication. Some undated. Contents: (1) "Remarks on the portraits of Shakspere and the orthography of his name" by Caleb Rickman, London, Febry. 1840. (2) "John & Thomas Heywood confounded Period of the death of John Heywood" by Philo-Heywood (i.e. John Payne Collier), Oxford, Aug. 8, 1844. (3) Andrew Barton's (i.e. John Payne Collier) introduction to an unknown ballade on the story of King Lear, dated 18 November 1844 and accompanied by the ballad ("The tragical history of King Lear and his three daughters" with the first line "A certain great King once did rule o'er this land") (4) An extract on the "playerchambre" from the Glossary to Finchale Priory, with a note from Fra. Meco[vum?], Darlington, 26 April 184[9?]. (5) consists of commentary of passages from As you like it, All's well that ends well, The winter's tale, Henry IV Part 1, Richard II, and Henry V. (6) An article by B. Field on Sir Henry Wotton's poem "The character of a happy life." (7) Commentary on The play of Hengist, king of Kent, signed "J.O.H." (probably J.O. Halliwell-Phillipps). (8) "Ben Jonson and Aristophanes" by J. Hinton Baverstock. (9) "Shakespeare's imitators" by J. Hinton Baverstock.

ArchivalResource: 9 items ; 18 x 12 cm to 33 x 21 cm.

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Hunter, Joseph, 1783-1861. Remarks on the conduct of James Orchard Halliwell : autograph draft by Sir Thomas Phillipps, [ca. after 1847].

Title: Remarks on the conduct of James Orchard Halliwell : autograph draft by Sir Thomas Phillipps, [ca. after 1847].

Copy of a letter by the antiquary Joseph Hunter regarding the manuscript journal of English diplomat and poet, Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639), that Halliwell transcribed for publication by the Camden Society. Hunter relates that during the negociations for publication, it was determined that while Halliwell had maintained the manuscript to have been previously unknown, his transcript had been copied from the original manuscript sold at the sale of B.H. Bright's manuscripts at Sotheby's on 1844 June 18.

ArchivalResource: 1 manuscript (2 p.) ; 21 cm.

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Donne, John, 1572-1631,. Autograph letter signed from John Donne to Sir Henry Wotton [manuscript], 1625 July 12.

Title: Autograph letter signed from John Donne to Sir Henry Wotton [manuscript], 1625 July 12.

Donne offers to place a servant of Wotton's in an ecclesiastical living in return for the completion of the admission of Sir Robert More's son to Eton.

ArchivalResource: 2 leaves ; 30 x 19 cm.

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Wotton, Henry, Sir, 1568-1639. Of ye Springe : manuscript, [16--]

Title: Of ye Springe : manuscript, [16--]

Transcription in the hand of Izaak Walton of a poem published in Walton's Compleat angler.

ArchivalResource: 1 leaf ; 16 cm.

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Wotton, Henry, Sir, 1568-1639. Autograph document signed : [Venice], addressed to the Earl of Salisbury, [1605].

Title: Autograph document signed : [Venice], addressed to the Earl of Salisbury, [1605].

Requesting reimbursement of £200 pounds spent on postage, intelligence and secret services.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (8vo)

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Blackstone, William, Sir, 1723-1780. An Abridgement of Architecture, 1743.

Title: An Abridgement of Architecture, 1743.

The manuscript is an attempt by the youthful Blackstone to summarize all knowledge about architecture. The title page notes that his work is extracted chiefly from treatises by Henry Wotton, Roland Fréart, John Evelyn, James Gibbs and William Chambers. The text is divided systematically into 37 chapters, the relationship of each to all the others being shown in a diagram, "Analysis of the Abridgement," following the title page. This manuscript appears to represent a first complete draft (with numerous insertions and deletions). A fuller version of the study entitled "Elements of Architecture" (and dating from ca. 1747) exists in the Codrington Library, All Souls College, Oxford, mss. 333. In both cases, the scope and organization closely parallel the methods Blackstone employed in his later "Commentaries on the Laws of England." Included is a complete typescript of the text (dated 1910, apparently one of two made), commissioned by Archie Kirkman Lloyd, a previous owner of the manuscript. A folder contains research and provenance notes written by A.K. Lloyd's son, R.A. Lloyd, a page from a journal which mentions the sale of the Blackstone manuscript, receipts dated 1904 from the bookseller who sold the manuscript, and a printed portrait of Blackstone.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (51 leaves) & typescript copy (157 sheets), 1 folder of 8 items + (4 microfilm copies: master negaive, print negative and two use copies)

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Kremberg, Jakob, ca. 1650-1715. A farewell to the world. / The words made by the Honourable Sir H. W. Composed for one voice with a flute allemande or violin and a harpsichord by James Kremberg.

Title: A farewell to the world. / The words made by the Honourable Sir H. W. Composed for one voice with a flute allemande or violin and a harpsichord by James Kremberg. [ca. 1710]

Music manuscript, probably written in the hand of composer Jakob Kremberg, who came to England from Poland shortly after 1709. The first portion of the text of this solo cantata, beginning with "Farewell ye gilded follies" and ending with "But now I wish for neither" is taken from a poem in Izaak Walton's Compleat angler, where (in its 5th edition) it is suggested that "Sir Harry Wotton" may be the author. The second part of the text is not identified.

ArchivalResource: 8 p., bound ; 30 cm.

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Wotton, Henry, Sir, 1568-1639. Autograph letter signed : [London], to an unidentified recipient, 1604 Jun. 5.

Title: Autograph letter signed : [London], to an unidentified recipient, 1604 Jun. 5.

Noting his safe arrival in London, and accepting his correspondent's recommendation of a certain person as a traveling servant while he is abroad.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; (8vo)

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Carew, Thomas, 1595?-1639?. Commonplace book, [ca. 1660].

Title: Commonplace book, [ca. 1660].

A mixture of poetry and prose, compiled from many contemporary sources, with a wealth of epigrams and epitaphs. The manuscript is written on 108 pages in one hand, with short poems and quotations added laterally in the margins of many pages. From the fact that there appear several quotations from Wharton's almanacs of 1656 and 1657, it would seem that the book was compiled a short time after that. Many of the epigrams and epitaphs were copied, according to notes by the compiler, from manuscript books of friends named Hilton and Lee, and from the miscellanies, Wits Recreations and Wit and Drollery. Some of the poems are merely fragments of longer pieces, others are full texts. Among those identified are some by Ben Jonson, Thomas Carew, Thomas Randolph, and John Cleveland. The prose, like the verse, consists of mere quotations as well as longer passages and full letters. There are copies of letters by Sir Henry Wotton and by Cleveland.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (108 p.) ; 21 cm.

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King, Henry, 1592-1669. Poetical miscellany [manuscript], ca. 1630.

Title: Poetical miscellany [manuscript], ca. 1630.

Contents include poems, many with a Christchurch interest, by Strode, Herbert, Jonson, Wotton, Bacon, King, Donne, Corbet, Raleigh, Lapworth, King James, Shakespeare (e.g. on Sir John Coome, p. 232), some taken from Thomas Bastard's Chrestoleros and Sir John Harington's Epigrams, and some on Bacon, Sidney, Captain Drake's voyage, p. 52, Holyday's Technogamia, p. 131 and 140, Mary's execution, p. 103, the Armada, p. 164, as well as an epitaph on Shakespeare, p. 74; News out of Scotland, p. 37; William Segar's dedicatory letter to Elizabeth and his poem on the Blazon of papists, p. 96; a sermon on drunkenness, p. 180; the greater part of John Earle's Microcosmographie, p. 182 and several pharmaceutical recipes. Accompanied by a letter from Mrs. Hooper to Mr. and Mrs. Curteis, May 12, 1864.

ArchivalResource: vi, 315 p.

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Boswell's Life of Johnson : including Boswell's Journal of a tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a journey into North Wales, edited by George Birkbeck Hill, extra-illustrated, 1464-1897 (inclusive), 1724-1874 (bulk).

Title: Boswell's Life of Johnson : including Boswell's Journal of a tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a journey into North Wales, edited by George Birkbeck Hill, extra-illustrated, 1464-1897 (inclusive), 1724-1874 (bulk).

Printed books with hundreds of inserted manuscripts and prints relating to the text, compiled and bound by collector Robert Borthwick Adam.

ArchivalResource: 31 volumes (7.7 linear ft.)

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Donne, John, 1572-1631. Commonplace book: manuscript, [16--]

Title: Commonplace book: manuscript, [16--]

Poems, epigrams, and epistles, by Walter Raleigh, John Donne, Henry Wotton, Chidiock Tichborne, and others.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (155 leaves) ; 16 cm.

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Winwood, Ralph, Sir, 1563?-1617,. Autograph letter signed from Sir Ralph Winwood, Newmarket, to Christiaan Huygens, Secretary to the Council of the United Provinces [manuscript], 1614? February 25.

Title: Autograph letter signed from Sir Ralph Winwood, Newmarket, to Christiaan Huygens, Secretary to the Council of the United Provinces [manuscript], 1614? February 25.

Letter of introduction for the new ambassador to The Hague.

ArchivalResource: 2 leaves ; 27 x 19 cm.

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Wotton, Henry, sir, 1568-1639. [The State of Christendom]

Title: [The State of Christendom] [16--?]

Manuscript copy of Sir Henry Wotton's The state of Christendom. Written throughout in a neat secretary hand, the volume is in very bad physical shape, and the pages at the front of the volume are completely loose and possibly disordered. A 1926 letter from J.A. Herbert of the British Museum to a previous owner of this manuscript is also laid in the case with the volume.

ArchivalResource: 428, [10] leaves, bound ; 20.5 cm.

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Ayton, Robert, Sir, 1570-1638. Commonplace book, [ca. 1634].

Title: Commonplace book, [ca. 1634].

Poems by late 16th- and early 17th-century authors, ranging from love lyrics to commentary on current events. Contains four poems known to be by Robert Herrick and 18 more attributed to him; also poems by Thomas Carew (47), William Strode (25), Bishop Richard Corbet (11), Thomas Randolph (8), Bishop Henry King (7), Sir John Harington (6), Ben Jonson (5), John Donne, (4), Sir Walter Raleigh (3), Gervase Warmestry (3), Sir John Davies (2), William Browne (2), and one each of Henry Rainoldes, Samuel Rowlands, Sir Henry Wotton, William Drummond, Robert Browne, Thomas Bateson, Sir Thomas Jay, John Gill, James I, John Fletcher, John Taylor, Sir Francis Bacon, Sir Edward Dyer, Sir Robert Ayton, Samuel Daniel, Francis Beaumont, and Brian Duppa; and Shakespeare's sone "Take O take those lips away." On six pages at the end and on the inside of the front cover is an index. The compilation was made in a single hand, and not completed before 1633, since the latest datable text is an elegy to Gusavus Adolphus, whodied in that year.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (423 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122540732 View

Vere, Francis, Sir, 1560-1609. The Calis [Cadiz] journey, [ca. 1625].

Title: The Calis [Cadiz] journey, [ca. 1625].

Manuscript on paper, in a single secretary hand, describing England's military and naval activities in Cadiz, followed by descriptions of subsequent English military expeditions in "The Islande Voyage" to the Azores, "The Slaughter at Turnehoulte," "The Battaile of Newport," and "The Seige of Ostend" in the same hand. Manuscript concludes with "The Treatie at the Hagh [Hague] concerning the trade with the East Indies and the fishing of the whale in ye Northerne Seas," an account of Sir Henry Wotton's embassy to Holland from December 1614 to April 1615.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (145 p.) ; 33 x 22 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702177319 View

Cholmley, Henry, Sir, 1609-1666. Commonplace book : manuscript, 1624-1641.

Title: Commonplace book : manuscript, 1624-1641.

Commonplace book compiled by or for Sir Henry Cholmley with poems, epitaphs, and short essays; contains work by Cholmley's brother, Sir Hugh Cholmley and others, such as Ben Jonson, Sidney Godolphin, Edmund Waller, Lucius Cary, Henry Wotton, and Thomas Carew.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (81 leaves) ; 23 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612894019 View