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Conceits, &c., [ca. 1660-1670].

Title: Conceits, &c., [ca. 1660-1670].

Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of a collection of 40 poems and songs, many of them lighthearted or satirical and addressing such topics as women, love, and tobacco. The volume includes a song between Phyllis and Strephon; Katherine Philips' Uppon His Sacred Maiesties Charles the Seconds Happy Passage to England May 29th 1660; and numerous satirical songs and epitaphs, as well as English translations of several Latin epigrams by Thomas More.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (46 p.) ; 20 x 16 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702174674 View

Philips, Katherine, 1632-1664. Poems [microform] [1646?-1664] / Katherine Fowler Philips.

Title: Poems [microform] [1646?-1664] / Katherine Fowler Philips.

A collection of 17th century Ms. poetry, writings of Katherine Fowler Philips; possibly brought together in a collection Nov. 29, 182[9?]

ArchivalResource: 135, [51] leaves

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/12034669 View

Blount, Thomas Pope, Sir, 1649-1697. De re poetica, [late 17th century].

Title: De re poetica, [late 17th century].

Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of a collection of extracts from this work on poetry. The manuscript first discusses general characteristics of poetry and then "characters and censures" of various classical and contemporary poets, including Chaucer, Katherine Philips, the Earl of Rochester, and Shakespeare.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (ca. 220 p.) ; 15 x 10 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702174484 View

Philips, Katherine, 1632-1664. Copy of Poems by the most deservedly admired Mrs Katherine Philips, the matchless Orinda, 1669 [manuscript], ca. 1670.

Title: Copy of Poems by the most deservedly admired Mrs Katherine Philips, the matchless Orinda, 1669 [manuscript], ca. 1670.

Copy of the book printed 1669 (Wing P2034), including title pages, etc. Omits only the engraving of Orinda, and the table of contents. One additional poem added to blank leaves at beginning of manuscript. Minor variations of spelling. Includes her translations of Corneille's tragedies, Pompey and Horace, and of French poems.

ArchivalResource: [2], 170 leaves.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/458616281 View

[Commonplace book], [late 17th century].

Title: [Commonplace book], [late 17th century].

Manuscript on paper, in a single secretary hand, of several dozen religious, philosophical, and moral verses; meditations upon various religious subjects; as well as collections of "wise saws," "sayings of heathens improved," and "adages or proverbial speeches." The poems in the volume are primarily by Katherine Philips and Abraham Cowley; the collection also includes Christ Passion, "Taken out of a Greek Ode, written by Mr. Masters of new Colledge in Oxford"; and numerous short epigrammatic verses on such subjects as On God & Gold; On God's Bounty; On Ravens and Lillies; and On Our Sinnes. The manuscript also contains meditations on such subjects as A Spiritual Medicine; Anger; and Poverty; as well as charts labeled "Tray weight," "How to finde the tyme of the Moones Southing & the tyme of the Tides any day," and "Wine vessels with their Contents are thus."

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (320 p.) ; 15 x 10 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702174426 View

Hall, Henry, ca. 1656-1707. Collection of sacred and secular songs by late 17th century composers [manuscript], ca. 1710.

Title: Collection of sacred and secular songs by late 17th century composers [manuscript], ca. 1710.

Collection of songs, motets and anthems by late 17th and early 18th century British and Continental composers; copied in the early eighteenth century. Some works attributed but most unattributed. 12-13 staves per page; scored for voices and basso continuo (often with figures) and some works also name string or wind instruments. Musical settings are by Henry Hall, John Blow, [Jeremiah] Clarke, Alessandro Stradella, John Allnott, [Giacomo Carissimi], Daniel Purcell and above all Henry Purcell. Many of the songs were taken from works by John Bancroft, Thomas Betterton, William Congreve, Abraham Cowley, John Crowne, Thomas D'Urfey, John Dryden, John Fletcher, [Anthony?] Henley, Sir Robert Howard, Nathaniel Lee, P.A. Motteux, William Mountfort, Katherine Philips, George Powell, Elkanah Settle, Thomas Shadwell, Shakespeare (The tempest, Twelfth night and Timon of Athens), Thomas Southerne, Sir Richard Steele, and Nahum Tate. Also, at the beginning of Part I, excerpt from The merchant of Venice, two odes on the death of Henry Purcell (one by Dryden), and a few medicinal formularies; at the beginning of Part II, lines by John Gilbert of Christ's College, Cambridge.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. of ms. music ; 33 x 22 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/501313732 View

Hall, Henry, ca. 1656-1707. Collection of sacred and secular songs by late 17th century composers [manuscript], ca. 1710.

Title: Collection of sacred and secular songs by late 17th century composers [manuscript], ca. 1710.

Collection of songs, motets and anthems by late 17th and early 18th century British and Continental composers; copied in the early eighteenth century. Some works attributed but most unattributed. 12-13 staves per page; scored for voices and basso continuo (often with figures) and some works also name string or wind instruments. Musical settings are by Henry Hall, John Blow, [Jeremiah] Clarke, Alessandro Stradella, John Allnott, [Giacomo Carissimi], Daniel Purcell and above all Henry Purcell. Many of the songs were taken from works by John Bancroft, Thomas Betterton, William Congreve, Abraham Cowley, John Crowne, Thomas D'Urfey, John Dryden, John Fletcher, [Anthony?] Henley, Sir Robert Howard, Nathaniel Lee, P.A. Motteux, William Mountfort, Katherine Philips, George Powell, Elkanah Settle, Thomas Shadwell, Shakespeare (The tempest, Twelfth night and Timon of Athens), Thomas Southerne, Sir Richard Steele, and Nahum Tate. Also, at the beginning of Part I, excerpt from The merchant of Venice, two odes on the death of Henry Purcell (one by Dryden), and a few medicinal formularies; at the beginning of Part II, lines by John Gilbert of Christ's College, Cambridge.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. of ms. music ; 33 x 22 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/501313732 View

Houghton Library. Houghton Library printed book provenance file, L-Q. 1942.

Title: Houghton Library printed book provenance file, L-Q.

Index to ownership/provenance information primarily from printed books at Houghton Library.

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http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990120831020203941/catalog View

Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667. Commonplace book, [16--].

Title: Commonplace book, [16--].

Poems and epigrams, some translated from Latin, by many English authors including Abraham Cowley, John Dryden, Henry King, Katherine Philips (Orinda), Sir John Suckling, and Edmund Waller. "An imperfect coppy of Wil: Shackespears" is an extract from "The rape of Lucrece."

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (209 p.) ; 21 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145507008 View

Louis Arthur Holman collection of Keats iconography and related papers, 1752-1963.

Title: Louis Arthur Holman collection of Keats iconography and related papers, 1752-1963.

Collection of images concerning the life of the English poet, John Keats, as well as papers relating to the collection. Collection assembled by American Louis Arthur Holman. Holman was a Keats expert, an artist, writer on art, and a staff member at Goodspeed's Book Shop who established a print department, but later became the owner of Holman's Print Shop.

ArchivalResource: 39 boxes (18 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou02040/catalog View

Locke, John, 1632-1704. Manuscript collection in possession of Lord Lovelace [microform] [16--?] / John Locke.

Title: Manuscript collection in possession of Lord Lovelace [microform] [16--?] / John Locke.

Collection of papers and works of John Locke. Includes poems attributed to Edmund Waller, William Godolphin and Katherine Fowler Philips and several unattributed poems.

ArchivalResource: [11], 160, [75] leaves.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/13475951 View

Fowler, John, 1642. Wills : manuscript, 1925.

Title: Wills : manuscript, 1925.

ArchivalResource: 9 leaves ; 32 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612774214 View

Philips, Katherine, 1632-1664. Poems [microform] [1646?-1664] / Katherine Fowler Philips.

Title: Poems [microform] [1646?-1664] / Katherine Fowler Philips.

A collection of 17th century Ms. poetry, writings of Katherine Fowler Philips. Includes translation of Mons. Corneille's Pompey & Horace, tragedies.

ArchivalResource: 395 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/12034628 View

Philips, Katherine, 1632-1664. Upon his majesties most happy restoration to his royall throne in Brittaine [microform] [17--?].

Title: Upon his majesties most happy restoration to his royall throne in Brittaine [microform] [17--?].

One short poem about Charles II.

ArchivalResource: 1 leaf.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/11864314 View

George Wiley Sherburn collection of English ballads, songs, and poems, ca. 1700-1850.

Title: George Wiley Sherburn collection of English ballads, songs, and poems, ca. 1700-1850.

Manuscripts of English ballads, songs, and poems from ca.1700 to1850, collected bythe Harvard scholar George Wiley Sherburn.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01718/catalog View

Springett, Catharine, 1724-1809. Negotiolum bellae.

Title: Negotiolum bellae. [1742-1749]

Manuscript commonplace book begun by Catherine Springett of Eastry, Kent. The volume contains poetry and prose extraces in Springett's hand as well as contributions from her friends. Some poetry appears to be original, but works by poets such as Pope, Addison, Milton, Elizabeth Carter and Katherine Philips are also included. The volume's chain of ownership inscriptions document its ownership by Springett's daughter, Mary (Harvey) Boys and granddaughter, Mary (Boys) Sankey, and pencil annotations probably by Sankey are found throughout the volume.

ArchivalResource: [4], 216 p., bound ; 20 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/388316178 View