[Commonplace book], [ca. 1625.].

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[Commonplace book], [ca. 1625.].

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Manuscript on paper, in multiple hands, of a collection of Latin extracts on moral and philosophical subjects, followed by 14 essays in English, many of them addressing religious controversies. The Latin extracts address such subjects as Virtus, Sapientia, Cogitatio, Memoria, and Adulatio, and are followed by extracts from Cicero's Tusculanae Quaestiones and Rhetorica ad Herennium. The English prose pieces include A Breefe Description of the Whole Worlde; Prooffes out of the Counsells and Fathers for the Reall Presence of Christes Body and Bloud in the Bl. Sacrament; Luthers Conference with the Divell Testified By His Owne Writinges; His Manifest Untruthes In Chargeing His Adversaryes With Diverse Doctrines Which He Knew They mainteyned Not; Certain Observations for Profitable Reading of Controversies of Religion; and The Principall Difference Betweene a Catholike and an Hereticke. The volume also contains a Latin speech by Queen Elizabeth I at Oxford dated Sept. 29, 1592; a "Conference at Whitehall betwixt Doctor White and Mr. Fisher" dated 1622, and biographies of the popes in Latin. At the end of the manuscript are several recipes using roses, as well as a recipe "to cleanse the teeth and preserve them."

1 v. (694 p.) ; 30 x 20 cm.

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