Trevelyon miscellany [manuscript], 1608.
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Title
Trevelyon miscellany [manuscript], 1608.
Variant title
Former title: Trevelyon commonplace book, 1608
Folger card catalog title: Pictorial commonplace book, 1608
Folger card catalog title: Pictorial commonplace book, 1608
Description
1 v. in 10 (296 leaves) : col. ill. ; in container (496 x 326 x 494 mm)
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Scope and content
Contents cover a variety of practical, religious, and moralistic subjects of the period, as well as ancient proverbial wisdom, mostly copied or adapted from printed sources. Printed sources include: the Geneva Bible, almanacs, chronicles, husbandry manuals, commonplace books, pattern books, sets of prints imported from Antwerp, and English broadside ballads and woodcuts (for a full list of sources see Trevelyon's sources in facsimile introduction, p. 16-21).
The first part of the manuscript consists of historical and practical information; a time line; an illustrated calendar; moralizing proverbs; a series of computational tables and astronomical diagrams; lists of families linked to William the Conqueror; distances between London and cities around the world; a rule for determining the dates of legal terms; a list of fairs; geographical accounts of Britain, Wales and Cornwall; descriptions of the Cambridge and Oxford colleges; a list of the shires, cities, and boroughs of England; a list of the wards and parish churches of London and environs; and a table providing distances between London and other notable towns in England.
The second part of the manuscript consists of a series of biblical and monarchical chronologies, beginning with the account in Genesis of the creation of the world and the fall of man, followed by the generations of Adam, the sons of Noah, the kings of Israel, the genealogies of Mary and Joseph, the twelve tribes of Israel, the early rulers of Britain, the kings and queens of England, and the kings and queens of Scotland.
The third part of the manuscript contains edifying and cautionary verses, with illustrations, on the Twelve Degrees of the World, the Five Alls, the Ten Commandments, the Nine Worthies, the Nine Muses, the Seven Deadly Sins, the Seven Virtues, the Seven Liberal Sciences, and the Twelve Apostles; as well as figures important to Protestant history, the six Gunpowder Plot traitors; Pagan, Jewish and Christian heroes; additional parables, proverbs, and lists of virtues and vices accompanied by scriptural and secular verses.
The fourth part of the manuscript is devoted to patterns, most without text, of caps, mazes, marquetry, knotwork, strapwork lettering, floral and abstract borders and motifs, repeating patterns, and alphabets suitable for embroidery and other applied arts, plasterwork, woodwork, painting and garden design.
The fifth and final part of the manuscript is a list of sheriffs and mayors of London from 1190 to 1601.
The first part of the manuscript consists of historical and practical information; a time line; an illustrated calendar; moralizing proverbs; a series of computational tables and astronomical diagrams; lists of families linked to William the Conqueror; distances between London and cities around the world; a rule for determining the dates of legal terms; a list of fairs; geographical accounts of Britain, Wales and Cornwall; descriptions of the Cambridge and Oxford colleges; a list of the shires, cities, and boroughs of England; a list of the wards and parish churches of London and environs; and a table providing distances between London and other notable towns in England.
The second part of the manuscript consists of a series of biblical and monarchical chronologies, beginning with the account in Genesis of the creation of the world and the fall of man, followed by the generations of Adam, the sons of Noah, the kings of Israel, the genealogies of Mary and Joseph, the twelve tribes of Israel, the early rulers of Britain, the kings and queens of England, and the kings and queens of Scotland.
The third part of the manuscript contains edifying and cautionary verses, with illustrations, on the Twelve Degrees of the World, the Five Alls, the Ten Commandments, the Nine Worthies, the Nine Muses, the Seven Deadly Sins, the Seven Virtues, the Seven Liberal Sciences, and the Twelve Apostles; as well as figures important to Protestant history, the six Gunpowder Plot traitors; Pagan, Jewish and Christian heroes; additional parables, proverbs, and lists of virtues and vices accompanied by scriptural and secular verses.
The fourth part of the manuscript is devoted to patterns, most without text, of caps, mazes, marquetry, knotwork, strapwork lettering, floral and abstract borders and motifs, repeating patterns, and alphabets suitable for embroidery and other applied arts, plasterwork, woodwork, painting and garden design.
The fifth and final part of the manuscript is a list of sheriffs and mayors of London from 1190 to 1601.
Note
3-48, 50-68, 71-106, 108-135, 138-140, 142-148, 150-163, 166-175, 178-189, 192-208, 210-213, 215-227, 230, 232-241, 243, 245-252, 254-255, 259-277, 279-281, 283-321, 324-327 leaves. Bottom half of leaf 181 missing, leaf 279 has page numbers 279 (on recto) and 278 (on verso), no other leaves paginated; leaves measure: 413-421 x 246-265 mm. (See facsimile visual index, p. 25 for list of missing leaves and probable contents).
Known as: Commonplace book; An Elizabethan pictorial and poetical manuscript commonplace book with original drawings in colours of Queen Elizabeth, King James, etc. (Maggs catalog no. 456, 1924, lot 155); Epitome of ancient and modern history (title on spine of former 19th-century binding).
Author's name from leaves 264v-265.
At end of last volume are some surviving but unplaceable fragments used in older repairs.
Shelved with: "Trevelyon original binding" (former binding and endpapers, spine stamped with the title "Epitome of ancient and modern history").
Formerly shelved with: "Trevelyon manuscript documentation report" recording the 1998 Conservator's report along with two previous conservation reports (the 1984 paper treatment report and the 1978 report on the "Composition of paper and pigments" done at Winterthur's Analytical Laboratory), as well as color photographic slides of each page taken in 1995 prior to the most recent repair of the manuscript. As of 2019-02-14 this volume is temporarily shelved in ALCDI Office.
Most poems listed in First line index.
Published in facsimile in a limited edition of 950 unnumbered copies and a collectors edition of 50 numbered copies, in conjunction with the 75th Anniversary of Folger Shakespeare Library, as: The Trevelyon miscellany of 1608 : a facsimile of Folger Shakespeare Library MS V.b.232 / edited by Heather Wolfe. Washington, D.C. : Folger Shakespeare Library ; Seattle : Distributed by University of Washington Press, c2007.
Eight years after Trevelyon completed the Folger miscellany, he made a longer version, now in the Wormsley Library, Buckinghamshire, England.
Known as: Commonplace book; An Elizabethan pictorial and poetical manuscript commonplace book with original drawings in colours of Queen Elizabeth, King James, etc. (Maggs catalog no. 456, 1924, lot 155); Epitome of ancient and modern history (title on spine of former 19th-century binding).
Author's name from leaves 264v-265.
At end of last volume are some surviving but unplaceable fragments used in older repairs.
Shelved with: "Trevelyon original binding" (former binding and endpapers, spine stamped with the title "Epitome of ancient and modern history").
Formerly shelved with: "Trevelyon manuscript documentation report" recording the 1998 Conservator's report along with two previous conservation reports (the 1984 paper treatment report and the 1978 report on the "Composition of paper and pigments" done at Winterthur's Analytical Laboratory), as well as color photographic slides of each page taken in 1995 prior to the most recent repair of the manuscript. As of 2019-02-14 this volume is temporarily shelved in ALCDI Office.
Most poems listed in First line index.
Published in facsimile in a limited edition of 950 unnumbered copies and a collectors edition of 50 numbered copies, in conjunction with the 75th Anniversary of Folger Shakespeare Library, as: The Trevelyon miscellany of 1608 : a facsimile of Folger Shakespeare Library MS V.b.232 / edited by Heather Wolfe. Washington, D.C. : Folger Shakespeare Library ; Seattle : Distributed by University of Washington Press, c2007.
Eight years after Trevelyon completed the Folger miscellany, he made a longer version, now in the Wormsley Library, Buckinghamshire, England.
Indexes
For a fuller description, see The Trevelyon Miscellany of 1608: An Introduction to Folger Shakespeare Library MS V.b.232 / edited by Heather Wolfe. Washington, D.C. : Folger Shakespeare Library ; Seattle : Distributed by University of Washington Press, c2007.
Provenance
Sold by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge (December 10, 1923, lot 170, 'Property of a Gentleman') -- Sold by Maggs (catalog no. 456, 1924, lot 155) -- Purchased by Lessing Julius Rosenwald from Parke-Bernet Galleries (J. Pierpont Morgan Sale, March 21, 1944, lot 208).
Attached to former endpapers: bookplate of R[ichard] H[enry] Alexan[der] Bennet (d. 1814); letter from Dr. Pugh to Mr. [Richard] Bull (1721-1806), December 11, 1804, thanking Bull for lending him the manuscript; and arms of Winnall (i.e. Winall) done in watercolor on vellum; Names of Lenard Hutton and Iohn Gorst (ca. 1625?) appear on leaves 127 and 144.
Formerly Folger MS 450517.
Attached to former endpapers: bookplate of R[ichard] H[enry] Alexan[der] Bennet (d. 1814); letter from Dr. Pugh to Mr. [Richard] Bull (1721-1806), December 11, 1804, thanking Bull for lending him the manuscript; and arms of Winnall (i.e. Winall) done in watercolor on vellum; Names of Lenard Hutton and Iohn Gorst (ca. 1625?) appear on leaves 127 and 144.
Formerly Folger MS 450517.
Source of acquisition
Gift of Lessing Julius Rosenwald, May 17, 1945.
Exhibited
Exhibited: "Word & Image: The Trevelyon Miscellany of 1608," Folger Shakespeare Library, January 23 - May 22, 2004.
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2006. "Noyses, sounds, and sweet aires" (catalog entry 50)
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 1986-1987. Time, the greatest innovator (catalog p. 46)
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2004-2005. Letterwriting in Renaissance England (catalog entry 74)
V.b.232, fol. 119r, fol. 125r, fol. 254v, fol. 200r. Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2003. Elizabeth I (catalog p. 83, 99, 109, 117)
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 1999 (p. 8)
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 1999 Fooles and Fricassees (catalog p. 26)
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2006. "Noyses, sounds, and sweet aires" (catalog entry 50)
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 1986-1987. Time, the greatest innovator (catalog p. 46)
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2004-2005. Letterwriting in Renaissance England (catalog entry 74)
V.b.232, fol. 119r, fol. 125r, fol. 254v, fol. 200r. Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2003. Elizabeth I (catalog p. 83, 99, 109, 117)
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 1999 (p. 8)
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 1999 Fooles and Fricassees (catalog p. 26)
Linked resources
Blog post about Folger Shakespeare Library V.b.232: "All the world and half a dozen lemons", The Collation (18 June 2019)
Blog post about Folger Shakespeare Library V.b.232: "Happy New Year (by one calendar anyway)", The Collation (31 December 2019)
World Digital Library edition of Folger Shakespeare Library V.b.232
Digital image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library V.b.232
Blog post about Folger Shakespeare Library V.b.232: "Happy New Year (by one calendar anyway)", The Collation (31 December 2019)
World Digital Library edition of Folger Shakespeare Library V.b.232
Digital image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library V.b.232
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Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England.
Item Details
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V.b.232