Sereniss. Principi Carolo Secundo Mag. Brit. Fran. et Hib. regi votum candidum vivat rex. Editio altera emendatior / authore Mauritio Neoporto anglo.

Editio altera emendatior.

Londini : Typis Neucomianis, 1669.

1 volume ; 17 cm

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Great Britain -- England -- London, -- publication place.

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From dealer's description: "UNDERGRADUATE FRESHMAN LIBRARY - GIFT FROM A SISTER Ewens [alias Newport], Maurice, SJ: Sereniss. Principi Carolo Secundo Mag. Brit. Fran. et Hib. Regi votum candidum vivat rex. Editio altera emendatior. Londini, typis Neucomianis 1669. One volume, 16.1 cms. x 10.7 cms., octavo, pp. [8] 164. Light or medium foxing and browning, small ink stains to title-page, bound in blind-filleted polished calf, spine with five raised bands (wear, loss of leather). Annotations, all in one hand: ex dono record and biblical citations to front free endpaper recto (transcribed below), Latin acclamation to verso (“Vivat rex longumque sua deducat in aevum tempora, nec subito a nobis discedat ad astra”), with, drawn above it, two overlapping circles with horizontal line drawn in the intersection, mathematical calculations (described below) to final endpaper verso, riddle (transcribed below) to final pastedown. Second edition [first: 1665] of this “Latin poem of congratulation to Charles II” (Clancy). Added in manuscript to this copy are an ex dono record (on which more below), citations of biblical passages which refer to the power and glory of the king (Esther 5.11; Daniel 4.30), a Latin acclamation calling for the king to have a long reign, and a riddle on the name of regicide Oliver Cromwell (“the heart of ye loaf and the head of ye spring is ye name of ye man yt murther’d ye king” = crumb-well = Cromwell). There is also a page of fun calculations where the annotator claims to add up a million half-pences! This single owner/annotator expressing enthusiasm for the Restoration can be identified as likely a freshman at Emmanuel College Cambridge. One Andrew Gellibrand records in our copy its gift from his sister: “Ex dono sororis meae Franciscae Gellibrand pret. 00-01-04. Andreas Gellibrand August ye 4th 1671”. One Frances Gellibrand was sister of Andrew Gellibrand (b.1652) (Dugdale). This Andrew was admitted to Emmanuel as sizar (bursary holder) in April 1671, matriculating in that year, later taking B.A. and M.A. and subsequently becoming a deacon in Peterborough in 1675 (Venn). Andrew and Frances were children of John/Jonathan Gellibrand (b.c.1610), vicar of Leigh in Lancashire, and his wife Mary Chorlton. It is interesting that Andrew knew and recorded what his sister had spent on the book. The Cromwellian riddle that Andrew writes on his pastedown appears in William Winstanley’s The New Help to Discourse (London, 1672) (Wing W3069), as well as other printed sources. An Andreas Gellibrand (very likely the same owner) inscribed Thomas Cranmer’s copy of Herodian (Paris, Colines 1529) in a London John Reynes binding (Bonhams, London, 6 October 2009, lot 52). Gellibrand would have obtained that book at about the same time as ours - writing in it the date September 17th 1671. It is possible that we now know two books - one considered a great treasure - from an early 1670s undergraduate freshman library. The book came later to the manor house at Langley Burrell in Wiltshire (Langley House), home of the Ashe family, and came to our vendor, a member of that family, by descent. This new geographical location may give us information about the later life of Gellibrand. He may be the Andreas/Andrew Gellibrand (d.1703), who was appointed vicar of Hullavington, less than seven miles from Langley House by road, in 1694. What became of his sister Frances I do not know. £575 Wing (1st edition) N939A. Thomas H. Clancy, ‘Ewens [alias Newport], Maurice’. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online, published 23 September 2004, accessed by us 27 November 2023. Dugdale, Sir William (Raines, F.R., ed.) The visitation of the County Palatine of Lancaster, made in the year 1664-5 (3 vols., Manchester 1872-3), II, 121. Entry for Andrew Gellibrand in John & John Archibald Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses […] to 1751 (4 vols., Cambridge 1922-1927) accessed via ACAD (A Cambridge Alumni Database) at venn.lib.cam.ac.uk (27 November 2023). For Andrew Gellibrand, vicar of Hullavington see ‘Location: Parish (Church): Hullavington’ at https://theclergydatabase.org.uk/jsp/locations/DisplayLocation.jsp?locKey=1793 (27 November 2023). For the printing of the riddle see Union First Line Index of English Verse at firstlines.folger.edu (accessed by us 27 November 2023). ." Ordered from Leo Cadogan Rare Books, D9696 , 2023-11-30, email quote.

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