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Miscellany given to Henry Fane by his father Sir Francis Fane [manuscript], compiled ca. 1655-1656.

Fane, Francis, -1680, compiler.; Fane, Henry, active 1655-1656.; Mildmay, Walter, Sir, 1520?-1589.; Westmorland, Mary Fane, Countess of, 1581 or 1582-1640.; Mildmay, Grace, Lady, 1552-1620.
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Title
Miscellany given to Henry Fane by his father Sir Francis Fane [manuscript], compiled ca. 1655-1656.
Variant title
Folger card catalog title: Commonplace book of Sir Francis Fane, compiled ca. 1655/56.
Description
130 leaves.
Associated name
Fane, Francis, -1680, compiler.
Fane, Henry, active 1655-1656.
Mildmay, Walter, Sir, 1520?-1589.
Westmorland, Mary Fane, Countess of, 1581 or 1582-1640.
Mildmay, Grace, Lady, 1552-1620.
Scope and content
A manual of aphorisms, anecdotes, verse from and about Holland, Germany, Italy, France and England intended to amuse his son while traveling on the Continent. It contains several references to Sir Thomas More and Sir Francis Bacon, a version of Shakespeare's epitaph (leaf 79v), a quotation from "Handsons prologue to a play in a village" (leaf 84), and is prefaced by a series of precepts written by various members of the family, 1570-1656 -- Sir Walter Mildmay, Mary Fane and Grace Mildmay -- ending with a dedication to his son Henry Fane at Grays Inn, London, signed: F. Fane, Fulbeck, August 20, 1663.
Note
Poems listed in the Folger index of first lines.

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Provenance
Formerly Folger MS 1085.1.
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2004-2005. Letterwriting in Renaissance England (catalog entry 104)
Genre/form
Manuscripts (documents)
Anthologies.
Aphorisms.
Poems.
Epitaphs.
Prologues and epilogues

Call number
V.a.180
Folger accession
cs1085

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