02396ctm\a2200229Ma\4500 544216 20251009150812.0 t\\\\\\\\\\\000\0\ \\\\\\s17uu\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\0\eng\\ UtOrBLW Survey of Staffordshire View of Staffordshire [manuscript]. England, Circa 1700. 1item text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia This is a PRELIMINARY RECORD. It may contain incorrect information. Please email catalog@folger.edu for assistance. 21 x 17 x 2 cm Erdeswicke, Sampson, -1603, n 87916102, author. The Elizabeth T. Kennan Acquisitions Endowment Fund, funder. DFo US-DFo DeckC-Rare FAST ACC 272081 This is a PRELIMINARY RECORD. It may contain incorrect information. The "FAST ACC" number is a temporary call number. Please email catalog@folger.edu for assistance. Purchase made possible by The Elizabeth T. Kennan Acquisitions Endowment Fund. From dealer's description: "[ERDESWICK, Sampson; DAVISON, Samuel (c. 1668-1743?); WILMOT, Robert (1640-1722)] Scribal manuscript copy of Erdeswick’s ‘View’ or ‘Survey’ of Staffordshire. [Circa 1700]. Late 17th- early 18th century panelled calf, rubbed, modern reback, text spotted. Pagination [2], 84, [5], [7, index], final 10 leaves blank, an initial blank bifolium loose. Paper watermarked with two slightly different Coats of Arms. Haewood dates similar examples circa 1680-1720. Neat scribal hand, some pencil guidelines remaining. Provenance: An inscription to the paste-down reads “R Wilmot Ex Dono Sam: Davison de Brand in Com: Salop M-(?)” (Wilmot also signs the title page and the first text leaf); armorial bookplate to paste-down, “S:r Rob:t Wilmot of Osmaston, Derbyshire”; modern bookplate of D. J. Wright. This manuscript captures the flows of textual exchange in the late 17th century; how the different paths of communication converge and depart over time, and how people connect with each other through books. The story is complicated from the outset because there appear to have been at least two “originating” texts. These texts travelled on separate journeys through multiple acts of “copying”. They were adapted, extended and amended, resulting in multiple overlaps, convergences, similarities, differences, and variations." Ordered from Dean Cooke, Manuscripts & Rare Books, D9417, 2020-05-13, Cat. "Invisibl inks:on the social lives of manuscripts", REF: 7847. 832358 272081 oai:catalog.folger.edu:544216 GLOBAL_SET BIB Vault 01966ctm\a2200205Ma\4500 544217 20251009150812.0 201119s1680\\\\enk\\\\\\\\\\\|||\||eng\d UtOrBLW 17th century manuscript notebook [manuscript]. Twyford, Derbyshire, Circa 1680. 1item text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia This is a PRELIMINARY RECORD. It may contain incorrect information. Please email catalog@folger.edu for assistance. 9 x 15 x 3 cm Bristow, Samuel, 1658-1703, author. Great Britain England. naf The Elizabeth T. Kennan Acquisitions Endowment Fund, funder. DFo US-DFo DeckC-Rare FAST ACC 272082 This is a PRELIMINARY RECORD. It may contain incorrect information. The "FAST ACC" number is a temporary call number. Please email catalog@folger.edu for assistance. Purchase made possible by The Elizabeth T. Kennan Acquisitions Endowment Fund. From dealer's description: "[BRISTOW, Samuel (c. 1658-1703) 17th century manuscript notebook. [Twyford, Derbyshire. Circa 1680]. Contemporary sheep, spine splitting, heavily rubbed and worn with loss to spine and corners. Oblong octavo (155 mm x 94 mm x 25mm). Approximately 229 text pages (excluding blanks) written from both ends. This manuscript notebook comprises what appear to be sermon notes and copy letters in English, juxtaposed – at first glance rather incongruously – with two Latin poems in praise of Jupiter. The notes are written in a hurried and untidy hand and the spelling is quite erratic; the Latin poems are written in a clear and careful hand and the spelling is perfect. They are probably by the same scribe as the pages flow sequentially, but suggest two contrasting states of mind: the notes being a hastily written record of thoughts, and the poems probably a careful copy from a printed source. An inscription to the verso of the first leaf, in a later hand, ascribes the notebook to Samuel Bristow (c. 1658-1703)" Ordered from Dean Cooke, Manuscripts & Rare Books, D9417, 2020-11-17, Cat. "Invisibl inks:on the social lives of manuscripts", REF: 7898. 832359 272082 oai:catalog.folger.edu:544217 GLOBAL_SET BIB Vault 03051ctm\a22001695i\4500 545204 20251009150934.0 220106q15801589enk||||\|\\\\||||\||eng|| UtOrBLW Erra Pater, n 85028263, author. The Prognostication for euer of Erra Pater [manuscript] Prognostication for ever of Erra Pater [England], [ca. 1580s?] 56 p. ; 110 x 83 mm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia This is a PRELIMINARY RECORD. It may contain incorrect information. The "FAST ACC" number is a temporary call number. Please email catalog@folger.edu for assistance. DFo US-DFo FAST ACC 272237 From dealer's description: "16th century Almanac.- Erra Pater (pseudonym) The Prognosticacion for ever of Erra Pater, manuscript in Tudor English, in a cursive hand, on paper, 56pp., wormholes in text with some loss of words particularly affecting 15ff. along inner margins, last three ff. with holes and some loss of text, very small fragment of an early medieval manuscript "[do]minus cum potenti[a]" laid down on inner wooden board, bound with 5 vellum ff. at beginning and 7 vellum ff. at end (some with 19th century juvenile scribbling), bound in a 14th century medieval blind-stamped vellum over wooden boards, extensively worn but still durable, upper cover wooden board split in two, later circular ink stamp on lower cover of a library at Ulm, remains of brass clasps, 110 x 83mm., [England], [c. 1580s]. An extremely rare survival. No other 16 century manuscript of this work has been traced. First printed as "The pronostycacyon for euer of Errer Pater: A Jewe borne in Jewery, a Doctour in Astronomye and Physicke. Profytable to kepe the bodye in helth...", Robert Wyer, [?1540]. Text starting: "As I find in Astronomie ther bee four manner of cholours in mans boddie complections", and ending with the section, "The saying of [Erra Pate]r to the Husband[man]", and without the last two sections published in other versions, "Heerafter followeth the Reignes of the Kings of England...", and, "A rule to know when the Termes begin and end, with their Returnes... " Perhaps the above manuscript is copied from the "after 1582" edition. The Prognostication is a compilation of astrological medical advice "that hath dominion of the bodie of man" and a predictor of the weather during the various seasons. This fictional author was extremely popular during the Tudor period and continued to be published, with additions, into the 18th century. "Here hee sheweth of all the dismall or perilous daies that cometh in the yeare... Masters of Astronomie and visick that this crafte first found telleth the most perilous and most dangerous daies in the yeare - In which if ann mann or woman bee let bloud of wounde or vein they shall die wthin xvi daies following... ." Provenance: Found by the present vendor in the walls of an old house." Ordered from Christopher Edwards, D9499, 2021-07-21, purchased at Forum Auctions: "Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper", July 15 2021, Lot 205. 833428 272237 11 x 9 x 2 cm oai:catalog.folger.edu:545204 GLOBAL_SET BIB Vault 03846ctm\a22001815i\4500 543579 20251009150808.0 200527q16001650enk\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\0\eng\\ UtOrBLW Commonplace book [manuscript], ca. 17?. England, circa 1600-1650? 1 volume text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia This is a PRELIMINARY RECORD. It may contain incorrect information. Please email catalog@folger.edu for assistance. 34 x 25 x 4 cm Great Britain England London. naf US-DFo DeckC-Rare FAST ACC 272077 This is a PRELIMINARY RECORD. It may contain incorrect information. The "FAST ACC" number is a temporary call number. Please email catalog@folger.edu for assistance. From dealer's description: "[COMMONPLACE BOOK] A substantial folio commonplace book in several different hands. [England? Circa 1600-1650]. Folio (345 mm x 250 mm x 40 mm). Modern cloth, text loose in binding. Condition varies, some in very good condition, later pages are damp damaged with loss. Foliation ff. 225. Various papers and sizes. Written in different hands (sometimes within the same treatise), including, mixed, secretary, and italic hands in several varieties. Provenance: loosely inserted invoice and letter from Percy J. Dobell to Giles E. Dawson at the Folger Shakespeare Library. Pencil notes at the end of the volume reads “Property of E E Dawson.” This collection of various religious writings by different scribes is disbound, so it is not clear when the essays were brought together in this single volume form. Some of the essays are titled or commence with a biblical quote (“Amos. 5. 24. But let iudgmt run downe like water, & Justice like a mighty River”; “Extracts from ye Homilie of Disobedience & willfull Rebellion”; “Bishop Bilson in his Book of True Subjection”; “1 Cor: 6. verse 7 / It is utterly a fault that you goe to lawe against another”; Ecclesiast: 1. verse 2. All is vanitye”; “it is not lawfull to bestow sure liuings upon Laye men, as art appointed by godly lawes, for Ministers & preachers of the worde of God”). Several loose sheets of pencil notes on palaeography in (presumably) Dawson’s hand. The volume contains a wide variety of 17th century hands and it appears that Dawson was using this as a teaching aid. Dawson’s notes include: “1-4 a mixt hand. Fairly easy to read. A good experience in determining the mixture.” “5-30 Also a mixt - more italic than 1-4” “31 Almost pure Sec” “33 Almost pure ital...” “34-5 Pure secy. very clear and easy. Dawson has made some notes on a separate sheet including: “an address or sermon to “Right honourable and revered” judges. The King is mentioned. Hand I”; “A treatise or letter addressed to the Pope, by a Catholic. Hand II.” One essay in particular provides a useful exercise and an interesting example of a manuscript produced by multiple scribes. It is a lengthy untitled essay which changes hands partway through. It begins: “Knowledge of holy thinges by our saviour christ, to key 11. Luk. 52. as being a thing necessary both to know as in this life...” It is a folio gathered in two with signatures running from A-X2, Y1. The first section (A-F2 ff, 81-92) is in “almost pure secy but late” (Dawson). It ends on catchwords (“sive lucerna &c”) which is picked up in the second section (G-L2, ff 93-102) by a different hand, “mainly italic” (Dawson). This second hand also ends on catchwords which are in turn picked up in a third hand. Dawson at first considers this third section (M-Y1, ff. 103-112) to be the “same hand as 81-92” but he afterward amends this judgement and considers the similarities to be only superficial. Dawson’s testing and revising of his judgements provides a wonderful object lesson into palaeography as both an analytical exercise and an interpretive art." Ordered from Dean Cooke, Manuscripts & Rare Books D9388 2020-05-13, email quote. 831619 272077 oai:catalog.folger.edu:543579 GLOBAL_SET BIB Vault 01409ctm\a22001815i\4500 543582 20251009150808.0 200527s17uu\\\\enk\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\0\eng\\ UtOrBLW Agricultural accounts [manuscript], ca. [1617-19]. England, Circa 1617-19. 1 item text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia This is a PRELIMINARY RECORD. It may contain incorrect information. Please email catalog@folger.edu for assistance. 29 x 22 cm Great Britain England London. naf US-DFo DeckC-Rare FAST ACC 272080 From dealer's description: "37. HAMMOND, Andrew Early 17th century manuscript book of agricultural accounts. [Fobbing, Essex. Circa 1617-19]. Stitched sheets. Small quarto. Approximately 18 text pages (some are half page entries), plus 26 blank pages (including several short entries of only a few lines). Brief records of land rents and interest kept by Andrew Hammond who lived in or near the small village of Fobbing in Essex (“August the 23 daye 1618 Receved of Willam Daveson ... 108-1-26”; “I receved of Thomas Gillman for on wholl yer 1617...”; “For the yer 1617. I receved of Robert ffreman for an woll yer for his tenemente lyenge ner ffobeing Lye --26-0...”).: Ordered from Dean Cooke, Manuscripts & Rare Books D9388 2020-05-13. Item #37, New York book Fair Catalogue March 5th-8th, 2020. 831622 272080 oai:catalog.folger.edu:543582 GLOBAL_SET BIB Vault 02143ctm\a22001695i\4500 544914 20251009150930.0 210825|16181619xx\||||\|\\\\||||\||und|| UtOrBLW De structura Syllogismi tractatus, Prolegomena in universam, Prolegomena in introduction porphirii, Prolegomena in lib de interpretatione, Andrea Ayttomo, Prolegomena in Aristotelis, Prolegomena in secundum priorum analyticarum, ,Prolegomena in Librum Topicorum, Prolegomena in Lib II, Annotatem in librum Aristotelis Topicorum, Annotationes in Librum Elenchorum Aristotelis, Aristotelis Sophisticorum Elenchorum, Aristotelis Posteriorum [manuscript], [1618-1619]. [ca. 250] leaves ; 20 x 15 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia This is a PRELIMINARY RECORD. It may contain incorrect information. The "FAST ACC" number is a temporary call number. Please email catalog@folger.edu for assistance. DFo condition reviewed 2022-10-04 EB First and fourth leaves completely detached, remainder of sewing sound. Recent bookmark removed to curatorial file. pda DFo Manuscripts (documents) 300028569 aat Aristotle. n 79004182 US-DFo Ordered from Adam Weinberger Books, D9519, 2021-08-21, Cat. Konstantinopel. Rare and fine books, item #21. From dealer's description: "ILLUSTRATED MANUSCRIPT ON ARISTOTLE 21. [ARISTOTLE] De structura Syllogismi tractatus, Prolegomena in universam, Prolegomena in introduction porphirii 1618, Prolegomena in lib de interpretatione, Andrea Ayttomo, 1619, Prolegomena in Aristotelis, Prolegomena in secundum priorum analyticarum, 1619, ,Prolegomena in Librum Topicorum 1619, Prolegomena in Lib II 1619, Annotatem in librum Aristotelis Topicorum 1619, Annotationes in Librum Elenchorum Aristotelis , Aristotelis Sophisticorum Elenchorum., Aristotelis Posteriorum. Last part numbered (82 p.) in a different hand. dated 1632. A few pages ripped out. Contemporary leather binding, around 250 paper leaves. 8vo (195 mm x 145 mm). Curiously illustrated commentary on Aristotle with three illustrated title pages and one with a naive drawing of a knight on the rector side with a king (?) on verso. Possibly English. The last colophon says: Finis, D. Brookes. Other illustrated colophons present." 833130 FAST ACC 272256 272256 20 x 16 x 6 cm oai:catalog.folger.edu:544914 GLOBAL_SET BIB Vault 02888ctm\a2200181\\\4500 544743 20251009150819.0 210519s156u1580enk\\\\\\\\\\\00\\0\eng\d UtOrBLW Alphabetical collection of proverbs with historiated initials demonstrating various scripts [manuscript], 1560-1570. [England], [between 1560 and 1580?] 26 leaves mounted in an album text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia This is a PRELIMINARY RECORD. It may contain incorrect information. Please email catalog@folger.edu for assistance. DFo Title devised by Folger staff. Great Britain England. naf US-DFo Ordered from Sokol Books Ltd., D9478, 2021-05-19, email quote. From dealer's description: "ELIZABETHAN MANUSCRIPT. Collection of ms cadel initials, scripts and proverbs. 1560s-70s. 26 leaves, 37 by 28cms, mounted into C19 album. Ms large historiated initials with floral and vegetal motifs, fantastical creatures, humans and animals, hand coloured, with proverbial sentences in different scripts inc. Secretary, Chancery, Gothic (likely by same hand), borders lined with lighter ink, to reverse of some leaves charming alphabetical calligraphic exercises. Slight age yellowing, light ink spotting, dust and finger marks, repairs to some edges and corners. In C19 album folio, half brown morocco on marbled boards, edges and joints slightly rubbed, spine gilt. Exceptional and very rare example of hand coloured Elizabethan-era calligraphy and cadel initials. The work is made up of the twenty four letters of the Elizabethan alphabet as well as two symbols in pen and ink. In the Elizabethan alphabet the letters ‘u’ and ‘v’ were the same as were ‘i’ and ‘j’. Initials are decorated with numerous and varied designs including floral motifs, leafy sprays, acorns, classical figures including a satyr, dragons, a crowned king, an Elizabethan noblewoman, and animals including bears, a monkey playing a trumpet and birds. The designs are fantastical, rendered in a free-flowing, naïve style, outlined in black ink and coloured with attractive green, grey and brown neutral tones using watercolours. Connecting the designs is complex geometric Celtic-style ornament, coloured in order to evoke a three dimensional effect. This is an example of a cadel initial, or lettre cadeau, a letter created out of knot work and caricatured or grotesque people and other creatures. These initials were most common in the fifteenth century, but continue into the sixteenth with examples like the present. The piece can be dated to the 1560s-70s in part due to ‘P’ (no. 15), ‘oure noble queene’, likely relating to Elizabeth I rather than Mary I and also ‘O’ (no. 14) has an image of an early Elizabethan young woman wearing a small ruff and early form of Spanish farthingale, a bell-shaped hoopskirt, dating from the 60s-70s." 832935 FAST ACC 272272 272272 38 x 29 x 2 cm oai:catalog.folger.edu:544743 GLOBAL_SET BIB Vault 01782ctm\a22002415i\4500 728550 20251009151421.0 220816s1637\\\\be\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\0\fre\\ UtOrBLW Liure a Chanson [manuscript], 1637. [Belgium], 1637. 55 leaves ; 182 x 268 mm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia Age calculation on verso of front endleaf: 1842-1637=205. This is a PRELIMINARY RECORD. It may contain incorrect information. Please email catalog@folger.edu for assistance. DFo dispersed 2025-01-13 DJL local DFo Manuscripts (documents) 300028569 aat Belgium. naf US-DFo 272209 MS 18 x 27 x 2 cm 272209 From dealer's description: "Liure a Chanson 1637. [Belgium] 1637 Oblong 4to (182 x 268 mm.). [i], [55] leaves, interleaved with blanks. In a single calligraphic hand, five different handwriting styles and Sixteen FULL PAGE CALLIGRAPHIC DRAWINGS. Early 19th-century gilt blue morocco (rebacked preserving the original spine), flat spine gilt, edges marbled blue and red. Illustration facing TEXT AND IMAGE GIVE FREE REIN TO THE CALLIGRAPHER'S IMAGINATION AND SKILL. Highly romantic verses in French and Spanish - expressing grief, regret, jealousy, admonition, passion and resignation - surnound or inhabit exuberant abstract ornament, carnival players, street musicians, artimals, putti, lover's knot pattern poems.... In good condition (scattered light fox ng, minor defects, three drawings slightly shaved), by descent from Alexandre de Selliers de Moranville to chevalier Albert de Selliers de Moranville (1879-1965; bookplate). From Hand to Eye. "Rosenbach Museum and Library 20 Nov. 1994-12 Feb. 1995." Ordered from Bruce McKittrick, D9578, 2022-04-26, Cat. 70, item #6. 1000026 oai:catalog.folger.edu:728550 GLOBAL_SET BIB ORDER Vault 14466ctm\a22001815i\4500 913540 20251009193224.0 230105s1615\\\\enk\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\0\eng\\ UtOrBLW Manuscript Commonplace Book and Library Catalogue [manuscript], circa 1615. Thorpe Hall, Yorkshire, circa 1615. 1 volume ; 290 x 200 x 33 mm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia This is a PRELIMINARY RECORD. It may contain incorrect information. The "FAST ACC" number is a temporary call number. Please email catalog@folger.edu for assistance. From dealer's description: "FARSYDE, John (attrib. d. 1660); FARSYDE, Thomas. Manuscript Commonplace Book and Library Catalogue. [Thorpe Hall, Yorkshire. Circa 1615]. Folio (290 x 200 x 33 mm). 86 text pages (of which approximately 50 are full page or nearly so; other pages vary from just a few lines to half a page). [7 index], 172 leaves (numbered to rectos), [1, blank]. Contemporary full sheep binding, rubbed and worn, spine largely perished, boards detached, single, small worm track through text block. Provenance: An inscription to the pastedown reads “G. J. W. Farsyde 1826 found these M.S. amongst the papers of my Uncle Watson Farsyde, they seem to bear date (by the writing about the middle of the 17th Century & written by one of the family – probably a parson – Caro avenculo mio.” Library catalogue of the “Rev. Thomas Farsyde” (ff.3-4). Commonplace books provide insight into the reading and thinking habits of the early modern mind. This early-17th-century example is a mixture of the conventional and the inscrutable but contains several tantalising clues which may make it possible to connect the book to other volumes in manuscript culture of the early modern period. The library catalogue, added about a century later, extends the item’s material history in ways that trace the changes in how readers digested and thought about books. It is unclear whether the earliest texts in the manuscript were compiled by two scribes or by one scribe using two hands; similar letterforms occur in both, which, though hardly conclusive, at least suggests that it was the same writer. Both are neat and legible. The book begins with an eight-page index, and the subjects are spaced out across the volume to allow further entries over time, but as is often the case with commonplace books, there are many unfilled sheets." From dealer's description: "DATING AND INTERROGATING The manuscript was probably compiled in the first two decades of the 17th century. Support for this assertion comes from the hand, the books referenced, and the paper. The binding might usually help with dating, but it is a folio bound in full sheep with a double fillet border. Although it is certainly unusual to have a full sheep binding on a folio—it is the kind of (relatively) cheap material usually encountered on small-format volumes—we can only confidently say that it was bound sometime in the 17th century. The binding is worn and broken, but this is probably due to the weakness of the material rather than a sign of frequent use. The paper is more helpful. It bears the watermark: small pot, crescent on trefoil, with initials: I/QQ. This combination is not found in Haewood or Gravell, but it is a good match for Folger L.f.956 and L.f.955, which they date 1598 and 1625 respectively. We cannot find any other examples of this watermark, but these two examples help support an early-17th-century date. The most frequently used text is the Bible, but the majority seem to be précis rather than direct quotes, and where they do quote verbatim the segments are so short as to frustrate any (or at least our) attempts to identify which version they were using. But our scribe engages with his sources beyond mere précis: for example, “The Godly liues” (f.12), which begins by summarising passages “out of the Epistle of John”, continues in different-coloured ink (presumably indicating he has returned to this section at a later date), as he interrogates the text (“whither may a godly man or ought hee to wish that others may bee saued, ‘though hee bee damned whither doth hee or shee well or ill if they do it or do it not”); in “Loue” he observes that “True loue is not hindred by distance of place Philadelphia a people liued much a purte because of Earthquakes in there Cities”; and in “Hypocrisy” (f.15) he remarks that “Hypocrites falling neuer recouer, The lamb skinne which the wolfe remoues being once shorne neuer growes agayne”. The source texts themselves offer up further evidence for dating. There several references to Eusebius (his Eccesiastical Histories were translated into English in 1577, and frequently reprinted throughout the following century-and-a-half), but passages such as “what else made Dioclesian, and maxaminian (sic) Herculeus that […] when both of them burned with exceeding desire of raising out the name of Christians, that both ^of them should suddaynly put themselues out of the Empire, and liue a priuate life Eusebius .8. 13 admires it”, while commenting on Eusebius’s thought, do not appear to have been extracted from his work. Other entries include pithy sayings, including one which seems to absolve the clergy: “The phisition looseth not his fee though the patient dye nor the lawyer though the cause miscary whie then should the minister”; or they gnomically summarise the burden of clerical responsibilities: “Bells hunge downe to six feete to shew that A Ministers doctryne must reach to his life they must haue hands under there wings & eyes”. More general observations include the optimistic “In needle workes uppon sad grounds there is pleasant Coulours”. It seems unclear whether our scribe is précising Eusebius’ commentary or providing his own exegesis. For example “The tyme of the pure white gowne was 40 yeares till the tyme of Diocletian under Claudius Quintilie Aurelia” references “Eus: .8.1.2”, while other sartorial references seem to be his own “long white garments // longe as gownes to reach to the feete for the Couering of any defectiue thinge in it And white as tokens of gladnesse”. (f.105v)." Dealer's description (cont.): "GETTING NEARER THE FARSYDE One reference in particular helps to home in on the likely date of compilation. On f.6, the scribe includes a short excerpt on “Anger”, which reads “If they are blamed that let the Sun goe downe in their anger how much are they to be blamed that let the moone change on their wrath. Greenh: page 741 uide 289 notes of true anger.” This almost certainly signifies the Workes of the Richard Greenham (1535?-1594?), an English clergyman who was well known for his strong Puritan doctrine of the Sabbath. Although only one sermon was published in his lifetime, his many sermons and theological treatises had a significant influence on the Puritan movement in England. Greenham’s Workes were first published in 1599, with further editions in 1601, 1605, and 1612. Of these, only the 1605 and 1612 have page numbers above “page 741”. The 1612 edition contains the lines: “If they be faultie that let the Sunne go downe on their wrath, what shall become of them that let the Moone change on their wrath”, but they occur on p.67 not p.741. We have been unable to examine the 1605 edition, and therefore unable to identify the exact edition our scribe has used. But the textual match is promising, and “Greenh:” is surely Greenham. It is worth noting that the 1612 edition was the last, and the lines do not occur in the only work of his published after that date (A garden of spiritual flowers). The combination of the unusual watermark, the secretary hand, and the reference to a work from 1612 (or earlier), makes a date in the second decade of the 17th century highly likely. If G. J. W. Farsyde is correct, and the volume was indeed “written by one of the family”, then perhaps they can be traced through the library catalogue of the Reverend Thomas Farsyde, which is recorded on ff.3-4 (see below). According to Venn, the Reverend Thomas Farsyde’s father was John, gentleman, born at Fylingdales. This refers to John Farside (d. 1660), making either him or his father, William Farside, likely candidates for the compiler of this manuscript. Unfortunately, there seems to be very little information about the Farsides from this period. Dugdale says of John Farside (d. 1660) that he was “of Pickering Lithe in com Ebor.” John’s parents were also of that county: William Farside was “borne at Langdane Bridge, wthin Whitby Strand, after resided at Ellis Close, wthin ye honour of Pickerg.” John’s mother, Mary, also from Yorkshire, was the “daughter of John Watson of Hakenes in Whitby Strand in com. Ebor.” Dugdale also tells us that “John Farside of Farside in the Realme of Scotland came into England in the time of K. James, and was made Bowbearer in the Forest of Pickering in com. Ebor.” The Farsides changed their name to Farsyde and built Thorpe Hall mansion in 1680. This was the home of George James Watson Farsyde at the time he wrote the inscription to the inner board of this volume. A very similar inscription to the one in our volume is also in a volume now at the Brotherton Library, Leeds. Theirs reads “These M.S. were found amongst the papers of my Uncle Watson Farsyde”. The Brotherton’s volume is ascribed to “Jo. Tempest” (the name appears several times), and they date the volume to circa 1640-50. However, the hand is not a good match for our scribe, so however tempting it may have been to do so, unfortunately, we cannot pursue the connection further. That said, it seems likely that there are other volumes with the same provenance, which might help identify our scribe." Dealer's description (cont.): "THE LIBRARY CATALOGUE After its beginnings in the first decades of the 17th century, the book seems to have lain dormant until Thomas Farsyde (a.k.a. Farside or Fairside) (c. 1695-1747) used several of its pages to record his library catalogue. It is simply entitled “A Catalogue” but a note (perhaps by G. J. W. Farsyde) clarifies that it is “of the Library of The Revd. Thos: Farsyde sometime circa 1735. Incumbent of perpetual curacy at Whitby”. (He also adds “A Sketch from Nature” dated 1836, after which his interventions cease.) According to Venn, “Thomas Farsyde was educated at Cambridge: Adm. sizar (age 17) at St John’s, 27 Jun., 1712. Matric. 1712, B.A. 1715/6. He was ordained deacon (York) 1717; priest 1719, Victor of Willerby, East Riding of Yorkshire, 1723. In 1725, he married Jane Hillard. Was Reverend of Whitby, North Riding of Yorkshire, 1734-36.” Thomas records his library in size order, beginning with folios and working downwards. There are 20 folios, 13 quartos, and 72 “Octavos & Duodecimos”. Of his 105 titles, only around 32 are of a moral or religious nature (“Caves Apostolici”, “Hammo[n]d’s Vindication of Episcopy”, “An Essay Concerning Preaching”, “Calamy’s Godly Mans book”, etc). These include two Bibles tucked at the end, “An English Bible” and “A nother large Bible”, which indicates either that the latter was noticeably large for an octavo or duodecimo, or that the Reverend had completely forgotten to include the holy book until last (it is immediately preceded by “Paracelsus of Occult Philosophy”, and further up the list by “The Marrow of Alchemy”). First on the list is “The Institution Laws & Ceremonies of ye noble order of the Garter Collected by Elias Ashmole”. Although their pretensions did not reach to the Order of the Garter, the Farside family claimed to be armigerous. Dugdale does record the family in his Visitation of Yorkshire (1661), but he remarks that “This coate is sayd to belong to the family of Farsides of Scotland, but no proofe made.” This largely secular library, although small, makes interesting reading. Books are predominantly English, with a few exceptions (usually small-format classics). No obvious hierarchy other than size is imposed – indeed, among the folios, “Sermons. The Title page being Torn out”, is placed several titles above “Sellar’s Attlas Maritimus”. Farsyde does not state the edition, but the fact that it is recorded under folios indicates it was probably 1670, 1672, or 1675. All editions are scarce, and nowadays it easily commands five-figure sums at auction, so it is interesting to find it given equal status to a damaged book of sermons (if line space is an indicator). The list takes in subjects such as science and nature (“The Compleat Surveyor by Wm: Leibown” (i.e. Leybourn), “The Azimuth’s Compass and Plain Sailing”, “Markham’s Master piece”, “The Mysteries of Nature & Art in 4 parts” (i.e. John Bate’s The mysteries of nature and art. In foure severall parts London, 1635 and 1654), “Vinetum Britanicum”), travel writing (“Ogleby’s Affrica”, “Sandy’s Travils”), and military (“Richard Deltons (i.e. Elton) Compleat art Body of ye Military Art”). Dictionaries and language reference are represented by “A Quadruple Dictionary”, “Schrevelius’s Dictio:” (presumably the Lexicon manuale Græco-Latinum, & Latino-Græcum first published at London in 1663 (numerous editions into the 18th century), and “Robertson’s Phrase book” (i.e. Phraseologia generalis published at Cambridge 1681 and reissued with cancel titles in 1693 and 1695). Works of literature include “The Arcadian Princess by Ri: Brathwait”, “Ovid’s Metamorphosis” and that remarkable 17th-century book, which amounts to a library in itself, “The Anatomy of Melancholly”. Thomas Farsyde’s “Catalogue”, besides offering an interesting take on 18th-century book-collecting (such as the equal status apparently given to a title-page-less book of “Sermons” and the rare “Sellar’s Attlas Maritimus”), provides a ‘bridge’ between the 19th-century inscription and earlier text. It marks a point in the evolution of intellectual interests from the almost purely pious concerns of his ancestor’s commonplace entries to the more eclectic, empirical and secular approaches that emerged in the culture during the 18th century. £5,000 Ref: 8083 References: 1. Wagner, A. R. Register and Collections of the College of Arms. 1952. 2. Ruggles, Richard I. ‘Governor Samuel Wegg. The Winds of Change’. The Beaver, 1976. With thanks to Dr Robert Colley for his invaluable assistance. " Great Britain England London. naf US-DFo Ordered from Dean Cooke, Manuscripts & Rare Books D9610, 2022-09-07, email quote. FAST ACC 272827 272827 29 x 21 x 3 cm 831619 oai:catalog.folger.edu:913540 GLOBAL_SET BIB ORDER Vault 05317ctm\a22002415i\4500 1133969 20251009193407.0 230425s1694\\\\enk\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\eng\\ Commonplace book of John Thompson. [manuscript] [circa 1694] [England] ; [circa 1694] 1 volume ; 20 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia DFo This is a PRELIMINARY RECORD. It may contain incorrect information. Please email catalog@folger.edu for assistance. DFo preliminary cataloging 2024-09-13 DJL local DFo Manuscripts (documents) aat Commonplace books. rbmscv Thompson, John, active 1694, author. Great Britain England, production place. naf US-DFo 272835 MS 272835 20 x 16 x 3 cm From dealer's description: "[THOMPSON, John] Late 17th-century manuscript commonplace book. [Circa 1694]. Quarto (text block measures 195 x 153 x 20). 12-page table, [4 (blanks)], 233 (numbered pages), [17, (blanks)]. Contemporary panelled calf, neatly rebacked (probably in the 20th century), rubbed, occasional browning and minor marks to text. A few pressed leaves loosely inserted. Watermark: Coat of Arms (similar to Haewood 369, but not an exact match). Provenance: three ownership inscriptions to front endpaper of “JohnThompson” and dated “1694”. Commonplace books were compiled with varying degrees of organisation or intent, sometimes over years or decades: this example seems to have been a project conceived and executed by its owner within a relatively short time span. The only date (“1694”) is the one to the endpaper, the clear hand and the layout are consistent throughout, and some sections of text have been copied down in batches from their sources. Those sources are not always easy to identify, given the frequency with which texts – especially epigrammatic or aphoristic ones – were anthologised and recirculated, either in print or in manuscript. But Thompson’s first entry, which begins “Garrulity is soe Irksome to Society, that we seldom find it welcom’d”, is taken from Daily observations, or, Meditations, divine, moral, by Arthur Capel (1604-1649), a contention confirmed by his paraphrasing of Capel in his title to this section: “Daily Observations. Divine & Morall”. Thompson’s rendering of extracts in batches from certain sources is far from indiscriminate: for example, the passages between p 175 and p 216 were copied from The courtier’s oracle: or, The art of prudence. Written originally in Spanish, by Baltazar Gracian; and now done into English (two editions: 1685 and 1694), and set down in the order in which they occur in the printed work. But Thompson is selecting and curating, and has included only those which he considered pertinent. The inference is that he has exercised his own quite specific set of criteria in choosing which to include and which to leave out. Among those that do make it into his book are: “To be always usefull”, “The thing and ye Manner of the thing”, “The judicious and Penetrating man”, “The joviall Humour”, “The way to live Long”, and “Silken words”. Thompson’s personal touchstones can be gleaned to some extent by looking though the topic headings in “The Table”, his alphabetically arranged, 12-page index of contents at the front of the volume which includes a wide variety of headings. We list just a few here give a sense of topics covered which range from “Arguing and passion”, “Apparell”, “Beauty”, “Business”, “Contradicting”, “Charity”, “Death”, “Ears”, “Flattery”, “Gaming”, “Happiness”, “Jests”, “Love”, “Memory”, “Oppression”, “Patience”, “Reason”, “Speech”, “Silence”, “Tears and Pain”, to “Women”. His selections regarding “Women” are brief, but they all too clearly represent the misogyny that characterised the culture of this period (and, of course laid the foundations for later generations), via a liberal quantity of illiberal epigrams such as “He yt: can abide a curst wife, need not fear what company he liveth in”, and “If women be butifull, they are won with praises, if proud with Guifts; if covetous with promises”, and one which might resonate with today’s incels: “Women oft in their Love resemble the Apothecary’s in their Arts, who choose the weeds for their Shops, when they leave the Fairest flowers in the Garden”. These all appeared in Nicholas Ling’s (active 1580-1607) Politeuphuia, wits common-wealth, an enormously popular book first published in 1597 and followed by at least 30 editions. Other catchy phrases to prop up the patriarchy reach back to ancient times: “Trust not a woman when she weepeth, for it is her nature to weep when she wanteth her will” appeared in several 17th century works but can be traced as far back as Socrates. Commonplace books can offer an opportunity to examine the aesthetic, literary and moral palates of their owners, and to illuminate parts of the larger world of early-modern publishing and manuscript culture. Thompson’s contribution to the genre is admirably thorough; through his curated selections, we gain an insight into the thoughts and attitudes of a 17th-century reader and their wider society which in turn formed the substratum of the world in which we live today. Ordered from Dean Cooke Rare Books ltd. D9622, 2023-03-24, from Catalogue no. four, item #43, Ref. 8133 1000067 oai:catalog.folger.edu:1133969 GLOBAL_SET BIB ORDER Vault 05650ctm\a22001815i\4500 543767 20251009150809.0 200729s1690\\\\enk\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\0\eng\\ UtOrBLW King, Gregory, no 98072221, author. CHETWYNDORUM STEMMA Sive Chetwyndianae Familiae de Ingestre in agro Staffordiensi, ac olim de Chetwynd in com. Salop. successio. Ex ipsus autographis penes Walterum Chetwynd Arm. deducta. Ex insigniis, sigillis, aliusq; eiusdem Familiae Monumentis illustrata, [1690] [manuscript]. [Ingestre Hall, Staffordshire, 1690] Ao. Dni. M.D.C.L.XXXX 1-3, pp. 5-36, [2], 37-82, [2], 83- 92, [8] text, [6] blank, 93-102, [103-106] blank; 105-7 text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia This is a PRELIMINARY RECORD. It may contain incorrect information. Please email catalog@folger.edu for assistance. 37 x 12 x 2 cm Great Britain England. naf US-DFo DeckC-Rare FAST ACC 272061 This is a PRELIMINARY RECORD. It may contain incorrect information. The "FAST ACC" number is a temporary call number. Please email catalog@folger.edu for assistance. From dealer's description: "A superb volume, written for Walter Chetwynd by Gregory King in 1690, and finely bound for the library there. The volume was clearly compiled for, and based on the information collected by, the antiquary and country gentleman Walter Chetwynd (1633-93) of Ingestre Hall, Staffordshire. He had inherited the house from his father, another Walter Chetwynd, in 1669, but as his biographer in ODNB relates, he was already a figure in county politics and administration. In 1674 he became one of the MPs for Stafford, along with a Chetwynd kinsman, and with the exception of the Convention Parliament he held the seat continuously until his death. Loosely inserted into this volume is a copy of Robert White’s engraved portrait of Chetwynd, dated 1691– the name of the sitter has been cropped from the foot of the print, but it is reproduced elsewhere as his portrait, and it incorporates exactly the armorial stamped on both covers of the binding here. Walter Chetwynd was married in 1658 to Anne Bagot, but she died in 1671, giving birth to their only child, Frances, who died in 1673; he did not remarry and with his death in 1693 the principal line came to an end, but the house descended to the Chetwynd-Talbot family and then the Earls of Shrewsbury; it was eventually sold in 1960 to West Bromwich council. The contents of this manuscript, drawn from the family muniments, are clearly intended to memorialise the Chetwynd family’s long history of occupying their land: they had been at Ingrestre some four hundred years, acquiring the manor by marriage in the mid-thirteenth century and building Ingestre Hall in the early seventeenth. The hall still stands today, and is clearly recognisable in the drawing here on p. 93. This volume is cited by M.W. Greenslade in the account of Chetwynd in ODNB, and from this it is quite clear that it was compiled and very probably written by the young Gregory King: in his own autobiographical notes, King states that in 1670 he was brought to Ingestre by Chetwynd, ‘to peruse and transcribe the deeds of his family relating to his genealogy, which he did in a fair vellum book, tricking also therein the most considerable seals’. This was some twenty years before the date in the present manuscript, but Greenslade rightly supposes that the first part must be the work that King was commissioned to achieve in 1670: the family genealogy (on p. 80) ends with the addition of Frances, the couple’s only child; and a slightly later hand has entered the date of her death on 19 August 1673. The latter part of the manuscript has later information: it transcribes documents from the 1670s and 1680s, but in a very similar hand, and was clearly also the work of Gregory King on Chetwynd’s behalf. The whole volume was obviously intended to commemorate the house, family and local habitation of the Chetwynds, and – despite Walter’s line coming to an end within a few years of its completion – in a sense it succeeded, as the manuscript remained at Ingestre Hall for more than a century: a 19th century bookplate of the family shows that it remained in situ. The illustrations in this manuscript are as follows: p. 22: early Chetwynd family members, with their armorials, from the parish church at Grendon, Warwicks, another Chetwynd family property p. 64: the tomb of John Chetwynd (Walter’s great-grandfather, d. 1592) p. 66: effigy of Archdeacon John Mullins (another great-grandfather), from St Paul’s Cathedral, London – presumably lost in the Fire of 1666 p. 84: a knightly effigy in the parish church of Chetwynd, Shropshire p. 93: full-page drawing of Ingestre Hall p. 94: south and west elevations of the church at Ingestre, dedicated 1677 pp. 96-7: superbly detailed drawings of the monuments at Ingestre church, for Chetwynd’s father and mother (p. 96) and himself and his wife (p. 97) – the inscription for his wife Anne is complete, but that for himself is left eloquently blank p. 99: various Chetwynd armorials from the windows in the parish church at Ingestre pp. 100-102: superbly detailed drawings of the monuments to: Frances Haselrigge (Walter’s mother, d. 1670), Frances Chetwynd (his only child, d. 1673) and several other Chetwynd forebears (a monument erected by Walter in 1676) pp. 105-6: drawings of 43 seals, dating from the reign of Edward III to that of Henry VI Binding: Full olive morocco over pasteboard. The style and tools are hard to assign to a particular workshop, but it might well have been the work of on the so-called ‘Queens’ binders’, who were at work in London in the last quarter of the 17th century. Ordered from Christopher Edwards, D9401, 2020-07-29, Email. 831821 272061 oai:catalog.folger.edu:543767 GLOBAL_SET BIB Vault 05713ctm\a22002415i\4500 728563 20251009151421.0 220818s1660\\\\it\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\0\eng\\ UtOrBLW Southwell, Sir Robert, Sir, 1635-1702, author. Manuscript journal of travel and medical notes [manuscript], Circa 1660,. Genoa, Livorno, Padua and Bologna, Circa 1660. 1 item ; 188 x 95 x 12 mm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia This is a PRELIMINARY RECORD. It may contain incorrect information. The "FAST ACC" number is a temporary call number. Please email catalog@folger.edu for assistance. DFo Manuscripts (documents) 300028569 aat Italy. naf Funder information from macro or template US-DFo FAST ACC 272506 24 x16 cm 272506 From dealer's description: "[SOUTHWELL, Sir Robert (1635-1702)] Manuscript journal of travel and medical notes. [Genoa, Livorno, Padua and Bologna. Circa 1660. Dated in text]. Manuscript on paper. Measurements: 188 mm x 95 mm x 12 mm. Approximately 130 text pages on 70 leaves. Bound in an earlier vellum document. Watermark: Upside-down bell above the word Galhairdo and beneath is an upsidedown crown. An unusual watermark not in Haewood or Briquet. This hugely appealing artefact began life as a vellum deed. But, with its original purpose fulfilled it was fashioned into a wallet style binding (tied with a piece of vellum presumably also cut from the same sheet) that unfolds to reveal the remarkable 17thcentury notebook of a young man whose intense intellectual curiosity is recorded with an unvarnished immediacy of thought. The notebook's construction and unusual vertical oblong format indicate that this was a home-made book. Its owner and compiler, Sir Robert Southwell, was an affluent man, so its humble beginnings suggest that it was created for its convenient format rather than any concerns for parsimony: its simple, slim shape slips neatly into the pocket, perfect for our peripatetic record-keeper as he travels to Italy to absorb its history and customs, and learn about the medical and scientific advances taking place there, all of which are recorded in an urgent, eager, and consequently rather untidy hand. Sir Robert Southwell was born in Ireland. He received some schooling in the city of Cork before moving to England in 1650. In 1653 he matriculated at Queen's College in Oxford, where he graduated BA in 1655, having been entered at Lincoln's Inn in 1654. He completed this 'gentleman's education' by taking an early form of 'grand tour'. But we learn from his journal that he was not merely adding polish to a fashionable education; he is genuinely curious to learn all he can about the workings of societies, the human body, and the natural world. His fascination for science, which is apparent throughout the journal, was confirmed in 1662, when his friend, Robert Boyle, sponsored him to become a fellow of the Royal Society (of which he was elected president in 1690). The notebook has little in the way of a narrative shape; it serves as a handy receptacle for Southwell's 'memos', many of which he apparently records 'on the hoof', as scenes unfold before him. At times the precise meaning of his notes can be a little obscure, but this contributes to the overall impression of a highly intelligent and engaged young man intently squirrelling away thoughts for later use or reflection. PEOPLE: PAST AND PRESENT Southwell's apparent sociability and facility for learning languages allowed him to move through social situations with ease (qualities which would serve him well later in his career as an ambassador). On the first page of his journal, he records his arrival at Genoa, where "ye Governour sent for us, received courteously with some state, discoursed of ye marriage of France & our Voyage to Rome" - and after Southwell's company return to their lodgings, "he sent us .2. bottles of Wine". Later he attends a grand marriage in Parma, which he records in detail (f.40r - f.42v.): "The Duchess was mett by 40 coaches wth. 6 horses [...] as her Coaches passed by, all ye Ladyes came out of theirs on ye way making obeyances [...] At ye townes end ye Bsp. red. her at a chappel there erected to give her benediction". He records the seating arrangements at their lavish "publick dinner". As befits a future ambassador, he is rarely judgmental, only occasionally allowing himself to lapse into gossip ("he is now poore, gained all away and is a most contemptible sottish fellow"). Southwell is equally alert to figures and artefacts from the past, and assiduously records inscriptions wherever he goes ("the story is yt. 500 women went to ye holy war of wch. returned but 36 whose Armour is there hanging [...] ye breast plates swelling out. one is for a great (1) great bellyed woman and ye head piece of their Captaine is guilt with gold. There are armes fixt for for 30 thousand men likes muskets, pistolls, Drums &c."). One inscription in particular draws his attention: "Pillar of Infamy" records the traitorous acts of "Johannis Paulo Balbi" and elicits his observation that "the Inscription on marble in ye wall, & ye Pillars placed in ye wall yt. it might not be throwne downe for of his relations there are eminent persons in ye towne." Also, on the vexed topic of sympathies and loyalties, Southwell remarks on support on the Continent for English Recusants: "The Jesuit told us yt. in England ye Priest doe com[m]only lodg in ye Parsons house. At ye Execution of one of them there are still a great number about him to give him the last absolution where he gains ye signe, as holding up his hands or soe." Ordered from Dean Cooke, Manuscripts & Rare Books, D9588, 2022-05-25, Words and things catalog, item 5. Purchase made possible by [funding info goes here]. 1000030 oai:catalog.folger.edu:728563 GLOBAL_SET BIB ORDER Vault 02640ctm\a2200193Ma\4500 544230 20251009150813.0 201123s1727\\\\enk\\\\\\\\\\\00|\||eng|| UtOrBLW George Stubbs his book [manuscript]. [England], 1727. [107 p. ; 16 x 20 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia This is a PRELIMINARY RECORD. It may contain incorrect information. Please email catalog@folger.edu for assistance. 20 x 17 x 4 cm Great Britain England. naf The Albert H. and Shirley Small Acquisitions Endowment Fund, funder. 241 DFo US-DFo DeckC-Rare FAST ACC 272104 This is a PRELIMINARY RECORD. It may contain incorrect information. The "FAST ACC" number is a temporary call number. Please email catalog@folger.edu for assistance. Purchase made possible by The Albert H. and Shirley Small Acquisitions Endowment Fund. Ordered from Samuel Gedge, D9420, 2020-11-23, Cat. 30 item #33. From dealer's description: "33. [MATHEMATICS.] George Stubbs his book. [England.] 1727. Manuscript, ink on paper. 4to (16 x 19.5cm) [107] pages penned over [74] leaves, flyleaves a little dusty with old pen trials (many repeating “George Stubbs his book “ & “1727”), pastedowns a little ragged, one leaf with corner torn away, the manuscript text clear and legible throughout, in original vellum, traces of old ink inscription on cover “George Stubbs ...”, small tear to vellum at corner of rear cover, rubbed but sound. Recording a course of study in mercantile mathematics, this early Georgian manuscript penned by a young man named George Stubbs in 1727 is filled with exercises of the kind that would have been useful for an apprentice merchant being tutored in arithmetical rules accompanied by practical examples of commercial calculations: “a pipe of wine for 50 guyneas what is that p[er] gall[on] ... If 30 pence and 40 groats buy 50 pints of wine what is the cost of 60 quarts in current English coin ... the golden rule or rule of 3 direct ... the rule of three reverse ...the double rule of three direct ... single fellowship ... double fellowship ... alligation medial ... in 27 bags of pepper containing gross 58 h[undredweight] 3q[uarters] 11 lb tare 4lb bag how many bag neat ... aligation alternate ... equation of payments ... practice tables ... company or fellowship ... fellowship with time ... barter or truck ... interest ... discount ... exchange ... A merchant in Rotterdam remits a bill of exchange of 7621 Guilders, 7 Stuivers, to be paid in London. How much Sterling money must the bill of exchange be drawn for, the exchange at 331: 4d ... profit and loss ... fractions vulgar and decimal ... to gauge by the slide ... the description of the quadrant ... a way to make a post dial ...” 832372 272104 oai:catalog.folger.edu:544230 GLOBAL_SET BIB Vault 02510ctm\a22002415i\4500 728562 20240923165044.0 220818s1624\\\\fr\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\0\fre\\ UtOrBLW Amas tant des plus beau fays at des des Autheurs Payens et Chrestien que des Ancies et modernes fayt par moy [manuscript], 1624. 1624. 1 item ; 11.8 x 8 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia This is a PRELIMINARY RECORD. It may contain incorrect information. The "FAST ACC" number is a temporary call number. Please email catalog@folger.edu for assistance. DFo Manuscripts (documents) 300028569 aat France. naf Funder information from macro or template US-DFo FAST ACC 272555 272555 272555 12 x 8 x 6 cm From dealer's description: "33. [Information historyl Amas tant] Amas tant des plus beau fays at des des Autheurs Payens et Chrestien que des Ancies et modernes fayt par moy [name legible] l'an de grace 1624. Reveus et corrigés par lautheur avec une tables des Auteurs et des Matyeres contenue en cely 1624. Manuscript. 1 volume, 11.8 cm x 7.4 cm., pp.[6]-two leaves with notes recto followed by titlepage, 1.669 [1] 670 [1] 671-757; 151 (blank), 1-102. Ruled borders. Monogram title page. Damage affecting text to leaf containing pp. 179-180, side-margins shaved occasionally touching text. Bound in early velum over boards, fore-edge cover extensions, ties removed significant repairs to spine and upper cover. Neat pagination in recent pencil A small sized but thick compendium of learning containing 1454 word-entries with definitions and citations. The author nates that the manuscript was started on 30 March 1624 and finished on 10 May of the same year! See pp. 756-7571. Subjects include classics, geography and science, moral matters, law, and rhetoric. Ali at end of authors used includes the scholars Hieronymo Cardano (1501-1576) and Conrad Gessner (1516-1565) and the writer and missionary in Ethiopia Francisco Alvares (1465- 15401. We see entries in the word book for the Thames (item 32), arsenic and antimone (items 50, 51), music (item 118), bison (item 1360)the micropsicos (person of small heart (item 1395), and honey (item 1397). The entries have not been written down in alphabetical order but are recorded in a semi alphabetical and then in the order in which they occur). Legal terms and rhetorical terms are given their own separate indexes. Ref: [3743] " Ordered from Leo Cadogan, D9685, 2022-04-26, New York Book Fair April 21-24, 2022, item #33 Purchase made possible by [funding info goes here]. BIB ORDER Vault SUPPRESSED 01456cka\a2200229Ii\4500 544109 20251009150811.0 kj\bo| 201004s1650\\\\fr\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\knfre\d UtOrBLW Le Recu[e]il des secret pour graver à leau forte de brun... se fair le xx xbre mil six cent quatre vingt douze... [graphic], [17th century]. [France?] : Vicinity of Marseille, [ca. 1692-3] 50 leaves ; 162 x 200 mm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia paper rdamat monochrome rdacc This is a PRELIMINARY RECORD. It may contain incorrect information. Please email catalog@folger.edu for assistance. DFo 17 x 23 x 2 x cm Text in French. France Paris. The Georges Lurcy Acquisitions Fund, funder. 181 DFo US-DFo FAST ACC 272177 Purchase made possible by The Georges Lurcy Acquisitions Fund. From dealer's description: "Manuscript, oblong 4to (162 × 230 mm). 50 leaves, of which the first 9 (paginated ‘a’-’u’) and the last 2 bear text (mostly on both sides), the remainder blank save for original pagination. Text in French, usually legible. Original limp vellum over stiff paper reused from an earlier legal document, with title in manuscript to upper cover, arms to lower cover (plus several other markings and inscriptions, faint or deliberately obliterated). Soiled and cockled, old stitched repair to upper forecorner of upper cover." Ordered from Justin Croft Antiquarian Books D9412, 2020-10-01. Catalogue: Paris 2020, item #16. 832226 272177 oai:catalog.folger.edu:544109 GLOBAL_SET BIB Vault 03597ctm\a22001695i\4500 545014 20251009150931.0 211006q17101714enk||||\|\\\\||||\||eng|| UtOrBLW Two early 18th-century English manuscript schoolbooks [manuscript], circa 1710-14. [England], [circa 1710-14] 2 volumes ; 20 x 16 cm each text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia This is a PRELIMINARY RECORD. It may contain incorrect information. The "FAST ACC" number is a temporary call number. Please email catalog@folger.edu for assistance. DFo Manuscripts (documents) 300028569 aat Great Britain England. naf US-DFo Ordered from Dean Cooke, Manuscripts & Rare Books, D9535, 2021-10-06, Cat. "First words: catalogue of manuscripts & rare books to be exhibited by Dean Cooke Rare Books Ltd on stand A7 at the firsts fair Saatchi Gallery London 21 - 24 October 2021", item #14. From dealer's description: "BENSON, John Two early 18th-century English manuscript schoolbooks. [England, Muncaster. Undated. Circa 1710-4]. Two small quarto volumes, each approximately 200 mm x 160 mm. These unusual manuscript volumes offer privileged access to the educational provision of the so-called lower classes in provincial England. Their sometimes-contradictory elements give us an insight into the cross-currents of intellectual thought in the early modern period. Here we find earlier scholastic didacticism nesting within Enlightenment ideas of broader access to education. The volumes were produced by one John Benson who embeds what he has learned through his organised presentation which develops across two quarto volumes. The earlier volume is bound in contemporary sprinkled sheep, with plain ruled boards. The first leaf is inscribed to the recto, “Unus e libris Johannis Benson pretium 3[s]—6[d]-0[qs] Cene valet” and to the verso “Exercitia Scholastica in usum I: Benson Conditoris”, both pages with calligraphic flourishes. Pagination: 1 (blank), 2 (inscriptions), 127 text pages, followed by 21 blank leaves at the end. The plain sheep binding and the presence of blank leaves at the end suggests this was a stationer’s book bought for the purpose. The pages are neatly laid out with some borders, and the text is written in a clear and legible sloping, with occasional calligraphic flourishes. It does not appear to be a workbook, rather it has the appearance of a copybook bringing together the best of this student’s work. The second volume is predominantly devoted to the art of writing, including dialogue, rhetoric, and especially poetry, and integrates some of the poems from the first volume. The layout of the material is clearer and more organised, making for a more attractive artefact. It is bound in full calf, which again appears to be a stationer’s book but this time a contrasting label has been added to the spine which reads “Scolastick Exercises I * B”. The front paste-down and first leaf are inscribed “Liber Johannis Benson” across the two pages, with calligraphic flourishes and floral patterns. Pagination: 272 pages (including 3 divisional blanks); this text comfortably doubles the earlier volume. There are several stubs at the end, but the text ends with the word “Finis”. The text is double-ruled in red throughout, with some horizontal double lines to earlier sections and decorative pen strokes in red to the remainder of the text. We have a strong sense of a student taking what he has learned about spatial organisation and bringing it to bear upon his second attempt at a final copybook." 833231 Book 1: 20 x 16 x 3 cm: ; Book 2: 20 x 17 x 4 cm 272512 FAST ACC 272512 oai:catalog.folger.edu:545014 GLOBAL_SET BIB Vault 06373ctm\a22001935i\4500 545023 20251009150931.0 211008m16601735enk||||\|\\\\||||\||eng|| UtOrBLW Annual minute and account book of Mrs. Barkham's School, Wells, Somersetshire [manuscript]. Wells, 1660-1735. 157 leaves ; 32 x 21 x 8 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia This is a PRELIMINARY RECORD. It may contain incorrect information. The "FAST ACC" number is a temporary call number. Please email catalog@folger.edu for assistance. DFo Manuscripts (documents) 300028569 aat Barkham, Margaret, -1654, associated name. Great Britain England. naf US-DFo Ordered from Dean Cooke Manuscripts & Rare Books, D9535, 2021-10-06, Cat. "First words: catalogue of manuscripts & rare books to be exhibited by Dean Cooke Rare Books Ltd on stand A7 at the firsts fair Saatchi Gallery London 21 - 24 October 2021", item #31. From dealer's description: "31. EXPANDING HER PUPILS [BARKHAM, Margaret (d. 1654)] A 17th- and 18th-century manuscript minute and account book recording the foundation of a Somerset school still in existence [Wells. 1660-1735]. Folio (320 mm x 205 mm x 75 mm). Approximately 370 leaves including numerous blanks (see below for foliation details). Bound in contemporary reverse calf, with brass clasps, and gilt stamped to the reverse “MRS MAGARETT BARKHA[M]” (the final letter has been lost when the clasps were repaired). The lettering to the reverse board seems strange, but it is undoubtedly how the book was used because the spine has gradually recessed through repeated usage. The unusual arrangement of this artefact presents, at first glance, something of a conundrum: why do sections written in 1679 precede those written in 1660? However, if we take the sequence of events as our guide, we find that they make sense when considered in the order in which the texts were entered. They also help us understand how this early free school itself developed into a more organised and stable institution. At the centre of that development is one William Westley, who joins the school’s board of feoffees (trustees who hold and administer an estate for charitable purposes) and, apparently almost single-handedly, brings order and structure to the struggling school – a transformation aptly reflected in this book’s evolution from incongruity to coherence. The contents are as follows: Front endpaper with initials “DT” to upper margin. [1]. [Circa 1679]. ff. 1-9 (17 pages) “A Copie of M:rs Barkhams Feoffment relating to her Schoole in Wells”. [*]. ff. 10-30, blank leaves. [2]. [Circa 1679]. ff. 31-52. Copy of a document summarising Margaret Barkham’s will, appointing feoffees, recording their actions in the first days of the school’s foundation. Also details of the first intake of “Schollers”, the “Lawes and Ordinances” of the school and records of the year 1659. [*]. ff. 53-55, blank leaves. [3]. [Circa 1660-1735]. ff. 56-157. Accounts, actions, and other notes. [*]. ff. 158-370, blank leaves. Section [1] copies a document from1654 but appears to have been entirely written by William Westley in 1679 when he adds a dated note and his signature (illustrated overleaf). Section [2] is written in a scribal hand. This section documents events from 1656 to 1660 but was probably copied into the volume in 1679 at the instruction of William Westley. Section [3] commences in 1660 and continues through to1735. It is written in a variety of hands. Although the accounts [3] begin on f. 56, they are evidently the earliest section of the manuscript. From dealer's description (cont.): "So why do the earlier pages of section [3] predate sections [1] and [2], and why are they separated by a large blank section? It seems clear that the explanation is as follows. The original feoffees read Margaret Barkham’s will and worked directly from their knowledge of it. Although aware that it was expected, none of them wanted the chore of copying into the volume these extensive legal documents whose contents were already so familiar to them, so they left a number of blank pages for someone else to fulfil this onerous task. The workings of time and mortality caused some of the founding feoffees to be replaced. One new arrival was William Westley, whose diligence did much to bring order to the accounts. We learn from these meticulous records that Westley was appointed a feoffee in 1679. Westley is first recorded as keeping an "accompt to our Lady day last) the summe of 11li : 6 : 11” and, further down the page, as one of three signers on the “2d / day of Aprill 1679:", and he continued in this role for many years. He evidently took his responsibilities very seriously, and knowing that copies should be kept in this book and to save future feoffees the trouble of referring back to the original documents, he did what should have been done at the outset: he copied in the originals and signed them off. Accordingly, Westley has annotated the first document [1] at the end: “A true copie Exd- with the Originall Deed /of ffeoffmt the 15o Sept 1679 / By me Wm: Westley”. We assume that Westley himself copied this, as it is consistent with his other entries later in the volume. The second document [2] is written in a neat – probably professional – scribal hand. This section is not dated, but does refer to the preceding document: “which deede is entred and recorded in this present Booke” (f. 31r). It includes details of the events from the execution of Margaret Barkham’s will until the first accounts. It seems likely that Westley, having laboured to copy in the first document, employed a professional scribe to bring the volume fully up to date. Westley’s actions should not be underestimated: in bringing stability to a still uncertain institution he contributed, in his small part, to the development of a more cohesive administrative basis for the embryonic English education system. His work as an individual foreshadows the wider institutional efforts needed for the education of the poor to become more than an ad hoc, well-intentioned but scattershot business. [...]" 833243 272514 FAST ACC 272514 33 x 21 x 8 cm oai:catalog.folger.edu:545023 GLOBAL_SET BIB Vault