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Complaints : Containing sundrie small poemes of the worlds vanitie. VVhereof the next page maketh mention
Spenser, Edmund (1552?-1599)
1591
First edition. Ed. Sp. = Edmund Spenser. In verse. Signatures: A-Z⁴. Sign. X3 and Y2 are wrongly signed B3 and Y3 respectively; no leaf signed X4. "The teares of the muses", "Prosopopoia",...
Title: A perfect patterne of true felicity, framed to find the way of eternity [i.e. BCMSV 4621]. Verses [Verses concerning true felicity (index)]
Author: Tusser, Thomas
Date(s): 1580 (published)
Manuscript: Lt q 9
Contents: Religious poem urging contentment with the gifts of god
Title: Lewd love is loss
Author: Southwell, Robert
Date(s): 158- or 159- ?
Manuscript: Lt 91
Contents: Religious poem on the perils to the soul of human, secular love
Epitome philosophiae naturalis : ex Aristotelis summi philosophi libris ita excerpta, ut eorum capita breviter & dilucide explicet, & ad eosdem cum fructu legendos praeparare studiosis possit: multis locis auctior & emendatior quae etiam Scholarum Petri Rami in octo libros Acroamaticos Aristotelis, errores passim detegit
Liebler, Georg (1524-1600); Izler, Georg; Crusius, Martinus (1526-1607); Aristotle (384 BCE-322 BCE)
1575
Containing introductory poems in Greek by Martin Crusius and Georg Izler.
Title: The praises of Mopsa daughter to Damietas
Author: Sidney, Sir Philip
Date(s): 1590 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 2
Contents: Pastoral poem describing the beauty of Mopsa, from Sidney's "Arcadia", Book
I
Title: Losse in delayes
Author: Southwell, Robert
Attribution: Henricus Gould [at end]
Date(s): 158- or 159- ?
Manuscript: Lt 91
Contents: Religious poem warning against procrastination in doing good and delay in combatting evil
Title: Scorne not the least
Author: Southwell, Robert
Date(s): 158- or 159- ?
Manuscript: Lt 91
Contents: Religious poem affirming that the humble and weak will be given their reward whatever the misery they suffer
Title: Time goes by turnes
Author: Southwell, Robert
Date(s): 158- or 159- ?
Manuscript: Lt 91
Contents: Religious poem on the mixture of fortunes in human life such that no happiness is unalloyed, nor misery total
Copy epitaph of William Middelton of Stockeld (d.1553) 'sometyme man of lawe' and Joan his wife, ( d. 1500)
[16th century]
Epitaph in the form of a poem. Lists William and Joan's 4 children. Brass was in Spofforth church
Ḥoshen ha-mishpaṭ
Jacob ben Asher (1269-1340); Karo, Joseph ben Ephraim (1488-1575); Arkevolty, Shmuel (1515-1611); Eliano, Vittorio
327 [1567]
With a postscript and a poem by Shmuel Arkevolty, followed by: Revisto & corretto per mi Vittorio Eliano.
Title: Loves garden griefe
Author: Southwell, Robert
Date(s): 158- or 159- ?
Manuscript: Lt 91
Contents: Religious poem on the consequences of enjoying the material, worldly pleasures of a life of vanity, comparing it to a garden tended by Satan