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Autograph notebook, including verse, by William Fairfax
Fairfax, William (1593-1621)
c.1620
Some poems are initialled "wx", "x", or with William Fairfax's monogram. Inserted is an early engraved frontispiece portrait of the author, with engraved verses (at the front).
Frederick William Rolfe, (Baron Corvo), collection
Rolfe, Frederick William (1860-1913)
1881-2011
Includes works and letters by Frederick Rolfe and the papers of Donald Weeks' who wrote and researched extensively on Rolfe.
Patchwork
Locker-Lampson, Frederick (1821-1895); Birrell, Augustine (1850-1933); Sherman, Philip D (1881-1957); Rowfant Club (Cleveland, Ohio); Plimpton Press
1927
"Of this volume, two hundred copies have been printed."
Poetical miscellany compiled by E. Beardwell
Beardwell, E
1724
'The six first Pastorals of Virgil, With Three of His Georgics; Together with some with [sic] Miscellany Poems [by various authors]. Transcrib'd and Collected By E. Beardwell, 1724'.
An anonymous commonplace book and diary (for 1811-1812), kept by a resident of Ackworth, Yorkshire
c.1760-1812
Contents: (1) Diary (front paste-down - f.10v); (2) Verses on the rulers of England from 1066 to 1760 (ff.31v-33r); (3) Verses attributed to a Miss Seward, entitled 'Receipt for a sweet jar' (ff.33v-3...
Diary of Isaac Stockton Clark
Clark, Isaac Stockton
1807-1813
Contains: (1) Extracts from poems; (2) List of "books which I intend [to] purchase when capable"; (3) Notes on family events (1800-1813); (4) Miscellaneous cash accounts
Commonplace book of English and Latin prose notes, anecdotes, sermon extracts, etc.
c. 1655
Contents consist largely of anecdotes, jokes and aphorisms; theological and scriptural notes; extracts from sermons (including one delivered at Oxford by William Chillingworth, beginning f.52v) and fr...
Poetical commonplace book
c.1715
Poems transcribed on ff.2r-39v include five by Prior, three each by Waller and Isaac Watts, two each by Swift, Pope (1 unattributed), Motteux and Marvell, and one each by Ambrose Philips, Laurence Eus...
Commonplace book, compiled largely by Mr Charles Deynes of Roydon near Diss in Norfolk.
Deynes, Charles
c.1670-1744
Contains 10 miscellaneous seventeenth-century English poems, some anonymous, others by Ben Jonson, William Strode, and Abraham Cowley, written in a near contemporary hand; also, extensive historical a...
Commonplace book, compiled by John Tateson
Tateson, John
1832-1853
Contains: (1) Ff.2-176. Account of his birth (1792) and early life in the parish of Longriston, and at Dunnington, near York; local preachers (especially Methodists) entertained by his father; removal...
Commonplace book containing verse and historical prose
c.1690
Following initial blank, ff.2r-136v: prose accounts in a single hand of Edward VI, John of Gaunt, Sir Edward Poynings and Richard, Earl of Cornwall, of tournaments and of "the vast power formerly enjo...
Medical commonplace book, including a catalogue of the books in the Medical Library at the Leeds General Infirmary
1783-1799
Bound with boards and a vellum backstrip which is partly lost through damage. Comprises extracts on various subjects, but chiefly medical, written between 1783 and 1799, as follows: ff. 1-4, An obs...