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BC MS Lt q 22, f.12v: William Fairfax's poems
Archive Item

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).

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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.

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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."

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BC MS Lt 20, p. 111: The opening of William King's poem
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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'.

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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...

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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

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BC MS Lt 57, f. B3r:
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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...

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BC MS Lt 61, f. 24v: The opening of Andrew Marvell's poem
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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...

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BC MS Lt 114, f. ir:
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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...

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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...

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BC MS Lt 82, f. 137v: The opening of
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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...

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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...

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