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GUDGEON Collection
1847-1868
Gudgeon family commonplace and accounts book, Marfin Brod, St Petersburg etc, 1847-1869 /1/. Homemade French-Russian vocabulary book /2/. Postal and other receipts, 1854-1868 and nd /3-9/. Recipes, li...
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.
Collection of English poems, predominantly Jacobite, in several hands
c.1720-1730
Collection of poems, songs and ballads, composed ca.1706-1723, expressing loyalty to the Stuarts and assailing the House of Hanover
A collection of the most choice and private poems, lampoons &c. from the withdrawing of the late King James 1688 to the year 1701, collected by a person of quality
1688-1701
An anthology of 92 poems, principally satires, and seven prose pieces, arranged in rough chronological order for the period 1688-1701, many dated.
Collection of English and Latin verse and prose, apparently made at Oxford
1670
Refoliated f.1 etc. in 1973 in consideration of pages 57-60 and 75-76 being missing and the remainder very loose. In a single hand. Indexed.
Commonplace book of poetry and prose in English and Latin, written amongst a collection of medical recipes.
c.1710-1750
Contains 64 English poems, mainly eighteenth-century and satirical, or religious, together with Latin poetry and prose, some medical recipes, and a few stanzas of classical Greek poetry at the end.
Cookery and commonplace book, compiled partly by Margaret Walker
Walker, Margaret
1778-1869
At one end of the book is a collection of cookery recipes and notes on family and local events. At the other end, inverted, is a collection of poems and notes on further local events. On end-paper: 'M...
Miscellany of English Restoration verse
c.1680-1695
Substantial collection of English Restoration verse, in four hands
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'.
Commonplace book owned by the Lewis family, including transcribed poems by Pope, Gray, and Prior.
Lewis family
c.1700-1750
Contains six poems, including items by Pope, Gray, and Prior; also, a large collection of moral aphorisms entitled 'Seneca unmasqued'.
Commonplace book of English religious poems and prayers
c.1715
Ff.1r-6r (verso blank): miscellaneous notes in Latin and Greek; ff.7r-41r: twenty-four poems on religious subjects, beginning with two by Joseph Addison (from 'The Spectator' 489 and 513) and includin...
Poetical commonplace book, compiled by Henry Fairfax
Fairfax, Henry
1679-1682
Many references to Yorkshire localities, e.g. Denton, Tadcaster, Otley, Kettlewell, York. As well as poetry there is much in prose, including recipes. References to writer's brother B. and sister S.