Commonplace book of Johannes Stobaeus, containing musical compositions and instructions for the lute
Scope & Content:
Commonplace book of Johannes Stobaeus (or Stobäus), Kapellmeister to the Elector of Brandenburg, compiled at Königsberg in and shortly before 1640. The book contains vocal and instrumental music, writings on music and drawings of instruments. Many of the pieces are probably Stobaeus's compositio...
includes: f. 1 Numismatics: Computation of foreign coins compared with English: circ. 1667. ff. 3-7 Richard Baxter: Extract from the Dedication of "The Saints' Everlasting Rest": 1667. ff. 7 b-10 Poetry LATIN: Carmina quædam e libro Oconomiæ selecta: circ. 1667. f. 10 b Tobacco: De viribus et n...
Lieutenant Gedeon Bonnivert, son of Paschall and Judith Bonnivert of Sedan in Champagne: Commonplace books: 1673-1683.: Engl. Lat. and Fr. includes: f. 4 b Badminton, Gloucs: Account of: circ. 1680.: Fr. f. 8 St. Martin's in the Fields Parish, Middlesex: Account by G. Bonnivert of a female dwa...
Lieutenant Gedeon Bonnivert, son of Paschall and Judith Bonnivert of Sedan in Champagne: Commonplace books: 1673-1683.: Engl. Lat. and Fr. includes: f. 53 Joan, Pope: Notices of: late 17th cent.: Lat. and Fr. f. 59 b Abraham Cowley, poet: Epitaph in Westminster Abbey: late 17th cent.: Lat. f. ...
Lieutenant Gedeon Bonnivert, son of Paschall and Judith Bonnivert of Sedan in Champagne: Commonplace books: 1673-1683.: Engl. Lat. and Fr. includes: ff. 5-7 b François Rabelais: Alphabet de l'autheur François sur les oeuvres de: 1674. f. 10 London, England: Sonnet sur l'embrasement de la ville...
includes: ff. 1, 7-16 Agriculture: Extracts from P. de Crescentiis and others on the art of grafting, etc.: 16th cent.: Lat. and Engl. ff. 2-6 Catechism: A short catechism: 16th cent. ff. 18-23 b, 30 b-35, 38 b-51 Medicine. Botanical: De virtutibus herbarum: 13th cent. ff. 18-23, 30 b-35, 38 b-...
includes: ff. 1-12 b Ireland: Journal of G. Bonnivert, a trooper under William III. in,: June-July, 1690. ff. 1-12 b Lieutenant Gedeon Bonnivert, son of Paschall and Judith Bonnivert of Sedan in Champagne: Journal when a trooper in William III.'s army in Ireland: June-July 1690. ff. 14, 15 (rev...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
includes: ff. 1-89 City of Oxford: Catalogue of plants in the Botanical Gardens, and of those growing in the neighbourhood: 17th cent.: Lat. and Engl. ff. 90-121 b Medicine: Indices "compositorum et simplicium usitatissimorum in officinis," cum pretiis singulorum: 17th cent.