4to. An Account-book belonging to Saint Edmund's Hall, Oxford, containing various entries, among which are, receipts for books borrowed; a register of the absence of the students; monies received for penalties; expenditures for books; entries in the Liber Niger; and receipts for plate lent out ...
Collection of poems by John Lydgate and Geoffrey Chaucer
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 2r-v: John Lydgate, 'Life of St Giles', written in Middle English verse, imperfect comprising only the final six stanzas; the text beginning, '…Bi a spiryt oonly of prophecie...' (DIMEV 4129). ff. 3r-18r: John Lydgate, Fabula duorum mercatorum, written in Middle English verse, be...
8vo. A Common-place book containing sundry historical extracts chiefly from printed books. In fo. 47 b, there are some particulars relating to Sir Robert Walpole, and towards the end, a compendium of Civil Law in French and Latin.
4to. The Note or Common-place book of Thomas Rawlins of Pophills, containing numerous extracts historical, political, biographical, satirical, poetical, &c. from books, tombstones, newspapers, &c.; with some original matters, In fo. 101 is an account of the satirical portrait of Dr. Ken...
4to. "A booke dedicated unto the Queenes Majestie, by Master Thomas Charnocke, studient in the most worthie sciencis of astronomie, phisicke, and philosophie contayneinge the woorke off naturall philosophie." This is the author's autograph. His dedication is dated from his house at Stockland Br...
4to. A book, for the most part in the hand-writing of Signor Ludovico Petrucci, a Commoner of Baliol College, Oxford, containing the materials (in Latin and Italian for his Emblems, his apology against his calumniators, his own life, and other works, printed during his stay in England. On the b...