Rare Books

Nouellino

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Description: Contains 50 novelle, each dedicated to a different person. For list of the dedicatees, see Catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: in la[n]no della humana recuperatione millesimo. cccclxxxxii. ad di .xxi: de luglio. ... [21 July 1492].
Call number: 103826
Creator: Masuccio (active 15th century)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Rosenbach, June 1925.
Dimensions: 31 cm (folio)

The Wheare letterbook: new insight into the life of John Pym

Manuscripts

The material relates to Berquist's journal article on the correspondence (1601-1621) between the English historian Degory (or Digory) Wheare and English Parliamentarian John Pym; it includes research notes, photostats, translations, multiple drafts, and correspondence. The original letterbook (MS. Selden Supra 81) is housed in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

mssHM 82898 (1-8)

Alchemical, medical and technical compilation: manuscript, 15th-16th centuries

Manuscripts

Collection of alchemical, medical and technical works, consisting of parts of several manuscripts of separate origin but by now impossible to distinguish precisely one from the other, brought together in the late fifteenth century.

mssHU 1051

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Research material in Drawers 1-4

Manuscripts

Folders containing correspondence, lists, texts, etc., relating to the verse MSS; individual verse MSS from Scotland, Ireland, Europe, England, London (other than BL), Cambridge Univ. Libr., Cambridge colleges; BL MSS, individual MSS in BL, Landsdowne through Stowe; MSS in Bodleian Libr. and Oxford colleges, individual MSS in U.S.A. libraries; prose kinds: forms, modes, style, also renaissance literary criticism and rhetoric; textual criticism.

mssRingler

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The Leighs of Adlestrop

Manuscripts

Contents: List of Documents concerning Dr. Theophilus Leigh in the Bodleian Library, Oxford; Transcriptions of letters and manuscripts copied out and annotated by Gwen Beachcroft, with corrections in another hand. Transcriptions include letters and manuscripts located in private collections, Jesus College, and the British Museum. Transcriptions only include letters up to 1784; two pages laid into volume. Transcriptions followed by: An Account of Dr. Leigh's Last Days and Death by his Daughter, Molly, Mrs. Thomas Leigh.

mssLeigh

The ansvver to the buxome virgin or, the farmer well-fitted, for slighting his first love honest Joan. When men can be so false as he, and waver with the wind, I do protest, I do not jest, they're fitted in their kind. To the tuue [sic] of, The countrey-farmer, or, the buxome virgin

Rare Books

ESTC R221474 ; Bodleian Library ballads database suggests publication date "between 1671 and 1704" for a very similar edition Wing suggests "[1684-95]" ; Verse - "The country farmer is now undone," ; In this edition, the woodcut of the two men is on the left, and the first line of the imprint ends: in

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The Whig's exaltation a pleasant new song of 82. To an old tune of 41

Rare Books

ESTC R206506 ; Attributed by Wing to Thomas D'Urfey, but according to the Bodleian Library ballads database, "Originally written by Francis Quarles, but added to by Tom D'Urfey and others". Perhaps D'Urfey's contribution is limited to the expanded version, titled "The Whig rampant" ; Verse - "Now now the Tories all shall stoop, religion and the laws, and Whigs on Commonwealth"

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The ansvver to the buxome virgin or, the farmer well-fitted, for slighting his first love honest Joan. When men can be so false as he, and waver with the wind, I do protest, I do not jest, they're fitted in their kind. To the tuue [sic] of, The countrey-farmer, or, the buxome virgin

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