Manuscripts
Commonplace book
1 of 421
- Description
- Commonplace book containing two quotations from Shakespeare's Othello, along with passages and translations from classical texts, notes on classical and mythological figures, remedies, household hints and practical notes, theological notes and arguments, poems, epigrams and sententiae, legal forms, rentals for land around Kirby Knowle [North Yorkshire], and copies of letters and documents.
- Date
- approximately 1570-approximately 1625.
- Call number
- mssHM 60413
- Provenance
- Purchased from Christie's, lot 237, November 29, 1999. Belonged to the Danby family of Kirby Knowle, North Yorkshire. The name Henry Danby is inscribed on folio 1.
- Restrictions
- RESTRICTED. Available with curatorial approval. Requires extended retrieval and delivery time.
- Dimensions
- 21 cm :
