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Item genre: Inscription |
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Bodleian Library: MS Ashmole 51 Commonplace book containing sententious rhyming couplets, six poems, an inscription from a gravestone, notes on colours, and handwriting exercises (c.1590-1617) (scribe) Item 4 (Inscription, Notes), fol. 5v Monumental inscription plus a note (scribe)Hand B Bodleian Library: MS Ashmole 51 Commonplace book containing sententious rhyming couplets, six poems, an inscription from a gravestone, notes on colours, and handwriting exercises (c.1590-1617) (scribe) Item 4.1 (Inscription), fol. 5v Monumental inscription describing the miraculous preservation of the body of Thomas Grey, the marquis of Dorset, which was exhumed in 1608, 77 years after his death Here lieth Thomas Grey Marquis Dorset, Lord Asteley, Lord Ferrers of Groby, Bonvile and Harington, who married Margaret daughter of Sir Robert Wotton Knight ... and body large answerable thereunto, which now here doth rest expecting the coming of the last day British Library: Add. MS 4454 The religious meditations, verse and autobiographical writings of Katherine Austen (1664-83) Katherine Austen (Author) Item 175 (Inscription, Motto), fol. 114r My strength will I ascribe unto my God. [This is the entire text of msItem 175, which is written in a large, relatively ornate italic hand and occupies the top third / half of fol. 114r.] British Library: Add. MS 4454 The religious meditations, verse and autobiographical writings of Katherine Austen (1664-83) Katherine Austen (Author) Item 178 (Inscription, Title page), fol. 114v Book M. [This inscription appears in the top left-hand corner of fol. 114v. The remainder of the page is occupied with the items listed below. (Fol. 114v is a kind of 'title page' at the back - it identifies this as Book M and contains family records, as do fols. 1r and 2r at the front.)] British Library: Add. MS 4454 The religious meditations, verse and autobiographical writings of Katherine Austen (1664-83) Katherine Austen (Author) Item 185 (Inscription, Motto), fol. 114v Charity begins at home is the voice of the world. [This is the complete text of msItem 185.] British Library: Add. MS 78441 Spiritual meditations (Written between 31 August 1683 and 14 March 1685) (Author, Scribe)Mary Evelyn Item 2 (Inscription), fols. 1r-2r John Evelyn's endorsement of his daughter's book John Evelyn (Scribe) My daughter Mary's Book found in her Closet after her decease with two other books and many loose papers upon devout Subjects [fols. 1v-2r are blank.] Bodleian Library: MS Rawlinson D. 102 (c. 1635-8) (author) Mary Honywood Item 3 (Inscription), 3r-5v (scribe) Elizabeth Lee Elizabeth Lee Richard Lee her Husband gave me this book after my Sister died [fols. 3v-5v are blank pages.] Nottinghamshire Archives: DD/Hu 3 Lucy Hutchinson's Religious Commonplace Book () Lucy Hutchinson Item 15 (Inscription), p. 278 [rev] Mrs Hutchinson's belief [illeg.] 1716 [This is the first item in the reversed section of the manuscript.] [Also on this page are phrases in various languages, probably of a poetic nature.] British Library: Add. MS 19333 De Rerum Natura ( early mid 17th c.) Lucy Hutchinson ( Translator) Item 2 (Inscription), fol. [1v] Anglesey Given me June 11. 1675 by the worthy author Mrs Lucy Hutchinson. [This is the complete text of the item.] [The word "Anglesey" is written larger than the rest of this inscription.] [This looks like Hutchinson's hand.] Royal Library: Thott 323 Transcription by Esther Inglis of Guy du Faur, Seigneur de Pibrac's Quatrains (September 1606) Esther Inglis (Scribe) Item 2.1 (Inscription), fol. 1r (recto only) Anno Dom 1606 Beinecke Library: Osborn MS b.202 Hymns and Poems transcribed by Mary Webber, 1694 (After 1694) (Compiler) Mary Webber Item 3.10 (Inscription), p.19 [This is the only verso in this section of the MS which has been written upon. The page is blank except for two lines of Latin, written in a later hand not that of Mary Webber: "Sicut cervres aquas et flumina nota requiret/ Sic petit O Domina"] Beinecke Library: Osborn MS b.202 Hymns and Poems transcribed by Mary Webber, 1694 (After 1694) (Compiler) Mary Webber Item 5.1 (Inscription), [A signature, at the top of the page: Miss Sopia Delight] Beinecke Library: Osborn MS b.202 Hymns and Poems transcribed by Mary Webber, 1694 (After 1694) (Compiler) Mary Webber Item 5.2 (Inscription), fol.iiiv (reverse flyleaf verso) [Two signatures: "Mrs. Mary Webber: / Her book Anno Domini: / 1694"; above this, a more modern-looking hand has written "Robert Brutton". A third hand, probably a librarian, has written "Contemporary Arabesque binding"] |