Commonplace book with many extracts from sixteenth century Latin authors [manuscript], compiled ca. 1600.
Gellius, Aulus. Noctes Atticae.; Lloyd, Lodowick, active 1573-1610. Tragicocomedy of serpents.; Campion, Edmund, Saint, 1540-1581.; Lipsius, Justus, 1547-1606. Amphitheatrum.; Lipsius, Justus, 1547-1606. Epistolica institutio.; Lipsius, Justus, 1547-1606, correspondent.; Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598, addressee.; Trippe, Simon, active 16th century.; Dochen, Thomas, -1605, attributed name.; Matthew, Tobias, 1546-1628.; Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374. De remediis utriusque fortunae.; Dowden, Edward, 1843-1913, former owner.; Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603, addressee.; University of Oxford.
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Title
Commonplace book with many extracts from sixteenth century Latin authors [manuscript], compiled ca. 1600.
Description
1 v. ; 19 x 14 cm
Associated name
Campion, Edmund, Saint, 1540-1581.
Lipsius, Justus, 1547-1606, correspondent.
Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598, addressee.
Trippe, Simon, active 16th century.
Dochen, Thomas, -1605, attributed name.
Matthew, Tobias, 1546-1628.
Dowden, Edward, 1843-1913, former owner.
Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603, addressee.
University of Oxford.
Lipsius, Justus, 1547-1606, correspondent.
Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598, addressee.
Trippe, Simon, active 16th century.
Dochen, Thomas, -1605, attributed name.
Matthew, Tobias, 1546-1628.
Dowden, Edward, 1843-1913, former owner.
Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603, addressee.
University of Oxford.
Scope and content
Part I includes extracts from or notes on: Petrarch's Remediis utriusque fortunae; Justus Lipsius' letter to Abraham Ortelius, his Amphitheatrum and Epistolica institutio; Lodowick Lloyd's The tragicocomedie of serpents, 1607; speeches of Cooke, 1582, [Simon] Tripp, Thomas Doch -- possibly the Thomas Dochen of Magdalen College Oxford (on the death of Robert Onslow), Tobie Matthew (on the visit of Robert Dudley to Oxford, September 5, 1570), Elizabeth (at Oxford, 1566, and Cambridge), and Campion (before Elizabeth at Oxford, 1566 and his sermon on the death of Sir Thomas White, 1567). Also a poem on the seven liberal arts. Part I headings are letters of the alphabet.
Part II includes notes on: Brentius, Marc Antoine Muret's Orationes and Epistolae, Aulus Gellius' Noctes Atticae, and a letter to Queen Elizabeth. Also a poem. Part II does not include headings.
Part II includes notes on: Brentius, Marc Antoine Muret's Orationes and Epistolae, Aulus Gellius' Noctes Atticae, and a letter to Queen Elizabeth. Also a poem. Part II does not include headings.
Language Note
In Latin.
Note
Part I: 43 leaves; Part II: 23 leaves.
Poems listed in the Folger index of first lines.
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Poems listed in the Folger index of first lines.
This is a PRELIMINARY RECORD. It contains unverified data from catalog cards and may contain incorrect or incomplete information. Please email catalog@folger.edu for assistance.
Provenance
Edward Dowden.
Cited/described in
Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, 632.9
Includes
Gellius, Aulus. Noctes Atticae.
Lloyd, Lodowick, active 1573-1610. Tragicocomedy of serpents.
Lipsius, Justus, 1547-1606. Amphitheatrum.
Lipsius, Justus, 1547-1606. Epistolica institutio.
Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374. De remediis utriusque fortunae.
Lloyd, Lodowick, active 1573-1610. Tragicocomedy of serpents.
Lipsius, Justus, 1547-1606. Amphitheatrum.
Lipsius, Justus, 1547-1606. Epistolica institutio.
Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374. De remediis utriusque fortunae.
Item Details
Call number
V.a.173
Folger accession
cs632