Home > Commonplace book, 1586.
Several copies of prayers throughout in a later hand.
Bound with: 17th century manuscript on paper of legal precedents in a chancery hand. Most are from the reign of James I. The name "Richarde Wolfe" appears in an Italic hand on the last page.
Title page for volume (supplied by Johnson) in red and black lettering attributes the commonplace book to "Richardum Ogle Eq. Aur."
Spine title reads, "M.S.S. 1586."
Bookplate: Maurice Johnson of Spalding, 1735.
Binding: 18th century full calf, blind stamped, spine banded with gilt decorations.
Ex libris Maurice Johnson. Purchased from Arthur Freeman on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2002.
Manuscript on paper of a commonplace book. The work contains four sections. (1) "Loci animadvertendi in legendi epistolis, ad quos etia[m] om[n]ia quae annotaderis referenda sunt." This lists types of epistles under eight headings, or "libri," but the extensive framework is very incompletely annotated. (2) "Here are written divers notes phrases words & sentences collected out of severall bokes. 15 Novembr 1586. A[nn]o Reg.ie Eliz. 28." This is actually a seventeen-page selection from the "A Touchstone for the Time" section of George Whetstone's A Mirrour for Magistrates.... (London, 1584). It is preceded by a two-line entry quoting Mary Queen of Scots as saying at Fotheringay, "I come not as a criminal." (3) "Epistolae commendatiae Praecepta," summarizing extracts from the Epistolae of Paulus Manutius. (4) "Quaedam collecta ex liber The Breviarie of Health, compiled by Andrew Boorde." Eight pages of various entries in English from Boorde's work, including descriptions of and remedies for "scurffe," greensickness, "sikness of the prisones, "chappe," and nosebleed.
1 vol. (133 p., with many blanks) ; 20 cm. x 16 cm.
Registrum brevium and Novae narrationes.
De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliæ.
Natura brevium and other works.