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• Title:Commonplace book in English and Latin.
  
• Published/Created:[England], [ca. 1585-1591]
  
• Physical Description:14 leaves : paper
  

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  • Location:BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
    Request for Use in the Beinecke Reading Room
    
    
  • Call Number: Osborn a66
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    

   
• Notes:Title devised by cataloger.
  Autograph of Henry Lilly ("Henry Lylly") on f1r.
  Script: most entries in secretary script.
  Binding: modern paper wrapper.
  Accompanied by a partial transcript.
  In English and Latin.
  Ex libris Henry Lilly. Purchased from Byass Rare Books on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2013.
  
• Access and use:This material is open for research.
• Summary:Manuscript commonplace book, on paper, in a single unidentified hand, containing entries in English and Latin. Written starting at both ends, one end starts with several leaves containing notes and English subject headings followed by related Latin verses and epigrams, probably mnemonic exercises in rhetoric. The other end contains notes and three pages of extracts from an unidentified edition of "The goodli history of the moste noble and beautyfull Ladye Lucres of Scene in Tuskane;" followed by short notes in English and Latin, some pertaining to debts; and, in a second hand, a draft of a letter of advice to a friend in English. Where the two parts meet, there is a set of doodles, including a crown and an unidentified crest.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:Commonplace Book in English and Latin. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
  
• Subjects:Lilly, Henry, -1638.
  Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven.
  Education--England.
  English prose literature--Early modern, 1500-1700.
  Latin language--Composition and exercises--Early works to 1800.
  Latin language--Study and teaching--Early works to 1800.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
  Lilly, Henry, -1638--Autograph.
  
• Genre/Form:Commonplace books--Great Britain--16th century.
  Manuscripts, Renaissance--England--16th century.