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ANON. English Commonplace Book
Rural England, Self Published, 1702, Unique, Manuscript,. Hard Cover, 15 cm. 60 Pp. Inc. 40 Pp. of poetry [2 Pp. blank]. Very Good/No Jacket. Unsigned, But in Author's Hand.¶ Date given on the first line, the second line on inner front board unread. Includes a secrets book with recipes for sickness and health, cosmetics, Etc. With one exception, all original poetry! A Collection of Poems. 1. Never to Gather Wealth through Fo-3 ½ Pp. 40 lines to the page [some worming] 2. All good commandments are Divinely Pure-3. A prison is a house of ra-e [r?] A grave for man alive 4. If yt of worldly things I had my wish- 5. Some buildings Citys & brickwork delay [blank page]LOVE POEMS Amanti vire amoris res integratis est 6. Cross thou two loyall lovers & Twill prove- [1 ¼ P. 40 lines, per P.] 7. I am but young in art and cannot show- In Praise of Women [..all first lines available upon application] 68. A Song / Should joy by the love of good wine 69. With the exceptions of the poems specifically given to Addison the remaining are all unpublished and unlisted. These appear to be the first or early drafts of most of the poems. The "Receipts" are a mixture of prudent scientific, or at least traditional, means and alchemical and magical formulae. AT THE BACK OF THE BOOK, upside down in relation to the poetry: Receipts. 1. For cooking of fish 2. To cut ye hair 3. An Excellent Bea[u]tifyer 4. An excellent beautifyer for the pe-e[worm hole] used by the Venetian ladys 5. To rinse a red face 6. To take away wrinkles in ye face 7. To make ye hair grow 8. To take away hair 9. For ye falling of hair 10. For rouging ye fare skin 11. To take away wrinkles 12. To take away Sun burn 13. Whether a woman be with childe or noe 14. Howe ye bledding of ye nose[?] Includes writing on forehead with lamb's blood. 15. To make a ---thy company of a M. 16. To make -- --- out of ye fire 17. Shoe a horse 18. How to make a string of a violin shake [without] touching it 19. How to mingle -ngle your powdr and other ingredients to make rocketts. 20. For a sprain in ye ---gs 21. To make golden -es W'thout gold 22. To make silver F[resh?] W'out Salve . 23. To make ye face fair 24. A cure for the skin [?] 25. For ye palsy 26. For a burne or Scald [2 different recipes [1 P.] 27. For ye -- -- [A magical formula which includes placing parings of nails in a hole bored in a tree closed with a cork of hard wood. 28. For ye taking of fish 29. The next page and a ½ of recipes are written in a purposefully difficult script to read ending with one in Latin. 30. How to make lemon cordial water 31. An excellent approved oyntment for ye eyes 32. For a gentle-for Coloring[?] ye blood 33. Ingredients for making ye purging-drink. On the inner rear board: " From number aid[?] and art never will fame depart / Populorum Virgain malor regina serebat" A series of light and dark o's separated by colons -possibly a numbering system or code. It cannot be the moon's waxing and waning, since it is too irregular. Below this is a group of drawn symbols, which were used for the elements and the known planets by alchemists and astrologers. Below this is the name Wright. ~No First lines correspond with First-Line Index of manuscript Poetry in the Bodleian Library1500-1800.~ In original vellum, the front board has a charming, Decorative, multicolor design in red, black and green, somewhat darkened, the interior pages clearly penned in a tiny, neat hand. One page has separated into two parts at a horizontal drawn line, which has eaten into the paper, affecting no text. The first two pages somewhat worm eaten, the last two slightly worm eaten, otherwise in lovely condition, with occasional added words above a line, or crossings out, or at the side vertically placed..
Offered for US$ 2225.00 by: Zita Books - Book number: 000453
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