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Title

Certein spirituall emblems or shorte saiengs, wiith their expositions for some of them. But for others of them, ye soule will better knowe of hersellf, how to understande and make ye best use of them ....

Other related names

• Baugh, Albert C. 1891-1981, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 240
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 1580600
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580600

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

English, with quotations in Latin

Origin

Date

ca. 1700

Place

England

Summary

Collection of sayings, etc., many of which are from the Bible. Throughout the manuscript, Latin quotations are followed by short English renderings and expositions. Epigraph (f. 1r): Vir sapit qui pauca loquitur. Colophon (f. 119v): This Booke hath bene corrected by ye orreggenall, worde for worde.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from caption title (f. 4r). Spine title: Emblem[s], &c.
   
• No indication of author or scribe, except perhaps at the bottom of f. 119r: Pray for your friend & servant Chr: Br.
   

Extent

120 leaves : 158 x 104 (132 x 74) mm. bound to 162 x 111 mm

Foliation

Paper, [1-120]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary parchment, with label: Emblem[s] & c, 1700. Between f. 4-5 there is a stub from a parchment ms. used for binding. Spine label crumbling, partly missing.

Layout

Written in 26 long lines.

Script

Latin quotations and their English renderings are in a minuscule book script; the exposition is in a more cursive script by the same hand.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by J.R.P. Forrest of Edinburgh (bookplate, inside upper cover); description in English from unidentified dealer's catalog (pasted inside upper cover).
   
• Gift of Albert Croll Baugh, 1965.
   

Subjects topical

• Epigrams
• Proverbs, Latin

Genres

• Codices
• Anthologies
• Manuscripts, English--17th century
• Manuscripts, English--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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Decorations

• Inside front cover (Bookplate visible) — Bookplate, Inside front cover