Certein spirituall emblems or shorte saiengs, w[ith] their expositions for some of them. But for others of them, [th]e soule will better knowe of hersellf, how to understande and make [th]e best use of them ..

Name:

Baker, Augustine, 1575-1641

Date:

1650

Description:

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. Note at the bottom of f. 119r: Pray for your friend & servant Chr: Br. Colophon (f. 119v): This Booke hath bene corrected by ye orreggenall, worde for worde.

Language:

English

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

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

quotations (texts); Sayings; codices (bound manuscripts); Manuscripts, European; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

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

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from caption title (f. 4r). Spine title: Emblem[s], &c.; Foliation: Paper, [1-120]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.; 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.; 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.; Origin: Probably written by a Benedictine nun in either the monastery of Our Lady of Consolation in Cambrai, or its daughter house, the monastery of Our Lady of Good Hope in Paris (Heather Wolfe), in the second half of the 17th century (dealer description; spine label gives date of 1700).; English, with quotations in Latin.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 240