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Title

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

Authors

• Baker, Augustine, 1575-1641

Other related names

• Baugh, Albert C. 1891-1981, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50005429)

Call number

Ms. Codex 240
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9915806003503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122584704
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3j678w90

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

English, with quotations in Latin

Origin

Date

between 1650 and 1699?

Place

Cambrai or Paris?

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. 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.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from caption title (f. 4r). Spine title: Emblem[s], &c.
   

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.
   

Genres

• Quotations
• Quotations
• Sayings
• codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts, English--17th century
• Manuscripts, French--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

Keywords

• 17th century
• England
• English
• France
• Devotion

Licenses

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Decorations

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