A note-book, or common-place book, of Joseph Meddus, 1619
The principal contents are these:—
- (fol. 8) i. Notes of "poeticall historyes collected ought of Seneca by me Jo. Meddus".
- (fols. 13, 16, 18) ii. Sentences out of Horace and Seneca and "Greake phrases collected by me Joseph Meddus".
- (fol. 20) iii. "English verces mayde by me Joseph Meddus, named the fruites of idel time".
- (fol. 21) iii. a."A dolefull epigrame on the death of Quene An, who dyed at Hampton Courte the 2 day of March anno Domini 1618."
- (fol. 22) iii. b. "Verces one mans mortalitye, mayde by me Joseph Meddus".
- (fol. 24) iii. c. "A ridell".
- (fol. 24b)) iii. d. "Epigrames out of [John] Owen, translated by Mr. Fin".
- (fol. 26) iii. e. "Herodes death, in English verce".
- (fol. 26b) iii. f. "Verces in English, ought of The Beehive of the Romish Church, one many sortes to be wrighten".
- (fol. 28) iv. Derivations of some words from the Greek, with their meanings.
- (fol. 1) [volume reversed] v. "Liber de sententiis epistolarum mearum quas feci vel postea facicam (sic), Deo juvante".
- (fol. 25b) vi. "A certaine grave poem as it was presented in Latin by divines before his majestie in Camebreidge by way of interlude, stiled Liber no[v]us de adventu Regis ad Cantabrigiam, faithfully turned into English with some liberall advantage; made [rather] to be sung then reade, to the tune of 'Bonny Nell'". The first five stanzas of the satirical poem by Richard Corbet upon the entertainment of the King at Cambridge in 1615. See Nichols, Progresses of James I., III. 66.
[Meddus matriculated at Exeter college in 1619 at the age of 16.]
A hand of the last century has written on the first page of this volume that it contains "juvenile collections of the famous Joseph Mead." This is certainly entirely erroneous. The writing does not resemble his. and in 1618 he was B.D. and aged 32; and although he Latinized his name as 'Medus' he does not appear to have ever used the form 'Meddus'. The notes are evidently those of a very young man or lad such as the Joseph Meddus of Exeter college was in the year 1618.
On the blank leaves of the volume another hand has made many trivial insertions.
Dates
- Creation: 1619
Extent
80 Leaves
Language of Materials
- English
- Latin
Shelfmark
MS. Rawl. D. 929
Other Finding Aids
William D. Macray, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae partis quintae fasciculus primus viri munificentissimi Ricardi Rawlinson, J.C.D., codicum classes duas priores, ad rem historicam praecipue et topographicam spectantes, complectens(Oxford, 1862), no. D. 929.
Falconer Madan, et al., A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the Quarto series(7 vols. in 8 [vol. II in 2 parts], Oxford, 1895-1953; reprinted, with corrections in vols. I and VII, Munich, 1980), vol. III, no. 13695.
Physical Facet
On paper, in duodecimo
Creator
- From the Collection: Rawlinson | Richard | 1690-1755 | Antiquary and Nonjuror (Person)
- From the Collection: Pepys | Samuel | 1633-1703 | MP, Diarist, Public Servant, Antiquary (Person)
- From the Collection: Thurloe | John | 1616-1668 | Secretary to the Council of State (Person)
- From the Collection: Wilkinson | Thomas | fl 1600-1699 | Anglican clergyman (Person)
- From the Collection: Bracton | Henry de | c 1210-1268 | Judge, Chancellor of Exeter Cathedral (Person)
- From the Collection: Gunning | Peter | 1614-1684 | Bishop of Ely (Person)
- From the Collection: Lewis | John | c 1700-1799 | Minister of Margate (Person)
- From the Collection: Robinson | John | 1650-1723 | Bishop of London (Person)
- From the Collection: Fitzwilliams | John | fl 1600-1699 | Nonjuror (Person)
- From the Collection: Grenville | Denis | 1637-1703 | Jacobite Archbishop of York | also known as Denis Granville (Person)
- From the Collection: Locke | John | 1632-1704 | philospher (Person)
- From the Collection: Mandeville | Sir | John | d 1372 | travel writer (Person)
- From the Collection: Nedam | James | fl 1532-1543 | Royal Surveyor of Works (Person)
- From the Collection: Roach | Richard | 1662-1730 | Anglican clergyman (Person)
- From the Collection: Beaumont | fl 1688-1730 | Nonconformist (Person)
- From the Collection: Fleming | Robert | ? 1660-1716 | Presbyterian Minister (Person)
- From the Collection: Hawes | Samuel | fl 1694-1700 | Nonjuror (Person)
- From the Collection: Price | Daniel | fl 1685-1706 | Dean of St Asaph (Person)
- From the Collection: Stanton | William | fl 1697-1704 (Person)
- From the Collection: Swadlin | Thomas | 1600-1670 | Royalist divine (Person)
- From the Collection: Turner | Francis | ? 1638-1700 | Bishop of Ely (Person)
- From the Collection: Turner | Thomas | 1645-1714 | President of Corpus Christi College Oxford (Person)
- From the Collection: Samber | Robert | fl 1710-1729 | Poet (Person)
- From the Collection: Williams | John | fl 1709-1726 | Poet (Person)
- From the Collection: Hearne | Thomas | 1678-1735 | Antiquary and Nonjuror (Person)
- From the Collection: Wharton | Philip | 1613-1696 | 4th Baron Wharton (Person)
- From the Collection: Zamboni | Giovanni Giacomo | fl 1723-1751 | resident in England for Duke of Modena (Person)
- From the Collection: Sancroft | William | 1617-1693 | Archbishop of Canterbury (Person)
- From the Collection: Neve | John Le | 1679-1741 | Antiquary (Person)
- From the Collection: L'Estrange | Hamon | 1605-1660 | theologian and historian (Person)
- From the Collection: Gronovius | Jacobus | 1645-1716 | classical scholar (Person)
- From the Collection: Smith | Thomas | 1638-1710 | Nonjuror Historian and Librarian (Person)
- From the Collection: Holman | William | d 1730 | Essex Antiquary Congregational Minister (Person)
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