Commonplace book of John Holyoke, 1662 - May 1663

This unbound commonplace book was kept by John Holyoke during 1662 and 1663. The volume contains chiefly religious quotations and sermon notes (possibly of sermons preached by Holyoke himself), in English, Latin and Greek. Both ends of the volume were used to begin writing: the front page reads “Johannes Holyoke, adjunctu occupatu, May-1663” and the rear page reads “Johannes Holyoke [illegible] 1662.” The texts do not follow a straight tête-bêche model, where one text is upside down in relation to the other; rather, the texts change direction several times within the volume. The volume also includes part of letter sent to Holyoke’s grandfather Pynchon, September 16, 16?? [date illegible], as well as a series of alphabetically arranged quotations.

Commonplace book of John Bullard, 1775-1779

This bound volume contains excerpts copied by Jonathan Bullard from books he read as a student at Harvard in the mid 1770s. Excerpts include an unattributed poem titled "On Friendship," which appeared in the "poetical essays" section of Volume 36 of the London Magazine in 1767; Joseph Butler, The Analogy of Religion, 1736; The Quaker's Grace; a history of England; Newton's laws; Plutarch's Morals; Benjamin Franklin's writings on the Aurora Borealis. The volume also includes several extracts from articles about the death of John Paddock (Class of 1776), who drowned in the Charles in the summer of 1773, sheet music for two songs, "The Rapture," and "A Song" from Henry Harington's "Damon and Chlora," and a transcription of the satirical "Book of Harvard," written in response to the Butter Rebellion of 1766. Interleaved in the middle of the volume is a transcription from an ecclesiastical event moderated by Ebenezer Bridge in Medford, Mass. on November 20, 1779. The variety of texts suggests the commonplace book was not used solely for academic works.

Student notebook of James Varney, 1721-1725

The bound notebook contains academic texts copied by Harvard student James Varney in the early 1720s. The texts are written tête-bêche (where both ends of the volume are used to begin writing). The front paste-down endpaper reads 'James Varney his book 1724,' and the rear paste-down endpaper reads 'Joseph Lovett' [AB 1728].

Student notebook of Marston Cabot, ca. 1720-1735

This leather-bound volume contains excerpts copied by Marston Cabot from books he read while he was a student at Harvard in 1723. The volume includes extracts from Charles Morton's 1687 Compendium Physicae (titled "of Phisicks" by Cabot), Dr. Adriani Heereboord (Adrianus Heereboord), Philosophia Naturalis and Johanne-Henrico Alstedio’s (John Henry Alsted) geometry text Compendium Geometria. The excerpts from Compendium Geometria include both figures and text, primarily in Latin with some Greek. The volume also includes “Theses quaedam extractae potissimum ex Enchiridio Metaphysico Domini Johannis Clerici" a précis of Jean Le Clerc's Ontologia et Pneumatologia made by Jonathan Remington, a Harvard Tutor from 1703 to 1711, to serve in place of printed textbooks. The names Jonathan Jackson and Edward Jackson are written on the inside cover, suggesting the book may have been handed down to Edward Jackson (Class of 1726) and his son Jonathan Jackson (Class of 1761). The text of the volume is in Marston Cabot's hand.

A synopsis of naturall philosophy according to the method of the ancients, but improved & augmented with the notions of later philosophers : manuscript, 1677-1679

Possibly autograph, dated at end of volume: Finitu[m] mart: 14, 1678/9. Imperfect copy with title page missing; supplied from a MS copy, dated 29 March 1680, now in the Bodleian Library.

A young man's bookshelf /

Bibliographical footnotes.

The library in the TVA adult education program,

"Selected references": p. [67]-68.

Dokusho sekai.

"Kanshū Asaoka Kunio"--Reprint title page.

De potestate, quam in vitae privatae et publicae conformationem apud veteres exhibuerint librorum lectiones.

Pr.

Recreations of a book-lover,/

I. Four letters to a friend on books and reading.--II. Dr. Johnson: personal and domestic.--III. The religion of Dr. Johnson.--IV. Aliterary diary: William Allingham.--V. Carlyle and Allingham.--VI. The biography of Herbert Spencer.--VII. A Latin anthology.--VIII. Second-hand book calalogues.--IX. In an old Scottish garden.--X. Snowed up near Ambleside.--XI. Bishop Butler and John Wesley: a comparison and contrast.--XII. The letters of Birbeck Hill.--XIII. "Beside still Waters."--XIV. From an old minister to a student at Dr. Doddridge's Academy, Northampton.

Ěntʻertsʻasirutʻiwn kam girkʻ kardalu mijotsʻaw mtaworakan mshakutʻean hasnelu ōgtakar khratner /

Includes bibliographical references.

ICBookletter /

Mode of access: Internet.

The age of print: a poem, delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at Cambridge, 26 August, 1830.

Mode of access: Internet.

Nouvelle bibliothèque d'un homme de gout : ou tableau de la littérature ancienne et moderne, dans lequel on fait connoître l'espirt de tous les livres qui ont paru dans tous les genres jusqu'en 1797; avec un jugement sommaire et impartial sur chaque ouvrage, et l'indication des différentes éditions qui en ont été faites, tant en France qu'en pays étranger /

Mode of access: Internet.

Nouvelle bibliothèque d'un homme de gout, ou Tableau de la littérature ancienne et moderne, étrangere & nationale, dans lequel on expose le sujet, & l'on fait connoître l'esprit de tous les livres qui ont paru dans tous les siecles, sur tous les genres, & dans toutes les langue, avec un jugement court, précis, clair et impartial,

First edition in 2 vols., Avignon, 1772, has title: Bibliothèque d'un homme de goût.