MS Lt q 9 - Commonplace book of Jo. Tempest

GEMMS Manuscript ID
GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT- 1003
(old series: GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-820)
Title
Commonplace book of Jo. Tempest
Shelfmark
MS Lt q 9
Creation Date
ca. 1640 - 1650
Repository
Leeds University Library, Special Collections (Brotherton Library)
Contents Note

Contains 36 pieces of English verse, five signed or initialled by John Tempest. This is most likely the John Tempest based in Yorkshire who was born ca. 1561. The volume also contains numerous acrostic poems; a few pieces of Latin verse; three extracts from speeches before parliament from 1628 (ff. 126-128); an extract from Francis Bacon, "The advancement and proficience of learning", and one from Lewis Roberts, "The merchants map of commerce", 1638; business and legal forms of oath and other documents, apparently drawn up or copied by an apprentice to Rowland and George Wynne or Winne of London; recipes and receipts (ff. 186-96); and tables. A loose leaf of recipes is pasted onto f. 280. References in the text point to the Company of Merchant Adventurers. Some Yorkshire names and wool trade references.

Material Features

Folio format, bound in sheepskin. 286 ff. First 16 folios include a handmade index with red and black lettering and cut tabs, although the index has not been used, and instead accounts are recorded in this space. Ruled margins and headers. Pages have been foliated. The inside of the front board is inscribed "G. A. Farsyde Fylingdales nr Whitby Y[ks?] 1825 [altered to 1826]. These M.S. were found amongst the papers of my Uncle Watson Farsyde".

Associated People
Source of Data

Catherine Evans; University of Leeds Library catalogue

Sermons Contained
GEMMS record created
May 17, 2018
GEMMS record last edited
July 15, 2024