This image is taken from Beinecke’s Osborn b349, a commonplace book of the 1620s, signed by one Francis Grosvenor and containing notes in secretary and italic hands on a broad range of topics, including witchcraft, geography, aphorisms, cosmology, and fee tables, as in the example above.
This commonplace book, and a range of other examples, have been uploaded as high-resolution scans on the Beinecke’s Paleographical Commons, a resource for examples of early modern British paleography. The site can be found on flickr, as part of the Beinecke’s Flickr Laboratory, a project to provide open access to public domain images from the Beinecke Library collections.
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Based on this license, our images can be freely copied, distributed, re-mixed, and adapted. We only request that the Beinecke is cited as the holder of the item, based on our longstanding permission and copyright standards, found here: http://www.library.yale.edu/beinecke/brblresearch/copyright.html.