Above, Locke’s New method of a common-place-book, from the 1705 posthumous edition of his works (Beinecke call number K8 L79 a706); below, Osborn b192, the “anonymous manuscript, containing notes on reading, theology, heraldry, a Latin poem, a sermon and “For Free lending,” a dialogue, as well as financial figures.”
Archive for October, 2008
Commonplacing: theory and practice
Published October 30, 2008 Curator's Highlights Leave a CommentTags: commonplace book
Flon flon, and other scurrilous songs to sing
Published October 27, 2008 Curator's Highlights Leave a CommentTags: 1709, chansons, manuscript, political satire
From a recent acquisition, a French manuscript album of “chansons satiriques sur les evenements politiques francais de 1709 et 1713”:
Sur l’air a la facon de Barbarie
Sans regarder derrier toy
Lui avanse le vicomte,
avec ta femme comme on croit
tu combattras sans honte;
Et lui garderas du flon flon
La faridondaine la faridondon
C’en le seul combat qui te duil
Beriby
A la facon de Barbarie
Mon amy.
Fin
The Politics of the Free Market, c. 1664
Published October 24, 2008 Curator's Highlights Leave a CommentTags: Charpentier, Colbert, French East India Company
This anonymous pamphlet, written by Charpentier at the request of Colbert, was one of the first publications to discuss the founding of the French East India Company.
Charpentier’s Discours d’un fiedele sujet du Roy, touchant l’establissement d’une compagnie Francoise pour le commerce des Indes Orientales: Adresse a tous les Francoise (Paris: n.p., 1664).
Separating the Sheep from the Calves
Published October 24, 2008 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: book-binding
Please join us this Thursday, October 16, for a lecture by John Palfrey in the Beinecke Lectures in the History of the Book series, entitled “Digital readers: the future of the history of the book.”
John Palfrey is the new Vice Dean of the Harvard Law Library, a Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School and the Co-Director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. The lecture will be held at 4PM in the Beinecke Library, rooms 38 & 39.