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21 Sep 2009: They each changed the colour of their ink very frequently, often after only a few lines, which suggests that time had lapsed, after which new ink needed to be mixed. ... This intermittence might have been planned, but twice at least it was not, when one

22 May 2009: This page is a good example of a devout reader combining texts seamlessly to make a new work, uninterested in identifying the writer of her chosen lines. ... d Timber: New Essays on George Herbert, eds Edmund Miller and Robert DiYanni (New York: Peter

21 Sep 2009: 3, The Collegiate University (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), pp.157-99. 2. The second part of this notebook (fols 78-157), though, contains a new set of notes, largely in English,

20 Aug 2009: indifferent poem and an excellent piece of prose, both from the pen of Sir Thomas himself and both new, I believe, to present-day readers.3. ... 391. 2 The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, ed. Geoffrey Keynes, 6 vols (London: Faber and Gwyer, New York: W.

2 Sep 2009: as fountain and the smaller miscellany as a new vessel for its contents. ... of Print (London & New York: Routledge, 2000) Thompson, Craig R., et al, eds, Collected Works of Erasmus, 42 vols (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1974-).

25 Sep 2009: Recording the verses here captures the news of the moment, but also connects the person being fashioned in the manuscript (a talent, a chronicler, someone at the heart of things) with

29 Sep 2009: The poet is likely to have been a schoolmaster, and the vocabulary employed by this text has an obvious pedagogical application, featuring unusual classical words, new coinages (especially diminutives) and Graecisms.

18 Sep 2009: On the other hand his copy of Jonson’s ‘Ode to Himselfe’ is not taken from the printed version appended to The New Inn (1631) but is a more pointedly insulting ... The New Inn: ‘thy comique muse, from the exalted line / Toucht by thy Alchymist,

21 Sep 2009: Such comparisons could throw new light on interactions between the political and domestic spheres of mid-century culture, and illuminate a neglected genre through which memories of the civil war and

23 Sep 2009: The first item in the manuscript – notes from a book of English passages to be turned into Latin, probably William Leedes’s New English Examples (London, 1685) – seems at home in