Call Number:

Ms. Codex 1972

Repository:

University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts

Extent:

1 volume

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Ms. Codex 1972, A. L. Bishop, A favorite book, 1830, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania

Date:

1830 (inclusive)

Creator:

Bishop, A. L., Mrs. and Bishop, N.

Form:

Manuscripts, English -- 19th century, Prints, Drawings, Meditations, Sayings, Quotations, Excerpts, and Codices (bound manuscripts)

Abstract:

A volume containing the commonplace book of Mrs. A. L. Bishop, probably of Surrey, England dated 1830.

A marbled paper covered volume containing the commonplace book of Mrs. A. L. Bishop probably of Surrey, England dated 1830. The volume contains aphorisms, excerpts, maxims, meditations, quotations, and verse regarding, aging, death, gardens, happiness, life, morals, religion, and virtue. Authors of some excerpts include Honoré de Balzac, Lord Byron, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope, Samuel Jackson Pratt, Richard Sibbes, and Issac Watts. Some excerpts contributed to the volume were signed by N. Bishop. The volume contains 121 numbered pages. Preceding page 1 are three pages of maxims signed at the bottom: July 16, 1830, Mrs. A. L. Bishop's book. A table of contents is at the end of the volume on pages A to F. The title of the volume is from a label affixed to the front cover. There is a drawing of Mrs. Ditton pasted on the verso of the first fly leaf. Prints are pasted on the inside front and back covers and on the flyleaves. Clippings of some of Richard Sibbes meditations have been pasted in the volume.