[Hutton family miscellany]

Format:

• Book
• Manuscript

Contributor:

• Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Hutton family.
• Dorsey family.
• Dykes family.
• Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Early works to 1800.
• Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
• Yorkshire (England)--Genealogy.

Genre:

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• excerpts
• genealogies (histories)
• poems
• prescriptions
• Manuscripts, English.
• Manuscripts, European.
• Family histories.

Penn Provenance:

• Sold by Ken Spelman Books Ltd. (York), catalog 77 (January 2014), item 2.

Physical Description:

185 leaves : paper ; 190 x 155 mm bound to 200 x 165 mm + 5 notes

Place of Publication:

[Yorkshire], [1700-1853?]

Language Note:

English, with French, Latin, and Greek.

Summary:

A miscellany possibly held by generations of the Hutton family in Yorkshire. The older (18th-century) entries begin at one end of the volume, with contemporary foliation, and include a mostly blank scheme for an alphabetical index by first letter and first vowel (f. i recto-ii verso); notes on French language and grammar (f. 1r-7v); excerpts from the writings of Cardinal Jacques Davy Du Perron in French (f. 12-r-13r), and translations in English of Cicero (Tully's Offices, f. 40r) and Julius Caesar (De bello gallico, f. 50r-50v); inscriptions and epitaphs (f. 16r, 30r); a poem titled Corydon and Meliboeus, a pastorall upon Mr. G-p-p leaving school by himself, dated 1723 (f. 17r-19r), and another untitled poem (f. 43r); a small collection of recipes and cures for ailments such as the bite of a mad dog, worms, madness, rheumatism, and treatments for horses (f. 24v-27r). A few of the foliated leaves have been torn or cut out, including ones noted in the alphabetical index. Starting from the other end of the volume, upside down, a collection of 19th-century genealogical notes trace the descent of the Hutton family beginning in the late 16th century. Sources noted include monumental inscriptions in the parish church at Richmond in York, other epitaphs, a will at Marske Hall, other papers at Marske Hall, and a leaf in a Bible at Thornton Hall (noted copied in 1821, f. 165v). Related families traced include the D'Arcy and Dyke families. The most recent genealogical notes trace descendants up to 1822. A small clipping about a visit by a member of the Hutton family to Archbishop Hutton's School is dated 1853 (f. 180r). The notes laid in the volume include three couplets from Dryden addressed on the verso to the Honorable Mrs. Anne D'arcy at Sedbury near Richmond, Yorkshire; excerpts on hope and repentance from a catechism; and additional genealogical information.

Notes:

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Foliation: Paper, 185; [i-ii], 1-41, [42-47 (blank)], 50-52, [53-144 (blank), 145-183 (beginning from the end)]; late 17th-century foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto starting at the 18th-century end of the book.
• Script: Written in cursive script by multiple hands.
• Binding: Original 18th-century parchment.
• Origin: Written at least in part in Yorkshire, based on references to the Hutton and D'Arcy families, from the 18th century (earliest non-genealogical date, 1712, f. 25r) into the 19th century (latest genealogical dates, 1822, f. 145v-148r; newspaper clipping, 1853, f. 180r).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1716.

OCLC:

918948234

Access Restriction:

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