Tuesday 14 January 1661/62

All the morning at home, Mr. Berkenshaw by appointment yesterday coming to me, and begun composition of musique, and he being gone I to settle my papers and things in my chamber, and so after dinner in the afternoon to the office, and thence to my chamber about several businesses of the office and my own, and then to supper and to bed. This day my brave vellum covers to keep pictures in, come in, which pleases me very much.

Wednesday 15 January 1661/62Monday 13 January 1661/62

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N vicenzo on Sat 15 Jan 2005, 12:50am. Flag this

Morning off, and then gets his beautiful picture album. Any guesses to the type of pictures? maybe it be for his miniatures to keep safe.
N RexLeo on Sat 15 Jan 2005, 02:05am. Flag this

“This day my brave vellum covers to keep pictures in, come in,…”

predecessor of modern day album?
N JWB on Sat 15 Jan 2005, 03:23am. Flagged

Pix
“So to dinner to my Lord Crew
N JWB on Sat 15 Jan 2005, 04:25am. Flag this

Look at this Faithorne:
“The Embleme of ENGLANDS Distractions,”*
engr. William Faithorne, 1658 http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/kinney/small/embleme.jpg
N vicenzo on Sat 15 Jan 2005, 04:51am. Flag this

see http://www.pepysdiary.com/p/907.php
N vicenzo on Sat 15 Jan 2005, 05:15am. Flag this

following JBW’s lead. It is an education in the art of “come on up to see me etchings” the olde excuse to seduce a young maiden. The Leads for Faithorne cover much of Art, which leads to Will: Blake Anothe famous printer poet..
N JWB on Sat 15 Jan 2005, 05:29am. Flag this

Faithorne portrait?
http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/portrait.asp?LinkID=mp04668&rNo=6&role=art
N johnt on Sat 15 Jan 2005, 10:59am. Flag this

Interesting use of the word “brave”. I do not recognise any such modern usage.
N Australian Susan on Sat 15 Jan 2005, 12:55pm. Flag this

“began composition of musique”
Oh, Sam! Why no details?
N Brian McMullen on Sat 15 Jan 2005, 03:06pm. Flag this

I have not read ahead so I also await more details of this “composition of musique”. On the other hand, I have seen his portrait with the music sheet in his hand so music appears to be of immense importance to our man.
N Mary on Sat 15 Jan 2005, 04:06pm. Flag this

brave.

We’ve met the word in this sort of context before. Splendid, handsome etc. cf. Shakespeare’s “O brave new world ….”
N language hat on Sat 15 Jan 2005, 04:30pm. Flag this

If anyone’s interested, the Greek text at the top of JWB’s Embleme link reads “mono to theo doxa”: ‘only to God glory’ (or, in more natural English, ‘glory to God alone’).
N JWB on Sat 15 Jan 2005, 05:53pm. Flag this

brave…
Last year (‘61) Sam wrote “brave moon”. Also Nat’l Portrait Gallery has 11 pgs of Faithornes: http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp01525&role=art&page=1
N Jim on Mon 17 Jan 2005, 01:41pm. Flag this

Interestingly, the Welsh language preserved this meaning of the word “brave” when we borrowed the word from either French or English- we say “Mae’n braf heddiw” to mean “it [the weather] is fine today”
N vicenzo on Tue 8 Mar 2005, 04:38am. Flag this

Mr Debne was on his knees asking for forgiveness for arresting a Privilege member and had to pay a fee for his thoughtlessness..
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=26432
N laoighse on Sun 9 Nov 2008, 10:07pm. Flag this

brave as an adjetive in this sense was uses in Donegal in my childhood, Sixties and I think the Scots braw must be the same, late annotation