Student notebook of James Garnet, 1605

The 17th-century student notes are written in a clear but very compressed hand. They are in Latin, but several jottings in the book indicate that English was the writer's native language. The notes have been bound in a fine gold-tooled leather binding.

The curriculum covered by the student includes grammar, mathematics (algebra, arithmetic and logic), geometry, physics and astronomy. Diagrammes are given in, for instance, the sections on geometry and mensuration.

A poem in English is given on f. 40, entitled 'Marye Magdalens complaint at Christs death'.

The writer of the student notes is identified on the first page as James Garnet, but the location of his studies is not known. Notes in a modern hand on the inside of the front cover suggest that he was a Jesuit student, which would indicate a Continental university, and make a connection with the execution in 1606 of Henry Garnet, provincial of the Jesuits, for his part in the Fawkes Gunpowder plot. Two years later T.L.S. Garnet, another Jesuit, met the same fate. Although no documentary evidence linking James Garnet with these men is known, the fact that Henry Garnet was the son of Brian Garnet, master of Nottingham School, provides a possible explanation for the Nottingham location of the volume.

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ACCESS: Accessible to all registered readers.

LANGUAGE: English, Latin

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The notebook was given to the University of Nottingham's Department of Manuscripts in 1959 by Paul Granger, in memory of Professor F.S. Granger.