Exercitia Scholastica [manuscript], 1687-1761.
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Title
Exercitia Scholastica [manuscript], 1687-1761.
Variant title
Miscellany, 1687-1761
Description
121 leaves ; 19 x 12 cm
Scope and content
Includes Latin aphorisms and poetry, "nonsense verses" (Part 1, leaves 13v-14r), weights of coins (Part 1, leaf 15r), some English poetry, including a poem "On Coriolanus" by William Kekewich (Part 1, leaves 44v-45v), Bysshe's Art of Poetry (Part 1, leaves 16r-17v), De Româ (Part 2, leaf 1) and De Imperio Romano (Part 2, leaves 2-24, recto only). Also includes: Prologue to Phormio / by P.K., 1754 (Part 2, leaves 45v-44v, 42-41v, verso only); prologue and epilogue to a private performance of the History of George Barnwell, 1758 (Part 2, leaves 39v-36v, verso only); prologue and dramatis personae to the Spirited Heiress, October 7, 8, 9, & 10, 1761 (Part 2, leaves 35v-32v, verso only); Esaiae, Cap. 55, verses 1-13 (Part 2, leaves 31v-29v, verso only).
Language Note
In Latin and English and a little Greek.
Note
Part 1: 76 leaves (contemporary pagination inconsistant; foliated by cataloger); part 2 (beginning from rear of volume): 45 leaves. Part 1: 2 stubs between leaves 64 and 65; 1 stub between leaves 65 and 66, leaves 74 and 75; 5 stubs between leaves 75 and 76; leaves 70r-72r blank; part 2: 3 stubs between leaves 26 and 27; leaves 26r-27v blank.
Title from front endleaf.
Names on front endleaf "S. Pendarves, 1687 p. 5[?]s 8d," "Wm. Kekewich"; on leaf 46 "Wm. Kekewich. May 5th 1755."
End date of notebook taken from "Prologue to the Spirited Heiress. Octr. 7, 8, 9th & 10, 1761" (Part 2, leaf 35v).
For a printed edition of poem in Part 1, leaves 44v-45v see Coriolanus / edited by David George, Bristol, 2004, p. 41-43.
Title from front endleaf.
Names on front endleaf "S. Pendarves, 1687 p. 5[?]s 8d," "Wm. Kekewich"; on leaf 46 "Wm. Kekewich. May 5th 1755."
End date of notebook taken from "Prologue to the Spirited Heiress. Octr. 7, 8, 9th & 10, 1761" (Part 2, leaf 35v).
For a printed edition of poem in Part 1, leaves 44v-45v see Coriolanus / edited by David George, Bristol, 2004, p. 41-43.
Provenance
Formerly Folger MS Add 1065.
Source of acquisition
Acquired from A.R. Heath in 1999.
Includes
Bysshe, Edward, active 1702-1712. Art of English poetry. Selections.
Lillo, George, 1693-1739. London merchant. Selections.
Lillo, George, 1693-1739. London merchant. Selections.
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V.a.590
Folger accession
MS Add 1065