Miscellany containing jests and poems [manuscript], ca. 1595.
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Cover-to-cover images of Folger Shakespeare Library X.d.177
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Title
Miscellany containing jests and poems [manuscript], ca. 1595.
Variant title
Folger card catalog title: Commonplace book containing jests and poems, ca. 1595
Description
8 leaves.
Summary
Poems include one beginning: Shepherd sawest thou not my fair Phyllis; Churchyard's verses to the Queen beginning: Your grace did promise on a time. In several hands, one being Elizabeth Clarke's whose name appears on the first and last pages; "Catharin Hardinant" also is written on leaf 1. Also includes accounts for funeral expenses of Mr. [Lotteschamp?] at St. Dunstan's [in West London].
Note
Poems listed in the Folger index of first lines.
Publications about material
Zarnowiecki, Matthew. "A Blurred Notebook: Ephemeral Literature and the Lyric Moment in Folger MS X.d.177." In Manuscript Miscellanies c. 1450-1700, edited by Richard Beadle and Colin Burrow, 48-69. English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700, vol. 16. London: British Library, 2012.
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Cover-to-cover images of Folger Shakespeare Library X.d.177
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
Call number
X.d.177
Folger accession
cs1072