Poetical miscellany of H. Watkins [manuscript], ca. 1780.
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Title
Poetical miscellany of H. Watkins [manuscript], ca. 1780.
Variant title
Folger card catalog title: Poetical commonplace book, ca. 1780
Description
155 leaves ; 20 x 16 cm
Scope and content
Excerpts from English and Latin poets, chiefly of the 16th to 18th centuries. Extracts from Shakespeare occupy leaves 20-40. To judge from the changes in handwriting this commonplace book took many years to compile. Some of it was copied after 1775; Thomas Penrose's Flights of fancy was published in that year (cf. fo. 152r). The book was begun on leaf 20v. Leaves 1-19 were reserved for an index and provided with thumbtabs, but matter proving too abundant these were eliminated and the preliminary leaves used for the last-copied pieces.
Provenance
Original vellum.
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M.a.110
Folger accession
cs1321