Poetical and prose miscellany [manuscript], ca. 1580-1800.
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Title
Poetical and prose miscellany [manuscript], ca. 1580-1800.
Variant title
Folger card catalog title: Commonplace book, ca. 1580-1800.
Description
1 v.
Associated name
Hunnis, William, -1597.
Brewer, Richard, active 1588.
Parkyn, William, active 1588.
Sterling, W. G., former owner.
Modd, J., Reverand, former owner.
Brewer, Richard, active 1588.
Parkyn, William, active 1588.
Sterling, W. G., former owner.
Modd, J., Reverand, former owner.
Scope and content
Poems and prose written in a volume that contain some commonplace book headings but without entries. Six or more different hands interspersed, from 1580s onwards. Material includes poems, some by Perkins, Hunnis, et al.; posies; classical commentaries, in Latin and English; notes on books; and copies of letters, mostly between R. Brewer and William Parkyn, 1588. Short time line of language and writing development (p. 94-95).
Language Note
In English and Latin.
Note
p. 1-30; leaf 29; p. 31-44 [45-100]. Half a leaf between p. 14 and 15.
Poems listed in Folger index of first lines.
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Poems listed in Folger index of first lines.
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Provenance
W.G. Sterling; From the collection of Reverand [J. Modd?]
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Call number
V.a.307
Folger accession
4459