Commonplace book of English verse, drama, and prose by various authors, including Robert Southwell and Josuah Sylvester.
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Commonplace book of English verse, drama, and prose by various authors, including Robert Southwell and Josuah Sylvester.
Classmark: BC MS Lt 91
Date(s): c.1650-c1700
Language: English; Latin; Greek
Size and medium: 1 vol. (179 ff.), manuscript.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/7912
Collection group(s): Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse
Description
Contains prose, dramatic pieces, and 142 poems, mostly anonymous, but including 10 by Robert Southwell (1561-1595) and 17 by Josuah Sylvester (1563-1618).
The text was compiled in the second part of the 17th century. The manuscript is mainly written in a single hand, but with later additions in other hands. It may come from Derbyshire as the village of Parwich is mentioned. Some of the owners had the surname Alsop which is common in the county.
A considerable number of owners and readers have written their names in the volume including Thos Allsop, John Allsopp, John Marriot, Pegey Marriott and Margrat Marriot. The earliest dated name is that of Henry Gould 1680.
There is a detailed description of this item in the University of Cambridge Digital Library Scriptorium: Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Online Project https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-LEEDS-BROTHERTON-LT-00091/119. The description was created as part of the Resource Enhancement Project funded by the AHRC.
Additional description
Worn and damaged. Bound with dark brown leather on boards, originally with a light pink paper dust-jacket.
Biography or history
The identity of the compiler of this miscellany is not definitely known, but may be the Henricus Gould who signed f. 51v.
Provenance
Leeds University Library bought the manuscript from Sotheby's on 15 December 1988.
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