Skip to main content

Search Special Collections

Suggestions

Did you mean: sixpence or science

Results

1 to 1 of 1 records

Total number of records: 1

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection1
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse1

Title: The Jay and Owl. A Fable

Attribution: By a Journeyman Woolcomber

Date(s): 177- ?

Manuscript: Lt 125

Contents: Poem describing the owl's efforts to silence the jay's song by appealing to the goddess Minerva. Possibly to be attributed to James Woodhouse, the author of an earlier poem (BCMSV 6900) in Lt 125, said to be by a Journeyman Woolcomber.

More details