Leeds University Library
Brotherton Collection MS Lt 71
Commonplace book of proverbs and transcribed verse and prose
ca.1690-ca.1700
Not known.
1 vol. (141 ff.)
Lettered on spine "A Carolean miscellany 1694" and on foredge in ink "M" above seven horizontal bars. Ownership note inside front cover of Reginald L. Hine of Hitchin, "Purchased from ... Dobell in 1922".
English
Latin
The compiler of the manuscript is unknown
Ff.1r-6v: "Miscellanea", aphorisms and notes on Roman and other ancient history; f.6v: Latin poem on the silk-worm; ff.7r-11r: "A true account of Mr Fullers discovery of the true mother of the pretended Prince of Wales born 10 June 1688" and "Compleat hist. of the pretended Pr. of Wales by Anonymous"; ff.17r-18v: religious aphorisms; ff.21r-34r: "Abstract from Kersey's Algebra"; f.37r: "Rentall 1694" relating to the compiler's farms at Stow Park, let to the Merryweathers; ff.38r-56v: poems transcribed from the published
Miscellany poems upon several occasions, 1692 (Case 197); ff.57r-76r: poems transcribed from Preston's translation of Boethius's De consolatione philosophiae, 1695; ff.77r-92v: Latin prose, "Cuidam importunius flagitanti quid esset amor"; ff.93r-119r: proverbs in English, Latin and Greek; ff.120-124, rectos only: index by R. L. Hine.
Reginald L. Hine
Purchased from Quaritch, January 1978
Access is unrestricted
In English and Latin
The poems are indexed in the BCMSV database
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/bcmsv/intro.html
English poetry
17th century
English poetry
16th century
Commonplace-books
Early works to 1800
Proverbs
Early works to 1800