Collection of poems, songs and ballads, composed ca.1706-1723, expressing loyalty to the Stuarts and assailing the House of Hanover
Collection of English poems, predominantly Jacobite, in several hands
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- ReferenceGB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 46
- Dates of Creationca.1720-1730
- Name of Creator
- Language of MaterialEnglish
- Physical Description1 vol. (on 1-59 of 100 ff.) Forty leaves unfilled at the end. Ff.1-31 and 33-54 were foliated by one of the original writers "1"-"53", jumping f.32; 3 blank ff. (excluding the pastedowns) precede this numeration. Written on recto sides only, by five hands. The poem on the unfoliated f.31, of six lines, appears to be in a hand different from those of any other poems. In blind-tooled calf binding with 5 spine bands; worn, upmost two hinges gone from front cover
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Administrative / Biographical History
The compiler of the collection is unknown
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Access is unrestricted
Acquisition Information
Bought from Quaritch (Sotheby), July 1973
Note
In English
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Indexed in the BCMSV database http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/bcmsv/intro.html