Fair copy in a single hand of an anonymous collection of 128 poems, with title page reading "Poems on several occasions" with Latin epigraph. Undated, but poems refer to the Act of Union (p.108) and to Joseph Browne's poem "The British court" (p.139), as if they were contemporary (1707).
Poems on several occasions
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- ReferenceGB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 52
- Dates of Creationca.1700-1710
- Name of Creator
- Language of MaterialEnglish
- Physical Description1 vol. (116 ff.) Bound in contemporary panelled calf. F.1v. blank; ff.2-112, on which poems appear, paged 1-222. Table of contents on ff.113r-116r, the latter being the rear-free endpaper.
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The author of the collection is unknown
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Acquisition Information
Bought from Sotheby's, 5-6 July 1977, lot 365
Note
In English
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