Poems on several occasions

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 52
  • Dates of Creation
      ca.1700-1710
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
      English
  • Physical Description
      1 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.

Scope and Content

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).

Administrative / Biographical History

The author of the collection is unknown

Access Information

Access is unrestricted

Acquisition Information

Bought from Sotheby's, 5-6 July 1977, lot 365

Note

In English

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