1. Add MS 69823
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 69823
- Title:
- VERSE MISCELLANY: comprising copies of eleven poems by or attributed to John Dryden, Thomas Sprat, the Earls of Orrery and Dorset, etc.; circa 1667-1668. The two poems of Dryden (ff. 33-63v, 64-65v) may have been copied from one of the three issues of Annus Mirabilis that were published in 1667 but the rest seem mostly to have been taken from manuscript sources. Thomas Sprat's Pindaric ode on Abraham Cowley (ff. 25v-32v) was first printed in Dryden's Miscellany Poems (1716), and 'A Copy of Verse...
- Scope & Content:
- includes: (covers) Bookplates and Book-stamps: Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton: Book-stamp of Baron Houghton: circa 1830-1885.f. ii Bookplates and Book-stamps: Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, 2nd Baron Houghton; formerly Milnes; Marquess of Crewe: Armorial bookplate of Marquess of ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- c 1667-1668
- Extent:
- 1 item