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Ashley MS 2693
- Record Id:
- 040-001979302
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001978147
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001448.0x00016e
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Ashley MS 2693
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
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'To The Prince Regent - on the repeal of the bill of attainder against Ld. E. Fitzgerald. - july. 1819.': a sonnet by Lord Byron; 3 Aug. 1819. Autograph fair copy, with four revisions, written on one side only of a large quarto leaf of white wove paper. Watermark 'HOC AUSPICE / QVID NON AUSINT / PRAESTENTQ ARTES / B [ ]'. Entitled as above in Byron's hand, and signed and dated 'Byron. / August 3rd. / 1819. / Ravenna. ―'. The text found in this fair copy agrees with that of MS. M as recorded in The Works of Lord Byron. Poetry. Vol. IV., 1901, ed. E. H. Coleridge, p. 548, except for l. 3, where this fair copy has 'children' for 'offspring'. Accompanying the MS. is the description of it as found in T. J. Wise, A Bibliography of Byron, 1932, p. 131, apparently taken from the proofs (f. 11). The MS. is reproduced in Ashley Library Catalogue, viii, to face p. 66.
Quarto; ff. ii+1.
Poetry ENGLISH: George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron; poet: Sonnet, 'To The Prince Regent - on the repeal of the bill of attainder against Ld. E. Fitzgerald. - July. 1819.', by Lord Byron: 1819: Autogr. fair copy.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Ashley Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001978147
040-001979302 - Is part of:
- Ashley MS A17-5768 : Ashley Manuscripts
Ashley MS 2693 : 'To The Prince Regent - on the repeal of the bill of attainder against Ld. E. Fitzgerald. - july. 1819.': a sonnet by Lord… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001978147[0645]/040-001979302
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Ashley MS A17-5768
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1819
- End Date:
- 1819
- Date Range:
- 3 Aug 1819
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Byron, George Gordon Noel, 6th Baron Byron, poet, 1788-1824