Contains three items of English verse, Samuel Butler's prose "The loyal satyrist" or "Mercurius menippeus", and (written from back, inverted) "Mr Adrian Battans service / Te deum", with music.
Commonplace book of verse and prose
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- ReferenceGB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 22
- Dates of Creation168-
- Name of Creator
- Language of MaterialEnglish
- Physical Description1 vol. (71 ff.) Many leaves either torn out or blank. In a single hand. Armorial bookplate of Sir John Percivale, bart., Burton, Co. Cork, 1702. Contemporary calf binding.
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The compiler of this commonplace book is unknown
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Acquisition Information
Bought from Quaritch (Hodgson), January 1967
Note
In English
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The poems are indexed in the BCMSV database http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/bcmsv/intro.html