Ff.1r-68v: transcriptions of poems, taken largely from the published Divine Hymns and Poems on Several Occasions, 1704 (Case 231), gathered in leaf endorsed "Divine poems &c by sundry hands"; ff.69r-74v: transcriptions of French poems; ff.75r-96v: further transcriptions of poems, mostly from Aaron Hill's The plain dealer and other periodicals; ff.97r-121v: autograph satires and epigrams in a single hand, with extensive revisions and deletions; ff.122-123: bifolium endorsed "Runick verses" with part of poem in Danish with autograph translation; ff.124-125: bifolium endorsed "Brother's", a fair copy of epilogue for unnamed comedy; ff.126r-130v: extracts from Baxter's "The whole duty of man" and from the Bible, with commentary.
Collection of transcribed and autograph poems, gathered together with other papers, largely poetical
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- ReferenceGB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 67
- Dates of Creationca.1700-1755
- Name of Creator
- Language of MaterialEnglish
- Physical Description130 ff. Almost wholly in the same mid 18th-century hand
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
The compiler of the collection is unknown
Access Information
Access is unrestricted
Acquisition Information
Purchased from Sotheby's sale, 20 March 1984, lot 645
Note
In English
Other Finding Aids
The poems are indexed in the BCMSV database http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/bcmsv/intro.html
Custodial History
Evidently once in the possession of the Irvine family