Ff.1r-6r (verso blank): miscellaneous notes in Latin and Greek; ff.7r-41r: twenty-four poems on religious subjects, beginning with two by Joseph Addison (from The Spectator 489 and 513) and including others by Spenser and Nahum Tate. Following ff.41v-45r: blank, volume is reversed and inverted; from back, ff.94v-86r: notes in Latin headed "Maresius"; f.85: blank; ff.84v-45v: series of prayers, mostly being collects.
Commonplace book of English religious poems and prayers
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- ReferenceGB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 84
- Dates of Creationca.1715
- Name of Creator
- Language of MaterialEnglish Latin Greek
- Physical Description1 vol. (94 ff.) Bound in contemporary sheep, the name "Almack" written inside both front and back cover
Scope and Content
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The compiler of the manuscript is unknown
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Acquisition Information
Purchased from Smallwood, January 1989
Note
In English, Latin and Greek
Other Finding Aids
The poems are indexed in the BCMSV database http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/bcmsv/intro.html