Contains Latin and English prose and poetry in several hands, c.1719-1742 or earlier, the main verse hand probably of the 1730s. Flyleaf recto "An account of the Beans", verso "Quaestiones quarum mentio facta est in hoc libro" [list]. Texts from or on: "The curious maid", Descartes, Essex, Heylyn, Rochester, Shovel, Smectymnus, Swift, Wharton.
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- ReferenceGB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 13
- Dates of Creationca.1719-1742
- Language of MaterialEnglish Latin
- Physical Description1 vol. ([i], 57 ff.)
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Acquisition Information
Purchased from P. Murray Hill, January 1963
Note
In English and Latin
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The poems are indexed in the BCMSV database http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/bcmsv/intro.html