A collection of poetry, beginning on flyleaf and then on ff.2r-130v; from back, inverted, on f.1r, 2v-36v, is an incomplete prose romance, The Unfortunate Florinda. Detached, previously inserted matter includes 3 ff. (paginated 3-7) of 62 heroic couplets from Abelard to Eloisa, identified as by Judith Madan, ca.1720; and 3 ff. bearing genealogies, arms and an account of "Ley, Earl of Marleborough".
Poems breathed forth by the nobel Hadassas, and The Unfortunate Florinda, by Lady Hesther Pulter
This material is held atUniversity of Leeds Special Collections
- Reference
- GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 32
- Dates of Creation
- 1645-1665
- Name of Creator
- Language of Material
- English
- Physical Description
- 1 vol. (168 ff. inscribed of 169 bound) and 17 ff. loose sheets; Bound in reversed calf, spine lettered. Poems predominantly in a scribal hand with insertions and revisions in two other hands, one of them apparently Hesther Pulter's.
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Lady Hesther Pulter was the sixth daughter of James Ley, 1st earl of Marlborough. F.1r bears a note of the author being aged 71 in 1667 and dying March or April 1678 aged 82
Access Information
Access is unrestricted
Acquisition Information
Purchased at Christie, 8 October 1975 (Lot 353), sold among the property of Sir Gilbert Inglefield
Note
In English
Other Finding Aids
The poems are indexed in the BCMSV database http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/bcmsv/intro.html