Seventeenth-century verse satire

This material is held atUniversity of Leeds Special Collections

  • Reference
    • GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 28
  • Dates of Creation
    • ca.1680
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English Latin
  • Physical Description
    • 4 ff. Bound in contemporary marbled wrappers

Scope and Content

Satire on several contemporary poets, wits and men of society, beginning "Of all the wonders since the world began..."; the Latin motto "Barbara piramidum sileat miracula Memphis" appears above the first line

Administrative / Biographical History

The author of the poem is unknown

Access Information

Access is unrestricted

Acquisition Information

Purchased from Quaritch (Sotheby), December 1973

Note

In English and Latin

Other Finding Aids

Indexed in the BCMSV database http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/bcmsv/intro.html