Collection of poems, songs and ballads, composed ca.1706-1723, expressing loyalty to the Stuarts and assailing the House of Hanover
Collection of English poems, predominantly Jacobite, in several hands
This material is held atUniversity of Leeds Special Collections
- Reference
- GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 46
- Dates of Creation
- ca.1720-1730
- Name of Creator
- Language of Material
- English
- Physical Description
- 1 vol. (on 1-59 of 100 ff.) Forty leaves unfilled at the end. Ff.1-31 and 33-54 were foliated by one of the original writers "1"-"53", jumping f.32; 3 blank ff. (excluding the pastedowns) precede this numeration. Written on recto sides only, by five hands. The poem on the unfoliated f.31, of six lines, appears to be in a hand different from those of any other poems. In blind-tooled calf binding with 5 spine bands; worn, upmost two hinges gone from front cover
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
The compiler of the collection is unknown
Access Information
Access is unrestricted
Acquisition Information
Bought from Quaritch (Sotheby), July 1973
Note
In English
Other Finding Aids
Indexed in the BCMSV database http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/bcmsv/intro.html