Contains 307 items of English verse
Poetical commonplace book
This material is held atUniversity of Leeds Special Collections
- Reference
- GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 45
- Dates of Creation
- ca.1743-1767
- Name of Creator
- Language of Material
- English
- Physical Description
- 1 vol. (412 pp.) Index to pp.1-"245" sideways, from the back, on 4 further pages; between text and index come the roughly torn-off stubs of 18 ff. (36 pp.), the first having remains of writing on verso. Paginated by the compiler up to "398" (actually 399, the page number 161 being given to both recto and verso of the same leaf). The pastedowns and remains of the flyleaf conjugate with the second pastedown, are not included in any of the above paginations. Signature, blue ink, inside front cover on pastedown: McClenaghan. Bound in vellum (?) on boards, front piece partly torn away, black cloth (?) spine of later date
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
The compiler of the commonplace book is unknown
Access Information
Access is unrestricted
Acquisition Information
Bought from Hofmann, November 1973
Note
In English
Other Finding Aids
Indexed in the BCMSV database http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/bcmsv/intro.html
Custodial History
Apparently once in the possession of a "McClenaghan"