Commonplace book of English prose and verse

This material is held atUniversity of Leeds Special Collections

  • Reference
    • GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 48
  • Dates of Creation
    • ca.1700
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English
  • Physical Description
    • 1 vol. (140 pp.)

Scope and Content

Contains extracts from a wide variety of sources including quotations from Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure" and "Comedy of Errors", Ben Jonson, Suckling, Abraham Cowley (including his "Essays"), Rochester's "Satyr against Mankind", Pomfret's "The Choice", Browne's "Religio Medici", Butler's "Hudibras", a satyrical "Will of a Virtuoso", etc. Includes also historical and biographical anecdotes, etc.

Administrative / Biographical History

The compiler of the commonplace book is unknown

Access Information

Access is unrestricted

Acquisition Information

Bought from Sotheby's sale, 23-24 June 1975, lot 268

Note

In English

Other Finding Aids

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