Poems of various kinds, by Peter Pinnell and others

This material is held atUniversity of Leeds Special Collections

  • Reference
    • GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 104
  • Dates of Creation
    • ca. 1750-1790
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English
  • Physical Description
    • 1 vol. (137 ff.), manuscript. Written in a single eighteenth-century hand. Most of the verso pages are blank. The foliation runs from 1-109 on ff.2-110 only. Bound in medium brown leather with blind tooling on the outside covers and spine and marbling on the inside covers and endpapers.

Scope and Content

Contains 58 eighteenth-century English poems by Peter Pinnell and other contemporary poets.

Administrative / Biographical History

Rev. Peter Pinnell, D.D., was Prebendary of Rochester and Vicar of Eltham and Shorne in Kent. He died on 16 August 1783 aged 63.

Access Information

Access is unrestricted.

Acquisition Information

Purchased from Heath's bookshop on 15 August 1994.

Note

In English.

Other Finding Aids

The poems are indexed in the BCMSV database http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/bcmsv/bcmvlink.htm#bclt104