Commonplace book

This material is held atUniversity of Leeds Special Collections

  • Reference
    • GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 13
  • Dates of Creation
    • ca.1719-1742
  • Language of Material
    • English Latin
  • Physical Description
    • 1 vol. ([i], 57 ff.)

Scope and Content

Contains Latin and English prose and poetry in several hands, c.1719-1742 or earlier, the main verse hand probably of the 1730s. Flyleaf recto "An account of the Beans", verso "Quaestiones quarum mentio facta est in hoc libro" [list]. Texts from or on: "The curious maid", Descartes, Essex, Heylyn, Rochester, Shovel, Smectymnus, Swift, Wharton.

Administrative / Biographical History

The compiler of this commonplace book is unknown

Access Information

Access is unrestricted

Acquisition Information

Purchased from P. Murray Hill, January 1963

Note

In English and Latin

Other Finding Aids

The poems are indexed in the BCMSV database http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/bcmsv/intro.html