Fair copy in a single hand of an anonymous collection of 128 poems, with title page reading "Poems on several occasions" with Latin epigraph. Undated, but poems refer to the Act of Union (p.108) and to Joseph Browne's poem "The British court" (p.139), as if they were contemporary (1707).
Poems on several occasions
This material is held atUniversity of Leeds Special Collections
- Reference
- GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 52
- Dates of Creation
- ca.1700-1710
- Name of Creator
- Language of Material
- English
- Physical Description
- 1 vol. (116 ff.) Bound in contemporary panelled calf. F.1v. blank; ff.2-112, on which poems appear, paged 1-222. Table of contents on ff.113r-116r, the latter being the rear-free endpaper.
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
The author of the collection is unknown
Access Information
Access is unrestricted
Acquisition Information
Bought from Sotheby's, 5-6 July 1977, lot 365
Note
In English
Other Finding Aids
Indexed in the BCMSV database http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/bcmsv/intro.html