Katherine Philips poetry,

This material is held atNational Library of Wales / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru

  • Reference
    • GB 210 NLW MS 775B.
  • Alternative Id.
      (alternative) vtls004293064
      (alternative) (WlAbNL)0000293064
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1650-1658.
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • iv, 111 ff. (paginated 1-222; pp. 102, 104, 106, 108, 110, 126, 128, 130, 132, 134, 136-222 inverted text) ; 180 x 105 mm. Original calf binding; 'KP' blind stamped on cover; John R. Tutin bookplate on cover. Some leaves torn out.
  • Location
    • ARCH/MSS (GB0210)

Scope and Content

The first of two manuscripts (see also NLW MS 756B) containing poems, 1650-1658, by Katherine Philips, including some not printed in Poems By the Most Deservedly Admired Mrs Katherine Philips The Matchless Orinda ... (London, 1667, ESTC R19299), together with biographical notes, mainly in the hand of William Hall, antiquary and bookseller of King's Lynn, Norfolk. NLW MS 775B is in the hand of Katherine Phillips, whilst NLW MS 776B is in a contemporary scibal hand (information supplied by Elizabeth H. Hageman, June 2015).
The volume contains corrected fair copies of fifty-five poems, with the titles only of two others. See Index of English Literary Manuscripts, 4 vols (London, 1980-1997), II, part 2, compiled by Peter Beal (1993), pp. 128-129, and The Collected Works of Katherine Philips, ed. by Patrick Thomas, 3 vols (Stump Cross, Essex, 1990-1993), I: The Poems (1990).

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Acquisition Information

Acquired (with NLW MS 776B) from John Ramsden Tutin, Hull; c. 1913

Note

Title based on contents.

Preferred citation: NLW MS 775B.

Conditions Governing Use

Computer files (images) Hawlfraint: Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru, 2002 The National Library of Wales, 2002. All requests for permission to reproduce any image must be submitted in writing to The Librarian, The National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, Wales, SY23 3BU, UK.

Custodial History

'William Hall' (p. 215), signature of Thomas George Kidd (f. iv).

Related Material

See also NLW MS 776B. Two leaves which originally formed part of the volume (between pp. 87-88 and 89-90) are now University of Kentucky, W. Hugh Peal Collection, 8379 (see NLW Facs 739 for photocopies).

Additional Information

Published

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