Item 693 - Poem by Richard Duke, 'To the Queen spoken by Mr Duke in the new Court by the Library'

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Reference code

Add. MS a/693

Title

Poem by Richard Duke, 'To the Queen spoken by Mr Duke in the new Court by the Library'

Date(s)

  • c 1681 (Creation)

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Item

Extent and medium

1 folio sheet.

Context area

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Purchased from Bernard Quaritch Ltd. No. 18 in 'Autographs and Letters' list, Aug. 2023.

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Scope and content

Poem addressed to Queen Catherine of Braganza on the occasion of the visit by Catherine and Charles II to Trinity to view the structure of the Wren Library, then being erected. Title as it appears is 'To the Queen spoken by Mr Duke in the new Court by yeread more

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Existence and location of copies

Bodleian Library, Oxford: Rawlinson D. 912 and Wood D319(2), described together as 2166 in Crum, First-line index of English poetry, 1500-1800, in manuscripts of the Bodleian Library, Oxford (1969).

Publication note

Published by Jacob Tonson, London, 1684, in Miscellany poems. Containing a new translation of Virgills eclogues, Ovid's love elegies, Odes of Horace, and other authors; with several original poems by the most eminent hands [Dryden-Tonson Miscellany],read more

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