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Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- c 1681 (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
1 folio sheet.
Context area
Name of creator
Repository
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Purchased from Bernard Quaritch Ltd. No. 18 in 'Autographs and Letters' list, Aug. 2023.
Content and structure area
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 ye… read more
Allied materials area
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