Pièce 36 - Poems of the time of Charles II, Part I

Zone d'identification

Cote

Crewe MS/36

Titre

Poems of the time of Charles II, Part I

Date(s)

  • 1680s (Production)

Niveau de description

Pièce

Étendue matérielle et support

1 volume (33 x 21 cm), containing 169 leaves. Bound in tooled leather.

Zone du contexte

Histoire archivistique

This volume and Crewe MS 37 form a set. The compilation is similar to one in the National Library of Scotland (Advocates’ Library, MS 19.1.12), and several items only occur in MS in these two collections: see e.g. Crewe MS 37, ff. 133–4, 199–200, and 285read more

Zone du contenu et de la structure

Portée et contenu

Poems and other literary pieces, with transcripts of some diplomatic documents. On the spine is stamped: ‘M.S.S. Poems of the Time of Charles II. Collected for Robert Viscount Bodmin. Part I.’ The table of contents is at the end (pp. 302–7).

System of arrangement

Paginated i–iv, 1–81, 81a, 82–332. The binding of the book is upside down with respect to most of its contents, and the pagination begins at the back. It appears that the binding was repaired or altered at some point, since the free endpapers do notread more

Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation

Language of material

  • anglais
  • français
  • latin

Zone des sources complémentaires

Publication note

(Abbreviations used in the description of this manuscript are in brackets.)

Arthur E. Case, A Bibliography of English Poetical Miscellanies, 1521–1750, 1935 (Case)

Court Satires of the Restoration, ed. John Harold Wilson, 1976

The Poems of John Dryden,read more

Mots-clés

Rules and/or conventions used

The literary pieces are in verse and in English unless otherwise stated. Some of the attributions are derived from other sources (see ‘Publication notes’). Efforts have been made to reflect the current state of scholarship, but the attributions and datesread more