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[Commonplace book].
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Codex 875
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English poetry.
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- commonplace books
- poems
- Manuscripts, English.
- Manuscripts, European.
- Penn Provenance:
- Sold by A. R. Heath (Bristol, England), 2001.
- Physical Description:
- 43 leaves : paper ; 191 x 155 mm bound to 191 x 155 mm
- Place of Publication:
- [England], [circa 1790]
- Summary:
- Collection of poetry by an unidentified author on pastoral and classical themes. Includes parts of a longer poem titled the "Millesiad," copied in a second hand.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Foliation: Paper, 43; [1-43]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Leaves are torn out between f. 16-17, 25-26, and at the end; 6 leaves blank at beginning, 7 leaves blank at end.
- Script: Written in a cursive script by two hands.
- Binding: Contemporary paper wrapper.
- Origin: Written in England, circa 1790.
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 875
- Contains:
- Millesiad.
- OCLC:
- 225089744
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