Commonplace-book containing transcribed verse and prose of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries : Commonplace book c.1770-1790.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--18th century.

English literature.

English poetry--18th century.

English poetry.

Physical Description:

1 volume (133 ff.)

Summary:

Contains 79 old songs and other poems; also prose pieces, mostly in English, but with some in Latin, with various dates in the eighteenth century appended to them. On f.1v there is a contents page to the work with page numbers included in it

Notes:

AMDigital Reference:Lt 99

Probably written in at least two different hands: the first, a spidery hand mostly for words of songs and psalms, a musician's source book of words; the second, a firmer hand for copies of epitaphs, fine copies of letters, and witty sayings. Both hands are eighteenth-century. Mainly in English, but with some Latin

Local Notes:

Bound in plain vellum which is somewhat worn and discoloured.