Collection of poems, predominantly religious, by Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Baron, professionally transcribed, with annotations by his uncle, Colonel Charles Fairfax : Miscellany c.1670.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Fairfax, Thomas, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700.

English poetry.

Physical Description:

1 volume (440 pages)

Summary:

Contains 194 seventeenth-century English poems, mainly Biblical paraphrases, chiefly the Psalms and the Song of Solomon, but also from Exodus, Deuteronomy, Judges, Samuel, Proverbs, and Luke; also, divine hymns, other religious and moralistic verse, occasional and miscellaneous verse, translations from Petrarch and of a French epigraph, and so-called 'Vulgar Proverbs', all apparently by Lord Fairfax himself

Notes:

AMDigital Reference:Lt 105

Written in the careful, mixed hand of a professional amanuensis, with corrections and revisions, many in the predominantly italic, rounded hand of Charles Fairfax. Eight blank pages at the end have been filled at a later date by another hand with 'An account of my Lord Fairfax Ingagmts faithfully transcribed out of a Manuscript taken out of the Originall written by his owne hand found in his study after his decease'. The volume is held in a box. The Fairfax armorial bookplate is pasted on to the front inside cover. Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Baron Fairfax of Cameron (1612-1671), the parliamentary general. Charles Fairfax (1597-1673), antiquary and genealogist. For fuller details of the lives and achievements of both these men see the Dictionary of National Biography

Local Notes:

Together with an issue of 'The Intelligencer', number 288, covering the period 'from Munday, the 29th of Janu., till Munday, the 5th of Feb., 1,648 [i.e. 1,649]', the latter being printed material held in a separate envelope. Fair copy of Lord Fairfax's collected poems, c. 1,670, in the hand of an amanuensis with numerous captions and corrections in the hand of Charles Fairfax; with a number of other items. Bound in contemporary calf with some blind tooling on the outside covers and spine.