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Mock poem or Whiggs supplicatione, by Samuel Colvil : Manuscript book c.1680.
Literary Manuscripts Leeds: Sources from The Brotherton Library, University of Leeds Available online
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- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Colvil, Samuel, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Colvil, Samuel.
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume ([xvii], 110 pages, 5 unnumbered pages, 73 pages, 1 unnumbered page).
- Summary:
- Long Hudibrastic satire largely on the Scottish Presbyterian covenanters, in two parts. Part One is preceded by "The Authors Appologie to the Reader", in prose. Part Two ends with a Latin version of the final 36 English lines
- Notes:
- AMDigital Reference:Lt 1
- Blank: pp.[i-iii], [1-5], [1]; and flyleaves (2 ff. front and back, last f. mutilated), except that recto of f.1 bears inscription "(2)", and recto of f.2 the signature, ca.1700, "[P?][a:?] Wauchope [?]". Text of the last constituent poem and the corresponding Latin version is in a roman hand. Several watermarks
- Local Notes:
- Bound in contemporary calf.
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