BIB_ID
103925
Accession number
MA 1057
Creator
Holgate, William, 1590-approximately 1634.
Display Date
[1603-1645].
Credit line
Purchased, 1928.
Description
1 item (333 p.) ; 19.3 x 14.5 cm
Notes
High reserve.
Includes a manuscript index on pages 330-333.
The book is not dated nor is a place of writing given, but the place and dates of writing for this record are from "British Literary Manuscripts: Series I From 800 to 1800 by Verlyn Klinkenborg with Herbert Cahoon and Charles Ryskamp. New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library in association with Dover Publications, Inc, 1981, p. 33.
Includes a manuscript index on pages 330-333.
The book is not dated nor is a place of writing given, but the place and dates of writing for this record are from "British Literary Manuscripts: Series I From 800 to 1800 by Verlyn Klinkenborg with Herbert Cahoon and Charles Ryskamp. New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library in association with Dover Publications, Inc, 1981, p. 33.
Provenance
Purchased from G. Wells in 1928.
Summary
Being manuscript copies of poems of John Donne, Ben Jonson, Thomas Carew, Sir Henry Wotton; with a copy of an early draft of Shakespeare's Sonnet 106, On His Mistris Beauty (p. 96), an unknown epistle in rhyme from Francis Beaumont to Ben Jonson (p. 110) and the celebrated elegy by Basse on Shakespeare which is correctly ascribed to Basse (p. 200).
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (21.4 cm)
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