BIB_ID
119728
Accession number
MA 743
Creator
Waller, Edmund, 1606-1687.
Display Date
17th cent.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Description
1 item (115 p.), bound 14.9 cm
Notes
An autograph commonplace notebook, containing commentary on Aristotle (25 p.), notes on the Bible (20 p.) and sixty-one Latin definitions (70 p.).
Front paste-down is inscribed by the antiquary and astronomer John Lee of Hartwell House: "J. Lee, Doctors Commons. No. 380. Vol. 2. MS from the Library of Waller the Poet."
Front paste-down is inscribed by the antiquary and astronomer John Lee of Hartwell House: "J. Lee, Doctors Commons. No. 380. Vol. 2. MS from the Library of Waller the Poet."
Provenance
John Lee, with his bookplate; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1911.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (16.3 cm)
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