BIB_ID
127686
Accession number
MA 352.1
Creator
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.
Display Date
1734
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (16 pages), unbound ; 29.9 cm
Notes
Formerly bound in red morocco gilt by Riviere & Son for S.M. Samuel in 1803; portions of the upper and lower covers have been retained and are housed with the manuscript.
Housed with a fragment of an autograph manuscript of Pope's "Of Taste, an Epistle to the Right Honourable Richard Earl of Burlington" (MA 352) and one printed edition of it dated London, 1731; an earlier record indicates it was housed with two printed editions.
See notes laid in the volume by Professor George W. Sherburn, Professor of English, Harvard University, dated 1944.
The poem is not dated but in a letter to Dr. Arbuthnot on September 3, 1734, Pope refers to completing the poem.
With a facsimile of a two-page fragment titled "Incipit. Epistle to Arbuthnot" that is housed at the Huntington Library (HM 6006); originally believed to be an additional manuscript copy of the poem, but now believed to be two pages of a draft of this manuscript.
Housed with a fragment of an autograph manuscript of Pope's "Of Taste, an Epistle to the Right Honourable Richard Earl of Burlington" (MA 352) and one printed edition of it dated London, 1731; an earlier record indicates it was housed with two printed editions.
See notes laid in the volume by Professor George W. Sherburn, Professor of English, Harvard University, dated 1944.
The poem is not dated but in a letter to Dr. Arbuthnot on September 3, 1734, Pope refers to completing the poem.
With a facsimile of a two-page fragment titled "Incipit. Epistle to Arbuthnot" that is housed at the Huntington Library (HM 6006); originally believed to be an additional manuscript copy of the poem, but now believed to be two pages of a draft of this manuscript.
Inscriptions/Markings
Watermark: leaf 1. Arms of England with Honi Soit Mal Qui Y Pense.
Watermark: leaf 2. Pro Patria, with Lion and figure inside fence.
Watermark: leaf 4. Cross inside square shield.
Watermark: leaf 2. Pro Patria, with Lion and figure inside fence.
Watermark: leaf 4. Cross inside square shield.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from F.T. Sabin in 1909; from the collections of Dr. Charles Chauncey (sale London, 1790) and S.M. Samuel.
Summary
Written on the rectos and versos of 8 leaves with revisions throughout.
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