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Leaves from a poetical miscellany [manuscript], ca. 1625.

Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637.; Kay, John.; Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.
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Digital image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library X.d.475

Title
Leaves from a poetical miscellany [manuscript], ca. 1625.
Variant title
Folger card catalog title: Commonplace book, ca. 1625
Description
1 item (8 leaves)
Associated name
Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637.
Kay, John.
Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.
Summary
Includes poems, three by John Kay, and "A speech [by Ben Jonson] made at Theobalds (Tibaldes) when the queen [Anne] took possession ..." May 22, [1607]. The text of this entertainment differs in parts from that in Herford and Simpson's Ben Jonson, VII, p. 154.
Language Note
In English and Latin.
Note
Poems listed in the Folger card index of first lines.

Removed from some volume.
Provenance
Said to be a Phillipps MS.
Cited/described in
First-line index of English poetry 1500-1800 in manuscripts of the Bodleian Library, A1287
Linked resources
Digital image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library X.d.475
Genre/form
Manuscripts (documents)
Anthologies.
Masques.
Poems.

Call number
X.d.475
Folger accession
MS Add. 466

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