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Poetical miscellany [manuscript], ca. 1630.

Gardner, John, former owner.; Cosens, F. W. (Frederick William), 1819-1889, former owner.; Collingwood, George, former owner.; Collingwood, John, former owner.; Collingwood, Charles, former owner.; Burton, Maurice, former owner.; Robson, John, former owner.; Fairfax family, former owner.
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Title
Poetical miscellany [manuscript], ca. 1630.
Description
264 p.
Associated name
Gardner, John, former owner.
Cosens, F. W. (Frederick William), 1819-1889, former owner.
Collingwood, George, former owner.
Collingwood, John, former owner.
Collingwood, Charles, former owner.
Burton, Maurice, former owner.
Robson, John, former owner.
Fairfax family, former owner.
Scope and content
Incomplete. Includes five centuries of epigrams from Interogations in the court of gwests, Crabtree cudgells, Plainetree plankes, Patches of linsey woolsey and Idoneall ideotismes; The four last things of man and an excerpt from the Missal, ca. 1650. Many of the poems have a pronounced anti-Puritan ring.
Note
Individual poems listed in the Folger index of first lines.

Table of contents added by F.W. Cosens.

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Publications about material
Three poems have been printed in Inedited poetical miscellanies, edited by W.C. Hazlitt, 1870.
Provenance
Among the owners were a George Collingwood of Islington (Eslington) and several members of the Collingwood family including John and Charles, also, a John Robson and a John Gardner.
Fairfax family -- Maurice Burton of Ashton under Lyme -- F.W. Cosens, 1869, manuscript.
Cited/described in
Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, 84.1
Genre/form
Manuscripts (documents)
Poetical miscellanies.
Poems.
Epigrams.

Call number
V.a.137
Folger accession
cs84

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