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Poetical and prose miscellany [manuscript], ca. 1580-1800.

Hunnis, William, -1597.; Brewer, Richard, active 1588.; Parkyn, William, active 1588.; Sterling, W. G., former owner.; Modd, J., Reverand, former owner.
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Title
Poetical and prose miscellany [manuscript], ca. 1580-1800.
Variant title
Folger card catalog title: Commonplace book, ca. 1580-1800.
Description
1 v.
Associated name
Hunnis, William, -1597.
Brewer, Richard, active 1588.
Parkyn, William, active 1588.
Sterling, W. G., former owner.
Modd, J., Reverand, former owner.
Scope and content
Poems and prose written in a volume that contain some commonplace book headings but without entries. Six or more different hands interspersed, from 1580s onwards. Material includes poems, some by Perkins, Hunnis, et al.; posies; classical commentaries, in Latin and English; notes on books; and copies of letters, mostly between R. Brewer and William Parkyn, 1588. Short time line of language and writing development (p. 94-95).
Language Note
In English and Latin.
Note
p. 1-30; leaf 29; p. 31-44 [45-100]. Half a leaf between p. 14 and 15.

Poems listed in Folger index of first lines.

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Provenance
W.G. Sterling; From the collection of Reverand [J. Modd?]
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Genre/form
Manuscripts (documents)
Poetical miscellanies.
Anthologies.
Commonplace books.
Poems.

Call number
V.a.307
Folger accession
4459

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