Copy of poems by Sir Thomas Fairfax [manuscript], 1660s?.
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Copy of poems by Sir Thomas Fairfax [manuscript], 1660s?.
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1 v. (452 p.)
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An early family copy of Thomas Fairfax's predominantly religious poetry, in the hand of Charles Fairfax. "The table of soliloquies and poems in this booke" at the beginning of the volume categorizes the contents into 6 categories: 1. Sacred as scripturall 2. Divine 3. Morall 4. Elegiacall 5. Facecious 6. Satyricall. Includes many Biblical paraphrases, chiefly the Psalms and the Song of Solomon, but also from Exodus, Deuteronomy, Samuel, Luke, and Proverbs, along with hymns and other religious and moralistic verse. Also secular poems: "Of vertue" (p. 380); "Of Impartial Fate" (p. 387); "To the Lady Cary upon her verses on my Deare wife AF" (p. 390); "Upon a Virago" (p. 407); "Upon Appleton-house" (p. 409).
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500 [20], 338, 341-423 [11]. Stub after p. 338, text continuous between p. 338 and 341.
Notes in later hands on leaf [1]: "Most of this Book was composed by Thomas Lord Fairfax, General of the Parliament Army and is in his Hand writing." Additional note signed by Charles Fairfax Crowder: "This is not the case. The original volume in the handwriting of Thomas 3rd Baron Fairfax is in the Bodleian. The present volume is in the handwriting of Hon. Charles Fairfax of Menston, his uncle, and tho' it contains almost the same series of verses as the Bodleian volume (about half the Vulgar proverbs being omitted) has many verbal alterations dictated by Charles's superior taste, like the corrections by a tutor of his pupils verses. I carefully compared the two volumes while visiting the Bodleian June 1889."
Similar to MS Fairfax 40 at the Bodleian Library, Oxford and MS Lt 105 at Leeds University Brotherton Collection.
Notes in later hands on leaf [1]: "Most of this Book was composed by Thomas Lord Fairfax, General of the Parliament Army and is in his Hand writing." Additional note signed by Charles Fairfax Crowder: "This is not the case. The original volume in the handwriting of Thomas 3rd Baron Fairfax is in the Bodleian. The present volume is in the handwriting of Hon. Charles Fairfax of Menston, his uncle, and tho' it contains almost the same series of verses as the Bodleian volume (about half the Vulgar proverbs being omitted) has many verbal alterations dictated by Charles's superior taste, like the corrections by a tutor of his pupils verses. I carefully compared the two volumes while visiting the Bodleian June 1889."
Similar to MS Fairfax 40 at the Bodleian Library, Oxford and MS Lt 105 at Leeds University Brotherton Collection.
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V.a.585
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264915