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BC MS Lt
BC MS Lt
17th century - 18th century
The manuscripts range from large verse miscellanies and commonplace books to individual leaves containing only a single poem. The poems similarly range over a wide corpus of verse composition, from we...
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BC MS Lt q
BC MS Lt q
17th century - 18th century
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Manuscripts BC MS Lt 76/1
Manuscripts BC MS Lt 76/1
Some newly discovered stanzas written by John Milton on engraved scenes illustrating Ovid's Metamorphoses : this Milton-Ovid script was written circa 1623, discovered 1921, first printed in Notes and queries, 1922-3, and is now revised and reprinted in one volume
Milton, John (1608-1674); Candy, Hugh Charles Herbert (1859-1935)
1924
On spine and cover: Some new stanzas by Milton.
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BC MS Lt 1
BC MS Lt 1
ca.1680
Long Hudibrastic satire largely on the Scottish Presbyterian covenanters, in two parts. Part One is preceded by "The Authors Appologie to the Reader", in prose. Part Two ends with a Latin version of t...
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BC MS Lt q 1
BC MS Lt q 1
c.1680
Manuscript poem which wittily suggests that the waters of Bath work their cures not as a result of salts and minerals but because women bathe in them, thereby sending forth healing
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BC MS Lt 10
BC MS Lt 10
c.1670-c.1710
Largely a compilation of poems by Oliver Style, probably autograph, copied 1698-1703, with some items added in a second hand.
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BC MS Lt q 10
BC MS Lt q 10
c.1725
Description of a girl leaving for boarding school (probably Thomson's sister Elizabeth) sorrowfully taking leave of her pet cat, imagining the cat's own lament at the separation. The poem, one of Thom...
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BC MS Lt 100
BC MS Lt 100
c.1775-1810
Contains 103 English poems from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, together with some prose pieces and excerpts from dramatic works of the time.
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BC MS Lt 101
BC MS Lt 101
1796
Contains a long English autobiographical poem which was possibly copied from the printed Manchester 1750 edition noted in Foxon's 'English verse 1701-1750', L179. The 1772 (?) edition noted in ESTC na...
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BC MS Lt 102
BC MS Lt 102
c.1650-1730
Contains, from one end, 'tables of the names of all the warrants contained in this booke made 1658', followed by a book of recipes, and, from the other end, an 'enumeration table' of various mathemati...
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BC MS Lt 103
BC MS Lt 103
c.1740-1804
Contains 28 eighteenth-century English religious, moral, and political poems of various authorship.
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BC MS Lt 104
BC MS Lt 104
c.1750-1790
Contains 58 eighteenth-century English poems by Peter Pinnell and other contemporary poets.