Skip to main content
Library
  1. New search
  2. Poems breathed forth by the nobel Hadass...

Poems breathed forth by the nobel Hadassas, and The Unfortunate Florinda, by Lady Hesther Pulter

Archive Item: BC MS Lt q 32 Contains digital media

Please note

This item may not be available for use. Please contact Special Collections before your visit. See the Access and usage section below for further details.

Details

Type of record: Archive

Title: Poems breathed forth by the nobel Hadassas, and The Unfortunate Florinda, by Lady Hesther Pulter

Level: Item

Classmark: BC MS Lt q 32

Creator(s): Pulter, Lady Hester (1605-1678)(); Madan, Judith()

Date(s): c.1645-1665

Language: English

Size and medium: 1 vol. (168 ff. inscribed of 169 bound) and 17 ff. loose sheets

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/7610

Collection group(s): Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse

Mirador viewer

TypeError: Failed to fetch
{
  "manifest": {
    "error": "TypeError: Failed to fetch",
    "id": "https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/ixif/archives-isadg-7610/manifest/0/details.json",
    "isFetching": false
  },
  "viewer": null,
  "window": {
    "canvasId": "https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/ixif/archives-isadg-7610/canvas/0/0/0/details.json",
    "collectionIndex": 0,
    "companionAreaOpen": true,
    "companionWindowIds": [
      "cw-432db896-0df3-4802-9862-5c2cb7252f30",
      "cw-d51164b7-c5c1-4cd4-9727-2f10113cb3f4"
    ],
    "draggingEnabled": true,
    "highlightAllAnnotations": false,
    "id": "window-f306358c-f3c3-442d-8424-ad6af2be129a",
    "manifestId": "https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/ixif/archives-isadg-7610/manifest/0/details.json",
    "maximized": true,
    "rangeId": null,
    "rotation": null,
    "selectedAnnotations": {},
    "sideBarOpen": false,
    "sideBarPanel": "closed",
    "thumbnailNavigationId": "cw-d51164b7-c5c1-4cd4-9727-2f10113cb3f4",
    "canvasIndex": 1,
    "visibleCanvases": []
  }
}
1 of 0

Image credit Leeds University Library

Description

A collection of poetry, beginning on flyleaf and then on ff.2r-130v; from back, inverted, on f.1r, 2v-36v, is an incomplete prose romance, The Unfortunate Florinda. Detached, previusly inserted matter includes 3 ff. (paginated 3-7) of 62 heroic couplets from Abelard to Eloisa, identified as by Judith Madan, ca.1720; and 3 ff. bearing genealogies, arms and an account of "Ley, Earl of Marleborough".


Bound in reversed calf, spine lettered. Poems predominantly in a scribal hand with insertions and revisions in two other hands, one of them apparently Hesther Pulter's.

Biography or history

Lady Hester or Hesther Pulter was the sixth daughter of James Ley, 1st earl of Marlborough. F.1r bears a note of the author being aged 71 in 1667 and dying March or April 1678 aged 82.

Provenance

The manuscript was later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt., and sold at Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353. The manuscript was acquired for Special Collections via Quaritch on 29th October 1975. Accession number: B16175

Access and usage

Reproduction

Access

This material is not subject to restrictions under Data Protection or other relevant legislation that might limit access. However, other protections, such as donor conditions or conservation considerations, may still apply where advised.

Material in this part of the collection is in copyright as dictated by the 1998 Copyright, Designs and Patents Act in the UK until 31 December 2039 and has been identified as an Orphan Work. The Library has taken the approach to place the material online in order to support research, learning and teaching.

In Copyright

The University of Leeds respects the rights of copyright holders and their representatives. The University endeavours to ensure that all content hosted on the Special Collections website is compliant with UK Copyright law. View the Special Collections takedown policy

Related subjects / tags

WARNING: many of our records have not been classified by subject. So if you search our catalogue by subject using the links below then you are unlikely to find all relevant records. But you will find some...

English literature

English literature - 17th century

English poetry

English poetry - 17th century

Collection hierarchy

List collection

Visitor Basket

Ref No. Item Ref Title

Submit Visitor Request