Search Special Collections

Suggestions

Did you mean: englisch or poetry. or poety

Results

1 to 2 of 2 records

Total number of records: 2

Count of Record type

Record type	Count
Books and printed items	1
Archives	1

Count of Collection group

Collection group	Count
Brotherton Collection	2
English Literature	1
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse	1

Count of Subject

Subject	Count
epitaphs	2
english poetry	2
epigrams	1

Count of People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Smith, James (1605-1667)	1
Smith, James	1
Mennes, Sir John (1599-1671)	1
Mennes, John	1

Archive Item:
BC MS Lt q 44

Collection of verse, partly political and addressed to the Cecil family, including many epitaphs.

c.1626-1649

Comprises 54 separate poems.

Archive Print Item:
BC Lt d/MEN

Recreation for ingenious head-pieces, or, A pleasant grove for their wits to walk in : of epigrams, 700, epitaphs, 200, fancies, a number, fantasticks, abundance : with their addition, multiplication and division

Mennes, Sir John (1599-1671); Smith, James (1605-1667)

1667

Signatures: A-2D. Added t.p., engraved by William Marshall: Witt's recreations refined & augmented with ingenious conceites for the wittie and merrie medicines for the melancholie. See the next page...