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Title: [Poetical miscellany].
Alternative Title: Sylvae.
Creator: Brewster, Elizabeth, former owner.
Contributor: Brewster, John, former owner.
Date Created and/or Issued: [1642-1712]
Contributing Institution: UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Collection: Early Modern English Manuscripts from UCLA’s Clark Library
Rights Information: Public Domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Scope/Content: Manuscript. In Latin with some Greek and some English. Written on vellum in several different hands.
Scope/Content: Manuscript poetical miscellany written in several different hands on contemporary vellum. Most poetry is written in Latin with some Greek, and it is unclear if works are originals. Similarly, though some poems are dated, it is unclear if the date signifies their composition date or the date of their inclusion in this volume.
Condition: Bound in speckled calf; rebacked in 1993.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Poems
Poetical miscellanies
Ownership inscriptions (Provenance)
Extent: [86] p., bound ;19 cm.
Identifier: ark:/21198/n11p5t
MS.1953.003
Language: English
eng
Latin
lat
Greek
gre
Subject: Latin poetry--England--Early works to 1800.
Place: England
Provenance: "John Brewster Anno Dom 1712" and "Elizabeth Brewster 1711" inscribed in pencil on p. [3] and [74] in the same hand; "John Brewster" and "1706" inscribed in ink on p. [77].
Location: CLUW

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