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Title
A common place book.
Creator
Trigg, Thomas.
Catullus, Gaius Valerius.
Dryden, John, 1631-1700.
Grainger, James, 1721?-1766.
Philips, Ambrose, 1674-1749.
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Shenstone, William, 1714-1763.
Virgil.
Date Created and/or Issued
[1785]
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. Alphabetical index immediately following the title page.
Scope/Content: Manuscript commonplace book of Thomas Trigg of Royston, dating from approximately 1785. This volume contains poetry and some prose from various writers including Shenstone, Pope, Catullus, Shakespeare, Ambrose Philips, Virgil, Dryden and Grainger's Life of Tibullus, among many others. Trigg notes his sources for many of these extracts, which include The Spectator, and various published miscellanies. Several entries are written in a hand different from, but contemporary to, Trigg's.
Condition: Bound in original vellum.
Type
text
Form/Genre
Commonplace books
Poems
Ownership inscriptions (Provenance)
Extent
[10], 157 p., bound ;20 cm.
Identifier
ark:/21198/n12c9j
MS.1984.004
Language
English
eng
Subject
English poetry--18th century.
Place
England--Hertfordshire--Royston
Provenance
Thos. Trigg, Royston, Cambridgeshire and "TT." inscribed on front paste-down endpaper; "T. Trigg 1785" and "Thos. Trigg 1785" inscribed on front free endpaper.
Location
CLUW

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