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Title: [Commonplace book].
Alternative Title: Ms. commonplace book of Roger Ley curate of St. Leonard's, Shoreditch.
Creator: Ley, Anne, d. 1641.
Ley, Roger,1593 or 1594-
Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.
Phillipps, Thomas, Sir,1792-1872, former owner.
Contributor: Bright, Benjamin Heywood, former owner.
Date Created and/or Issued: [1623-1667]
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.
Scope/Content: Manuscript commonplace book composed and written by both Anne Ley and her husband Roger Ley, the curate of St. Leonard's Shoreditch from approximately 1623-1667. The volume contains extracts by Anne from Bishop Joseph Hall's Meditations, her poems and letters, her will, funeral sermon and epitaph, as well as sermons, treatises and eulogies by Roger Ley.
Citation/Reference: Millman & Wright. Early modern women's manuscript poetry. 77-86.
Condition: Bound in full brown leather; rebacked with paneled spine; gilt stamping on covers and spine; marbled endpapers.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Commonplace books
Notebooks
Poems
Ownership inscriptions (Provenance)
Shelf marks (Provenance)
Extent: [492] p., bound ;20 cm.
Identifier: ark:/21198/n1389t
MS.1952.003
Language: English
eng
Subject: English poetry--17th century.
Sermons--England--Early works to 1800.
Women poets, English--Early works to 1800.
Place: England
Provenance: On p. [3]: biographical information about Anne Ley in Roger Ley's hand; "Phillips Ms. 17400"; autograph of Joseph Hunter. On p. [12]: "Joseph Hunter, Bath, 1826. The gift of Benjamin Heywood Bright."
Location: CLUW

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