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Title
[Collected epigrams and anecdotes]
Creator
Andrew, J.
Date Created and/or Issued
[ca. 1778-1789]
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: In English, with some Latin and Greek. Pages numbered in same hand as text; children's drawings and pencil scribbles on endpapers and in some margins of text.
Scope/Content: A late 18th century commonplace book possibly composed of mainly original poetry, epigrams and witticisms. Some are clearly described as being original work while most have no attribution given, so it is difficult to determine the status or authorship of the majority of the text. Most items are humorous anecdotes, poems, puns, and epigrams, some of them in Latin or very occasionally in Greek. It is difficult to determine the text's author, but a James Andrew was the vicar of Ashford, Kent in the 1770s.
Condition: Half calf with marbled paper boards.
Type
text
Form/Genre
Commonplace books
Epigrams
Poems
Markings (Provenance)
Ownership inscriptions (Provenance)
Extent
159, [8] p., bound ;24 cm.
Identifier
ark:/21198/n16310
MS.1983.001
Language
English
eng
Latin
lat
Greek
grc
Subject
English poetry--18th century.
English wit and humor--18th century.
Epigrams, English--18th century.
Place
England--Kent--Ashford
Provenance
Front paste-down endpaper: J. Andrew, Ashford Kent.
Location
CLUW

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