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Title: [Commonplace book].
Alternative Title: Commonplace book of poems.
Creator: Blount, Henry, Sir, 1602-1682.
Donne, John,1572-1631.
Keepis, Michael, inscriber.
Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.
Strode, William,1600 or 1601-1645.
Thorpe, Thomas,1791-1851, bookseller.
Contributor: Birch, Wyrley, former owner.
Date Created and/or Issued: [1636-1677]
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 formerly owned by members of the Wyrley family. Though the ownership inscription in the front of the volume bears the name of Michael Keepis, it seems probable that the volume had its origins with Francis Wyrley, whose unpublished poems appear in large number throughout the text. Other poets represented include Henry Blount, Thomas Carew, John Donne, John Ford, and William Strode. In the latter half of the volume are manuscript inventories of belongings of the Wyrley family, dated 1675-1677.
Citation/Reference: Maule, J. "To the Memory of the late excellent poet John Fletcher": A new poem by John Ford. (In English manuscript studies, vol. 8),p. 136-159.
Condition: Bound in old calf; front cover detached from text block. Housed in modern red cloth case.
Type: text
Form/Genre: estate inventories
Commonplace books
Poems
Bookplates (Provenance)
Ownership inscriptions (Provenance)
Extent: [218] p., bound ;20 cm.
Identifier: ark:/21198/n17c8q
MS.1950.024
Language: English
eng
Subject: English poetry--17th century.
Household linens--England--Early works to 1800.
Place: England
Provenance: Armorial bookplate of Francis Wyrley on front paste-down endpaper; "Michaell Keepis, anno dom. 1636, ffebruarie 13th me tenet" on first fol. Formerly part of the Thomas Phillipps collection; "Phillipps ms. 9311" on first fol. Offered for sale Bernard Quaritch in October 1896 and described in his catalogue no. 164; Offered for sale in 1836 by Thomas Thorpe.
Location: CLUW

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