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Title: [Commonplace book].
Creator: Dryden, John,1631-1700.
Lucas, Richard,1648-1715.
Rowe, Nicholas,1674-1718.
Swift, Jonathan,1667-1745.
Winchilsea, Anne Kingsmill Finch,Countess of,1661-1720.
Burnet, Gilbert,1643-1715.
Cave, William,1637-1713.
Blackmore, Richard,Sir,-1729.
Contributor: Clark, William Andrews,1877-1934
Date Created and/or Issued: [17--?]
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. Writing begins from both ends of the volume. Many pages cut out near the front of volume, probably at an early date; some water- and mold-staining to inside pages, but without any loss of text.
Scope/Content: Manuscript commonplace book compiled during the late-17th and the 18th centuries, containing poetry, religious works, historical works, mathematical tables, geographical information, scientific facts and vocabulary words. The volume contains several different hands and there appear to have been perhaps 3 central compilers of the works excerpted therein. Many pages are crowded with text written in the margins and around passages entered at earlier dates. There are no signs as to the identities of the compilers, though a 20th century bookseller's description in the front of the volume mentions that it was purchased from a family library in Wiltshire.
Condition: Bound in full brown calf.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Commonplace books
Poems
Bookplates (Provenance)
Extent: [224] p., bound ;32 cm.
Identifier: ark:/21198/n1np6s
f MS.1932.001
Language: English
eng
Subject: Christianity--Early works to 1800.
English poetry--18th century.
Geography--18th century.
Mathematics--England--18th century.
Place: England--Wiltshire
Provenance: 20th century booksellers' catalog description laid down on front paste-down endpaper; William Andrews Clark, Jr. bookplate on front paste-down endpaper.
Location: CLUW

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