Text set / Negotiolum bellae.

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Title: Negotiolum bellae.
Creator: Springett, Catharine, 1724-1809.
Addison, Joseph, 1672-1719.
Carter, Elizabeth, 1717-1806.
Milton, John, 1608-1674.
Philips, Katherine, 1632-1664.
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.
Sankey, Mary Boys, former owner.
Contributor: Boys, Mary Harvey, b. 1756, former owner.
Date Created and/or Issued: [1742-1749]
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. Title from spine.
Scope/Content: Manuscript commonplace book begun by Catherine Springett of Eastry, Kent. The volume contains poetry and prose extraces in Springett's hand as well as contributions from her friends. Some poetry appears to be original, but works by poets such as Pope, Addison, Milton, Elizabeth Carter and Katherine Philips are also included. The volume's chain of ownership inscriptions document its ownership by Springett's daughter, Mary (Harvey) Boys and granddaughter, Mary (Boys) Sankey, and pencil annotations probably by Sankey are found throughout the volume.
Condition: Bound in mottled calf.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Commonplace books
Libri amicorum
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Extent: [4], 216 p., bound ;20 cm.
Identifier: ark:/21198/n1vg7z
MS.1986.003
Language: English
eng
Subject: English poetry--18th century.
Place: England--Kent--Eastry
Provenance: Leather label on front paste-down endpaper: "Albus nunc liber es; studium per virginis acrum cum multi maculis, immaculatus eris. Catherina Springett 1742."|On p. [4]: "Given by Catherine Springett Harv[ey] to her daughter Mary Boys" in one hand, followed by "Transferred from her to Mary Sankey her daughter" in another hand.|"This book was given to me by Mr. Thomas Mercer in 1742. Cath. Springett." on p. 216.
Location: CLUW

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