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Title: [Commonplace book].
Creator: Addison, Joseph, 1672-1719.
Dryden, John, 1631-1700.
Duck, Stephen, 1705-1756.
Hughes, John, 1677-1720.
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.
Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748.
Winchilsea, Anne Kingsmill Finch, Countess of, 1661-1720.
Date Created and/or Issued: [ca. 1713-1740]
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 commonplace book. Volume flipped and last 82 pages written upside down.
Scope/Content: Mid-eighteenth century commonplace book containing poems, cookery recipes, medical home remedies and notes on natural history and physics. Poems include John Hughes's "Ode to the creator of the world, " Isaac Watts's "Stanzas to my Lady Sutherland, " Pope's "Universal prayer, " and the traditional ballad of Chevy Chase, as well as many other works by prominent poets, such as Anne Finch, Lord Orrery and Joseph Addison. The compiler gathered many of these poems from contemporary periodicals such as the Daily gazetteer, Gloucester journal and Gentleman's magazine. The volume contains many entries made at least partially in short-hand.
Condition: Bound in original calf with unrelated black-letter printed document on paste-downs.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Shorthand
Commonplace books
Poems
Extent: 48, [130] p., bound ;18 cm.
Identifier: ark:/21198/n1wc8m
MS.1982.001
Language: English
eng
Subject: Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--18th century.
Traditional medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--18th century.
Natural history--England--18th century.
Place: England
Provenance: Inscribed "E.L.T. Bale" on p. 1, with note "Jan. 21st 1730/31 about 3 a clock in ye after-noon my son was born, and about ten at night he died."
Location: CLUW

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