Text set / Eros in monachium, or, The Medmenham garland /cull'd from the Franciscan originals …

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Title: Eros in monachium, or, The Medmenham garland /cull'd from the Franciscan originals by P.W. and T.P.
Alternative Title: Medmenham garland.
Creator: Potter, Thomas, 1718-1759.
Whitehead, Paul, 1710-1774.
Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764.
Wilkes, John, 1725-1797.
Nathan, Harry Louis Nathan, Baron, former owner.
Contributor: Sundridge, Lord, former owner.
Date Created and/or Issued: [1751-1765]
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. 20th century bookseller's description and article about John Wilkes tipped in at beginning of text.
Scope/Content: Manuscript compilation dating from approximately 1761-1765 and containing poetry written by the members of Sir Francis Dashwood's Franciscans (also known as the Monks of Medmenham or somewhat erroneously as the Hellfire Club). The volume purports to have been compiled by Thomas Potter and Paul Whitehead, and contains poetry written by John Wilkes and Charles Churchill, among others. The volume contains at least 2 different hands.
Condition: Bound in full vellum with blue moire silk endpapers.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Poems
Extent: [156] p., bound ;20 cm.
Identifier: ark:/21198/n1xs5x
MS.1963.005
Language: English
eng
Subject: Bawdy poetry, English--18th century.
Verse satire--18th century.
Place: England
Provenance: Armorial bookplates of Campbell, Lord Sundridge and Nathan of Churt on front end-papers; Pencil note reading "This copy belonged to Lord Sundridge, Combe-bank, Sevenoaks Kent, " "Argyle, Comb-bank" in ink on verso of front free endpaper.
Location: CLUW

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