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Title: [Commonplace book].
Creator: Smedley, Benjamin.
Date Created and/or Issued: [ca. 1735]
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 of Benjamin Smedley, compiled around 1735. The volume contains John Dryden's "The State of Innocence, " "An Account of the New Tragedy called the Gamester written by Mr. Moore, " some notes on music and several pieces of choral music, and scene one of "The Relapse, or, Virtue in Danger, " by John Vanbrugh.
Condition: Bound in original vellum.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Commonplace books
Notebooks
Plays
Songs
Ownership inscriptions (Provenance)
Extent: [162] p., bound ;21 cm.
Identifier: ark:/21198/n1zg7w
MS.2010.003
Language: English
eng
Subject: English drama--17th century.
Dryden, John, --1631-1700.--State of Innocence.
Moore, Edward, --1712-1757.--Gamester.
Vanbrugh, John, --1664-1726--Relapse.
Place: England
Provenance: Benjamin Smedley written in ink on front cover in a calligraphic hand.
Location: CLUW

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