GEMMS IDGEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-001383
TitleMiscellaneous poems
ShelfmarkHarley MS 6931
Creation Dateca. 1630 - 1640
RepositoryBritish Library
Contents NoteA verse miscellany, with nineteen poems by Richard Corbett (1582-1635) and twenty-nine by William Strode (c. 1601-1645). At least three cursive italic hands are present. This manuscript also contains poems by Donne, Herrick and Henry King.
Material FeaturesOctavo. Old calf gilt. 111 leaves (plus blanks).
Provenance
AcquisitionThe Harleian Library was founded by Robert Harley, First Earl of Oxford (1661–1724). According to Cyril Ernest Wright, Robert Harley ‘was primarily interested in English historical and political material and in volumes of sermons and theological controversy, sharing in the latter the taste of his Harley ancestors’. See Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani (London, 1972), p. xxxiv.
Source of DataCELM; A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, in the British Museum (1808), Vol. III, p. 449; Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani (London, 1972); Hannah Yip.
Other NoteSee Gillian Wright, 'A Commentary on and Edition of the Shorter Poems of William Browne of Tavistock in British Library MS Lansdowne 777' (unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Glasgow, 1998), p. 86.
Sermons ContainedSermon on Psalms 137:1 -- ff. 91r-106v (written in reverse)
Sermon Reports Contained
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| recirc.nuigalway.ie/sources/source/1301 | Entry for Harley MS 6931 in The Reception & Circulation of Early Modern Women's Writing, 1550-1700 Database. |
GEMMS record createdOctober 23, 2020
GEMMS record last editedOctober 24, 2020