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Commonplace book--poetry

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Description
A volume containing about thirty poems, copied out in two hands, possibly compiled by an English Catholic in exile. Both covers are detached, spine is missing and pages are loose.
Type
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Production date
approximately 1682-1689.
Call number
mssHM 84419
Provenance
Purchased through Maggs Bros. Ltd from Christie's, lot 192, July 1967. From the Virtue and Cahill Library, Portsmouth, England.
Associated people
Cleveland, John, (1613-1658.)
Cowley, Abraham, (1618-1667.)
Crashaw, Richard, (1613?-1649.)
Denham, John, (1615-1669.)
Dorset, Charles Sackville, (1638?-1706.)
Dryden, John, (1631-1700.)
Fanshaw, Richard, (1608-1666.)
Rochester, John Wilmot, (1647-1680.)
Wotton, Henry, (1568-1639.)
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