Details

Subject(s)

• English poetry—17th century [Browse]
• Satire, English—17th century [Browse]

Former owner

Taylor, Robert H., 1908-1985 [Browse]

Contained in

• Robert H. Taylor Collection of English and American Literature, 1280s-1958 (mostly 1800s-1930s)

Compiled/​Created

[17--?].

Linking notes

Forms part of the Robert Taylor Collection (RTC01).

Summary note

Manuscript miscellany in verse and prose, principally on affairs of state and from a highly Protestant perspective, including 9 poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items. Written in unidentified early 18th century hand, possibly by an Anglican cleric from Cambridge. Contains various university poems, such as (p. 200-201) "On a Whore that was whipt thro" Cambridge, at the Cart Arse, by T.P.T. C[orpus] C[hristi] C[ollege]. Poems date from ca. 1670s to 1704.

Binding note

Original boards.

Source acquisition

Purchased from Princeton Rare Books (John Brett-Smith) in November, 1990.

In

Robert H. Taylor collection of English and American literature, 1280s-1950

OCLC

83003551

Other standard number

Restoration poetry MS 5

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