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Commonplace book, compiled largely by Mr Charles Deynes of Roydon near Diss in Norfolk : Commonplace book
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Commonplace book, compiled largely by Mr Charles Deynes of Roydon near Diss in Norfolk : Commonplace book c.1670-1744.
Publication
Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2006.
Physical Description
1 volume (122 ff.)
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AMDigital Reference:Lt 114
Written in several seventeenth and eighteenth-century hands from both ends of the volume, meeting after f.101v. The volume has not yet been systematically foliated. On f.1r there is the note "This book once belong'd to the [honor?] Mr Charles Deynes of Roydon near Disse in Norf. and is a great part of it of his own handwriting". Charles Deynes is not otherwise known
Reproduction of: Commonplace book, compiled largely by Mr Charles Deynes of Roydon near Diss in Norfolk, c.1670-1744.
Brotherton Library, University of Leeds
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Summary
Contains 10 miscellaneous seventeenth-century English poems, some anonymous, others by Ben Jonson, William Strode, and Abraham Cowley, written in a near contemporary hand; also, extensive historical and geographical notes, partly abbreviated, written in several different hands, but apparently referring to most counties of England and Wales from the southwest northwards, and, from the other end of the volume, to certain aspects of world geography, including parts of Europe, Asia, and Scotland
Variant and related titles
Literary manuscripts Leeds collection.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
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December 21, 2021
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