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Epigrams
Title
[Epigrams], [ca. 1650].
Physical Description
1 v. (116 p.) ; 17 x 11 cm.
Language
English
Notes
Followed by a list of accounts dated "An. Do. 1658, March 11," and several letters copied in a different hand and signed "A. Co." or "Andrew Corbet."
Inscription on fly-leaf: signature of Francis Whitgreave.
Binding: full calf.
In English.
Provenance
For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator.
Summary
Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of a collection of epigrams, with numerous corrections in the same hand, concerning literary and political figures as well as the author's relatives and friends, including Chaucer, Henry IV of France, "my Cossn Charles Cotton the Younger," and "my sister Pegge." The manuscript also contains epigrams addressed "to maides," "of an old Baud," and "to my Booke."
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
August 08, 2005
References
Sir Aston Cokayne, Epigrams. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Sir Aston Cokayne, Epigrams. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
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