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Collection of verse related to James Butler, Duke of Ormonde
Title
[Collection of verse related to James Butler, Duke of Ormonde], [ca. 1640-1680].
Physical Description
1 v. (120 p.) ; 34 x 22 cm.
Language
English
Notes
Some poems docketed by Ormonde; others by his private secretary, Sir George Lane.
Spine label reads, in gilt: "Verses and Addresses."
Binding: nineteenth-century calf.
Provenance
Purchased from Julian Browning on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2004.
Summary
Album containing a collection of manuscript verse that belonged to James Butler, Duke of Ormonde (1610-88). The volume includes English and Latin panegyrics of Ormonde and on his role as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland; epigrams and elegies; Royalist political satires such as Dorset's "Clarendon had law and sense", Thomas Cobbes's "A poeme upon Cromwell', and Waller's "To His Majesty Upon his Motto, 'Beati Pacifici'"; a poem by Denham; translations from the Greek and Latin, and acrostic poems in English and Latin. Several comment on contemporary Irish affairs.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
August 08, 2005
References
Collection of Verse Related to James Butler, Duke of Ormonde. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
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Collection of Verse Related to James Butler, Duke of Ormonde. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
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