By RBML Staff and Meg Hixon
Collection Overview
Title: Commonplace book, circa 1680-1704
ID: 01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0001
Creator: Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Extent: 1.0 Volumes
Date Acquired: 07/23/1959
Languages: English [eng], Latin [lat]
Scope and Contents of the Materials
This commonplace book contains 40 pages of manuscript transcriptions of Restoration-era writings in several hands. The contents include love poems, satirical poems, orations, and a translation from Ovid's Amores. The volume includes transcriptions of works by John Wilmot and John Dryden. The final three pages contain financial accounts dated 1703-1704, including payments received from Hugh Hughs for "Cole."
Administrative Information
Access Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.
Use Restrictions:
This item is the physical property of the Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Intellectual property rights, including copyright, may reside with the materials' creator(s) or their heirs.
The Rare Book & Manuscript Library welcomes requests for reproductions made from works in our collections, though restrictions may apply to certain materials. Please contact the library with any questions.
Acquisition Source:
Bernard Quaritch Ltd.
Finding Aid Revision History:
Revised by Meg Hixon, July 2016
Other Note:
Former shelfmark: 821 R58c
Other URL:
https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/17ks9l7/alma99510286812205899
Box and Folder Listing
- Volume 1: English commonplace book, 1680-1704
- Item 1: The prologue to Mr Smallwood's speech...
- Item 2: Epilogue to the same
- Item 3: Mr Smallwood's verses to the Ladies
- Item 4: Lamentable Obediah
- Item 5: Upon the Earl of Rochester's death
- Item 6: Verses made & spoken to the Queen by Mr Duke
- Item 7: The E of R's farewell
- Item 8: A Satyr against man by the Earl of Rochester
- Item 9: Upon nothing by ye E of R
- Item 10: Mac Flecknoe. A Satyr writt by J. Dryden
- Item 11: To a Postboy: E of R
- Item 12: The E of R: wish
- Item 13: The History of Iinsipids by ye E of R
- Item 14: Ovid: Amor: O nunquam pro me satis indignate Cupido!