A verse miscellany, with nineteen poems by Richard Corbett (1582-1635) and twenty-nine by William Strode (c. 1601-1645). At least three cursive italic hands are present. This manuscript also contains poems by Donne, Herrick and Henry King.
Octavo. Old calf gilt. 111 leaves (plus blanks).
The Harleian Library was founded by Robert Harley, First Earl of Oxford (1661–1724). According to Cyril Ernest Wright, Robert Harley ‘was primarily interested in English historical and political material and in volumes of sermons and theological controversy, sharing in the latter the taste of his Harley ancestors’. See Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani (London, 1972), p. xxxiv.
CELM; A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, in the British Museum (1808), Vol. III, p. 449; Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani (London, 1972); Hannah Yip.
See Gillian Wright, 'A Commentary on and Edition of the Shorter Poems of William Browne of Tavistock in British Library MS Lansdowne 777' (unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Glasgow, 1998), p. 86.
Sermon on Psalms 137:1 -- ff. 91r-106v (written in reverse)