Harley MS 6931 - Miscellaneous poems

GEMMS Manuscript ID
GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT- 94
(old series: GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-1383)
Title
Miscellaneous poems
Shelfmark
Harley MS 6931
Creation Date
ca. 1630 - 1640
Repository
Contents Note

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.

Material Features

Octavo. Old calf gilt. 111 leaves (plus blanks).

Acquisition

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.

Source of Data

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.

Other Note

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'A Commentary on and Edition of the Shorter Poems of William Browne of Tavistock in British Library MS Lansdowne 777' (unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Glasgow, 1998), p. 86.

Sermons Contained
URLs
http://recirc.nuigalway.ie/sources/source/1301 Entry for Harley MS 6931 in The Reception & Circulation of Early Modern Women's Writing, 1550-1700 Database.
GEMMS record created
October 23, 2020
GEMMS record last edited
July 15, 2024