Notebook of Elias Smyth, of miscellaneous prose and verse, written in several hands. Contents display Smyth's Royalist sympathies; for example, there are copies of epitaphs for Charles Lucas and George Lisle. Some of the epitaphs for Charles I are written in both red and black ink. There are also notes on the death of Daniel Featley. Epitaphs for Smyth's son, Richard, appear on pp. 133-34. Languages: English, Latin, and Greek.
Octavo. Bound in a recycled medieval vellum document within contemporary vellum. 170ff.
The Hunter Manuscripts were purchased by the Dean and Chapter of Durham in 1756 for forty guineas.
Thomas Rud, Codicum Manuscriptorum Ecclesiae Cathedralis Dunelmensis Catalogus Classicus (Durham, 1825), p. 415; Brian Crosby, A Catalogue of Durham Cathedral Music Manuscripts (Oxford University Press, 1986), p. 80; Hannah Yip.
Dr Donne. Iud.15.20 -- pp. 41-42