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Title

Poems

Authors

• Hompesch, Ferdinand, Baroness
• Metastasio, Pietro, 1698-1782

Call number

Ms. Codex 632
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2363083
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2363083

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Origin

Date

1788-1803

Place

England

Summary

Comprises poems to family members (her brother Hugh, her sister Joanna Christian, Louise de Hompesch, Baron William Hompesch, and to Baron Ferdinand Hompesch); on places (Netley Abbey, Carisbrooke Castle, Winchester Cathedral, the Isle of Wight), on the death of Robert Burns, and to Napoleon. There are also translations from German and French, but mostly a number of translations from Metastasio. Collection appears to have been compiled and annotated by Clementina Elphinstone, whose name appears on the title page, and who is the subject of one of the poems "To Clem: Elphinstone" on folio numbered 124. This collection was completed after the death of the Baroness Ferdinand Hompesch in 1803, and probably after 1805 (after the death of Sir Richard Worsley, 1751-1805, see note on f. 6v).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title and attribution from title page (f. i recto).
   

Extent

140 leaves : 237 x 182 (212 x 171) mm. bound to 245 x 195 mm

Foliation

Paper, ii (contemporary paper) + 140 + ii (contemporary paper); [i], 1-56, 97-165, [166-179]; contemporary or near contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Contemporary pagination beginning on the verso of f. 165 with p. 167-192, [ii].

Support

Paper

Binding

19th-century marbled boards.

Script

Written in a cursive script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Clementina Elphinstone (signature, f. i recto).
   
• Sold by Sotheby's (London), 1997.
   

Subjects topical

• English poetry--18th century
• English poetry--Women authors--19th century

Genres

• Codices
• Manuscripts, English--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

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