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Title

Elegies

Call number

Ms. Codex 1567
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 4805345
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4805345

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Origin

Date

1788?

Place

England?

Summary

Eight written anonymously. The elegies are numbered I. to VIII. written on the recto side of 37 leaves. Three of the eight are titled: Elegy I. "To the Memory of a Friend" (f. 3r)--Elegy IV. "Written in a Village Church--To a Friend"(f. 11r)--Elegy V. "He wishes to inculcate the Love of Sensibility" (f. 24r).

Notes

• Title from title page (f. 2r).
   

Extent

76 leaves : 151 x 97 mm. bound to 158 x 105 mm

Foliation

Paper, 76; [i-iii, 1-73 (39-73 blank)]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary tree-calf, covers gilt-tooled with Greek key border, gilt spine, marbled endpapers.

Layout

Written in 19 lines, grouped in 4-line stanzas.

Decoration

Frontispiece in pen and ink wash depicting Headford Ruin in County Galway, Ireland, inscribed "Hedefort Ruin '88"; decorative headings (f. 3r, 6r, 8r, 11r, 24r, 28r, 31r, 34r), some in watercolor.

Script

Written in a copperplate script by one hand.

Provenance

• Sold by Samuel Gedge Ltd. (Mundesley, England), cat. 8 (2010), no. 94.
   

Subjects topical

• English poetry--18th century

Genres

• Codices
• Elegies
• Poems
• Pen-and-wash drawings
• Manuscripts, English--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 1v — Frontispiece, f. 1v
• fol. 2r — Decorated title page, f. 2r
• fol. 3r — Decorated heading, f. 3r
• fol. 6r — Decorated heading, f. 6r
• fol. 8r — Decorated heading, f. 8r
• fol. 10r — Decorated heading, f. 10r
• fol. 24r — Decorated heading, f. 24r
• fol. 28r — Decorated heading, f. 28r
• fol. 31r — Decorated heading, f. 31r
• fol. 34r — Decorated heading, f. 34r