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Title

Miscellaneous poems /

Authors

• Grierson, Constantia, 1704 or 1705-1733

Other related names

• Elias, A. C, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81099425)

Call number

Ms. Codex 1825
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9976334063503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/981531813
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3416t55f

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Origin

Date

approximately 1727-1733

Place

Dublin

Summary

Preliminary fair copies of thirteen poems and three prose pieces, written on rectos, with occasional additions or revisions written on facing versos. The second group of writings (f. 79v-84v) is written upside down in relation to the front cover, from the back towards the front, so in this section of the manuscript the writing is on versos and rectos are blank. Two leaves have been torn out after folio 39; the modern foliation does not include them. Three of the poems (f. 2r, 15r, 30r) are earlier versions of ones published after Grierson's death by her friend Mary Barber in Poems on several occasions (London, 1734/35). Later notes about publication, identifications, and corrections have been added to some poems in blue pencil, probably by a member of the Grierson family.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   

Extent

184 leaves : 192 x 154 mm bound to 200 x 160 mm

Foliation

Modern pencil foliation, [1-184 (35-78, 85-118, 128-164, 166-184 blank)], with foliation marked occasionally in the lengthy blank sections.

Support

Paper

Binding

Later 18th-century reversed calf with some cropping (Elias); blind-tooled; Constantia Grier. written in ink on spine; front cover detached, damage to head of spine.

Script

Written in cursive script by a single hand, most likely Constantia Grierson.

Provenance

• Gift of the Estate of Archibald Cameron Elias Jr., 2008.
   
• Purchased in a mixed lot of volumes from an Irish country house by Belfast book dealier and antiquary John Gamble, 1984; sold with other volumes with Grierson provenance to a private collector (Elias).
   
• Owned by successive generations of the Grierson family until the early 20th century (Elias).
   

Subjects topical

• English literature--Women authors--18th century
• Printers--Ireland
• Printers
• English literature--Women authors
• Ireland

Genres

• Manuscripts, European
• Codices
• Manuscripts, English
• Poems

Keywords

• 18th century
• English
• Paper
• Literature -- Poetry

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