Notebook, compiled by Robert Codrington, 1638-c.1642, containing songs, elegies, epitaphs and epigrams, many without authors' names
Occasional verse refers to events between 1612 and 1640. After p. 236 the collection includes verse by Codrington, some relating to Oxford university affairs. Pp. 284-348, 356-8 contain verse in another hand, some initialled J. H.
362 pages.
Dates
- Creation: c.1633-1642
Extent
362 pages
Language of Materials
- English
Preferred Citation
Oxford, Bodleian Libraries [followed by shelfmark and folio or page reference, e.g. MS. Eng. poet. f. 27, pp. 1-2].
Shelfmark:
MS. Eng. poet. f. 27
Collection ID (for staff)
CMD ID 9784
Abstract
Notebook, compiled by Robert Codrington, 1638-c.1642, containing songs, elegies, epitaphs and epigrams, many without authors' names.
Biographical / Historical
Robert Codrington (1601/2–1665?) was a British translator and writer.
Other Finding Aids
M. Clapinson and T. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991). Vol. 2, no. 46516.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Bought from Blackwell's, 1962.
Physical Facet
calf, rebacked
Topical
Subject
- Title
- Notebook, compiled by Robert Codrington, 1638-c.1642, containing songs, elegies, epitaphs and epigrams, many without authors' names
- Status
- Published
- Date
- EAD version 2019 by Pauline Soum-Paris
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
Weston Library
Broad Street
Oxford OX1 3BG United Kingdom
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