Bodleian Library: MS Ashmole 51 (Item 9) Commonplace book containing sententious rhyming couplets, six poems, an
inscription from a gravestone, notes on colours, and handwriting
exercises (c.1590-1617)
(scribe)
St. Paul's Cathedral Library: MS 52.D.14 (Context and purpose) Commonplace book of poetic and prose extracts, begun 1696 (1696-c.1745. The flyleaf suggests
that Butler acquired the manuscript in 1693 from her father. The two sections
of her commonplace book (poetry and prose) each begin with the date 1696. The
final item Butler compiled in the poetry section is probably taken from a
printed work of 1720. The penultimate item Butler compiled in the prose
section is dated 1745. Three later hands added to the volume after
this.) Katherine Butler
(owner, scribe)
St. Paul's Cathedral Library: MS 52.D.14 (Item 2) Commonplace book of poetic and prose extracts, begun 1696 (1696-c.1745. The flyleaf suggests
that Butler acquired the manuscript in 1693 from her father. The two sections
of her commonplace book (poetry and prose) each begin with the date 1696. The
final item Butler compiled in the poetry section is probably taken from a
printed work of 1720. The penultimate item Butler compiled in the prose
section is dated 1745. Three later hands added to the volume after
this.) Katherine Butler
(owner, scribe)
Cambridge University
Library: MS Additional 8460 (Context and purpose) Miscellany in verse and prose (c.1665-1714.
Elizabeth Lyttelton probably began compiling this manuscript in the mid to
late 1660s, when she is first mentioned in her father's letters as helping him
organize his papers (Keynes, Works, IV, p. 29, letter
21 (13 August 1668)). She might have continued until she gave the manuscript
to her cousin Edward Tenison in
1714 (p. 174), though the latest dateable item
in the miscellany is 1710 (see Item 6.25).) Elizabeth Lyttelton
(author, scribe)
Cambridge University
Library: MS Additional 8460 (Item 6.39) Miscellany in verse and prose (c.1665-1714.
Elizabeth Lyttelton probably began compiling this manuscript in the mid to
late 1660s, when she is first mentioned in her father's letters as helping him
organize his papers (Keynes, Works, IV, p. 29, letter
21 (13 August 1668)). She might have continued until she gave the manuscript
to her cousin Edward Tenison in
1714 (p. 174), though the latest dateable item
in the miscellany is 1710 (see Item 6.25).) Elizabeth Lyttelton
(author, scribe)
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