Caption title. 31 unnumbered pages, without t.-p. First page mutilated. "Leicester's commonwealth" was re-published in 1641 and was versified as "Leicester's ghost" about the same time. Authorship was erroneously attributed to Robert Parsons.--cf. Dict. nat. biog Ms. notes on end paper: "Thorpe the bookseller gave 15/6 for this at Isaac Reed's sale. Phillipps mss. 8990. ... An important historical poem, written in a hand of the time of Queen Elizabeth. Autograph of Isaac Reed, 1779, on fly leaf. Formerly no. 8990 in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps. "N. 8826 in an old coll.; bought (1779) by Isaac Reed; his sale (London, 1807, n. 8714) to Thorpe for Richard Heber; his sale (London, 1836, XI, no. 978) to Rodd; sold by Thorpe (Cat., 1836, n. 777) to Sir T. Phillipps (n. 8990); his sale (London, 1897, n. 314) to J. E. Hodgkin; his sale (London, 12 May 1914, n. 854) to Maggs. -- In the Grolier Club copy of the Reed sale catalogue, the...
Do you have more information to share with the Holding Institution about this manuscript or would you like to suggest a correction? Contact information is available for member institutions via our member directory.
