James Marshall Osborn collection of poetry manuscripts
Container / Volume:
Box VI | Folder P.B. VI / 106-110
Image Count:
2
Abstract:
The collection consists of manuscript copies of several thousand individual English poems, dating from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. The majority of the items date from between 1650 and 1800.
Description:
A Grave Poem, as it was presented in Latin by certayne Devyn[es] ... by way of interlude before his his majesty at Cambridge [?] Liber novus de Adventu Regis ad Cantabrigiam. Faythfullie done into English and with some liberal advantage made rather to be songe than read. To the tune of Bonny Nell.
