Shelfmark
MS 918
Author
Title
Portion of 'De principiis cogitandi', a Latin poem dedicated to Richard West, together with other reflections in English. manuscript.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Florence, Italy, 1741.
Physical description
1 item (1 page) : paper ; 24 x 20 cm.
Note
Title devised by cataloguer.
Note
Place and date of production taken from the ODNB entry's account of the composition of 'De principiis'.
Note
In black ink, red crayon and pencil.
Note
Mounted on a larger sheet.
Note
36 lines, with revisions and deletions, beginning "Hactenus haud segnis Naturae araona retexi...", with autograph notes in English about human desires.
Note
Manuscript offered in one of the original Gray sales in 1851, as part of the enormous lot of autograph MSS (including the Elegy), but was unsold. In a second sale in 1854 it was re-offered as part of a much smaller lot (lot 230) and sold. It then resurfaced in 1982 at Parke Bernet (6 April, lot 53).
Binding
Stored in a brown buckram covered folder with MS 49.
Added entry--place
England
Identifier
B49766