Shelfmark
MS 397
Title
An illuminated collection of choice fugitive pieces composed in the merry month of May 1823 selected with impartiality from the portfolios of the several authors when sojorning at Salt Hill under the kind auspices of their friend Gulielmus Pott [manuscript]
Publication, distribution, etc.
Eton, 1823.
Physical description
[38] leaves : paper ; 240 x 220 mm.
Note
Number of leaves: 1, [2], 2-36, [37]
Note
Title from f. 1.
Note
Divided into two parts: Part of the first effusions on Montem, ff. [2r]-9r; Part the second, ff. 11r-31r.
Note
Includes: 'To the ladies who honor'd the Montem party', ff. 32v-35r.
Note
Handwriting: written in an early 19th-century English hand mainly on the verso of the leaves.
Note
Decoration: watercolours illustrating some verses of the poems on the recto of the leaves.
Provenance
Signed by Mr William Pott on the front pastedown.
Provenance
Includes five tickets to Eton Montem dated 1838-1844 pasted on the back pastedown.
Provenance
Price £55-60 in pencil on the first folio by modern hand.
Binding
19th century red grain paper with floral open pattern and brown borders; red marbled paper on pastedown; remnants of a green tie on the back pastedown. Binding bigger than the item, probably reused.
Copy-specific note
Printed broadside 'The Montem ode May 20, 1823' pasted on ff. 35v-36r.
Subject
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
Great Britain England Eton.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B53048