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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
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