A manuscript of Poems and Translations

Item author: Thomas Stanley
Item date: 1646
Grant Value: 50
Item cost pre-decimal: 650
Item date acquired: 1956
Item institution: Cambridge University Library
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire

Mostly a fair copy with a number of unimportant variations from printed texts, but also containing marginal notes in Stanley's hand indicating his sources for borrowed conceits and turns of phrase. Add . MS 7514

Item Provenance
May have belonged to Stanley's wife Dorothy. Lot 249 in the Stahremberg sale Venator KG, Cologne September 1956