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Date
1674-1687
Location
No place, unknown, or undetermined
Media format
Manuscript text
Extent
1 v
Language
English
Genre
Official documents
Literary
Literary
Reference IDs
Folger bibliographic ID: 228890
Folger call number: V.a.276
Folger holdings ID: 260976
Accession Number: cs1669
Folger call number: V.a.276
Folger holdings ID: 260976
Accession Number: cs1669
Summary
Poets include John Grange, Philip Sidney, Richard Corbet, T. Browne, Ben Jonson, Robert Herrick, Henry Sherley, John Donne, Sir Thomas Jay, Ra. Goodinge and Dr. Brookes. One poem is entitled "Mackbeth" (Part I: leaf 13); another "An old ditty of Sir Philip Sidneys omitted in the printed Arcadia" (Part II: leaf 10; cf. Feuillerat's edition of Sidney's Works, v. 3, p. 344); another is on the death of Captain Gething at Seador Poynt on the Potomac in Maryland (Part II: leaf 53). A number of poems are in Welsh
Notes
General notes
In English and Welsh William Jordan appears to have been a schoolmaster in Denbigh or Carnarvon, and his accounts, along with a certificate of burial in wool (Part II: leaf 59), are interspersed among the poems Part I: 16 leaves; Part II: 60 leaves. Besides numerous gaps in the existing foliation certain leaves were already missing when the book was bound First lines listed in the Folger index of first lines Mostyn MS Formerly Folger MS 1669.2 This record contains unverified data from catalog cards and may contain incorrect or incomplete information. Please email HamnetHelp@folger.edu for assistance
Also known as
Extended title: Poetical miscellany of William Jordan 1674-1687
Alternate titles: Poetical commplace book of William Jordan, 1674-1687
Alternate titles: Poetical commplace book of William Jordan, 1674-1687
Related names
author: Jordan, William, active 1674-1687
associated with: Grange, John, active 1577
associated with: Browne, T., active 16th-17th century
associated with: Sidney, Philip, 1554-1586
associated with: Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637
associated with: Herrick, Robert, 1591-1674
associated with: Shirley, Henry, active 16th-17th century
associated with: Corbet, Richard, 1582-1635
associated with: Donne, John, 1572-1631
associated with: Jay, Thomas, Sir
associated with: Goodinge, Ra., active 16th-17th century
associated with: Brookes, Dr
former owner: Mostyn Family Library
associated with: Grange, John, active 1577
associated with: Browne, T., active 16th-17th century
associated with: Sidney, Philip, 1554-1586
associated with: Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637
associated with: Herrick, Robert, 1591-1674
associated with: Shirley, Henry, active 16th-17th century
associated with: Corbet, Richard, 1582-1635
associated with: Donne, John, 1572-1631
associated with: Jay, Thomas, Sir
associated with: Goodinge, Ra., active 16th-17th century
associated with: Brookes, Dr
former owner: Mostyn Family Library