Lachrymae Musarum: the tears of the Muses

Case, A.E.: Poetical miscellanies, 102b
British Museum. Catalogue of the pamphlets, books, newspapers, and manuscripts relating to the Civil War, the Commonwealth, and Restoration, collected by George Thomason, 1640-1661: E.1247[3]
Folger bibliographic ID: 142350
ESTC number: R209235
Wing number: B4877
Folger call number: Film Acc. 640
Folger holdings ID: 203897

Bibliographic format

octavo

General notes

R.B. = Richard Brome The frontispiece is signed: F Clein fe: In verse The first leaf and the last leaf are blank The folded leaf is an epitaph beginning: Pietati sacrum. H.S.E. quod mortale fuit I.N.R.I. praestolans epiphaniam, depositum Henrici Baronis Hastings . A reissue of the 1649 edition, which had "printed by Tho. Newcomb" in imprint. The title page is a cancel; F1 and 2 are cancelled, and the deleted poem is supplied on a quarter-sheet inserted after quire C Annotation on Thomason copy: "Jan: 30" Portions also available as a digital reproduction

Extended title: Lachrymae Musarum: the tears of the Muses ; exprest in elegies; written by divers persons of nobility and worth, upon the death of the most hopefull, Henry Lord Hastings, onely sonn of the Right Honourable Ferdinando Earl of Huntingdon heir-generall of the high born prince George Duke of Clarence, brother to King Edward the fourth. Collected and set forth by R.B
Alternate titles: Tears of the Muses, Pietati sacrum. H.S.E. quod mortale fuit I.N.R.I. praestolans epiphaniam, depositum Henrici Baronis Hastings

Huntingdon, Henry Hastings, Earl of, 1586-1643 Elegiac poetry, English

subject: Huntingdon, Henry Hastings, Earl of, 1586-1643
artist: Cleyn, Franz, 1590?-1658
associated with: Brome, Richard, -1652?
former owner: Dobell, Percy John, 1871-1956