ANON. 17th CENTURY]. Manuscript in a late 17th-century hand, 'Phyllis', 120 pages (numbered 1-110), 8vo (wear to margins of first two leaves, f.2 detached but present, lacking f.6, pp.85-86 torn out, the final 9 leaves after p.110 present only as fragments with varying quantities of text); paper wrappers. The manuscript comprises the following: 'The Dedication' (pp.iii-v), 'Quare Scribat' (p.vi), 'Poematii hujus occasio' (pp.vii-viii), 'Why & of what he would write' (pp.ix-xi), 'Phyllis, Title First, of Age and Life' (in 192 stanzas, pp.1-65), 'Haec Vita Reprobata' (p.66), 'Phyllis Title Second, of Vertue and Fortune' (in 130 stanzas, pp.67-110, deficient). On f.1 a different hand has transcribed six lines from 'Denhams Translation from the Latin of Mancini his Poem on the four Cardinal Virtues'. Another manuscript containing differing versions of this same long, philosophical poem was offered here on 22 November 2002 (lot 5). The present recently-discovered version is more formal in its script and presentation, and offers further variants from those manuscripts.
ANON. 17th CENTURY]. Manuscript in a late 17th-century hand, 'Phyllis', 120 pages (numbered 1-110), 8vo (wear to margins of first two leaves, f.2 detached but present, lacking f.6, pp.85-86 torn out, the final 9 leaves after p.110 present only as fragments with varying quantities of text); paper wrappers. The manuscript comprises the following: 'The Dedication' (pp.iii-v), 'Quare Scribat' (p.vi), 'Poematii hujus occasio' (pp.vii-viii), 'Why & of what he would write' (pp.ix-xi), 'Phyllis, Title First, of Age and Life' (in 192 stanzas, pp.1-65), 'Haec Vita Reprobata' (p.66), 'Phyllis Title Second, of Vertue and Fortune' (in 130 stanzas, pp.67-110, deficient). On f.1 a different hand has transcribed six lines from 'Denhams Translation from the Latin of Mancini his Poem on the four Cardinal Virtues'. Another manuscript containing differing versions of this same long, philosophical poem was offered here on 22 November 2002 (lot 5). The present recently-discovered version is more formal in its script and presentation, and offers further variants from those manuscripts.
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