Literary Manuscripts, Leeds（文学手稿, Leeds）收录了1660－1830年共计194部手稿，约6,600首诗歌及一些小说、杂集等。同时，还收录了一些信件草稿、乐谱与剧本等。是研究文学、社会学、政治学与历史学等的珍贵历史资料。
Period Covered
- 17th - 18th Century
Highlights
- All manuscripts are linked to the powerful BCMSV database which lists first lines, last lines, attribution, author, title, date, length, verse form, content, bibliographic references, MS and record number for over 6,600 poems within the collection
- View the way in which manuscript verse was originally recorded, read and circulated
- Examine the ways in which public and private spheres were defined through such manuscripts
- Many different types of manuscript are represented - from elegant presentation volumes to commonplace books and volumes of household accounts - these show the context of the poetry and are valuable sources for social and cultural history
- Poets represented include Mary Campbell, John Dryden, George Herbert, Mary Leapor, Andrew Marvell, Alexander Pope, Hester Pulter and Jonathan Swift. There are also countless songs, riddles and popular tags which tell us even more about contemporary society
Source Archive
- The Brotherton Library, University of Leeds
Material Types
- Original manuscripts from the Brotherton Library Collection of 17th and 18th century verse. All of the manuscripts have been captured in their entirety. Most of the volumes contain verse. All of the manuscripts have been described and indexed in general terms and all of the verse is accessible through the integrated BCSMV database.
Editorial Board
- Paul Hammond, Department of English, University of Leeds
- Laura Runge, Department of English, University of South Florida
- Chris Sheppard, Curator of Manuscripts, the Brotherton Library, University of Leeds
- Nigel Smith, Department of English, Princeton University
- Many thanks to the late Professor Harold Love (Emeritus Professor in the School of Literary, Visual and Performance Studies, Monash University) for his valuable contribution to this project.
Subjects
- 17th and 18th century English literature and cluture
- Poetry - Poems and verses range from well-known poems by canonical authors to amateur verse, covering a huge variety of topics
- Large verse miscellanies and commonplace books
- Religious and political texts