'The Imployment of my Solitude . T[homas, lord] F[airfax]'
MS. Fairfax 40
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Title
'The Imployment of my Solitude . T[homas, lord] F[airfax]'
Shelfmark
MS. Fairfax 40
Summary
'The Imployment of my Solitude . T[homas, lord] F[airfax]', containing:
(p. 1). A translation of the Psalms in English verse, preceded by a short verse preface, and followed (p. 390) by the Canticles ('Songs of the Old & New Testament').
(p. 432). 'The Songe of Salomon', in English verse.
(p. 480). Miscellaneous pieces, consisting of:
'Honny dropps', proverbial distichs or quatrains (p. 480);
four 'Hymnes' (p. 510);
'The Recreations of my Solitude, T. F.', twenty-eight poems, chiefly moral, some personal (on his new house at Nunappleton, 1665, p. 593, etc.): one is a translation from Petrarch (p. 604), one by lady Cary (p. 596), one by his great uncle Edward Fairfax (p. 647).
Date
written in about 1660-1670 by lord Fairfax
Language
English
Custodial history
This MS. passed into the possession of Ralph Thoresby (d. 1725), see his Ducatus Leodiensis (1816) Catal. p. 69.
It bears the bookplate of the duke of Sussex (vi H. b. 18), and was bought at his sale in 1844 (pt. 2, lot 434), by William Pickering, the London bookseller, from whom dr. Bliss purchased it in the same year.
Lot 116 in portion iii. of the sale of the Library of Philip Bliss.
Acquisition
The Library acquired this manuscript for £ 36 10s.
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Collection contents
'The Imployment of my Solitude . T[homas, lord] F[airfax]'
