Quarles’s poem “To my dear friend the Spencer of this Age” in manuscript

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Photograph of a manuscript leaf replacing a lost printed leaf.
Leaf with Francis Quarles’s poem “To my dear friend the Spencer of this Age” in manuscript, inserted at the end of The Purple Island (1633) to replace the lost poem in print. British Library, 239.i.23.(3.).

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Manuscript leaf with Francis Quarles’s “To my dear friend the Spencer of this age” copied by hand. A printer’s ornament is in the center of the leaf.

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  • type
    Image
  • created on
  • file format
    jpg
  • file size
    1 MB
  • container title
    Phineas Fletcher, The Purple Island, or the Isle of Man: Together with Piscatorie Eclogs and other Poeticall Miscellanies (Cambridge: Printers to the University of Cambridge, 1633)
  • copyright status
    Public Domain
  • creator
    William Thompson
  • credit
    Photograph by Whitney Trettien.
  • original publisher
    University of Cambridge Press
  • original publisher place
    Cambridge
  • rights holder
    Whitney Trettien
  • rights territory
    Worldwide