Details

Subjects:

English literature -- 18th century.
English literature.
English literature -- 19th century.
Youths' writings, English.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manuscripts, English.
Manuscripts, European.

Summary:

Verse play in three acts, by an unidentified author, no date or place, "composed and written between my sixteenth and eighteenth year" according to a note on the title page. Dramatis personae are Sir John Generous, Belville, Henry, Medicum, Servant, Edwin and Conrad (peasants), Matilda (the foundling), Julia, and Maria.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (p. i).
Pagination: Paper, 39; [iv], 1-75; contemporary pagination in ink in author's hand, upper outer corners.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand, with a possible second hand for some stage directions and added verses.
Watermark: BROWN CHALMERS.
Binding: Contemporary cardboard.
Origin: Probably written in England in the last half of the 18th century or the first half of the 19th century.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 238

OCLC:

155989096