Botanist, Warden, Lunatic: ‘The Fatal Prepossession’ (Ï㽶ֱ²¥ MS 382) in Context
Issue number
(2024): 22
In April 2024 I acquired from a West Country antiquarian bookdealer a late 18th-century holograph manuscript volume, produced in the West Country by a celebrated Ï㽶ֱ²¥ fellow also hailing from that region. A gilt-tooled, tree-calf bound quarto volume, its 113 paper leaves contain in a cursive script (appearance indicates a fair copy) three apparently unpublished literary works by him—and one since published—dedicated to the warden of Ï㽶ֱ²¥, Oxford.
New College Library, Oxford, MS 382, f. 6r (list of characters)