Record

PwV - Literary Manuscripts in the Portland (Welbeck) Collection, 16th-19th centuries

Document Reference	Pw V 33
Title	MS bound volume of a play, entitled 'The Humorists', by Thomas Shadwell; 1670-1671
Date	1670-1671
Extent	87 ff
Level	Item/file
Access Conditions	Microfilm surrogate available - readers may be required to use the microfilm in the first instance.
Content Description	The manuscript is in the hand of a professional scribe with corrections and revisions made by the author.
Title Of Work	The Humorists
First Line of Poem	Oldp. Oh this Surgeon, this damn'd Surgeon, will this
Last Line of Poem	and may yo<ur> loves each day and houre Increase
Language	English
ReprodnNote	Volumes from Pw V cannot be photographed by readers with their own camera or device, but reprographic copies can be supplied for educational and private study purposes only.
Physical Description	Folio book. The contents comprise of one main physical section: uniformly cropped paper, approximately 302 x 190 mm; but there are two smaller folios, pp 77-80, which measure 305 x 189 mm.
Condition	Good
Descriptive Features	Watermark: Fleur de lis within narrow shield surmounted by coronet, 65 x 47 mm (Type A, pp 1-76) Countermark: Letters BD, 12 x 20 mm (With Type A) Watermark: Foolscap with During, three rings, insignia surmounted by figure 4, 110 x 65 mm (Type B, pp 77-87). Countermark: Letters VR, 13 x 15 mm (With Type B). Plain dark blue half leather and buckram on pasteboard upper and lower covers; spine in dark blue leather, gold-stamped 'The Humorists Shad-well'; the binder has added two front and two back flyleaves (similar binding to Pw V 23).
Watermark	Fleur de lis
Watermark	Foolscap
Related Material	Index, ELM II, SdT 26
	University of Nottingham Library:
	University of Nottingham Library:
Publication Note	Perkin, R., (ed.), The Humorists (Laurel House Press; Dublin, 1975)
	Shadwell, The Humorists (London, 1671)
	Edited in part from the Nottingham MS.