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PwV - Literary Manuscripts in the Portland (Welbeck) Collection, 16th-19th centuries
- 641 - MS poem entitled 'Orkney in Character, or Ponds Almanacke and Postnostication calculated for the Meridian of Tankernesse but may indifferently serve for all Scotland' with later correspondence; 1652, 1934

Document Reference	Pw V 641/1
Title	MS poem entitled 'Orkney in Character, or Ponds Almanacke and Postnostication calculated for the Meridian of Tankernesse but may indifferently serve for all Scotland'; 9 Sep. 1652
Date	9 September 1652
Extent	5 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Text consists of 358 lines; lines 49-54 written on a separate scrap of paper with the note 'The six lines aboue were overlookt in this Transcript & ought to come in as they are numbered.' Early 18th century transcript prepared for the press, and numbered in pencil and red ink. The poem is dated in this transcript 9 Sep. 1652.
Title Of Work	Orkney in Character, or Ponds Almanacke and Postnostication calculated for the Meridian of Tankernesse but may indifferently serve for all Scotland
First Line of Poem	Take wings my fancy, where I must not come
Last Line of Poem	My self, if I out stretch your depth of pond
Language	English
Physical Description	Two individual sheets folded once forming four long and narrow folios; and one individual quarto leaf
Condition	Very poor fragile
Descriptive Features	Watermark: Arms of the City of London in simple shield, 60 x 47 mm (Type A, ff 1-2) Countermark: Letters CJ (cursive), 14 x 27 mm (With Type A) Watermark: Arms of Amsterdam, lions standing on ornate, double bars, 100 x 120 mm (Type B, ff 3-4) Countermark: Letters DC, 11 x 26 mm (With Type B) Watermark: Arms of the City of London in simple shield (top half only), 30 x 47 mm (Type C, f 5)
Watermark	Arms of London (simple)
Watermark	Arms of Amsterdam
Related Material	National Library of Scotland, MS 19.3.4
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Publication Note	Poetical Descriptions of Orkney MDCLII (n.p., n.d.)
Publication Note	J. Maidment, Poetical Descriptions of Orkney (Edinburgh, 1835)