Facsimile of the manuscript of Milton's Minor poems
By: preserved in the library of Trinity college, Cambridge.
Contributors: Wright, William Aldis, 1831-1914,  ed.
Publisher: The University press
Published: 1899
Place of publication: Cambridge [Eng.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 47
Notes: Preface signed: William Aldis Wright.
The manuscript, mainly in Milton's own hand, written between 1633 and 1648, includes several drafts of some of the poems, and many corrections.
Each facsimile is accompanied by a transcription of the text in ordinary type.
Table of contents: title: Arcades.; title: Song ʻBlest pair of Sirens."; title: Letter to a friend.  Sonnet II.; title: Another draft of the same letter.; title: On time.; title: Upon the circumcision.; title: Sonnets VIII, IX, and X.; title: <Comus>A maske.; title: Lycidas.; title: First sketch of Paradise lost.; title: Notes from Old Testament history.; title: Notes from early English history.; title: Notes for poems on Scripture subjects:Abram from Morea, Baptistes, Sodom, Adam unparadiz'd; title: Notes from Scotch stories: Moabitides or Phineas.  Christus patiens.; title: Sonnets XIII, XII, XIV, XIII, and XIV,XII, and XI, XI, XV, and XVI, XVII, and ʻOn the forcers of Conscience, S̓onnets XXI. (in part) and XXII, XXIII.