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Poems of various kinds, by Peter Pinnell and others.
Pinnell, Peter
c.1750-1790
Contains 58 eighteenth-century English poems by Peter Pinnell and other contemporary poets.
Poem, 'Two cats'
Newton, John (1725-1807)
c.1795
An autograph poem concerning the construction of a canal at Southampton. Newton disagreed with this, believing that the existing river was wide enough and navigable. He compares the building of the...
Verse translation of Book III, metre 9 of Boethius's 'De consolatione philosophiae', by Alexander Pope
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
c.1703-1704
Verse prayer to God as creator and source of reason, for inspiration, strength and comfort, translated from Boethius, 'Consolation of Philosophy', III.9, by Alexander Pope; together with bifolium lett...
The sacred historie conteined in the First Boocke of Moses called Genesis ... March 10, 1669
Roper, Mary
1669-1670
F.1v: "A prayer"; pp.2-220: "Meditations upon the glorious majestie of the holy God"; pp.221-26: "The sacred historie: meditations of Gods provedentiall dispensations towards the children of men, out ...
Poems breathed forth by the nobel Hadassas, and The Unfortunate Florinda, by Lady Hesther Pulter
Pulter, Lady Hester (1605-1678); Madan, Judith
c.1645-1665
A collection of poetry, beginning on flyleaf and then on ff.2r-130v; from back, inverted, on f.1r, 2v-36v, is an incomplete prose romance, The Unfortunate Florinda. Detached, previusly inserted matter...
Three devotional poems, by Ralph Knevet
Knevet, Ralph
1660s
Three religious poems written on the back of a 2-page engraved and coloured map of Poland "auctore Wenceslao Godreccio" [Waclaw Grodecki] first published in Basel in 1562, but here apparently removed ...
Verse translations from the classics
173-?
Collection of three verse translations from the classics in a single 18th-century hand: ff.1r-6r: Translation of Persius, "Satires", 2, by Mr T. Brewster, A.M. & c.; ff.8r-10r: Paraphrase of Persius, ...
Nemo mortalium omnibus horis sapit, attributed to Alexander Pope.
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
c.1710
Comprises an English satirical/moralising poem written on both sides of one leaf, together with two other leaves written in a second hand listing the contents of the collection of which this particula...
Autograph letter to Ralph Palmer from B. Buckeridge enclosing a manuscript copy of his poem 'On Her Majesty's grant of Woodstock to His Grace the Duke of Marlborough' addressed to Antonio Verrio.
Buckeridge, Bainbrigg
1704-1705
Comprises a letter by Buckeridge to Ralph Palmer dated 14 July 1705 enclosing a poem addressed to Antonio Verrio anticipating his decoration of Blenheim Palace following Queen Anne's gift of Woodstock...
Autograph manuscript poem beginning "Why doth you shade" with preceding letter of presentation to Ann Hoyle.
Robins, William
8 February 1723
A prose letter headed "Dear Madam", and including such lines as "...I shall be in hopes to woo you for drops of pleasant joys...", "And now Madam the confession of my crime...", and "then have I some ...
Compositional draft of five devotional poems by Ralph Knevet, on the verso of a copy of the Ortelius map of the Kingdom of Prester John
Knevet, Ralph
1640s
The poems entitled 'Prayer', 'Sicknes', 'The world', 'Preaching' and 'Memory', together approximately 123 lines of verse in two columns, on the blank verso of: [Abraham ORTELIUS (1527-1598)]. Prebis...
English translations of verses from Ovid's Metamorphoses, written into a German translation of the latter by Johannes Posthius.
c.1600
Comprises a copy of "Iohan. Posthii Germershemii tetrasticha in Ovidii Metamor. Lib. XV. ...", [Frankfurt?], 1563, with 167 separate English stanzas written on blank verso pages (i.e. facing the Latin...