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Collection of English and Latin verse and prose, apparently made at Oxford
1670
Refoliated f.1 etc. in 1973 in consideration of pages 57-60 and 75-76 being missing and the remainder very loose. In a single hand. Indexed.
Autograph poems, verse epigrams and verse translations, by Sir Philip Wodehouse and Sir Edmund Wodehouse
Wodehouse, Philip (1608-1681)
c.1664-1715
Notebook of autograph poems, verse epigrams and verse translations by Sir Philip Wodehouse, in sections interspersed with verse by his son Sir Edmund, mainly in the latter's hand. F.1v-55v, 57v, 58v-5...
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, ...
The reprisal; Britannia; and Ad versutum cardinalem
c.1709-1742
Seemingly autograph versions of two manuscript English poems bound together with a manuscript Latin poem, each provided with its own title page, apparently in separate hands of the first half of the 1...
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...
Prose and verse essay in praise of wine, dedicated to Henry St. John, later Viscount Bolingbroke, by Joshua Barnes.
Barnes, Joshua
1708
Contains 90 eighteenth-century English poems by Joshua Barnes in praise of wine, occasioned by Bolingbroke's gift to him of a hogshead of 'red Portugal' in the late summer of 1705. The text is intersp...