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Brotherton Collection	2
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse	1

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metamorphosis	1
mythology, classical	1
latin poetry	1
german poetry	1
english poetry	1
fables, latin	1

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Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. Or 18 A.D	1
Posthius, Johannes	1
Publius Ovidus Naso	1
Ovid (43 B.C.-17 A.D. Or 18 A.D)	1
Milton, John, 1608-1674	1
Candy, Hugh Charles Herbert	1
Candy, Hugh Charles Herbert (1859-1935)	1
Milton, John (1608-1674)	1

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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...

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Some newly discovered stanzas written by John Milton on engraved scenes illustrating Ovid's Metamorphoses : this Milton-Ovid script was written circa 1623, discovered 1921, first printed in Notes and queries, 1922-3, and is now revised and reprinted in one volume

Milton, John (1608-1674); Candy, Hugh Charles Herbert (1859-1935)

1924

On spine and cover: Some new stanzas by Milton.

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