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Brotherton Collection6
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse6

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latin poetry6
english poetry6
commonplace-books2
greek poetry1
german poetry1
english literature1

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St John, Henry 1st Viscount Bolingbroke1
Wodehouse, Edmund1
Wodehouse, Philip (1608-1681)1
Publius Ovidus Naso1
Posthius, Johannes1
Barnes, Joshua1
Ovid (43 B.C.-17 A.D. Or 18 A.D)1
Persius Flaccus Aulus - Translations Into English1

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BC MS Lt 38, f. 33v: Thomas Ireland's poem
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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.

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BC MS Lt 40, f. 52v: The opening of Sir Philip Wodehouse's poem
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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...

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BC MS Lt 49, f. 1r: The opening of Thomas Brewster's translation from Persius, 'Satires', 2 (
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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, ...

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BC MS Lt 73, f. 2r:
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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...

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BC MS Lt 76, f. 159v:
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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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BC MS Lt 97, f. 51r: The opening of Joshua Barnes's poem
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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...

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