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Brotherton Collection5
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english poetry5
christian poetry, english1
love poetry, english1
love poetry, latin (medieval and modern)1
sermons1

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Barnes, Robert1
Cleveland, John (1613-1658)1
Ellis, John H1
Fisher, William (1716-1719)1
Janus, Secundus1
Morrice, James1
Rowlands, Samuel1
Tooly, Thomas1

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BC MS Lt 32, f. 1r: John Cleveland's poem
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On Christ Church Windows, Oxon, by Mr J. C.

Cleveland, John (1613-1658)

c.1640-1660

Vigorous defence against Puritan accusations of idolatry of the scriptural scenes depicted in the new stained-glass windows in the chapel of Christ Church, Oxford, describing them and praising the pai...

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BC MS Lt 77, f. 3r: The opening of Samuel Rowlands's poem
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Selections from 'The betraying of Christ', by Samuel Rowlands.

Rowlands, Samuel

c.1625-1634

Also known as:The Betraying of Christ. Selections Comprises selections from Rowlands' work preceded by a dedication written in a different hand by Robert Barnes to 'Lo: Roberts', probably Richard, Ba...

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BC MS Lt 88, f. 1r: John Ellis's poem
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Translations by Thomas Tooly and John Ellis of some of the Basia or Kisses of Joannes Secundus, inserted on additional leaves into a printed edition of 1731.

Tooly, Thomas

c. 1731

Comprises a copy of "Basia Joannis Secundi Nicolai Hagensis: or the kisses of Joannes Secundus Nicolaius of the Hague, in Latin and English verse", London, 1731, with ten English love poems by Thomas ...

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BC MS Lt 92, f. 3r: The opening of James Morrice's blank-verse translation of Homer's 'Iliad'.
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English translation of Homer's Iliad into blank verse, by James Morrice.

Morrice, James

c.1800-1809

Comprises probably the original manuscript of Morrice's translation, together with a press cutting from the local Northants newspaper containing an excerpt from the translation and a favourable review...

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