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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...
Poems by Oliver Style
Style, Sir Oliver
c.1670-c.1710
Largely a compilation of poems by Oliver Style, probably autograph, copied 1698-1703, with some items added in a second hand.
Collection of English verse
c.1600-c.1710
Collection of loose sheets almost entirely of English verse, in many different hands, dating from the early 17th to the early 18th century; with a letter, 19 June 1622, from Thomas Gorstelow, and a bi...
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Collection of Restoration satires
c.1666-c.1725
Collection of four unbound late 17th- or early 18th-century Restoration satires
A Devonshire verse miscellany.
1770s
Comprises approximately 75 poems supposedly compiled in the West Country in the 1770s, some with clues to the locality of the scribe. The miscellany includes an unrecorded early poem on the subject of...
Pastoral poem, "A silly Sheapheard in Arcadia dwelt"
c.1630
Pastoral poem beginning "A silly Sheapheard in Arcadia dwelt", in alternate-rhyme pentameter quatrains (28, followed by concluding pair of alexandrine couplets); ending "The Earthe my sober End, & qu...
Collection of English poems
c.1701-1725
Collection of English poems, with two additional poems in a later hand
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, ...
Collection of transcribed and autograph poems, gathered together with other papers, largely poetical
c.1700-1755
Ff.1r-68v: transcriptions of poems, taken largely from the published 'Divine Hymns and Poems on Several Occasions', 1704 (Case 231), gathered in leaf endorsed 'Divine poems & c by sundry hands'; ff.69...
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...
Miscellaneous collection of eighteenth-century English poetry and prose, with additional later material.
c.1750-1770
Contains 71 English poems, mainly anonymous. The prose works include 'A summary character of Clarinda never published' and 'Knitted lace collar'.
Commonplace book, chiefly of English poems
c.1720-1748
Commonplace book, almost entirely of English verse and prose. Most poems are anonymous. Some prose tales, scenes from plays, and a few Latin lines. On p.211: "I ended this book Novr 13th 1723"; prose ...