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Total number of records: 6
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| People and organisations | Count |
|---|---|
| Colvil, Samuel (1640-1680) | 1 |
| Dering, Edward (1625-1684) | 1 |
| Graham, Richard, Viscount Preston | 1 |
| Juvenal | 1 |
| Mason, William ? | 1 |
| Persius Flaccus Aulus - Translations Into English | 1 |
| Seneca the Younger | 1 |
| Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (Approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D) | 1 |
| The Right Honourable Richard Lord Viscount Preston, Printed | 1 |
Title: In memory of Thomas Charles Fountayne Esquire, only son of John Fountayne, Dean of York, by Ann daughter of Charles Montague Esquire of Papplewick in the County of Nottingham. Born June 15th 1758, died January 1st 1780.
Author: Mason, William ?
Date(s): 1780 (title)
Manuscript: Lt 103
Contents: Elegiac lament for the death of a youth, Thomas Fountain, full of promise, teaching that man should not question God's unknowable ways
Title: The poems of Boetius made English
Author: Graham, Richard, Viscount Preston
Attribution: The Right Honourable Richard Lord Viscount Preston, printed
Date(s): 1680
Manuscript: Lt 71
Contents: Preston's English version of the verse sections of Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy, divided into Book 1, metrum 1-7; Book 2, metrum 1-8; Book 3, metrum 1-12; Book 4, metrum 1-7; and Book 5, metrum 1-5
Mock poem or Whiggs supplicatione, by Samuel Colvil
Colvil, Samuel (1640-1680)
ca.1680
Long Hudibrastic satire largely on the Scottish Presbyterian covenanters, in two parts. Part One is preceded by "The Authors Appologie to the Reader", in prose. Part Two ends with a Latin version of t...
Seneca, Juvenal and Persius: translation and selections, by Sir Edward Dering
Dering, Edward (1625-1684)
1665
Acquisition; From the 'English' end: f.1r (cover): signatures, etc.; f.2r: translation of Seneca, "Of providence", ending f.15. Acquisition; From the 'Latin' end: f.2r (cover): mottoes, signatures, et...
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, ...
Miscellany of poems, largely on affairs of state
1669-1691
Collection of verse, much of it political. Following blank f.1, ff.2r-13r (f.8v being blank) contain eleven poems in a single hand, the first signed 'John Treantt', another by 'Hodges' dated 1682/3 (f...