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Mediaeval Latin lyrics

Waddell, Helen (1889-1965)

1933

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Mediaeval Latin lyrics

Waddell, Helen (1889-1965)

1933

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Poems in English and Latin, on the archers and Royal-Company of Archers

1726

Sigs: A-I6. "An account of the pieces appended to the silver bowl..." [etc.] -- p. [99]-105. "An account of the pieces appended to the Musselburgh arrow, &c." - p. 52-[98].

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Select translations from the works of Sannazarius, H. Grotius, Bapt, Amaltheus, D. Heinsius, G. Buchanan and M. Hier. Vida; to which is prefix'd some account of the authors

Rooke, John (fl. 1729); Carteret, John Earl Granville (1690-1763)

1726. (Price 3s.6d.)

In three parts, separately paginated and signed, each with separate title (Ecologues written originally in Latin, Ecologues translated from the Latin, and Vida's Silk-worms) having same imprint: Londo...

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The works of the right honourable Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon

Roscommon, Wentworth Dillon earl of (1633?-1685); Foulis, Andrew (1712-1775); Foulis, Robert (1707-1776)

1753

Running title reads 'Poems upon several occasions'. Some portions of the text have translation on pages facing. Page 13 wrongly numbered 3. Contents: -Memoirs. -Testimonies of authors concerning...

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A collection of documents relating to the Fairfax family, together with other miscellaneous material, compiled by Charles Fairfax and others.

Fairfax, Charles Colonel (1597-1673)

c.1650-1710

Contains notes by Charles Fairfax relating to the Analecta Fairfaxiana, a Latin anagram on himself with his explanatory note referring to the tempest which his ship weathered in September 1652; also, ...

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Specimens of Greek and Latin verse : chiefly translations

Kennedy, Charles Rann (1808-1867)

1853

English and Greek on opposite pages.

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BC MS Lt 96, f. 119v:
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Commonplace book of poetry and prose in English and Latin, written amongst a collection of medical recipes.

c.1710-1750

Contains 64 English poems, mainly eighteenth-century and satirical, or religious, together with Latin poetry and prose, some medical recipes, and a few stanzas of classical Greek poetry at the end.

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Florilegium latinum (v.2)

Thackeray, Francis St John (1832-1919); Stone, E D (1832-1916)

1899-1902

Includes indexes.

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BC MS Lt q 48, f.2v: An extract from
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Miscellaneous collection of poems and other papers of the Crofts and Sebright families.

Crofts family

1670-1833

Comprises: (1) Sixteen poems (ff.1-37), including items by Etherege, Sedley, and Pittis, and others possibly autograph, including one addressed to Charles II by John Crofts and others addressed to Wil...

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