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1. Ashley MS 3506 (1)-(3)

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Ashley MS 3506 (1)-(3)
Title:
'Liber Aureus': three volumes used by the Rev. James Boyer, headmaster at Christ's Hospital 1776-1799, for the transcription by his students of their best compositions, including five poems and seven essays by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and one poem by Charles Lamb; 1783-1799. The titles were given by Boyer generally in Latin, but the compositions, sixty five in all, are in English. Ashley Library Catalogue, viii, pp. 154-156.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1783-1799
Extent:
0 items

2. Ashley MS 3506 (3)

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Ashley MS 3506 (3)
Title:
Scope & Content:
'Liber Aureus'. Prose compositions; Oct. 1786-1799. Included are seven essays by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, apparently unpublished, viz:― a. 'Temperance'; 6 June 1788. ff. 4, 4b. b. 'Nil dictu faedum, visuque haec limina tangat, Intra quae puerest' ('The tender age of childhood requires the utmo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Oct 1786-1799
Extent:
1 item

3. Ashley MS 3506 (2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 3506 (2)
Title:
Scope & Content:
'Liber Aureus'. Verse compositions; 1791-14 Feb. 1799. Quarto; ff. i+29 (a large number of pages have been cut out at the end). Christ's Hospital; Horsham, Sussex: 'Liber Aureus' compiled from compositions of pupils at Christ's Hospital: 1783-1799. Reverend James Boyer, Headmaster of Christ's...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1791-14 Feb 1799
Extent:
1 item

4. Ashley MS 3506 (1)

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 3506 (1)
Title:
Scope & Content:
'Liber Aureus'. Verse compositions; 1783-July 1791. Included are five poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge printed in The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ed. E. H. Coleridge, 1912 (Poetical Works), viz:― a. 'Nil pejus est caelibe vita' ('What pleasure shall he ever find?'); 1787...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1783-Jul 1791
Extent:
1 item