5471. Add MS 73541
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 73541
- Title:
- GEORGE HERBERT: 'Musae Responsoriae', with other poems, mostly in Latin; circa 1618-1620. Copies. The main item in this collection is the series of forty epigrams (ff. 6-18v) that Herbert wrote in reply to a poem composed by the Scots presbyterian Andrew Melville as a protest against the hostile reception given by the English Universities to the Millenary Petition of 1604. The Sapphic ode 'Pro supplici Euangeliorum Ministrorum in Anglia . . . Anti tami-Cami-Categoria', a text of which is pre...
- Scope & Content:
- Bookplates and Book-stamps: Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, 2nd Baron Houghton; formerly Milnes; Marquess of Crewe: Bookplate: after 1911. Bindings ENGLISH: Francis Bedford, bookbinder, of London: Binding by: before 1845. Poetry LATIN: George Herbert, poet: Andrew Melville, alias Melvill...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- c 1618-1620
- Extent:
- 1 item