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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 A XXXVI-XXXVII
Title:: 12 A. XXXVI, XXXVII TWO COMPLIMENTARY POEMS, in Latin, to James I by Thomas Bastard [fellow of New College, Oxford, 1588, see Dict. Nat. Biogr.]. Afterwards combined and printed (with alterations) under the title Serenissimo polentissimoque Monarchae Iacobo, &c. (London, 1605, reprinted by Utterson, 1842, and in Bastard's Poems, ed. A. B. Grosart, 1880). Paper; ff. 21, 5. Quarto. 81/4 in. x 6 in. A.D. 1603. Bound together. Perhaps cat. of 1661 (Roy. App. 86), f. 35, 'In laudes pot. Iac...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1603-[1604]
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 A XXXVI
Title:
Scope & Content:: Dedication in elegiacs (Grosart's introduction, p. xli), and appeal to the King for aid against extortions by the patron of his vicarage [Bere-Regis, co. Dorset]. The poem, entitled 'Carmen gratulatorium' and addressed to the King on his accession, consists here of 725 hexameters, beg. 'Musa qui...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1603
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 A XXXVII
Title:
Scope & Content:: Prose preface and the passage in 145 hexameters beg. 'Sic munere missum', afterwards incorporated in book iii. Addressed to the King as a new-year's gift [1604].
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1604]
Extent:: 1 item

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