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1031. Stowe MS 957

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Stowe MS 957
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Scope & Content:
DAVID AND ABSALOM: a Latin tragedy, in five acts, written in iambic trimeters and various choric meters. The characters are Joab, Absalom, Ahitopbel, Messenger, David, Abishai, Cushai, Zadok, Abiathar, Watchman, and Ahimaaz. A modern note on the first page attributes it to John Bale, Bishop of O...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 item

1032. Stowe MS 958

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Stowe MS 958
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COLLECTION Of pieces in verse and prose, mostly of a religious character; temp. Elizabeth. Included are:-(1) Ballad, in 37 fourline stanzas, in praise of Mary Watt, niece of Hugh Latimer and wife of Robert Glover, the martyr, beg. "Mary Wat the nyce in blud To Latemere the great." f. 8, and cont...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[between 1558-1603]
Extent:
1 item

1033. Stowe MS 959

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Stowe MS 959
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COLLECTION of Welsh Poems by various writers. Imperfect, and mutilated at the beginning. Among the names and headings are:- Bedo Brwynllys. ff. 4 b, 16, 37 b, 60, 198,225. Llywelyn ap Gyttyn. ff. 5, 160, 161, 162 b. Morys Dwyreth. f. 6 b. Davydd Llwyd. ff. 8 b, 25, 107 b, 116 b, 135, 159 b, 160...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Welsh
Date Range:
Late 16th century
Extent:
1 item

1034. Stowe MS 960

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Stowe MS 960
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POEMS by Sir John Beaumont, Bart., [1582-1628], brother of Francis Beaumont the dramatist, and author of "Bosworth Field." This volume contains several of his shorter poems, including two not printed in Grosart's edition, one (f. 8 b) entitled "Of the Assumption of our Blessed Lady," the other (...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

1035. Stowe MS 961

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Stowe MS 961
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Poems by John Donne
Scope & Content:
Volume containing 102 poems by John Donne, poet and Church of England clergyman (1572–1631), with others by Francis Beaumont, Ben Jonson, John Hoskyns, Henry Constable and William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke. ff. 1r-3r John Donne, ‘Satyre II’. Copy titled ‘Satyre’, beginning ‘Sir though (I ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c. 1623-1633
Extent:
1 volume

1036. Stowe MS 962

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Stowe MS 962
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Collection of poetry by John Donne and others
Scope & Content:
Collection of poetry, including works by John Donne, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, Sir Walter Raleigh, Ben Jonson, Thomas Carew, Francis Bacon, Sir Kenelm Digby, Francis Phillips, Richard Corbett, Henry King, Thomas Campion, George Morley, William Strode, John Grange, Michael Drayton, John Ho...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c. 1637
Extent:
1 volume

1037. Stowe MS 963

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Stowe MS 963
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"THE VANITIE and Follie of misplaced Love, a brief Reflection on Women": a collection of poems in one hand, on the subject of women, in different metres; followed by some religious meditations and miscellaneous poems. Some are dated from 1693 to 1698. Paper; ff. 331. Small Octavo. Poetry: "The ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1693-1698
Extent:
1 item

1038. Stowe MS 964

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Stowe MS 964
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BACON'S ESSAYS; With the Characters of Julius Cæsar and Augustus at the end, and preceded by the dedication to the Duke of Buckingham and "Elogies" on the author by Ben Jonson and by A. Cowley, in his poem to the Royal Society. A printed edition, with the title-page torn out. On one of the fly l...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1725
Extent:
1 item

1039. Stowe MS 965

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Stowe MS 965
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"CAMILLO'S COMPLAINT: a poem, inscribed to his Grace, George [Stone], Lord Arch-Bishop of Armagh" [1747-1765]; and lamenting the brief vice-royalty of Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1745-46. In 53 six-line stanzas. Paper; ff. 19. circ. 1747. Quarto. Ge...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1747
Extent:
1 item

1040. Stowe MS 966

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Stowe MS 966
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COLLECTION of songs and verses, with the inscription on the cover: "Carnarvan 1745 [James Brydges, Marquis of Carnarvon, b. 1731, 3rd Duke of Chandos, 1771] ejus liber carminum, West- [monasteriensis] Alumn[us] Schol[æ]." Included are:-(a) "Verses by the Prince of Wales," beg. "Come, my dearest ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1745-1746
Extent:
1 item

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