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1591. Stowe MS 973/1-2

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 973/1-2
Title:
Commonplace-book of poetry. Paper; ff. 66. XVIIIth cent. Folio.
Scope & Content:
Poetry: Common-place books of poetry: 18th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

1592. Stowe MS 973/2

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Stowe MS 973/2
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Scope & Content:
2. Commonplace-book of poetry, with the name of John Browne and date 1720, containing a poetical epistle by E. Littleton, a Latin poem entitled 'Ecclesiastes,' an epigram by Allan Ramsay, etc. f. 54.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1720
Extent:
1 item

1593. Stowe MS 974

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 974
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Scope & Content:
COLLECTION of Vers de Societé, mostly addressed to ladies of rank. Followed by separate pieces in different hands, including:- (a) "The Muses suit to Apollo. A Masque." f. 14;-(b) "On Holker Hall." f. 19;-(c) "An epigram on refusing the late Bishop of Rochester [Atterbury] to be buried in a pu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
1 item

1594. Stowe MS 975

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 975
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Scope & Content:
"THE ROLL OF KARLAVEROK. An Heraldic Poem, enumerating the Barons, Knights, and Gentlemen who attended King Edward the First into Scotland, Anno mccc." A translation in prose from Cotton MS. Caligula A. xviii., ff. 23 b-30 b, made by Philip Absolom in 1817 (see the border on f. 51). Followed (f....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1817
Extent:
1 item

1595. Stowe MS 976

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 976
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Scope & Content:
THE SHEPHERD'S PARADISE: a pastoral play in prose, in five acts, by Walter Montagu, written to be acted by Queen Henrietta Maria and the ladies of her Court. The present copy bears no title or author's name, but at the beginning is a list of the characters: "Saphira-Bellesa, the Quene; Bassalino...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1632
Extent:
1 item

1596. Stowe MS 977

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 977
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Scope & Content:
"THE SEIGE of Londonderry": a prose drama, by Colonel John Michelburne, one of the governors of the town during the siege, and author of a history of it. With a dedicatory letter, apparently addressed to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, in which the author styles his work an "unhewne peice" and a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 item

1597. Stowe MS 978

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 978
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Scope & Content:
"LITIGATION, a Comedy in 5 Acts" according to a note by Dr. Charles O'Conor on the title-page, written by his cousin Hugh McDermot, of Coolavin and Moylurg, co. Sligo, Ireland, and offered at Drury Lane Theatre. Dated 14 Apr. 1812. Paper; ff. 38. Folio. Hugh McDermot: "Litigation": a comedy: 18...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Apr 1812
Extent:
1 item

1598. Stowe MS 979

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 979
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Scope & Content:
"ELIS SAGA": the romance of Élie de Saint-Gille, in Icelandic. Transcribed by Grim Jonsonn Thorkelin from MS. 533, quarto, of the Arna-Magnæan Library at Copenhagen, which was used by E. Kölbing in his edition of Elis Saga og Rosamundu (Heilbronn, 1881): see his introd., pp. viii. x.-xiii. Paper...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Icelandic
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

1599. Stowe MS 980

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 980
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Scope & Content:
"SAGA af Partalopa ok Marmoriu": the romance of Partonopeus de Blois, in Icelandic. Transcribed by Grim Jonsson Thorkelin, from Arna-Magnæan MS. 533, quarto (see above), which was edited by O.Klockhoff in the Upsala Universitets Årsskrift for 1877. Another copy is in Add. MS. 4860 (ff. 189-208),...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Icelandic
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

1600. Stowe MS 981

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 981
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Scope & Content:
"SUMMA que vocatur Catholicon, edicta (sic) a fratre Johanne de Janua, ordinis fratrum predicatorum": a glossary of the Latin language by Giovanni de' Balbi, of Genoa, beg. "Prosodia quedam pars grammatice nuncupatur." Under the word 'janua' the author gives his own name as Johannes Januensis de...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 14th century
Extent:
1 item