New Search Name Pegge, Samuel, antiquary, 1704-1796

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1. Add MS 9832

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Add MS 9832
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Legend of Good Women
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of The Legend of Good Women, written by the English poet Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400). The Middle English poem takes the form of a dream vision and tells the stories of ten women from Classical history and mythology. This handwritten copy of the poem is int...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2. Add MS 78754

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Add MS 78754
Title:
Francis Grose. ‘A Provincial Glossary; with a collection of local proverbs and popular superstitions’; 1790. Interleaved and annotated by Sir Frederic Madden. Bound-in an interleaved copy of ‘A Supplement to the Provincial Glossary of Francis Grose’ by Samuel Pegge (b. 1733, d. 1800). With a letter of 16 October 1895 from Clara Strachan to Prof. [Joseph] Wright concerning her work on his slips relating to Grose’s and Pegge’s Provincial Glossary of 1895. Purchased at Sotheby’s, lot 77, 11 July 20...
Scope & Content:
Samuel Pegge, d 1800 antiquary: 'A Supplement to the Provincial Glossary of Francis Grose': 1814. Joseph Wright, Professor of Comparative Philology at Oxford: Clara Strachan, of Reading, county Berkshire: Letter to Joseph Wright from Clara Strachan: 1895. Dictionaries: Sir Frederic Madden, KH; Keepe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1790
Extent:
1 item