1. Add MS 8360
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 8360
- Title:
- COLLECTION OF POEMS. Italian and Latin. Copies, partly printed. Mostly verse, often with topical or satirical reference to political events and personalities in Rome and Tuscany in the last three decades of the 18th century. Title (f. iii) 'Poesie diverse'. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. '107' in pencil in upper left corner of front pastedown. Purchased, together with Add. 8337 and 8812, from R.H. Evans, 8 Dec. 1830, lot 107 (part). Paper...
- Scope & Content:
- Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: end 18th cent. includes: f. 1 Poetry ITALIAN: Giulio Cesare Cordara: Clement XIII; Pope: Two sonnets on Clement XIII by Giulio Cesare Cordara: 1765: Ital: Copy. ff. 4-11v, 16-18 Frederick II of Prussia: Count Leopold Joseph Maria von Daun: Sonnets on Frederick II...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Italian, and Latin
- Date Range:
- Late 18th century
- Extent:
- 1 item