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- Record Id:
- 040-002058164
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002058158
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- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001159.0x000248
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- Add MS 38809
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NOTES and memoranda relating to Plato, mainly in Latin but a few in Engl. ; probably by John Upton (1707-1760), prebendary of Rochester, MS. notes by whom are found in several printed books in the Museum. There are many references to editions and works published in the l7th or early part of the 18th centuries; the latest seems to be the Cambridge edition of Lysias (1740). The notes consist largely of references to Plato, quotations, or parallels, in ancient or modern authors; but there is also (ff. 16 b-17 b) a list [from Bernard, Cat. MSS. Angliae] of MSS. of Plato at Cambridge, Oxford, Durham, Worcester, Westminster, Exeter Cathedral, Gresham College, Lincoln's Inn, and in the possession of Isaac Vossius and Robert Burscough,vicar of Totnes, co. Devon (d. 1709) and (ff. 18-26) collations of the Oxford MSS. Laud I. xi, now Laud Gr. 16 (Alcibiades I), and Bodl. [E. 2] 16, now Misc. Gr. 104 (Gorgias, Apologia, Timaeus). Paper ; ff. 47. Quarto. Second quarter of the XVIII cent.
John Upton, Prebendary of Rochester: Notes on Plato by (?): 18th cent.: Lat. and Engl.
Plato: Notes on, and collations of, by .J. Upton (?): 18th cent.: Lat. and Engl.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002058158
040-002058164 - Is part of:
- Add MS 38807-38809 : Henry Spencer Ashbee papers
Add MS 38809 : NOTES and memoranda relating to Plato, mainly in Latin but a few in Engl. ; probably by John Upton (1707-1760), prebendary of… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002058158[0003]/040-002058164
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- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 38807-38809
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
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- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1725
- End Date:
- 1749
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 18th century
- Era:
- CE
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- Names:
- Plato, 427 BC-347 BC
Upton, John, Prebendary of Rochester