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Add MS 23723
- Record Id:
- 040-002097367
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002097362
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000122.0x00029f
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- ISAD(G)
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- Add MS 23723
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1. VARIOUS pieces in prose and verse, chiefly relating to the visits of James I. to the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. Some of the verses have musical notes appended. Eng. and Lat. ff. 1-25.
The musical works are as follows.
Songs, without accompaniments, from a collection of English poems of the time of James I. Anonymous. 1. 'Let barefooted beggers still walke in the streete.' f. 17b. 2. 'Witte's commendation of a potte of good ale,' begins 'Not sober nor drunke.' f. 18b. 3. 'Grayes-Inne Maske,' begins 'Last Christmas 'twas my chance.' f. 21. 4. 'The Belgicke frogge,' 1622; apparently to the tune of 'Bon[n]y boatman.' f. 22. 5. 'A song made by a Cambridge man when K. James was entertainde at Oxford,' begins 'To Oxford now the King is gone.' f. 23. On f. 8b is 'A graue Poeme ... presented by certaine Diuines in way of an Enterlude before his Ma[jes]tie in Cambridge stiled 'Liber .nouus' .... done into English .... [Written by Richard Corbet, afterwards Bishop of Oxford, etc.] to be sung .... to the tune [omitted] of 'Bonny Nell.' ' It begins 'It is not yet a ffortnight since.' On the margin of f. 9 is the date 1614[-5].
2. Copies of letters of various persons; 27 Jan. 1609[10]-17 Aug. 1610. Lat. ff. 26-33. Paper; XVIIth cent. Duodecimo.
includes:
- ff. 1-25 University of Oxford: Pieces in prose and verse on the visits of James I. to: 17th cent.
- ff. 1-25 University of Cambridge: Dramatic pieces on visits of James I.: 17th cent.: Eng. and Lat.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002097362
040-002097367 - Is part of:
- Add MS 23719-23742 : Manuscripts that formed part of the Library of Dawson Turner.
Add MS 23723 : 1. VARIOUS pieces in prose and verse, chiefly relating to the visits of James I. to the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. Some… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002097362[0005]/040-002097367
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- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 23719-23742
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1600
- End Date:
- 1699
- Date Range:
- 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- University of Cambridge, 1209-
University of Oxford - Subjects:
- Songs