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Add MS 4357
- Record Id:
- 040-002109838
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002109547
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000394.0x000239
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 4357
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
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ADVICE TO A YOUNG MAN, on leaving Oxford University to reside in London, beg. 'My very good friend, I have longe held it for a principle'; temp. James I. Anonymous. The writer quotes, inter alia, the Basilicon Doron of 'our King' (i.e. James I) (f. 22) and De veritate Cbristianae religionis of Philippe de Mornay (d. 1623) 'learned writer of our time' (f. 45b). At the beginning and end are short elegiac poems on the subject. There follow in a different hand:- (a) sermon on the duty of magistrates, from Ps. 82.5. ff. 65-71;- (b) sermon or exercise on Ps. 117. Latin. ff. 71 b-76;- (c) a translation, entitled 'A description of the House of Fame', of Ovid's Metamorphoses, XII, 1, 38, with the Latin. f. 77;-(d) an extract, 'Corinnae concubibus', from Ovid's Amores, Lib. I, El. 5. f. 78b. Paper; ff. iv + 78. Quarto. Early XVII cent. The name John Dennis is inscribed on a flyleaf at the beginning. According to Foster's Alumni Oxonienses one of this name graduated B.A. from Pembroke College, 21 Feb. 1624/5.
includes:
- ff. 1-64 Manners and Customs: Advice to a young man on leaving Oxford: early 17th cent.
- ff. 1b, 64 Poetry LATIN: Verses beginning and ending a treatise of advice to a young man leaving Oxford: early 17th cent.
- ff. 65-71 Sermons: On the duty of magistrates: 17th cent.
- ff. 71b-76 Sermons: On Ps. 117: early 17th cent.: Lat.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002109547
040-002109838 - Is part of:
- Add MS 4101-4478 : Manuscripts collected by Thomas Birch (b. 1705, d. 1766), D.D., and bequeathed by him to the British Museum, of which he was…
Add MS 4357 : ADVICE TO A YOUNG MAN, on leaving Oxford University to reside in London, beg. 'My very good friend, I have longe held it for… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002109547[0129]/040-002109838
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 4101-4478
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1600
- End Date:
- 1640
- Date Range:
- Early 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Custodial History:
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f. iii John Dennis: Signature, as owner (?): early 17th cent.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Dennis, John, former owner of "Advice to a young man on leaving Oxford", fl 1625