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Transcripts of eighteen pieces in Latin verse from a manuscript at that time in the possession of Dr. Lapworth, Written about 1620-1638 by Richard James

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MS. James 32
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Transcripts of eighteen pieces in Latin verse from a manuscript at that time in the possession of Dr. Lapworth (Thomas Wright, Latin Poems attributed to Walter Map, Camden Society, 1841, p. xxii), and now Harl. MS. 978 in the British Museum: followed by a copy, with music, of the Cuckoo song, from the same source (p. 80).

Dates

  • Creation: Written about 1620-1638 by Richard James

Extent

84 pages

Language of Materials

  • Latin

Shelfmark

MS. James 32

Other Finding Aids

Falconer Madan, et al., A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the Quarto series (7 vols. in 8 [vol. II in 2 parts], Oxford, 1895-1953; reprinted with corrections in vols. I and VII, Munich, 1980), vol II no. 3869

Related Materials

Other extracts are in MS. James 2, and all are specified in C. L. Kingsford's edition of the 'Song of Lewes' (Oxford, 1890), pp. x-xi.

Physical Facet

On paper

Dimensions

13 × 8 2/5 in.

Repository Details

Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository

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