Notebook containing Latin prose and verse and English verse, in two or more different hands
Comprises
(fols. 1-8) 'Vita Thomae Hobbes Malmes-buriensis usque ad Annum Millesimum sexcentissimum septuagesimum secundum aetatis vero Octagesimum quartum ab ipso conscripta' an account of the life of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, 1672, in Latin verse
(fols. 12-27) an account of a journey through France and Italy, to Rome, in Latin, beginning in Cornwall, Aug. 1654. The places visited are:
- (fol. 12) Dieppe, arrived 2 Sept. 1654
- (fol. 12) Rouen
- (fol. 13) St. Denis
- (fols. 13v-16) Paris
- (fol. 16v) Orléans, beginning of Apr. 1655
- (fols. 16v-17) Blois and Saumur
- (fols. 17-19) Nantes
- (fol. 19) La Rochelle
- (fol. 19v) Bordeaux
- (fol. 20) Toulouse and Marseilles
- (fols. 20-21v) Leghorn, arrived 17 Dec. 1655
- (fols. 21v-22v) Pisa
- (fols. 22v-24) Florence
- (fol. 24) Siena
- (fol. 24v-25) Monte Fiascone and Viterbo
- (fol 25v-27) Rome, arrived end of Dec. 1655
(fols. 31-8) Latin verse beginning 'Ite preces blandae, celesti semine' cretae', written by Isaac Barrow in Paris, 1655
(fols. 39-42) letter by Isaac Barrow, to an unnamed recipient, Paris, 1655, in Latin
(fol. 43) notes by Henry Ellison on Isaac Barrow, made at University College, Oxford, 1841
(fols. 44-55) English verse
- (fols. 44-5) 'A Countrey Swain call'd Hodge...', beg. 'Wm Hodge had numbr'd up how many score'
- (fol. 46) 'Mervil's Ghost', beg. 'From the dark Stygian banks I come'
- (fol. 47) 'A Translation of a Prophesy of Nostredamus', beg. 'Her faults & follies a foolish land's firm doom shall fix'
- (fols. 48-51r) 'A Dialogue between Sr Walter Rawleigh's Ghost & Britannia', beg. 'Ah Rawleigh! when thy breath thou didst resigne'
- (fols. 51v-53r) 'Sr Edmundbury Godfrey's Ghost', beg. 'It happen'd in the twilight of the day'
- (fol. 53v) 'On the French King', beg. 'Lorrain you stole, by fraud you got Burgundy'
- (fols. 54-5) 'Garnet's Ghost Addressing to the Jesuits met in private Cabal just after the murder of Sr Ed. Godfrey', beg. 'By Hell 'twas bravely done! what lesse than this?'
(fols. 60-83) Latin prose entitled 'Epitome institutionum methodica'
(fol. 84) Latin prose entitled 'Accessora criminis Imprimis Impedimenta matrimonii Secundis Libelli materia Tertiis'
(fols. 85-98) Latin prose entitled 'De Iure Canonico et eius Distributionibus' relating to canon law
Dates
- Creation: 17th cent.
Extent
100 Leaves
Language of Materials
- English
- Latin
Preferred Citation
Oxford, Bodleian Libraries [followed by shelfmark and folio or page reference, e.g. MS. Eng. e. 3381, fols. 1-2]
Shelfmark:
MS. Eng. e. 3381
Collection ID (for staff)
CMD ID 15024
Abstract
Notebook containing Latin prose and verse and English verse, in two or more different hands
Custodial History
Armorial bookplate of Henry Ellison, of University College, Oxford.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Given by Mrs. G.L. Barstow, 1951.
Physical Facet
Binding: early 19th-cent.? blind-ruled black morocco, marbled endpapers
- Title
- Notebook containing Latin prose and verse and English verse, in two or more different hands
- Status
- Published
- Date
- EAD version 2018
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
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