Latin exercises, poems, and letters collected by an Oxford man

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MS. Lat. misc. e. 32

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Latin exercises, poems, and letters collected by an Oxford man (probably of Christ Church), and chiefly relating to Oxford in about 1625-40. Among the poems are:

'In admissionem Decani Duppa', 1629 (fol. 7v, cf. 30)
'In magistrum [Johannem] Sedgwick pastorem parochiæ de Bysly ...' (fol. 12)
On an outrage done to Petrarch's tomb (fol. 15v)
'Rich. [Corbet] Oxoniensis episcopi Genethliacon' (fol. 17)
Obituary poems on Peter Bond 'huius cedis alumnus' (fol. 5v), Pendricke, fellow of Jesus College (fol. 7), --Prowde 'huius ædis socius' (fol. 10), Leonard Hutten, 1632 (fol. 19), Robert Hughes, 1632 (fol. 19v)
A few are on public subjects (foll. 10, 20, 107, etc.)
At fol. 21 are 19 prose letters to 'Mæcenas' (i.e. Duppa?), or officers of Christ Church
At fol. 35 many prose exercises, theses, and declamations
At the end (fol. 133) is a poem on Ben Jonson's death, 1637 beg. 'In quæ proijcior discrimina')

(fols. 135-end are blank)

Dates

Creation: Written in about 1630-1640 in Oxford

Extent

178 Leaves

Language of Materials

Latin

Preferred Citation

Oxford, Bodleian Libraries [followed by shelfmark and folio or page reference, e.g. MS. Lat. misc. e. 32, fols. 1-2]

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Shelfmark:

MS. Lat. misc. e. 32

Collection ID (for staff)

CMD ID 19248

Additional Description

Abstract

Latin exercises, poems, and letters collected by an Oxford man

Biographical / Historical

Biographical details unknown.

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. VI, no. 31830

Custodial History

'Carolus Powell e Trin: Coll. Cant. 1828'.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Bought.. Oct. 15, 1895, being no. 509 in the cat. of J. E. Cornish for that month: where it is suggested that the MS. is in the hand of Thomas Lushington, bp. Corbet's chaplain, but this is quite doubtful.