Collection of notebooks containing Thomas Gray's notes on his reading, a catalog of his library, and a copy of his will : [England], 1740s-1770.

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Collection of notebooks containing Thomas Gray's notes on his reading, a catalog of his library, and a copy of his will : [England], 1740s-1770.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612342648

A collection of 10 notebooks with limp leather bindings. The notebooks include Gray's manuscript catalog of his library arranged alphabetically and in classes (MA 164-5); Gray's manuscript notes on his reading of Diogenes Laertius, Athenæus, Lysias, Isocrates, Plutarch, Sophocles, Xenophon, Thucydides, and others (MA 166-172); and a copy of Gray's will in an unknown hand. Some notebooks contain notes in Greek. Items in the collection are bound individually but housed together in one drop-spine box. Items are described separately (MA 165-173).

10 items (155 p.), bound ; size varies.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7795155

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Diogenes Laertius

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Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771

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British poet. From the description of Collection of notebooks containing Thomas Gray's notes on his reading, a catalog of his library, and a copy of his will : [England], 1740s-1770. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 612342648 From the description of Autograph notes on Lysias and Isocrates, 1747 Mar. 20-1748 Mar. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270508038 From the description of Autograph notes on Thucydides and Xenophon : [England], [174-?]. (Unknown). WorldCat recor...

Lysias.

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Plutarch

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Thucydides

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Sophocles.

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Athenaeus, of Naucratis

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Xenophon.

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Isócrates

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