Ars amatoria : book III [manuscript], ca. 1605 / translated by John Ansley.

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Ars amatoria : book III [manuscript], ca. 1605 / translated by John Ansley.

Dedicated to the Earl of Pembroke, probably William Herbert, the third earl, in two poems beginning, Whoo ever hopes to equall Ovids vaine, and, Greate lorde, the muses only favorite. A modern letter tipped into volume from EVD of Penrith, Westmorland says the manuscript "was among the old deeds at Clifford."

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Folger Shakespeare Library

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Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

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