[Commonplace book], [ca. 1692].

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[Commonplace book], [ca. 1692].

Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of about 45 entries consisting of letters in Latin, poems in Latin and English, translations, and speeches compiled by an undergraduate at University College Oxford. The 26 epistolae are addressed to scholars and college heads such as Thomas Bennet, Gabriel Barniby, John Hudson, Arthur Charlett, John Hinckley, and Edward Farrar. Other items in the manuscript include poems such as The Passion, an Ode; a poem on the Nine Worthies; and an English translation of an ode by Horace; as well as an address in Latin to Sir Joseph Williamson and essays on Aristotle and Virgil.

1 v. (72 p.) ; 18 x 12 cm.

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