[Notebook], 1660.

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[Notebook], 1660.

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Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, containing notes in English and Latin on historical and philosophical subjects, including "De Republica Atheniensi," "De Judaeis," "De Religione," "De Liberis" and "De Servis," "De Legibus Politicis," "The History of the Turkes," and "Of the Egyptian Pyramides ." The manuscript is preceded by a conversion chart for coins and miles, and includes a timeline of history beginning with the creation of the world and ending with Martin Luther's writing against indulgences in 1517, as well as a chart titled "Gulielmo Lamberdo e Saxon interprete Alphabetum Saxonicum" demonstrating Anglo-Saxon letter forms. The main text is followed by ten English poems, consisting of eight by Thomas Carew and two, "Upon A Fly That Flew into a Ladyes Eye and there lay buried in a teare" and "Platonique Love," which the author attributes to "Cleavland."

1 v. (177 p.) ; 18 x 11 cm.

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University of Oxford

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Cleveland, John, 1613-1658

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Carew, Thomas, 1594?-1640

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