Sacred to the memory of Vincent Corbet, 1619 [Apr-Jul].

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Sacred to the memory of Vincent Corbet, 1619 [Apr-Jul].

The funerary placard for Vincent Corbet, containing three elegies for Corbet: "Vincent Corbet, farther knowne/ By Pointer's name than by his owne", by Richard Corbet; "Ad ejusdem Manes" ("Aeterna requie jaces beatus") by John Selden; and "On the Same" ("I have my Pietie too, which could/ It vent it self here as it would") by Ben Jonson.

1 leaf ; 58 x 56 cm.

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Corbet, Richard, 1582-1635

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Epithet: of Moreton-Corbet, county Shropshire British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000445.0x0003b7 ...

St. Mary's Church, Twickenham (London, England)

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Selden, John, 1584-1654

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John Selden (1584-1654) was a lawyer, parliamentarian and a scholar. His De Diis Syris (1617) established his credentials as an orientalist, which were consolidated by his later studies in rabbinical law. Further details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography . From the guide to the Oriental manuscripts of John Selden, 13th-17th century, (University of Oxford, Department of Oriental Collections, Bodleian Library) English jurist. From the description of...

Corbet, Vincent, d. 1619.

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Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637

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