Verse translations from the classics

This material is held atUniversity of Leeds Special Collections

  • Reference
    • GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 49
  • Dates of Creation
    • 173-?
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English
  • Physical Description
    • 1 vol. (12 ff.) Chiefly inscribed on rectos only. With double-ruled margins for verse texts. Pro Patria watermark. 20th-century quarter leather binding; spine lettered: MSS. POETRY N.D.

Scope and Content

Collection of three verse translations from the classics in a single 18th-century hand: ff.1r-6r: Translation of Persius, "Satires", 2, by Mr T. Brewster, A.M. &c.; ff.8r-10r: Paraphrase of Persius, "Satires", 4; ff.11r-12r: Ode 15th of the 5th book of Horace imitated

Administrative / Biographical History

The compiler of the manuscript is unknown

Access Information

Access is unrestricted

Acquisition Information

Bought from Octodecimo, December 1975

Note

In English

Other Finding Aids

Indexed in the BCMSV database http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/bcmsv/intro.html