Poetry,

This material is held atNational Library of Wales / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru

  • Reference
    • GB 210 NLW MS 10819B.
  • Alternative Id.
      (alternative) vtls004579432
  • Dates of Creation
    • [1893].
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • The volume was bound at the Caxton Works, Bombay, in goatskin with blind tooling and gilt lettering.
  • Location
    • ARCH/MSS (GB0210)

Scope and Content

A volume containing translations into English of Latin and Greek poems by George Herbert, viz. 'Parentalia', 'An Apology on behalf of a Suppliant amongst the Evangelical Ministers in England, addressed to His Most Serene Majesty against the Bewitched Gorgon of the Two Universities or the Anti-Tami-Cami-Categoria ...', 'Epigrams in Defence of the Discipline of our Church', 'The Inventions of War', and 'Other Latin Poems' (incomplete). Inset are transcripts of six sonnets, e.g. '... on the statue at Florenze of Lorenzo Duke of Milan, sculptured by Michel Angelo', 'Written on the lake of Albano', etc.

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Note

Title based on contents.

Preferred citation: NLW MS 10819B.

Other Finding Aids

The description is also available in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Part XIX, 250.

Archivist's Note

October 2008.

Description compiled by Bethan Ifans for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS. The following source was used in the compilation of this description: Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume III (Aberystwyth, 1961);

Custodial History

On the fly-leaf is the inscription: 'To M. L. Swan. Easter 1893'.

Additional Information

Published

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