Anthology of Latin and English verse and prose exercises composed by pupils of Salisbury Cathedral School

This material is held atUniversity of Leeds Special Collections

  • Reference
    • GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 33
  • Dates of Creation
    • ca.1701-1725
  • Language of Material
    • English Latin
  • Physical Description
    • 1 vol. ([4], 171, [1], [6 (index)], [4] pp.) A few extracts are in a different hand from the rest of the material. Bound in limp vellum.

Scope and Content

The exercises consist of both verse and prose

Administrative / Biographical History

Salisbury Cathedral School was founded by St. Osmund in 1091, to provide an education for the choristers at the Cathedral at Old Sarum. It is one of the oldest educational institutions in the world

Access Information

Access is unrestricted

Acquisition Information

Bought from Deighton Bell, June 1971

Note

In English and Latin

Other Finding Aids

The poems are indexed in the BCMSV database http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/bcmsv/intro.html