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Reference code
Add. MS b/160
Title
"Batrachomuomachia, or Homer's Battle of the Frogs and Mice, done into verse"
Date(s)
- [18th cent.?] (Creation)
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Extent and medium
1 vol.
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Archival history
Written on front endpaper: " I. Lee, Doctors Commons. bound November, 1835, London. a present from the Reverend W. Fletcher, 1831", accompanied by a bookplate with the Lee family crest.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Source of acquisition unknown. Two other volumes from Lee's library were the bequest of William Aldis Wright, 1914.
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Scope and content
Translation of the pseudo-Homeric Batrachomyomachia.
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Related units of description
One of 19 bound MSS formerly owned by John Lee: Add.MS.a.630, Add.MS.b.158-166, Add.MS.c.173-181.