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Add. MS c/230
Title
Notebook containing extracts from Seneca, Terence, Livy etc, with printed pages from Ovid's Metamorphoses
Date(s)
- 16th c.? (Creation)
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1 volume: MS and Printed text
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Scope and content
Extracts from Seneca (Hippolytus) and Terence (in secretary hand), Greek verse, and extract from Livy (in an italic hand). Printed text of Ovid Metamorphoses (Book XV, lines 596-834) bound in at end of volume. Before these printed pages, and written from front to back: Greek and Latin notes: extract from an idyll by Theocritus; Latin text, 'Quam tenua est puerorum natura...'; another Latin text, 'Natura sigillas fuit...'; couplets in Greek.
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Language of material
- Ancient Greek
- English
- Latin
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Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Much damaged by mould, particularly MS pages at beginning and end of the volume which have been conserved; edges of pages in middle of volume still fragile.