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Add. MS c/229
Title
Notebook containing phrases from Ovid's Metamorphoses, Latin and Greek verse and notes, and notes on rhetoric
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- 16th c.? (Creation)
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1 volume
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Phrases taken from Ovid (Metamorphoses); Latin verse; Greek verse; Latin prose text [perhaps relating to the Acts of St Andrew?]; more Latin verse; notes on [?] Roman law, mentioning Tiberius Gracchus. Notebook also used from other end in: Latin verse, beginning with a phrase taken from Ovid's Ars Amatoria, 'Militiae species amor est' then diverging; further Latin phrases with English equivalents; Latin notes on rhetoric, including on Cicero.
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- Ancient Greek
- Latin
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Some conservation work has been carried out on the volume to strengthen it after mould damage.