Item 803 - Notebook kept by John Wordsworth

1 vol., mauve-stained vellum over boards, bearing scored marks. 101 ff. extant, with excisions in several places. Paginated in Wordsworth's hand: (from front) 1-37: 59-83; 95-97; 121-203; (from back) 39-57; 91; 103-107; 113-117; 121; 131-145.

As stated by auction house: 'almost certainly by descent to the author's namesake, John Wordsworth FBA (1843-1911), biblical & classical scholar, later Bishop of Salisbury (1885-1911).'

Purchased at auction from Mellors & Kirk, Nottingham, Apr. 2026.

Headed 'Greek and Latin Verse'
pp. 1-23: ; Transcriptions of passages from Virgil's Eclogues, Georgics and Aeneid.
pp. 25-37: 'Poetical transitions, forms of expression, phrase, epithets &c, J. Wordsworth 1825.'
pp. 59-75: Transcriptions of passages from Juvenal.
pp. 77-81: Transcriptions of passages from Persius's Satires, dated 'Versailles, May 15'.
pp. [82]-83: Transcriptions of passages from the satires of 'Sulpitia' [Sulpicia], dated 'Versailles, May 17 1831', Petronius and 'Miscellanea Poetica'.
p. [84]: 'Hints and Quotations for verbal criticism see above p. 42'. Crossed through.
pp. 97-[98]: Transcriptions of passages from Hesiod.
p. 121: 'Miscellanea Poetica'. Crossed through.
pp. 123-193: Transcriptions of passages from Lucan, with dates at various points between Jul. 1831 and Jul. 1832, at Hampstead, Buxted, Rydal, and Trinity College Cambridge.

From back:

pp. 41-57 : 'Metaphora Ciceroniae. J. Wordsworth 1826' (not all pages used).
pp. 91-135: 'Latin phrases in prose'. Includes passages from Cicero;
Pages marked out for passages from Longinus and for 'Miscellanea', but not used.

Throughout: margin ruled at left of page for annotations.

• Ancient Greek
• English
• Latin

O.12.4-26: other papers of John Wordsworth, mainly notebooks used as commonplace books for works in English, classical and European languages, and for notes on classical and etymological topics.