Poetry
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 32 Collections and/or Records:
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Poems, 1632 (Circa)
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8468
Scope and Contents
Manuscript poems in English with the signature on the flyleaf, 'Nar. Luttrell His Book 1680'. The volume includes Donne's epitaph, a poem addressed to him by his son, and other pieces. It is accompanied by related letters addressed to Geoffrey Keynes, c. 1950-1970.
Dates:
1632 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Poems, Late sixteenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.09.23
Scope and Contents
English and Latin verses. The manuscript contains translations from Ovid, several Latin epitaphs on the Lady Catherine ‘nuper Duraventani comitis filiæ’, and other miscellaneous pieces, one of which is dated 1568. On the first page of the manuscript the following note occurs: ‘Anno ante nativitatem Christi quadringentisimo octogesimo septimo editum fuit castrum Norwici per regem Gurguntum [Caer-Gunt], ut patet in record’.
Dates:
Late sixteenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Salmacis and Hermaphroditus: a Poem, by Francis Beaumont, c. 1600
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Mm.04.13
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From the Collection:
Many manuscripts acquired by the University Library before the middle of the nineteenth century either originated as or were made up into bound volumes, and were classified alongside printed material. Most carry what is known as a 'two-letter' reference, running (for western manuscripts) from Dd.1.1 through to Oo.7.60. They comprise mainly medieval and early modern manuscripts. This catalogue is based on entries for western post-medieval manuscripts in the 5-volume Catalogue of the...
Dates:
c. 1600
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Sonnets, 1585
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ee.01.11
Scope and Contents
Two books of Italian sonnets by various authors, bound in one volume, with introductory matter. They are addressed to 'Sigor. Capno. Thommaso Sassetti'. The collector, 'Lattantio Valori Fiorentino', dates 'di casa sua in Londra il primo giorno di Maggio M.D.LXXXV'. A list of authors is prefixed to each volume.
Dates:
1585
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Supplement to the 'Faery Queene', Mid or late seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ee.03.53
Scope and Contents
'A supplement of the Faery Queene, in three bookes, wherein are allegorically described affaires both military and civill of these times', beginning ('Seventh book', canto I stanza 1) 'Aurora still bewailing Memnon's fate ...', and continuing to stanza 47 of canto 12 in the ninth book. There are numerous corrections here and there, and whole stanzas erased. On the title page is the following entry by the same hand: 'This was finished anno dom. 1635'. The preface embodies part of Spenser's...
Dates:
Mid or late seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Three Latin poems by Thomas Cooper, Seventeenth century
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.11.50-MS Dd.11.52
Scope and Contents
(1) ‘Vindiciæ templi Sancti Pauli’, beginning ‘Mutantur Oh quam tempora, et nos iis simul ...’; (2) ‘Principatus est divina ordinatio a nemine violanda’, beginning ‘Parere regi cur volet pios deus? ...’; (3) ‘Rex Suecorum, vivus an mortuus: in usum ecclesiæ’; after the dedication is a second title, ‘Ventilatio incerti illius et contrarii rumoris de regis Suecorum morte et vitâ’, preceding 35 elegiac couplets beginning ‘Fama diu dubiis volitaverat anxia pennis ...’. The poems are dedicated to...
Dates:
Seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Ursula Vaughan Williams: Poems and translations, nd [20th century]
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9750/116-124
Scope and Contents
Comprises:
- Nocturne. Jean Moreas.
- By the water. Variation on a theme by Alexander Blok.
- Cette fille est morte …
- Sagesse I xxl.
- Cold. From a poem by Nekrassov.
- Comme on voit sur la branche au mois de mai la rose …
- Puis qu’elle est tout hyver, toute la même glace …
- Vous estes dejà vieille, et je le suis aussi …
- Letter from Ursula Vaughan Williams to 'Jean', nd
Dates:
nd [20th century]
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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