Commonplace book : manuscript, [ca. 1740-1879]

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Description:1 volume : ; 21 x 17 cm.
Language:English
Latin
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Format: Print Archives/Manuscripts
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4735853
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Other uniform titles:Apollonius, Rhodius.
Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680. Hudibras. Part 2.
Other authors / contributors:University of Chicago. Library. Codex Ms. 521.
University of Chicago. Library. Special Collections Research Center.
Provenance:Binding: Half calf with decorated paper over boards; calf spine missing, rebacked with 20th-century cloth.
Notes:Text in English and Latin.
Summary:A compilation of sections from older commonplace books, magazines and newspaper clippings from 1740-1879. Also contains: verse in English and Latin, songs and articles about poetry, and a translation of Book IV of Apollonius Rhodius's Argonautica. Nine engravings from the 1732 edition of S. Butler's Hudibras are pasted in at the end.
Cumulative Index / Finding Aids Note:Description available in the Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.

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