Comprises a copy of Iohan. Posthii Germershemii tetrasticha in Ovidii Metamor. Lib. XV. ..., [Frankfurt?], 1563, with 167 separate English stanzas written on blank verso pages (i.e. facing the Latin and German texts and woodcuts on the rectos) in a hand of c.1600.
English translations of verses from Ovid's Metamorphoses, written into a German translation of the latter by Johannes Posthius
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- ReferenceGB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 76
- Dates of Creationca. 1600
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- Language of MaterialLatin German English
- Physical DescriptionPrinted book, with manuscript additions. The volume is worn, with a loose spine and detached boards; it is currently conserved in a brown box.
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
John Milton (1608-1674), the poet. For fuller details of his life and achievements see the Dictionary of National Biography.
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Acquisition Information
Purchased at Sotheby's on 2 August 1985.
Note
In Latin, German, and English.
Other Finding Aids
The poems are indexed in the BCMSV database http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/bcmsv/bcmvlink.htm#bclt76
Additional Information
Hugh C.H. Candy, Some Newly Discovered Stanzas Written by John Milton on Engraved Scenes Illustrating Ovid's Metamorphoses (London, 1924) is shelved with the volume. Hugh Candy believed that the English translations in question were composed and transcribed by John Milton in his youth, ca. 1623.