Collection of six Latin, Greek and English items

Title

Collection of six Latin, Greek and English items

Shelfmark

MS. Cherry 1

Summary

A. Early 17th cent. (fol. 5). Latin notes on Greek authors (Euripides, Aristotle's Ethics, Hesiod, Aeschines against Ctesiphon, Plutarch). Fols. 2-3 and 4 are a fragment of a MS. legal document and a leaf of an early printed book.

B. 17th cent. (fol. 135). 'Paraphrasis Epistolæ Pauli ad Romanos Andreæ Meluini', in hexameters.

C. About 1690:

Fol. 171. 'Epistolæ inter ... Episc. Asaphensem [Will. Lloyd] and ... dnum Antonium Pagi ... quas mihi [sc. Fr. Cherry] communicavit... H. Dodwellus anno 1690', on coins, 1686

Fol. 193 letters between the bp. and Henricus Noris an Italian, 1686-87: with a letter from Dr. Dodwell to the bp. on classical chronology, 10 Jan. 1686/7

The last in English, the rest Latin: all copies.

D. About 1700, (fol. 204). Latin notes on Dio Chrysostomus from the margin of C. 1. 15 Art. Seld. (ed. 1623).

E. 1691, (fol. 235). 'The Roman Ports and Forts in Kent', dated May, 1691: by Will. Somner.

F. About 1700, (fol. 263). 'Ζωροαστρτίων τε και Πλατωνικῶν δογμάτων σιτγκεφαλαίωσις τοῦ Πλήθωνος, ex Cod. MS. Phil: Biblioth. Cass. nu. 74', i.e. in the Vienna Library: followed by excerpts from Eusebius de Prophetiis, etc.: all in Greek.

Date

Written in the 17th century by different hands

Language

English

Latin

Multiple languages

Modern Greek (1453-)

Physical facet

On paper

Physical extent

277 Leaves