Literary notebooks of E. W. B. Nicholson
MS. Eng. misc. e. 57
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Title
Literary notebooks of E. W. B. Nicholson
Shelfmark
MS. Eng. misc. e. 57
Summary
Literary notebooks of E. W. B. Nicholson. Relates mainly to John Gower and contains at fol. 3 an abstract of the Confessio Amantis to 1. 424 of the prologue: at fols. 8, 11v, are Latin and Greek versions of Shakespeare's story of the caskets. The volume has then been reversed and used for entering statistics as to the proportion of dactylic lines in Homer.
Date
Written about 1872 by E. W. B. Nicholson
Language
English
Physical facet
On paper
Physical extent
59 Leaves
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Collection contents
Literary notebooks of E. W. B. Nicholson
