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1. Elegies
- Creator:
- Tyrtaeus
- Published / Created:
- [between 1800 and 1900]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 580
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on 2 vellum scrolls of Tyrtaeus, Elegies, with figure-poems of Dosiadas, Simmias, Besantinus, and Theocritus (attrubuted author), and hymns of Mesomedes and Arion. Said to be third century, but actually 19th-century forgery
- Description:
- In Greek., Script: Written in Greek capital script in boustrophedon, that is from right to left and from left to right alternatively, a method of writing that was no longer practiced in the third century when these scrolls were purported to have been written., and Preserved in a small wooden cylinder.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Tyrtaeus.
- Subject (Topic):
- Greek poetry, Literary forgeries and mystifications, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Elegies
