Manuscript on paper, in a single Italic hand, of a 38-page elegiacal poem praising Lady Mary Cholmondley's Holford ancestors and herself. The poem is heavily annotated in the same hand. Prefaced by a dedication to Lady Cholmondeley's son Thomas, a dedication in Latin to Sir Richard Grosvenor, 1st bart., and ten verses in Latin and English addressed to various members of the Cholmondeley family, including an anagram and a chronogram. The main poem is followed by several short Latin poems, including one concerning the Holford motto
Description:
Available on microfilm, In English and Latin., On flyleaf: list of accounts, as well as pen trials and the signature "R. Cholmondeley.", Signature in back of John Grosvenor., Marbled endpapers., and Binding: full morocco; gilt decoration.
Subject (Name):
Cholmondeley, Mary Holford, Lady, 1563-1625., Cholmondeley, Hugh, Sir, 1513-1596., Grosvenor, Richard, Sir, 1585-1645., and Lytler (Littler), Thomas.
Subject (Topic):
Anagrams, Elegiac poetry, Latin poetry, English literature, English poetry, and Genealogy
Janus, Pannonius, Bishop of Pécs, 1434-1472, author
Published / Created:
[1514]
Call Number:
If M81 r516
Image Count:
39
Resource Type:
text
Alternative Title:
Elegiarum aureum opusculum
Description:
BEIN If M81 r516: Inscription: Su[m] Tunstalli. From the libraries of Thomas Godwyn, J. Hilton, John Loveday, and the Loveday family from 1736-1940. Contemporary blindstamped Flemish binding, clasps wanting. No.7 of 7 works bound together., BEIN Zi 9477: Provenance: Sixteenth-century manuscript autographs in three different hands, one by Joannis Muerer on the first page of the first title. Gift of Louis M. Rabinowitz., BEIN Zi 9477: Binding: blind-tooled vellum half-binding over wooden boards. Traces of clasps. Authors and titles written on fore-edge. Paper tabs., BEIN Zi 9477: Number 5 of 6 titles bound together., Signatures: A-D⁴., Imprint from colophon. Colophon: Hieronymus Vietor, & Io. Singrenius Viennae imprimeba[n]t., and Errata on page [32].
Publisher:
Vienna and Hieronymus Vietor and Johann Singriener
BEIN Shirley +242: Inscribed: To George A. Porter., Poem written after viewing lock of hair of dead child of James H. Stone., "The following poem was received by me from Mrs. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, a few copies of which I have had thus prepared for a private circulation ... James H. Stone.", and Poem signed: Rome, April 4, 1861, Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
