Carmina quadrigesimalia [manuscript], ca. 1729.

Carmina quadrigesimalia [manuscript], ca. 1729.

150 leaves.

Includes a 17th century copy of a poem, The session on the critics, by [William?] Pattison and a prologue and epilogue to Esop [by Vanbrugh?]. Some of the poems seem to have been written by Cambridge men. Also, excerpts from and comments on various works on British topography and place names by Augustus Antoninus, Ravennas Anonymus, William Burton, Ptolemy Francis Wise, Leland, Speed and others, made by Rev. [James] Baldwin, to whom two letters used for notes are addressed at Quidenham and Bunwell, Norf., undated, and 1736.

Poems in English and Latin.

Written in several hands. Poems listed in Folger index of first lines. List of contents tipped into volume.

A 19th century note at the beginning of the volume states that it once belonged to Rev. -- Aynscough, fellow of Manchester Collegiate Church, and that the prologue and epilogue were spoken at Speech Day at Manchester School.

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19th century binding.

W.a.300

MS Add 446