Record

Document Reference	Pw V 142
Title	MS poem, entitled 'Alsopus Keilo S.D.' by Anthony Alsop; n.d.
Extent	2 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Text consists of a 56-line poem in fourteen Sapphic stanzas on the mathematician and astronomer John Keill, a pupil of David Gregory at Edinburgh, who gave the first experimental lectures on natural philosophy at Oxford. Printed version entitled 'Johanni Keil'.
Title Of Work	Alsopus Keilo S.D.
First Line of Poem	Keile, derisor nisi falsa mittat
Last Line of Poem	Dote beabo
Language	Latin
Physical Description	One folio folded once to form two quartos
Condition	Good
Descriptive Features	Countermark: Letters HR, 13 x 31 mm Italic
Related Material	University of Nottingham Library: Pw V 143-44
Related Material	University of Nottingham Library: Pw V 151/8
Publication Note	Alsop, Anthony, Odarum Libri Duo (London, 1752) pp 33-5

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA74399	Keill; John (1671-1721); Professor; mathematician and astronomer	1671-1721
NA74398	Gregory; David (1661-1708); -	1661-1708
NA73032	Alsop; Anthony (-1726); Dr	-1726