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PwV - Literary Manuscripts in the Portland (Welbeck) Collection, 16th-19th centuries
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
University of Nottingham Library: Pw V 151/8
Publication Note
Alsop, Anthony, Odarum Libri Duo (London, 1752) pp 33-5
Click the links below to view related name indexes
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
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