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PwV - Literary Manuscripts in the Portland (Welbeck) Collection, 16th-19th centuries
Document Reference
Pw V 296
Title
MS poem, entitled 'Iudicium Paridis', by William Markham; n.d.[c.1740]
Date
1740 (c)
Extent
4 ff
Level
Item/file
Content Description
Text consists of 156 lines in hexameters.
Note after text identifies this as Christ Church Oxford prize poem 1740. Markham was a student at the college where he took his B.A. in 1742 and M.A. in 1745
Title Of Work
Iudicium Paridis
First Line of Poem
Sol radiis summos tremulis contingere montes
Last Line of Poem
Victrici, roseosque parant intexere flores
Language
Latin
Physical Description
Two sheets folded once forming four folios
Condition
Good
Descriptive Features
Watermark: Pro Patria, approx. 95 x 108 mm
Countermark: Name C [and] I Honigh, approx. 12 x 93 mm.
Italic
Watermark
Pro Patria
Related Material
University of Nottingham Library:
University of Nottingham Library:
Publication Note
Bourne, Vincent, Musae Anglicanae (J. and R. Tonson and J. Watts; London 1741) vol 2, pp 277-82
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PersonName
Dates of existence
NA11822
Markham; William (1719-1807); Archbishop of York; Archbishop of York from 1777
1719-1807
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