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PwV - Literary Manuscripts in the Portland (Welbeck) Collection, 16th-19th centuries
Document Reference
Pw V 671
Title
Three MS poems, one entitled 'An forma ultima sit specifica', two (one Latin, one English) entitled 'On Sir Tippings Marriage', unattributed; n.d.
Extent
1 f
Level
Item/file
Content Description
The text consists of three poems. One in Latin of 18 lines in elegaic couplets. The other are two versions on the same topic, one in Latin (12 lines in elegaic couplets) and one in English (12 lines).
The dorse is annotated with the words: 'The Battle Royal'.
Title Of Work
An forma ultima sit specifica
On Sir Tippings Marriage: In quendam Impotentem Qui Uxorem duxit Iuvenilem et non potuit praestare pignora amoris
[On Sir Tippings Marriage]
First Line of Poem
Compita dum Circum spacior Vagus Eminus Offert
Languida Virgineas agitabat mentula Vallas
Her Virgin Lips his feeble tool would kisse
Last Line of Poem
Ille vir extremum sigma perire vetat
deficit indignus Virginitate frui
The lovely bride betrays to die alone.
Language
Latin
English
Physical Description
One folio
Condition
Fragile
Descriptive Features
Countermark: Letters IID, 15 x 33 mm
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Code
PersonName
Dates of existence
NA72752
Tipping; -; Sir
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