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Latin unseen : [Oxford] : autograph manuscript signed, ca. 1874-1878.

BIB_ID
120345
Accession number
MA 737
Creator
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900.
Display Date
ca. 1874-1878.
Description
1 item (17 p. on 14 numbered leaves) ; 33.5 x 21 cm.
Notes
Written on the rectos of 14 unlined sheets of paper, with three lines of manuscript on the verso of p. 4, one line on the verso of p. 9, and title and signature on verso of p. 14 (signed also at head of p. 1).
Provenance
John Percival, Bishop of Hereford; J. G. Paterson of Paterson & Co.; Louis Wilkinson.
Summary
A manuscript of English translations of Tacitus, "Annals," XIII, 26 Lucretius, "De Rerum Natura," IV, 749-776, and of another Latin passage, apparently written as a university examination.