Folger Shakespeare Library
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Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge

  • MS 59

    Copy of a Latin poem of Thomae Campiani Londinatis, D: Med: on the Gunpowder Plot, comprising two books of about 680 lines and 560 lines respectively (each with an Argumentum), with a dedicatory poem Ad augustissimu, serenissimu Jacobum magnae Britanniae regem (beginning Querna corona Joui datur olim, Laurea Phoebo) and five preliminary epigrams on the Jesuits, in a probably professional hand, revisions possibly in another hand written on numerous pasted-on slips, vi + 29 leaves.

    c.1615-20.

    This MS recorded in IELM, I.i (1980), p. 189. Edited from this MS in Lindley & Sowerby.

    • CmT 247
      No description or publication history available.

      First published as Thomas Campion: De Puluerea (On the Gunpowder Plot), ed. David Lindley, with translation and additional notes by Robin Sowerby, Leeds Texts and Monograph Series, NS 10 (Leeds Studies in English, 1987).

      Thomas Campion, De puluerea coniuratione ('Patroni magnum cano, mirum opus omnipotentis')

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