St Catharine's College

  • MS F. III. 16 (James 18)

    A folio miscellany of Latin and English ecclesiastical writings, in several neat secretary and italic hands, one small neat italic hand predominating, ii + 151 leaves (including blanks), in quarter-calf boards.

    Mid-17th century.

    Ex dono bookplate of Thomas Sherlock (1678-1761), Bishop of London, 1761.

    • BcF 54.944 ff. 10v-12r

      Extracts from Books 10 and 2, in a predominantly secretary hand, in double columns.

      First published, as The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the proficience and aduancement of Learning, diuine and humane, in London, 1605. Spedding, III, 253-491. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. IV (Oxford, 2000).

      Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning
    • PeW 281 f. 120v

      Copy, in a neat secretary hand, headed An epitaph on Queene Elizabeth.

      This MS recorded in Krueger. Edited in Montague Rhodes James, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of St Catharine's College, Cambridge (Cambridge, 1925), p. 27.

      Poems (1660), pp. 116-17, superscribed P.. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition as possibly by Strode. Authorship unknown.

      William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Song ('Draw not too near')
    • BaJ 26.2 ff. 126r-33v

      Copy.

      Unpublished Latin work in seven libri.

      John Bale, Romanorum Episcoporum Successio

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