Poetry

Overview

ff. 1r-22r [Title:] Stacii Achileidos poetae clarissimi liber primus incipit.

Inc: Magnanimum eacidem formidatamque tonanti/ Progeniem et patrio vetitam succedere caelo. . .

Expl.: Hactenus armorum comites clementia meorum/ Haec memini et meminisse iuuat. scit cetera mater. f. 22v ruled but blank.

Statius, Achilleis; Aldo Marastoni, ed., P. Papini Stati Achilleis (Leipzig, 1974).

Overview ff. 1r-140r [Title:] M. Annaei Lucani Civilis Belli sive Pharsaliae Liber Primus incipit Inc: Bella per Emathios plus quam civilia campos/ Iusque datum sceleri canimus populumque potentem: Expl.: Ad campos epidaure [sic] tuos, ubi solus apertis/ Obsedit muris calcantem moenia Magnus. Finis. Deo Gratias Amen On f. 140 v the text concludes with four unidentified lines of verse: Optatos tandem tetigerunt carbasa portus/ Et sedet in tuto littore fessa ratis./ Quo deus emeritas peragam tibi...

Overview

ff. 1r-69v [Title:] publii ouidii nasonis epistolarum erodium liber primus penelope ulissi

Inc: Hanc tua penelope lento tibi mitit ulixe./ Nil me rescribas at tamen ipse ueni.

Expl.: Ut ualeant, alie ferrum patiuntur et ignes./ Fert aliis tristem sucus amarus opem.// f. 70 ruled but blank.

Ovid, Heroides 1-20, text breaks off at 20.186; the final 58 lines of 20, and all of 21 are lacking; H. Dörrie, ed., P. Ovidii Nasonis Epistulae heroidum (Berlin, 1971).

Overview ff. 1r-53v [Text imperfect, begins at line 80:] Ost [sic] opere prime quo limite debeat ordo/ Currere. cuncta sequens omni pensare statura/ Pondera, sinistre pendet sententia. . . Si mediocris ama mediocria. Sumere noli/ Que quando sumus presimus [sic] in omnibus una// [text breaks off at line 298 at the bottom of f. 6v and resumes on f. 7r at line 369:] //Indefensa modo gestu restare dolorem/ Exundent celi lacrimas ex terminet ora. . .Expl.: Set licet omnis apex tibi crescat...

Scope and content note

This volume includes correspondence related to the 150th anniversary of John G. Whittier’s birth, discussion of publication of a volume of his poetry, information on the Whittier Anniversary committee, including a list of the committee members, as well as clippings of printed poems by J.G. Whittier and hymns. The majority of correspondence is addressed to Marshall Taylor, and it is likely that it is his scrapbook, though the owner of the volume is unclear.