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MS Eng. poet. e. 15

Bodleian Library

Oxford

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United Kingdom

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4r-5v

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Disticha Catonis, accompanied by the English translation of Benedict Burgh

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Latin (DC) | English (DC)

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the so-called distichs of Cato, each followed by a paraphrase in a seven-line English stanza [...] the preface precedes with an English translation in verse: and a short prologue and epilogue in English (per Summary Catalogue Bodleian) | "Parvus Cato" (DIMEV no. 6321)

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Cum animaduerterem (per Summary Catalogue Bodleian) | Whan I aduerte in my remembraunce / and se hou feel folke erren greuously… (per DIMEV no. 6321)

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…Whan ye it rede lete not your hert be thens / Doth as he saith with al your hool entent (per DIMEV no. 6321)

Cato | Benedict Burgh

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1401-1500

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England

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"The gift of Alexander Woodford to 'Wm Greenwell, 1843': 'J[ames] Raine, York, Jan. 1862.' Bought [by the Bodleian] in Nov. 1897" (per Summary Catalogue Bodleian)

Stephen Dodesham

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Summary Catalogue Bodleian, v. 6, p. 151, no. 32401 | Bodleian Electronic Catalogue (http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/medieval/eng/eng-poet.html) | Mirabile (http://www.mirabileweb.it/manuscript/oxford-bodleian-library-eng-poet-e-15-(s-c-32401)-manuscript/18562) | DIMEV (http://www.dimev.net/Records.php?MSS=BodEngPoete15)

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