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MS 401

Author

Title

Vah, tenero quodcunq[ue] potest obsistere amori. manuscript / translated by Thomas Gray.

Publication, distribution, etc.

Eton?, 1730s?.

Physical description

1 leaf : paper ; 25 x 20 cm.

Note

Title from first line of poem. A Latin translation of an anonymous poem published in David Lewis's anthology 'Misellaneous poems by several hands (1726), with the first line 'Away; let nought to Love displeasing'. The verso bears a single line by Gray: 'The rude Columbus of an infant world'. This line has been associated with the drafting of Gray's Elegy on a Country Church-Yard, but its appearance here suggests it to be of a much earlier origin in Gray's work.

Note

Place and date of production inferred from the juvenile aspects of Gray's hand, suggesting it was executed during his years at Eton.

Note

A single leaf set into a later sheet, which in turned had been tipped into a copy of Boswell's life of Johnson.

Note

Written initially in pencil, and overwritten in ink, possibly by Gray's friend William Mason.

Note

With a sale catalogue note from 2013, including references to associated scholarship.

Binding

Stored in a sleeve in black buckram solander box.

Subject

Added entry--place

England Eton

Identifier

B49556
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