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Notes by William Mure, classical scholar., 1816-1854, or before.

 Item
Identifier: MS.4997

Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: (i) An early draft of volume III, chapter 7, part ii, 'Writing for literary purposes', of ‘Critical history of the language and literature of Ancient Greece’ by William Mure (folio 1);

(ii) 'Essay on the Greek tragedy', endorsed in pencil, Edinburgh 1816 (folio 40);

(iii) Notes, imperfect at the beginning, on the Etruscans (folio 58);

(iv) 'On the present state and prospects of Egyptian archaeology', circa 1832 (folio 76);

(v) 'Some occasional observations in the reading of Tacitus' (folio 97);

(vi) Notes of the contents of Cicero, 'De divinatione' and 'De natura deorum', Augustine, 'De civitate Dei', and Cicero, 'Tusculanae disputations' (folio 101; folio 112 should stand after folio 120);

(vii) Notes on Virgil, 'Aeneid', endorsed 1835 (folio 121), and on Homer (folio 135);

(viii) Excerpts from modern works on the digamma (folio 173), and a draft of the introduction to a paper in Latin on it by Mure (folio 192);

(ix) Notes on Greek travel and topography (folio 194);

(x) Manuscript of the introduction to volume I of the second edition of ‘Critical History’ by William Mure (London, 1854) (folio 219).

Dates

  • Creation: 1816-1854, or before.

Conditions Governing Access

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Conditions Governing Use

Normal reproduction conditions apply, subject to any copyright restrictions.

Extent

230 Leaves

Language of Materials

From the Fonds: Undetermined

Arrangement

230 folios.

Bibliography

Mure, William. - ‘Critical history of the language and literature of Ancient Greece’ (London, 1850). - ‘Critical history of the language and literature of Ancient Greece’, 2nd edition (London, 1854).

Repository Details

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