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Fables ancient and modern : translated into verse, from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, & Chaucer : with original poems / by Mr Dryden.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Singer-Mendenhall Collection Folio PR3418 .F3 1700
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dryden, John, 1631-1700.
- Language:
- English
- Penn Provenance:
- Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir), 1829-1914 (bookplate) (Singer-Mendenhall copy)
- Pope, A. (autograph) (Singer-Mendenhall copy)
- Weld, Thomas (bookplate) (Singer-Mendenhall copy)
- Physical Description:
- 42 unnumbered pages, 271, 360-646 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 35cm (folio)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for Jacob Tonson ..., 1700.
- Contents:
- Dedication
- The preface
- Poem to Her Grace the Dutchess of Ormond, with the following story from Chaucer: Palamon and Arcite: or, The Knight's tale
- To my honoured kinsman John Driden
- Meleager and Attalanta, out of Ovid's Metamorphoses
- Sigismonda and Guiscardo, from Boccace
- Baucis and Philemon; Pigmalion and the statue; Ciniras and Myrrha; out of Ovid's Metamorphoses
- The first book of Homer's Ilias
- The cock and the fox: or, The tale of the Nun's priest, from Chaucer
- Theodore and Honoria, from Boccace
- Ceyxe and Aleyone, out of Ovid's Metamorphoses
- The flower and the leaf: or, The lady in the arbor. A vision out of Chaucer
- Alexander's feast: or, The power of musick. An ode in honour of St. Cecilia
- The twelfth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses wholly translated
- The speeches of Ajax and Ulysses, from Ovid's Metamorphoses
- The Wife of Bath, her tale, from Chaucer
- Of the Pythagorean philosophy, from Ovid's Metamorphoses
- The character of a good parson imitated, from Chaucer, and enlarged
- The monument of a fair maiden lady, who dy'd at the Bath, and is there interr'd
- Cymon and Iphegnia, from Boccace
- The Knight's tale; The tale of the Nun's priest; The floure and the leafe; The Wife of Bathe's tale; as written by Chaucer.
- Notes:
- Signatures: [A]2, B-C2, *A-*D2 (+ 1 unsigned leaf bound after *D2), A4, a2, B-2M4, 3A-4B4, 4C2, 4D-4N4, 402.
- Cited in:
- Wing D-2278.
- Macdonald 37a.
- Contains:
- Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Metamorphoses. Selections. English. 1700.
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Canterbury tales. Selections. 1700.
- OCLC:
- 2279522
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