The romance of Octavian, emperor of Rome, abridged from a manuscript in the Bodleian library.

Format:

Book

Standardized Title:

Octavien, Empereur de Rome (Romance).

Language:

English

Physical Description:

vi, 66 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Printed by Collingwood, 1809.

Notes:

English prose abstract by J. J. Conybeare with extracts from the original French poem, from Bodleian ms. Hatton 100. Text was published in full by Karl Vollmöller in Altfranzösische Bibliothek, 3. Bd., 1883.

"Errata": p. [67].

Book dedicated "to E. B. Impey, Esq." With Conybeare's autograph on dedication page. With bookplate of Elijah Impey.

"First in the Volume comes the Romance Octavian. Only 50 copies of this work were said to have been printed ... Bound up with the above come six other pieces of the same Editor's ... from the British Bibliographer." - pencilled notation.

The following extracts have been inserted after p. [68]: Inedited poem by John Wallys (2 p.). Richard Sheale (3-9 p.). Sir Cleges (2 p.). The king and the hermyt (15 p.). A mery play betwēne Johan Johan the husbande Tyb his wife and Syr Jhān the preest (4 p.). Fragments of a French metrical romance upon Guy Earl of Warwick (3 p.). Anglo-Saxon poem on the Battle of Finsborough (7 p.).

OCLC:

1184066