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Title: Stichology, or, A recovery of the greek and latin numbers according to their original proportions quantities and systems.
Creator: Manwaring, Edward, active 1730-1740.
Contributor: Black, William Henry, 1808-1872, former owner.
Date Created and/or Issued: [173-?]
Contributing Institution: UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Collection: Early Modern English Manuscripts from UCLA’s Clark Library
Rights Information: Public Domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Scope/Content: Manuscript. Covers detached from text block with many loose pages.
Scope/Content: Manuscript version of Edward Manwaring's Stichology, published in 1737. It is unclear whether this is actually a manuscript of Manwaring's, or if it is a copy of the work copied by another, but it appears to contain the central text of the published work with very little alteration. It is written throughout in a neat 18th century hand.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Ownership inscriptions (Provenance)
Booksellers' labels (Provenance)
Extent: [4], 19, [6], 83, [4] p., bound ;21 cm.
Identifier: ark:/21198/n1mw3d
MS.1982.003
Language: English
eng
Subject: Greek language--Metrics and rhythmics--Early works to 1800.
Latin language--Metrics and rhythmics--Early works to 1800.
Versification--Early works to 1800.
Place: England
Provenance: On front paste-down endpaper: Booksellers printed catalog description laid down, with handwritten caption "[Rodd's catalogue]"; "No. 285" captioned in a different hand with "[JR Smith's catal. 1851]" and signed "WH Black"; orange and white label of Foyles booksellers, Charing Cross at the bottom right corner.
Location: CLUW

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