Manuscript elegy on the death of Captain James Cook ‘In Mortem luctuosam viri eximii, et celeberrimi...
Manuscript elegy on the death of Captain James Cook ‘In Mortem luctuosam viri eximii, et celeberrimi navigatoris Jacobi Cook’, 1780, [with] privately published ‘Primitiae et Reliquiae’, containing the printed elegy, Oxford, London: William Nichol, 1841, by Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley
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1780, 1841
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MLMSS 9685
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0.37 metres of textual and graphic material (1 box)
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ITEM 1
'In Mortem luctuosam viri eximii, et celeberrimi navigatoris Jacobi Cook', an elegy on the death of Captain James Cook (1728-1779). The original manuscript submission for the annual Chancellor's Prize for Latin Verse at the University of Oxford, submitted in 1780 by Richard Colley Wesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley.
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'Primitia...
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Manuscript elegy on the death of Captain James Cook ‘In Mortem luctuosam viri eximii, et celeberrimi navigatoris Jacobi Cook’, 1780, [with] privately published ‘Primitiae et Reliquiae’, containing the printed elegy, Oxford, London: William Nichol, 1841, by Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley
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Purchased from Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints, November 2014
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In 1780, both Cambridge and Oxford Universities offered prizes for poems on the subject of the death of Captain James Cook (1728-1779). Richard Colley Wesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley (1760-1842), was awarded first place for his submission to Oxford in 1780, 'In Mortem luctuosam viri eximii, et celeberrimi navigatoris Jacobi Cook'. Marquis Wellesley...
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MLMSS 9685
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1kVdOdZn
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1288314
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