Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

The satires of Persius :

Authors

• Persius

Other related names

• Faires, John Wylie, 1813-1901, translator

Call number

Ms. Coll. 685
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9942990863503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/226214025

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Origin

Date

1830 /

Summary

Handwritten English translation of the six satires of Persius by John Wylie Faires, founder of the Classical Institute in Philadelphia and a University of Pennsylvania class of 1831 alumnus. A hand-tinted illustration with a caption in German is attached to the front cover.

Extent

1 volume (64 leaves)

Provenance

• Ms. American 55
   
• Gift of James D. Faires, 1965.
   

Genres

• Satires (literary works)
• Translations (documents)
• Manuscripts, American
• Poems

Licenses

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