Research Catalog

Title

Cambridge Act and Tripos verses, 1565-1894 / J.J. Hall.

Author

Hall, J. J. (John James), 1941-

Publication

Cambridge : Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Cambridge Bibliographical Society
• Cambridge University Library

Description

ix, 375 p. : facsims.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Cambridge Bibliographical Society monograph ; no. 15

Uniform Title

Monograph (Cambridge Bibliographical Society) no. 15.

Subject

• University of Cambridge > Poetry
• Geschichte 1565-1894
• Academic disputations > England > Cambridge > History
• Commencement ceremonies > England > Cambridge > History
• Occasional verse, Latin (Medieval and modern) > England > Cambridge > History and criticism

Genre/Form

• Occasional verse, Latin (Medieval and modern)
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History
• Poetry
• Naslagwerken (vorm)

Note

• Text in English with passages in Latin.
• "Published for the Cambridge Bibliographical Society by Cambridge University Library"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Language (note)

• Text in English with passages in Latin and Greek.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Up tothe mid-seventeenth century -- Tripos day verses -- Commencement -- Verses before 1615 -- Other evidence on commencements and commencement verses -- Were verses ever distributed on occasions other than Tripos days and commencements? -- From 1628to the civil war -- The significance of commencement acts -- Language metre -- The purpose of the verses -- The civil war and the later seventeenth century -- From 1642-1650 -- Commencements in the later seventeenth century -- Lent verses in the later seventeenth century -- Metres in the later seventeenth and in the eighteenth century -- The early eighteenth century -- From 1750-1802 -- From 1803-1858 -- From 1859 to 1894 -- the end of the Tripos verses -- Cambridge, Oxford and Dublin -- Oxford the act -- Oxford lent ceremonies -- Dublin -- Chronological list of verses -- Appendix: possible additional Tripos verses.

ISBN

• 9780902205659
• 090220565X

OCLC

• 500887778
• SCSB-12392691

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library