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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D8760/F/LIB/2/4
Former ReferenceD3311/157
Title"The Odes of Anacreon" (in Greek), given by J. F [?Mr Flaxman] to Eleanor Anne Porden
Date1786
DescriptionEdition printed by J. G. Treuttel, 147 pages, poems in Greek, with notes in Latin from page 97, dated at Cambridge 20 Nov 1711
Title in ink entitled "The Wreath of Anacreon" given to Eleanor Anne Porden on 14 July 1813 [her 18th birthday], with addendum underneath in pencil of "? Flaxman's initials"; once belonged to John Philip Gell.
Extent1 volume
LevelItem
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorGell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth
LanguageGreek
Latin
TermGreek literature
Greek (classical)

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