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"Ad C: Favonium Zephyrinum"

    • Archive Work ID: poems.lt02
    • Uniform Title: "Ad C: Favonium Zephyrinum" [e-text]
    • First Line: Mater rosarum, cui tenerae vigent
    • Language: Latin
    • First Published: 1775
    • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 144-145 (with English prose translation); Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 310-312 (with English prose translation)
    • Summary: Written at Rome in the Spring of 1740 while on the Grand Tour with Horace Walpole. First published, untitled but referred to in a footnote as "Ad C. Favonium Zephyrinum", in Mason's Memoirs (1775), section II, letter no. XXI. Mason is the only source for this letter, dated May 1740, in which Gray originally sent the poem to West (Favonius). MS translation into English by Thomas Wharton.

    4 Manuscripts:

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0003 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "Ad C: Favonium Zephyrinum"
      • Date: Spring 1740
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 128, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 2, 79; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 22; Martin, Chronologie (1931), 138
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy, annotated "Wrote at Rome, the latter end of the Spring, 1740. after a journey to Frescati & the Cascades of Tivoli", in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 128.

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0004 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "Alcaïca"
      • Date: May 1740
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: MS L.C. II.90, No. 107, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel two
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 3, 79; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 33
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy, here entitled "Alcaïca", endorsed in an unidentified hand "by T. Gray, from Tivoli".

      • [MS image]Archive MS ID: mss.0002 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "Ode to Mr. West"
      • Date: [between 1776 and 1804]
      • Physical Description: 3 pages, 193 mm x 160 mm; transcript and English translation in the hand of John Phillipps
      • Language: Latin, English
      • Location: BOD MS Eng.misc.e.241, ff. 43-44r, Special Collections, Bodleian Library, Oxford University, Oxford, UK <http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/weston/finding-resources/locations>
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), 79; Crum (ed.), First-Line Index (1969), vol. II, 668, item O754; Nelson (ed.), Union First Line Index. Mar. 2010. Folger Shakespeare Library. 19 March 2010. <http://firstlines.folger.edu/detail.php?id=76914>
      • Contents: Transcript in the hand of John Phillipps (f. 43), followed by an English translation headed "Translation" (ff. 43v-44r), in a volume of collected verse, copied from manuscripts, printed editions and newspapers, by John Phillipps of the Middle Temple and Exeter College, Oxford, 1776-1804 (Summary Catalogue, 45759).
      • Surrogates: Digital facsimile [JPEG] from original MS available online.

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0234 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "Ode to Caius Favonius Zephyrinus"
      • Date: 1780[?]
      • Physical Description: 5 pages, 180 mm x 110 mm; transcript in an unidentified neat and legible hand on Whatman paper
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: MS Add. 439, "Latin Pieces" section, 7-11, The Archives, York Minster Library & Archives, York, UK <https://yorkminster.org/treasures-and-collections.html>
      • Contents: Transcript in an unidentified neat and legible hand, entitled "Ode to Caius Favonius Zephyrinus" (p. 7) ("Ode II." [p. 9]). The poem is part of a section called "Latin Pieces", which is separately paginated and has its own table of contents (p. 24), in a volume entitled Gray's Poems. The book carries the bookplate of Gray's friend and biographer William Mason.

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