grayt.ead.0001-mss.0234Thomas Gray Manuscripts:An Inventory at the Thomas Gray Archive.Alexander HuberThomas Gray Archive2006Catalogued in EAD 2002 by Alexander Huber,
Editor, Thomas Gray Archive, 2005-Englishgrayt.ead.0001-mss.0234#did0001mss.poemsPoems[ca.
1725]-1771poems.lt02Ad C: Favonium ZephyrinumMater rosarum, cui tenerae vigent1775LatinStarr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 144-145 (with English
prose translation)Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 310-312 (with English
prose translation)
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'sMemoirs (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.
mss.0234poems.lt02Ode to Caius Favonius Zephyrinus1780[?]5transcript in an unidentified neat and legible hand on
Whatman paper180 mm x 110 mmLatin
MS Add. 439, Latin Pieces section,
7-11
The ArchivesYMAR
MS catalogued by Alexander
Huber in The Archives, York Minster Library & Archives,
on 27/03/2007.
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.