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New Poems by George Herbert: The Cambridge Latin Gratulatory Anthology of 1613

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Leicester Bradner
Leicester Bradner*
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Brown University
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On February 14, 1613, Frederick, the Elector Palatine, was married to Princess Elizabeth, daughter of James 1 of England. Shortly afterwards he and Prince Charles made a visit to Cambridge University. As on all such occasions, disputations were held, plays were acted, and congratulatory poems in Greek and Latin were offered. A contemporary account preserved in Gonville and Caius College (MS. 73, p. 232) records that after a speech the orator ‘presented the Princes with eyther of them a written book of verses, fairly bownd in vellum filletted and guilded, with crimson strings; that to the Prin: was gratulatorie, only that to the Palat: the former part gratulatori, the latter Epithalamia.’

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Renaissance News , Volume 15 , Issue 3 , Autumn 1962 , pp. 208 - 211
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Copyright © Renaissance Society of America 1962

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1 I am indebted to Professor Paul O. Kristeller of Columbia University for calling my attention to this manuscript. A microfilm of it is now in the Brown University Library.

2 For Gager's Latin poetry see Bradner, L., Musae Anglicanae (New York, 1940), pp. 61–65.Google Scholar These two poems are not in the collection of Gager's poetry in British Museum Ms-Add. 22583.

3 This and the two following poems by Herbert are printed with the permission of the Vatican Library.