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This article focuses on the Royal Manuscript 18 B II which is the earliest and most complete surviving witness to the Middle English prose "Melusine." The article discusses the single-text codex and its features including the number and placement of capitula and explores the hypothesis that the manuscript was translated from the first edition of writer Jean d'Arras's "Mélusine" printed by Adam Steinschaber in Geneva, Switzerland in August 1478.

The article focuses on the history of "The Diggers' Song," a song associated with a 17th-century English commune known as the Diggers, and its possible authorship. It discusses how the song was originally preserved in an anonymous and undated version, found in the papers of Sir William Clarke, a military administrator. The article also explores the potential authors of the song, including Gerrard Winstanley and Robert Coster, and their connection to the Digger movement.

The article focuses on a letter dated November 11, 1585 from William Davison, the English ambassador to the Low Countries, to an unidentified recipient. It mentions the note argues that the letter was most likely addressed to Sir Christopher Hatton, shedding light on their patronage relationship and providing a valuable addition to Hatton's limited surviving papers. Topics explored include the recipient's profile, the close working relationship between Davison and Hatton.

The article explores the eighteenth-century newspaper war between journalist Mary Singleton of "The Old Maid" and Mr. Town of "The Connoisseur." Topics discussed include the documentation of the exchanges between Singleton and Mr. Town on issues such as competition and hypocrisy, the way Mr. Town published criticisms of Singleton in "The Connoisseur," and the response offered by Singleton about the involvement of single women in newspaper publishing.

The author presents a list of the sales of the art and books of English author William Blake between 1997 and 2016.

The article discusses about the Chairing the members, one of the William Hogarth's four paintings The Humours of an Election. It informs that the series describes an election which takes place in the mythic borough of Guzzledown, making it a satire on the manoeuvrings behind the 1754 General Election, particularly in the constituency of Oxfordshire.

The article focuses on William Barker's translation of Xenophon's Cyropaedia into English, examining his sources for the translation. It delves into Barker's use of not only Xenophon's Greek but also intermediaries in Latin and Italian, shedding light on his methods as a translator and their implications for Tudor translation and the reception of Greek in early modern England. The study reveals that his debt to Francesco Filelfo's Latin translation was more significant than previously thought.

The article focuses on John Moore, an 18th-century apothecary known for selling treatments for worm infections through sensational advertisements and satirical works like Alexander Pope's ballad. It delves into Moore's background, family, and the neighborhoods in London where he practiced, shedding light on his life beyond the mockery of his quackery.

The article focuses on the analysis of a Catholic manuscript compilation in Bodleian Libraries MS. Rawlinson 107 D, which contains various Catholic writings, including a life of Sir Thomas More, apologetical treatises, and a ballad. The author discusses the content, dating, and historical context of the manuscript, shedding light on the importance of these texts within the English Catholic community during the 16th century.

The article focuses on the discovery of a letter from Leonhard Euler, the Swiss mathematician, sent to Johann Daniel Schumacher, the head of administration at the Petersburg Academy of Sciences. It mentions letter, dating back to 1754, though not significant scientifically, sheds light on Euler's ongoing relationship with the Petersburg Academy during his time in Berlin, Germany revealing his role in recommending educators or companions for princes.

The article focuses on the publication history of a tract believed to be written by Francis Bacon. It discusses how the tract, originally attributed to Sir Francis Walsingham, was later reattributed to Bacon and examines the role of Thomas Powell in publishing it. The article suggests that Powell's printing of the tract provides valuable insights into its early dissemination, shedding light on its authorship and potential suppression by Bacon due to its outdated content on religious policy.

The author discusses possible copying errors on manuscripts of the play "A Yorkshire Tragedy" by Thomas Middleton. The author describes emendations based on the misreading of the ascenders of handwritten letters, and cites editors John Jowett and Stanley Wells' interpretation of the play. The debated scene is between a husband and an adulterous wife, and handwriting samples from Middleton's play "A Game of Chess" are described. Paper from the Jacobean era and the depictions of time and the murder of children in the play are also discussed.

The article focuses on Ares dual role as both god of war and lover of Aphrodite goes back to Homer. Topics include examines the first line of the epigram evokes the Iliad, where Ares fights on the battlefield; the second line, the Odyssey, in which Odysseus hears the story of how Hephaestus, the husband of Aphrodite, entrapped Ares in bed with his wife.

The article reports that the Italian scholar Scipione Lentolo, known in English as Lentulus completed several page history of the Waldensian church and its tribulations, the Historia delle grandi e crudeli persecutioni contra il popolo che chiamano valdese. Topics incldue examines this partisan yet scholarly account of the highly controversial Protestant community in the French and Italian Alps was over thirty years in the making and circulated early.

The article focuses on comprehensive catalogue of 1967 John Skelton: Canon and Census, Robert S. Kinsman and Theodore Yonge categorize the poem ‘On Time' among the ‘doubtful pieces.' It mentions Trinity College Dublin MS 661 is not well known and small sixteenth-century paper manuscript of 154 pages. It also mentions number of pieces, both prose and verse, which were current in the late Middle Ages and are registered in the standard indexes.

The article examines John Owen's Latin Epigrammata collection which went through numerous editions in the U.K. and Europe. Topics include Owen's adoption of common satiric practice of using pseudonyms or initials to identify the many names in his epigrams, the corrections made by multiple editors of Epigrammata to the identification of Sir Toby Matthew, and an analysis of text of epigram 8.38.

The author suggests the allusion of Ralph Ellison's novel "Invisible Man" to William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" specifically to the scene of Duncan's murder. Topics include the elements of Shakepeare's scene that further substantiate "Invisible Man's" crisis identity, the author's analysis of the knocking scene in both works, and his argument that Ellison uses "Macbeth" as a short-hand for white construction of blackness.

The article focuses on the confirmation that English novelist John Hampson Simpson is a convicted and incarcerated book thief in the past according to his close friend Walter Allen's memoirs. Topics include Allen's allusion to Hampson's troubled personal history in his 1981 memoir "As I Walked Down New Grub Street," the success of Hampson's novel "Saturday Night at the Greyhound" published by the Hogarth Press in 1931, and a background on Hampson and his family's life in Birmingham, England.

A list of new attributions of authorship of anonymous, pseudonymous or incompletely signed letters, articles, drawings, reviews, poems, obituaries and staff notes appearing in the "Gentleman's Magazine" during the years 1827-1830 is presented.

The article focuses on the stylized version of the decorative hedera symbol used by Cambridge University Library in England in transmitting the extant version of the Old English translation of Bede's book "Historia ecclesiastica." Topics include a description of the punctuation symbol as a triangle of dots above a comma, the appearance of the hedera in inscriptions of second-century B.C., and the use of the stylized hedera to separate major segments of the text in Old English translation.

The article focuses on a speech given by historian Thomas Carlyle during a meeting at the Freemasons' Tavern in 1840 wherein he urged the need for a lending library in London, England. Topics include the problems with British Museum according to Carlyle, the support gained by Carlyle from barrister William Dougal Christie leading to the creation of a Committee for a London Subscription Library and the unpublished letters they received stating desire to subscribe to the proposed London Library.

The article examines the origin of the tragicomic tale "The Luck of Roaring Camp" by Bret Harte. Topics include comment from biographer George Stewart about the sudden appearance of the short story, the connection between a speech given by orator Henry Whitney Bellows during the Society of California Pioneers' celebration of the anniversary of California's statehood in 1864 and Harte's breakout story, and Bellows' impressions of California which reverberate in Harte's fiction.

The article examines the unusual recycling of material in the late-15th-century Middle English manuscript "Oxford, Trinity College, MS 29" or "T." It mentions the focus of "T" on the universal history of the world. Among its manuscript and print sources are the print of "Polychronicon," the "Canterbury Tales," and the poem "Confessio Amantis" by John Gower. It describes the recycling of texts and materials in "T" as the frugality of medieval manuscript culture.

The article presents additional notes to the documentation of the 2014 book "Facts and Inventions: Selections From the Journalism of James Boswell." Topics discussed include the discovery of a paper about Highland Regiment mutineers described by Boswell in a letter to the periodical "Public Advertiser" on September 29, 1778, interest of the journalist in executions demonstrated in an August 1785 article, and the English political satire written by Boswell in 1770.

The article refers to a June 1753 letter written by English author Samuel Richardson to British poet Elizabeth Carter, as well as Carter's letter in response, which discuss the British Jewish naturalization Act of 1753. Richardson refers to a "little paper" which he included with his letter to Carter. The article argues that this was a pamphlet attributed to Philip Carteret Webb having the abbreviated title "The Bill, Permitting Jews to be Naturalized by Parliament, Having Been Misrepresented in the London Gazetteer, of Friday the 18th May."

The article focuses on a previously unknown episode in the career of physician and philosopher Walter Charleton (1619-1707) in which he was involved in a case concerning St. John the Baptist Hospital in Bath, England in 1667-68.

The article focuses on William Blundell and his writing of the first standalone "A history of the Isle of Man." The article explores the evidence supporting Blundell's authorship of the history and identifies three aspects suggesting his authorship such as thematic affinities between the History and Blundell's copious notes and correspondence, Blundell's intimacy with the Stanley family Lords of Man since 1405, and the similarity of the History to his other writings.

The article focuses on a fall 1926 incident involving Miriam Stephenson, a Lawrence College sophomore, who wrote a paper on George Bernard Shaw's 'philosophy and religion.' Shaw's response, a note calling her an "ingenious young liar" and suggesting a career in journalism, is examined. The topics include the incident itself, Shaw's unconventional response, and the implications for Stephenson's future, potentially in journalism.

The article discusses the life and accomplishments of 16th century English translator Thomas North. Topics explored include the commissioning of North as justice of the peace in Cambridgeshire, England in 1592, the recognition earned by North's translation of Plutarch's biographical work "Parallel Lives," and the honour of knighthood awarded to North on October 8, 1591.

The article discusses the way British writer J. H. Prynne dedicated his 2011 book "Kazoo Dreamboats; or, On What There Is" to the Jinling Patriots. Topics explored include the relevance of this dedicatory note, the decision of Prynne to use the cultural name of the Chinese city of Nanjing in his dedication, and the socio-political issues addressed by Prynne in the said book.

The article focuses on John Locke bequeathed his manuscripts to his relative Peter King with descendants, the earls of Lovelace, preserved these manuscripts until 1947. It mentions systematic catalogue of the smaller deposits of Locke's manuscripts in several other repositories remains a desideratum. It also mentions he subsequently arranged for its contents to be sent to his home in Oak Spring, Virginia.

The article focuses on June of 1662 Anglo-Welsh poet Katherine Philips accompanied her long-time friend Anne Lewis to Ireland after the latter's marriage to Marcus Trevor, Viscount Dungannon. It mentions demand for manuscript copies of her poems and translations most of which remained unprinted and increase in manuscript circulation of her poems. It also mentions print edition of Philips poems published by Richard Marriot.

The article reviews the Shell Series of the periodical "Gentleman's Magazine" from 1755-1759 contributed by French naturalist Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville.

The article lists the attributions of authorship of anonymous, pseudonymous, or incompletely signed letters, poems, articles, reviews, obituaries, drawings, and staff notes appearing in the Gentleman's Magazine during the years 1824–1826.

The article focuses on letters to Roden Noel, English poet, from cleric Frederic William Farrar, novelist Giovanni Ruffini and painter Anna Mary Howitt Watts. It informs that letters are in the Sheila and Terry Meyers Collection in Swem Library at the College of William and Mary. It also informs that the letters illustrate the social and literary connections.

The article focuses on Ambrose Barnes and John Milton left some papers with bold speculations on politics, including a call for England to be divided into self-governing republics. It mentions Surtees Society edition has attracted some attention from literary scholars because of its references to Barnes's relations by marriage. It also mentions Katherine Philips, who ‘was a woman of the times, and loved poetry better than presbytry and variety of republicanism.

The author examines the surviving manuscript "De Elementis" from Bury St Edmunds Abbey in England written around the middle of 12th-century. Topics include the identification of the author as one named Marius based on the manuscript's running head or page header, the author's suggestion that the manuscript was connected to an early 13th-century entry for a "Marius medicus" in the necrology of the church of San Matteo in Salerno, Italy, and arguments on the sources and ideas in the manuscript.

The article discusses and offers the text of the 1880s unpublished letters received by the British editor, social reformer and Methodist Sir Percy William Bunting from the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. The letters' topics, including the ethics of crime, violence in Ireland and the periodical "Contemporary Review," are discussed.

The article presents a letter from the mid-18th century, discovered among some family papers, written by Andrew Cowan and addressed to Francis Russel, which describes Lisbon, Portugal, following the 1755 earthquake.

The article explores the possible origins of the confusion over the identity of 16th century antiquarian Laurence Nowell and his first cousin, English churchman Laurence Nowell. Topics discussed include the appointment of the churchman Nowell as Dean of Lichfield until his death, the significant contribution of antiquarian Nowell to the field of cartography, and the enquiries made by antiquary Anthony Wood into the Nowell that also attended the University of Oxford in England.