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Uvrón | 26 comments Title: ΚΥΚΝΕΙΟΝ ΑΣΜΑ / CYGNEA CANTIO
Author: Joanne Lelando
ISBN: n/a
Publisher: An unnamed antiquarian's commentary on a slip of paper sits inside my copy: "Both the D.N.B. and BJr. Sayle assign the printing to R. "Wolfe; but I am inclined to believe it was printed by J. Herford."
Publication Date: 1545 (no month or day given)
Page count: 100
Format: My copy is in hardcover but I assume it's been rebound
Description: "A Latin poem in 699 lines in choriambic tetrameter, dedicated to Henry VIII, whose exploits are celebrated in the Song of a swan swimming between Oxford and Greenwich; elaborate notes in Latin prose on the places mentioned include quotations from eighty classical and mediaeval writers" (quote from "the JD.N.B.")
Language: Latin
Cover image: I've uploaded a photo, presumably not the original cover: https://www.goodreads.com/photo/user/...
Title page: https://www.goodreads.com/photo/user/...
Colophon: none in book


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