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StorageSiteUCL Special Collections
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Reference Number MS OGDEN/21
TitleTasso Manuscript
Date[Late 18th century]
DescriptionManuscript volume, perhaps late 18th century, containing "Aminte, Pastorale De Torquato Tasso; traducit; italien en franais par le sieur de la Brosse (a French translation from the Italian of Tasso Aminta, favola boscareccia , copied from a printed edition of 1591-1597).
Extent1 volume containing 172 folios
AdminHistoryTorquato Tasso: born in Sorrento, Naples, 1544; poet of the late Renaissance; died in Rome, 1595.
CustodialHistoryPart of the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), linguistic psychologist, founder of the Orthological Institute and originator of the language system Basic English, whose interests in language systems are reflected in the subject matter of his collection, which comprised individual manuscripts and manuscript collections dating from the 14th to the 20th century.
AcquisitionPart of the C K Ogden Library acquired by UCL in 1953.
AccessStatusOpen
AccessConditionsThe papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
FindingAidsHandlist at University College London Special Collections.
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