Poem 49 of the Maitland Quarto Manuscript (1586)read by Ashley Douglas. More information and a transcript can be found at https://wee-windaes.nls.uk/the-maitland-quarto-and-poem-49/ . More from Ashley Douglas can be found at https://twitter.com/ashdouglasscot

Poem 49 of the Maitland Quarto Manuscript read by Ashley Douglas

Titulus ab editore inscriptus est "De imagine Pueri Iesu in sinu B. Virginis et eiusdem in cruce pendentis epigramma".
Nihil enim dicit de amore quo "ego" ardet et quem in prioribus epigrammatibus iam aperuit et edidit.
Hoc epigramma est inter carmina Marthae Marchinae mihi praelata; id Francogallice vertere me commovit.

Martha Marchina, Te gestare ulnis, Jesu...

Ōre mihi vultūque licet nōn nōta Camilla,
attamen ex doctor carmine nōta mihi es,
quod mihi Pieridum vātēs Phoebīque sacerdōs,
Carolus Utenhovus, sympatriōta dēdit.
Ille, meī columen, decus et pia cūra parentis,
haec mittenda suae carmina dūxit herae.

(Athough you are unknown to me, Camille, in face and appearance, yet you are known to me as a teacher through your poem, given to me by my fellow countryman, Charles Utenhove, the prophet of the Muses and priest of Apollo.  He, my father’s support, glory, and beloved pupil, thought that these poems should be sent to his mistress)
-From Scylla and Charybdis, p. 157, n. 15.

"Poem to Camille de Morel" by Jeanne Othon

Cet hymne plein d'esprit en l'honneur de la nouvelle Muse "Typographie" aurait été écrit par Camille de Morel, autrice du XVIème s. (fille de Jean Morel et amie, entre autres, de Du Bellay) d'après un poème grec de Jean Dorat. Il semble cependant que ce poème manque, la version que nous avons étant due à Florent Chrestien (voir sur Gallica: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k706095.image)

"Poem to Camille de Morel" by Jeanne Othon

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