CHELYS POIKILOCHERYS, or, a collection of miscellany poems, consisting of originals, translations, & paraphrases, 1729-1758? | Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

CHELYS POIKILOCHERYS, or, a collection of miscellany poems, consisting of originals, translations, & paraphrases is a single 250-page volume.

This volume (250 pages) includes letters and poems on a variety of topics, including Biblical texts, death and dying, and friendship. The poems, written in English, Latin, Greek, and French, are both original compositions and transcriptions.

Massey W. (William) (1691-1764?)

William Massey (1691-1764?) was an English Quaker, scholar, teacher, and translator. He studied Latin, Greek, and French in grammar school at Nottingham under William Thompson. From 1712 to 1715, he was a Latin usher at a boarding school at Half-Farthing House, Wandsworth, Surry, under Richard Soryer (1712-1714) and Edward Powell (1714-1715). He later ran his own Quaker boarding school at Wandsworth.

Massey published works on topics such as religion, ancient philosophy, and commentaries on contemporary works. His best-known work, The Origin and Progress of Letters, an Essay (1763) concerns the history of writing, including materials, printing, alphabets, and calligraphy.

Source

Thompson Cooper. "Massey, William (1691-1764?)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. Accessed May 10, 2016. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/18300.

Author: Emily Minehart

Bible - English
Bible - Latin
Death
Philosophy, Ancient

English
French
Latin
Greek,Ancient(to1453)