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    Scurrilous manuscript that could have undone John Donne discovered

    Ostensibly a library catalogue in Latin, poet’s early work is in fact a string of smutty jokes about contemporary figures
    by Maev Kennedy Nov 03, 2017 2 minutes
    The keeper of the muniments, Matthew Payne, holding the manuscript in the Westminster Abbey library. Photograph: Alecsandra Raluca Dragoi for the Guardian

    A manuscript of an early work by John Donne, a scurrilous academic joke that could have cost the poet his reputation – and maybe his head – if it had fallen into the wrong hands, has been discovered in a trunk in the archives of Westminster Abbey.

    The manuscript may be the earliest surviving copy of what is ostensibly a library catalogue in Latin: the

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