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Collection Area Western Manuscripts Archive Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 60273-60285 Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. Add MS 60273

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CASTLE ASHBY MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. I. 'The Banished Shepherdess', a pastoral drama in five acts; circa 1660. Another autograph version is in the Huntington Library. ff. ii+44. 295 x 200mm.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1660
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 60273-60275

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CASTLE ASHBY MANUSCRIPTS. Vols. I-III. Cosmo Manucci or Manuche: plays in blank verse; circa 1660-1665, n.d. Autograph presentation copies, with prose dedications to James Compton, 3rd Earl of Northampton. Three volumes.
Scope & Content:
Drama: Cosmo Manucci, alias Manuche: James Compton, 3rd Earl of Northampton: Plays by Cosmo Manucci, dedicated to Lord Northampton: circa 1660-1665: Autogr. copies.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1660-1665
Extent:
3 items

3. Add MS 60273-60285

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CASTLE ASHBY MANUSCRIPTS
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Literary and other manuscripts from the library of the Earls and Marquesses of Northampton at Castle Ashby; 17th cent. See W. P. Williams, 'The Castle Ashby Manuscripts: a Description of the Volumes in Bishop Percy's List', The Library, ii (1980), pp. 391-412, and W. H. Kelliher, 'A Hitherto Unr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
13 items

4. Add MS 60274

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CASTLE ASHBY MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. II. 'The Feast', a comedy in five acts; circa 1664. Another (scribal) version is in the Library of Worcester College, Oxford. Kept with Add. 60283. Heraldic bookplate of Charles, 3rd Marquess of Northampton, f. i. ff. vi+41. 300 x 195mm. includes: f. i Bookpl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1664
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 60275

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CASTLE ASHBY MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. III. 'Love in Travel', a comedy in five acts; possibly after 1664. ff. i+47. 295 x 190mm.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
after 1664
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 60276

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CASTLE ASHBY MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. IV. Notebook comprising autograph fair copies and drafts of plays and poems; circa 1648. ff. i+85. 185 x 145mm. Lower cover of vellum. 1. ff. 1-31. Translation of Nicholas Caussin's Latin prose drama Hermenigildus (1620); n.d. 2. ff. 43-45. Drafts of satirical ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1648
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 60276-60282

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CASTLE ASHBY MANUSCRIPTS. Vols. IV-X. James Compton, 3rd Earl of Northampton: literary notebooks; circa 1646-1666. Largely autograph, with some scribal fair copies. Seven volumes.
Scope & Content:
Drama: Poetry ENGLISH: James Compton, 3rd Earl of Northampton: Literary notebooks of 3rd Earl of Northampton: circa 1646-1666: Mostly autogr.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1646-1666
Extent:
7 items

8. Add MS 60277

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CASTLE ASHBY MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. V. Notebook comprising partly autograph fair copies of the Senecan translations also found in Add. 60276, ff. 49-81v. ff. 45. 305 x 200mm. Lucius Annaeus Seneca, the younger; philosopher and statesman: `Agamemnon' and `Hercules Furens' of Lucius Annaeus Seneca: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1646-1666
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 60278

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CASTLE ASHBY MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. VI. Notebook comprising autograph drafts and scribal fair copies of plays and translations; after 1650 and 1655. ff. ii+40. 300 x 180mm. Vellum binding with two thongs. 1. ff. 5v-21v. The Mandrake, an adaptation of Machiavelli's prose comedy La Mandragola; afte...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1650-1655
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 60279

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CASTLE ASHBY MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. VII. Notebook comprising a scribal fair copy with authorial corrections of [Leontius, King of Cyprus]; n.d. Slightly imperfect. ff. 32. 295 x 190mm.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1646-1666
Extent:
1 item