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Container Reference (shelfmark) Kings MS 1-446

211. Kings MS 296

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Kings MS 296
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M. ANNAEI LUCANI Pharsalia, Liber I, translated into English verse by Nicholas Rowe. The latter's name does not appear, but, with the exception of the first few lines, the MS. agrees with his version, printed in 1710. It is not autograph. Beg. 'The slaughter of Emathia's purple plain'. Paper ; f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
1 item

212. Kings MS 297

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Kings MS 297
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'TH'ENTERLUDE of Youth ': transcript of the edition 'Imprinted at London by John Waley' [1557], made by John Henderson, actor (see sale-cat. Feb. 1786, lot 661). Paper; ff. 12.. Quarto. 87/4. in. x 71/4 in. XVIII cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

213. Kings MS 298

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Kings MS 298
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'A NEW AND MERY ENTERLUDE, called the Triall of Treasure, newly set foorth', &c.: transcript by John Henderson (sale-cat. lot 696) from Malone's imperfect copy (now in the Bodleian, it wants its last leaf) of the earliest edition imprinted at London ... by Thomas Purfoote, 1567'. Paper; ff....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

214. Kings MS 299

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Kings MS 299
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'A NEWE MERY AND WITTIE COMEDIE or Enterlude, newely imprinted, treating vpon the Historie of Iacob and Esau': transcript by John Henderson (sale-cat. lot 662) Of the edition 'imprinted at London by Henrie Bynneman ... 1568'. Paper; ff. 28. Quarto. 81/2 in. x 71/4 in. XVIII cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

215. Kings MS 300

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Kings MS 300
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'A PRETIE and mery new Enterlude : called the Disobedient Child. Compiled by Thomas Ingelend late Student in Cambridge': transcript by John Henderson (sale-cat. lot 852) from the edition 'imprinted at London ... by Thomas Colwell' [1570?]. Paper; ff. 30. Quarto. 83/4 in. x 71/4 in. XVIII cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

216. Kings MS 301

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Kings MS 301
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'THE ISLANDERS, or Mad-Orphan', by John O'Kelly, of the Inner Temple : comedy in five acts, the scene being laid in Jamaica, with prologue and epilogue to the Prince and Princess of Wales [George, afterwards George II, and his wife Wilhelmine Caroline, d. 1737]. Characters, Col. Blithe, Triffler...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

217. Kings MS 302

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Kings MS 302
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'THE CONTRAST, a comedy', in five acts. Ascribed in the sale-catalogue of the library of John Ker, 3rd Duke of Roxburghe, in 1812, 1Ot 5624, to J Phipps. Characters, Lovegold, Doating, Heartwell Sen. and jun., Lady Trulove, Clarinda, Celia, &c. Apparently autograph. Paper; ff. 73. Quarto. 9 ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

218. Kings MS 303

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Kings MS 303
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THE SYCOPHANT, a comedy', in five acts; with the alternative title 'The Phylanthropist' (ff. 47 b, 60b, 75 b). Ascribed in the Roxburghe Catalogue, lot 5626, to J- Phipps, and in the same hand as 302. Characters, Lord Kingly, his son, Smoothly, Meanwell, Lady Kingly, Cecilia Tradewell, Mrs. Haza...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

219. Kings MS 304

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Kings MS 304
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'THE IMPORTANT DISCOVERY, a comedy from The King and no King of Beaumont and Fletcher', in five acts. Ascribed in the Roxburghe Catalogue, lot 5625 (cf nos. 302, 303), to J- Phipps, Paper; ff. 124. Quarto. 91/2 in. x 71/2 in. XVIII cent. Stamp of the Roxburghe arms on f. 3 b.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

220. Kings MS 305

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Kings MS 305
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'COUNT EDMUND, or the Unhappy Marriage', a tragedy in five acts [by Horace Walpole Earl of Orford 1791], generally known as 'The Mysterious Mother' and printed under that title at Strawberry Hill, 1768. Preceded (f. 1) by a 'Postscript to the Mysterious Mother' (somewhat amplified at the end of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item