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Add MS 61821
- Record Id:
- 032-001962056
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001962056
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000055.0x0000b3
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100148013780.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 61821
- Title:
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Sir Philip Sidney, ‘The Old Arcadia’ and ‘The Lady of May’
- Scope & Content:
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Copy of the first version of the pastoral romance ‘The Arcadia’, composed by Sir Philip Sidney, author and courtier (1554-1586), between c. 1577 and c. 1580, and first published in 1590. With ‘The Lady of May’, an entertainment written for the visit of Queen Elizabeth I to Wanstead House in May 1578 or 1579.
ff. 2r-140v: Sir Philip Sidney, ‘The Old Arcadia’. Untitled.
f. 24r: ‘Incomparable’ underlined, alongside a marginal note: ‘thus farr is coppid out’.
f. 25v: Marginal note: ‘a lefe is wanting’.
f. 32v: Marginal note: ‘leaves wanting’.
ff. 142v-146r: Sir Philip Sidney, ‘The Lady of May’. Untitled. With a final address by Rombus not present in the 1598 printed edition.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001962056
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-001962056
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100148013780.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1578
- End Date:
- 1599
- Date Range:
- Late 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- England.
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper. At least two stocks of paper made by Nicolas Lebé of Troyes, two similar to Briquet 8079 and 8081 (1651-1602).
Dimensions: 323 x 220 mm.
Foliation: ff. vii + 147.
Binding: Post-1600. Early 17th-century binding of brown calf on boards, spine rebacked, edges gilt-tooled and gauffered, covers having gilt panels with arabesque centrepiece and corner-pieces, and two holes for ties. Around the centrepiece are the blind-tooled initials ‘S L T’, Sir Lionel Tollemache, first Baronet Tollemache (1562- c. 1612), or Sir Lionel Tollemache, second Baronet Tollemache (1591-1640).
Script: Secretary, italic.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Sir Lionel Tollemache, first Baronet Tollemache (1562-c. 1612), or Sir Lionel Tollemache, second Baronet Tollemache (1591-1640): his initialed binding.
Formerly in the library at Helmingham Hall, Suffolk: press mark (f.i).
John Edward Hamilton Tollemache, fourth Baron Tollemache (1910-1975): his sale, Sotheby’s, 6 June 1961 (lot 426).
Arthur A. Houghton Jr (1906-1990): his bookplates (front cover and folder)l his sale, Christie’s, 12 June 1980 (lot 426).
Purchased by the British Library in 1980.
- Publications:
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The British Library Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts, New Series 1976-1980, Part 1: Descriptions (London: British Library, 1995), pp. 282-83.
Peter Beal, 'Additional MS 61821', Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450-1700, online: http://www.celm-ms.org.uk/repositories/british-library-additional-60000.html [accessed 11 February 2019].
Charles Moise Briquet, Les Filigranes: Dictionnaire historique des marques du papier, ed. Allan Stevenson, 4 vols. (Amsterdam: Paper Publications Society, 1968).
Historical Manuscripts Commission, First Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts (London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1874), Appendix, p. 61.
Katherine Duncan-Jones and Jan van Dorsten, eds., Miscellaneous Prose of Sir Philip Sidney (Oxford: Clarendon, 1973).
Robert Kimbrough and Philip Murphy, ‘The Helmingham Hall Manuscript of Sidney’s “The Lady of May”: A Commentary and Transcription’, Renaissance Drama, n.s., 1 (1968), 103-19.
William A. Ringler, ed., The Poems of Sir Philip Sidney (Oxford: Clarendon, 1962), pp. x-xii.
Jean Robertson, ed., Sir Philip Sidney: The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia (Oxford: Clarendon, 1973).
Sir Philip Sidney, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia. Written by Sir Philip Sidney Knight. Now the third time published, with sundry new additions of the same Author (London: William Ponsonby, 1598).
H.R. Woudhuysen, Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts, 1558-1640 (Oxford: Clarendon, 1996), pp. 394-95.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)