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Add MS 34063
- Record Id:
- 032-002025029
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002025029
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000054.0x000117
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100155062352.0x000001
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- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 34063
- Title:
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George Gascoigne and Francis Kinwelmersh, ‘Jocasta’
- Scope & Content:
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Scribal presentation copy of the Inns of Court drama Jocasta, a tragedy in blank verse attributed to George Gascoigne (1534/5?–1577), author and soldier, and Francis Kinwelmersh [Kinwelmershe, Kindlemarsh], (bap. 1538), poet.
First performed during the Gray’s Inn Christmas to Lent revels in 1566. Printed in A hundreth sundrie flowres bounde up in one small poesie [1573]. Translated from the 1549 Aldine edition of Giocasta, Lodovico Dolce’s Italian adaptation of Euripides’ Phoenissae (Cunliffe, 1906, p. 126).
With an epilogue by Christopher Yelverton (1536/7–1612), later judge and speaker of the House of Commons.
f. 1r: Title page: ‘Jocasta A tragedie written in Greke by Euripedes translated and digested into Acte by George Gascoign and Fraunces Kynwelmershe of Grays ynne 1566’. With the signature, motto and dating ‘68’, of Roger North, 2nd Baron North (1530-1600).
f. 1v: Character list, titled ‘The names of the Interloquutors’.
f. 2r: Description of the dumb shows, titled ‘The ordre of the doome shewes & Musickes before every acte’.
ff. 2r-8r: Act 1, with a note ‘Donne by F. Kynwelmarshe’.
f. 8r-8v: Description of a dumb show, titled ‘Th’ordre of the second dome shew’.
ff. 8v-17v: Act 2, with a note ‘Donne by G. Gascoigne’.
f. 18r: Description of a dumb show, titled ‘Th’ordre of the third doome shew’.
ff. 18r-23v: Act 3, with a note ‘Doon by G. Gascoigne’.
f. 24r: Description of a dumb show, titled ‘Th’ordre of the fourth doome shew’.
ff. 24r-30r: Act 4, with a note ‘Donne by F. Kinwelmarshe’.
f. 30r: Description of a dumb show, titled ‘Th’ordre of the last doome shewe’.
ff. 30v-38v: Act 5, with a note ‘Don by G. Gascoigne’.
f. 38v: Epilogue, with a note ‘Finis Epilogi, don by Chr: yelverton’, i.e. Christopher Yelverton (1536/7–1612), later judge and speaker of the House of Commons.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002025029
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002025029
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100155062352.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1566
- End Date:
- 1566
- Date Range:
- 1566
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- England
- Access:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 315 x 205 mm.
Foliation: ff. vii + 38. Two stubs between ff. 14-15 and ff. 28-29.
Binding: Vellum, with holes for ties. Pre-1600.
Script: Secretary, italic.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Roger North, 2nd Baron North (1530-1600): former owner, his motto and signature on f. 1r and family bookplate on front flyleaf.
F. W. Cosens (1819-1889), book collector: former owner, his bookplate on front flyleaf.
Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), antiquary: former owner, his sale, Sotheby’s, 18 June 1844 (Lot. 104).
Thomas Thorpe (1791-1851), bookseller: former owner, purchased at Bright’s sale, 1844, his bookselling marks and price of sale on the top left of the front flyleaf.
Thomas Corser (1793-1876), literary scholar and Church of England clergyman: former owner, listed in his Collectanea Anglo-Poetica (1877), pp. 452-55.
Purchased by the British Museum from Jarvis and Son, 15 June 1891.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the years 1888-1893 (London: British Museum, 1894), p. 183.
'Additional MS 34064', Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450-1700, ed. Peter Beal, online: http://www.celm-ms.org.uk/repositories/british-library-additional-30000.html#british-library-additional-30000_id661713 [accessed 24 October 2019].
Austen, Gillian, George Gascoigne (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2008).
Corser, Thomas, and James Crossley, Collectanea Anglo-Poetica: or, A Bibliographical and Descriptive Catalogue of a Portion of a Collection of Early English Poetry, vol. 100 (Manchester: Chetham Society Publications, 1877), pp. 452-55.
Child, Francis J., ed., Four Old Plays: Three Interludes: Thersytes, Jack Jugler, and Heywood’s Pardoner and Frere: and Jocasta a Tragedy by Gascoigne and Kinwelmarsh (Cambridge: George Nichols, 1848), pp. 129-260.
Gascoigne, George, A hundreth sundrie flowres bounde up in one small poesie (London: [Henry Bynneman and Henry Middleton] for Richard Smith, [1573]).
Gascoigne, George, A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres, ed. G.W. Pigman III (Oxford: Clarendon, 2000), pp. 59-140.
Gascoigne, George, A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres, ed. C.T. Prouty (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1942).
Gascoigne, George, The Complete Poems of George Gascoigne, ed. W.C. Hazlitt, 2 vols (London: Printed for the Roxburghe Library, 1869), vol. 1, p. vi.
Gascoigne, George, The Complete Works of George Gascoigne, ed. John W. Cunliffe, 2 vols (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1907-1910), vol. 1, pp. 244-324.
Gascoigne, George, Supposes and Jocasta, ed. John W. Cunliffe (Boston and London: D.C. Heath & Co., 1906), pp. 127-418.
Heaton, Gabriel, ‘The Queen and the Hermit: The “Tale of Hemetes” (1575)’, in Elizabeth I and the Culture of Writing, ed. Peter Beal and Grace Ioppolo (London: The British Library, 2007) pp. 87-114.
Prouty, C.T., George Gascoigne: Elizabethan Courtier, Soldier and Poet (New York: Columbia University Press, 1942).
Ward, B.M., ‘George Gascoigne and his Circle’, The Review of English Studies, vol. 2, issue 5 (January 1926), 32-41.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)