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Add MS 21432
- Record Id:
- 032-002033824
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002033824
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000043.0x000220
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100151953382.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 21432
- Title:
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George Peele, 'Anglorum Feriæ'
- Scope & Content:
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Autograph presentation manuscript titled ‘Anglorum Feriæ, Englandes Hollydayes, celebrated the 17th of November last, 1595, beginninge happyly the 38 Yeare of the raigne of our Soveraigne Ladie Queene Elizabeth. By George Peele Master of arte in Oxforde’.
Narrative verse description of the Accession Day tilt held at the Whitehall tiltyard on 17 November 1595, by George Peele (bap. 1556, d. 1596), poet and playwright. Contains a dedication to Catherine Hastings, wife of Henry, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon (f. 1v).
Participants described include: George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland (1558-1605); Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex (1565-1601); Robert Radcliffe, 5th Earl of Sussex (1573-1629); Edward Russell, 3rd Earl of Bedford (1572-1627); Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton (1573-1624); George Carew, later Earl of Totnes (1555-1629); Sir Robert Dudley (1574-1649); Sir Dru Drury, Gentleman Usher of the Privy Chamber (1531/2-1617); Sir Andrew Noel (c. 1552-1607); Robert Needham, of Shenton; Sir James Scudamore (bap. 1568, d. 1619); Charles Blount, 8th Baron Mountjoy (1563-1606); Sir George Carey (c. 1541-1616).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002033824
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002033824
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100151953382.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1595
- End Date:
- 1595
- Date Range:
- 1595
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
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Letter of introduction required to consult this manuscript.
- Physical Characteristics:
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Damaged in the 19th century by a corrosive substance, obscuring the upper half of all pages.
Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 140 x 129mm.
Foliation: ff. ii + 11.
Binding: Post-1600. British Museum.
Script: Secretary hand of George Peele.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
W. Stephenson Fitch of Ipswich: Former owner.
Purchased at Sotheby’s, 23 May 1856, lot 296.
- Publications:
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Peter Beal, 'Additional MS 21432', Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450-1700, online: http://www.celm-ms.org.uk/repositories/british-library-additional-20000.html#british-library-additional-20000_id678924 [accessed 21 December 2018].
A.R. Braunmuller, ‘Entertainments for Court and City’, in George Peele (Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1983).
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1854-1890 (London: British Museum, 1875), p. 382.
Rev. Alexander Dyce, ed. ‘Anglorum Feriæ’, in The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Robert Greene and George Peele (London: George Routledge and Sons, 1861), pp. 591-98.
W. Stephenson Fitch, ed. Anglorum Feriæ. Englande’s hollydayes celebrated the 17th of Novemb. last, 1595, beginninge happyly the 38 yeare of the raigne of our Soveraigne Ladie Queen Elizabeth (Ipswich: privately printed by R. Root, 1830).
John Nichols's The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth, ed. by Elizabeth Goldring, Faith Eales, Elizabeth Clarke, and Jayne Elisabeth Archer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), vol. 3, p. 862.
Historic Manuscripts Commission, Report on Manuscripts in Various Collections (London: 1907), vol. 4, pp. 163-164: List of participants at the 1595 Accession Day tilt.
D.H. Horne, ed. ‘Anglorum Feriæ’, in The Life and Works of George Peele, general ed. Charles Tyler Prouty (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1952-70) vol. 1, pp. 265-76.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)