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Add MS 38892
- Record Id:
- 032-002058256
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002058256
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000039.0x0002ce
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100155062999.0x000001
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 38892
- Title:
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Sir Philip Sidney, The Old Arcadia (‘Phillipps MS’)
- 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. Previously owned by Sir John Harington (bap. 1560, d. 1612), courtier and author, and partly in his hand.
ff. i-ii: Notes and inscriptions, including pasted Phillipps MS number (9610), and note of purchase from Bertram Dobell (1842–1914), bookseller and literary scholar.
ff. 1r-202v: Sir Philip Sidney, ‘The Old Arcadia’. Titled ‘A treatis made by Sir Phillip Sydney Knyght of certeyn accidents in Arcadia. made in the yeer 1580 and emparted to some few of his frends in his lyfe tyme and to more sence his unfortunat deceasse’. Beginning ‘Arcadia amonge all the Provinces of Greece’, and ending ‘longe to kepe it without perishing great quantyty of’.
Incomplete; missing a final page.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002058256
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002058256
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100155062999.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1585
- End Date:
- 1595
- Date Range:
- c. 1590
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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Letter of introduction required to consult this manuscript.
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper. Two stocks, possibly Briquet 7057 and 9380: see Woudhuysen, Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts (1996), pp. 397-99.
Dimensions: 225 x 165 mm.
Foliation: ff. i + 202.
Binding: Pre-1600. Vellum.
Script: Three hands, including that of Sir John Harington (bap. 1560, d. 1612), courtier and author, and possibly those of Francis Harington and Thomas Combe: Croft, ‘Sir John Harington’s Manuscript of Sir Philip Sidney’s “Arcadia”’ (1983); Kilroy, ‘Advertising the Reader’ (2011).
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Sir John Harington (bap. 1560, d. 1612), courtier and author: former owner.
Richard Heber (1774–1833), book collector: former owner, sold through R.H. Evans, 10 February 1836 (lot 1433).
Thomas Thorpe (1791-1851), bookseller: former owner, advertised for sale at £3 13s. 6d. as item 1171 in a catalogue of 1836.
Sir Thomas Phillipps, baronet (1792–1872), collector of books and manuscripts: former owner (Phillipps MS 9610, see f. i). Sold for £119 at his Sotheby’s sale, 15 June 1908 (lot 677).
Bertram Dobell (1842–1914), bookseller and literary scholar: former owner between 1908 and 1914.
Purchased by the British Museum, 25 July 1914 (f. ii).
- Former External References:
- Phillipps MS 9610
- Publications:
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Catalogue of the Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1911-1915, Part 1: Descriptions (London: British Museum, 1924), pp. 328-29.
'Additional MS 38892', Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450-1700, ed. Peter Beal, online: http://www.celm-ms.org.uk/repositories/british-library-additional-35000.html [accessed 4 November 2019].
Briquet, Charles Moise, Les Filigranes: Dictionnaire historique des marques du papier, ed. Allan Stevenson, 4 vols. (Amsterdam: Paper Publications Society, 1968).
Croft, P.J., ‘Sir John Harington’s Manuscript of Sir Philip Sidney’s “Arcadia”’, in Literary Autographs: Papers Read at a Clark Library Seminar, 26 April 1980, ed. Stephen Parks and P.J. Croft (Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 1983), pp. 37-75.
Gouws, John, ‘Sidney's “Old” Arcadia as Polymorphous Text: A Case Study of the Phillipps Manuscript’, Text, 17 (2005), 93-116.
Kilroy, Gerald, ‘Advertising the Reader: Sir John Harington’s “Directions in the Margent”’, English Literary Renaissance, 41, no. 1 (2011), 64-110.
Ringler, William A., ed., The Poems of Sir Philip Sidney (Oxford: Clarendon, 1962), pp. 526-27.
Robertson, Jean, ed., Sir Philip Sidney: The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia (Oxford: Clarendon, 1973).
Sidney, Sir Philip, 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).
Thorpe, Thomas, Catalogue of Upwards of Fourteen Hundred Manuscripts (London: Thomas Thorpe, 1836).
Woudhuysen, H.R., Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts, 1558-1640 (Oxford: Clarendon, 1996), pp. 397-99.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)