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- Record Id:
- 032-002087779
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002087779
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000052.0x0003ac
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100155062480.0x000001
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 34791
- Title:
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William Forrest, ‘The History of the Patriarch Joseph’
- Scope & Content:
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Poem by William Forrest (fl. 1530–1576), poet and possible chaplain to Queen Mary I, on the history of Joseph. With a dedicatory preface addressed to William Parr, later marquess of Northampton (1513–1571), nobleman and courtier. In twenty-three chapters, each with a brief argument in prose.
In a later version finished in 1569 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Eng. poet. d. 9), Forrest states that the book was originally composed twenty-two years before, suggesting that the present manuscript, c. 1547, contains its earlier form (see Wort, ‘Dating William Forrest’s “The History of the Patriarch Joseph”’, 2017).
The preface contains references to Chaucer, Gower, Lydgate and ‘my frende [John] Heywode’. Of the last, Forrest writes ‘For learnynge Heywoode and I be neare one, But for conveyaunce of a fyne sentence He shall have my prayse of all to Rome hense’.
Illustrated with decorative engrossed initials.
ff. 1r-3r: Preface, addressed to William Parr, later marquess of Northampton (1513–1571), nobleman and courtier.
ff. 3r-4r: ‘Thargument in the maters folowinge’.
f. 4r-4v: ‘An Invocat[i]on to god for his helpe with an Admyrat[i]on of his warkes’.
ff. 5r-116v: The History of the Patriarch Joseph.
f. 116v: ‘An Exaltation’.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002087779
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002087779
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100155062480.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1542
- End Date:
- 1552
- Date Range:
- c 1547
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- England.
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 140 x 195 mm.
Foliation: ff. v + 116.
Binding: Post-1600. Green morocco.
Script: Secretary.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Margaret Salusbury: former owner, her 16th century signature (f. 1), under which is written ‘Margarett Salusbury of the Castle, my great-grandmother’. This cannot refer to Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, since she was executed in 1542, two years before Parr became ‘Earle of Eatsex’ as Forrest describes him (Wort, ‘Dating William Forrest’s “The History of the Patriarch Joseph”’, 2017).
‘L.L.’: former owner, their bookplate (f. 1).
Purchased by the British Museum from Messrs. Sotheran, 30 April 1895.
- Information About Copies:
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Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Eng. poet. d. 9: copy of another version, dated 1569.
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS University College 88: revised copy of the first part of the 1569 version, c. 1571.
British Library Royal MS 18 C XIII: revised copy of the second part of the 1569 version, c. 1571.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the years 1894-1899 (London: British Museum, 1901), p. 87.
Wort, Oliver, ‘Dating William Forrest’s “The History of the Patriarch Joseph”’, Philological Quarterly, 96, issue 2 (2017), 203-18.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)