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Add MS 34888-34889
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- 032-002087892
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Paston Letters and Papers
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Correspondence and papers of members of the Paston family of Paston, Norfolk from the 15th century.
The present volumes, Additional MSS 34888 and 34889 contain correspondence published in volumes III and IV of Original Letters, edited by Sir John Fenn.
Additional MSS 43488, 43489, 43490 and 43491 contain the letters in Fenn's vols I and II.
Additional MSS 27443-27446 contain the letters in Fenn's vol. V.
Other material relating to the Paston family is found in Additional MSS 33597; 35251, ff. 24-25; 36988; 39848, 39849; 52410; Additional Charters 17217-17262. Papers relating to Fenn's edition are in Additional MSS 27452- 27455.
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- Western Manuscripts
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- Additional Manuscripts
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Add MS 34889 : Paston Letters and Papers
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A collection of letters and papers, bound together in 2 volumes
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- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 15th century
- Era:
- CE
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
William Paston (b. 1653/4, d. 1732) 2nd Earl of Yarmouth, by descent through the Paston family.
Peter le Neve (d. 1729), collector and antiquary, purchased by him from William Paston (see Gairdner, Paston Letters (1900) I, p. 4).
Thomas Martin (d. 1771), antiquary of Palgrave, acquired by him as executor of Peter le Neve (see Gairdner, Paston Letters (1900) I, p. 4).
John Worth, chemist of Diss, sold by him in 1774 to John Fenn (see Gairdner, Paston Letters (1900) I, p. 6).
John Fenn (b. 1739, d. 1794), antiquary, the 3rd and 4th of five volumes of Original Letters, written during the reigns of Henry VI, Edward IV and Richard III...., published together with material now in Additional MS 34889 (volume IV) in May 1789. (Volume I and II of Fenn's original series were published in 1787, are now bound as four volumes, Additional MSS 43488-43491) and Volume V was prepared by him but published in 1823 by his nephew, William Frere, after his death (now in Additional 27443-27446).
?John Frere (b. 1740, d. 1807), landowner and antiquary of Roydon Hall, brother-in-law of John Fenn and inheritor of his library, though his son, William Frere, was unable to find Fenn's manuscripts in the library in 1823 (see Davis, Paston Letters (2004), II, p. xxviii-xxx).
George Frere (b. 1821), F.R.S., by descent and found by him at Roydon Hall in c. 1870; each letter is stamped 'Roydon Hall Library', in his sale, Christies, 1888, sold to an unknown purchaser.
Bought by the British Museum from Bernard Quaritch, booksellsers, on 13th April, 1896.
- Publications:
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Original Letters, written during the reigns of Henry VI, Edward IV and Richard III..., ed. by John Fenn, 5 vols (London, Robinsons, 1787-1823), vols III and IV.
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1876-1881 (London: British Museum, 1882), p. 110.
The Paston Letters, 1422-1509 A.D., ed. by James Gairdner, 4 vols (Westminster, 1900-1901); 6 vols (London and Exeter, 1904).
H.S. Bennett, The Pastons and their England: Studies in an Age of Transition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1937).
Norman Davis, 'A Scribal Problem in the Paston Letters', English and Germanic Studies, 4 (1952), 31-64.
David Stoker, ''Innumerable letters of good consequence in history': the discovery and first publication of the Paston letters', The Library, 6th series 17 (1995), 107–55.
Colin Richmond, The Paston family in the fifteenth century, 3 vols (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996-2001).
The Paston women: Selected letters: trans. by Diane Watt (Cambridge; D.S. Brewer, 2004).
Paston Letters and Papers of the Fifteenth Century, ed. by Norman Davis, 3 vols, Early English Text Society, Supplementary Series, 20-22 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) [an edition of the texts in this and other manuscripts, with notes and additional bibliography].
Alexander Bergs, Social networks and historical sociolinguistics: Studies in morphosyntactic variation in the Paston letters, 1421-1503 (Berlin : Mouton de Gruyter, 2005).
Joel T. Rosenthal, Margaret Paston: ?1422-1484 (Dereham, Norfolk: Larks Press, 2009).
Jukka Tyrkkö, 'The positioning of adverbial clauses in the Paston letters' in Meaning in the history of English: Words and Texts in Context, ed. by Andreas H. Jucker and others, (Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing, 2013), pp. 211-28.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Paston, Family, 1378-1732
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From the printed Catalogue of Addtions (1967):
'CORRESPONDENCE and papers of the family of Paston, of Paston, co. Norfolk, during the reigns of Henry VI.-Henry VII., supplementing the collection in Add. MSS. 27,443-27,446
Add MS 34888 and 34889 contain in volumes III and IV of Original Letters, edited by Sir John Fenn, from which source they were reprinted by James Gairdner in his Paston Letters, 1872-1875, and also those of which abstracts alone are given by Gairdner in Appendix III. to the Paston Letters. The names of the writers are given in the index. Paper; ff. 221, 232. XVth cent. Belonged to John Tudor Frere, of Roydon Hall, Norfolk. Large Quarto.'