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Add MS 41204
- Record Id:
- 032-002093176
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002093176
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000051.0x0003d5
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100152734267.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 41204
- Title:
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Sir Philip Sidney, The Old Arcadia (‘Davies 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. Known as the ‘Davies MS’.
f. i verso: Signature of Thomas Martin (1697-1771), antiquary and former owner.
f. ii recto: Title in the hand of Martin: ‘Sir Philip Sydneys Arcadia, A Romance &c In Prose, & Verse. Containing 190 Folios, fairly written, on paper’.
f. ii recto: Note of Charles Brietzcke (d. 1794), clerk in the Secretary of State’s Office and former owner: ‘I bought this Book out of the Collection of the Late Antiquary Mr Martin of Palsgrave Suffolk. Charles Brietzcke 18th May 1774’.
ff. 1r-190v: Sir Philip Sidney, ‘The Old Arcadia’. Untitled. Beginning ‘The first booke or acte / Arcadia, amonge all the Provinces of Greece’, and ending ‘where with mine is all ready dulled’.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002093176
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002093176
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100152734267.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1560
- End Date:
- 1599
- Date Range:
- Late 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- England.
- 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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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 290 x 180 mm.
Foliation: ff. vi + 190.
Binding: Post-1600. Binding by John Bumpus.
Script: Two scribal secretary hands: see Woudhuysen, Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts (1996), pp. 396-97.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Thomas Martin (1697-1771), antiquary: former owner, his signature on the verso of f. i, and his title on the recto of f. ii. Catalogue of his library, 1772, no. 270. Sold at his sale, 5 June 1773, lot 4543.
Charles Brietzcke (d. 1794), clerk in the Secretary of State’s Office: former owner, his inscription on the recto of f. ii, purchased 18 May 1774.
Miss Mary E. Davies, of Wedderburn House, Hampstead: former owner, presented to the British Museum on 18 May 1925.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1921-1925 (London: British Library, 1950), pp. 272-73.
‘Add MS 41204’, Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450-1700, ed. Peter Beal, online: http://www.celm-ms.org.uk/repositories/british-library-additional-40000.html [accessed 04 November 2019].
Ringler, William A., ed., The Poems of Sir Philip Sidney (Oxford: Clarendon, 1962), p. 526.
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).
Woudhuysen, H.R., Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts, 1558-1640 (Oxford: Clarendon, 1996), pp. 396-97.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)