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Add MS 18920
- Record Id:
- 032-002095541
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002095541
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000041.0x00000d
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100152732228.0x000001
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- ISAD(G)
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- Add MS 18920
- Title:
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John Harington, translation of ‘Orlando Furioso’
- Scope & Content:
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English translation of Cantos 14-46 of ‘Orlando Furioso’, by Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533). Translated by Sir John Harington, courtier and author (bap. 1560, d. 1612).
This copy, in Harington’s handwriting, was used for the original print edition of the work by Richard Field in 1591. With corrections and pasted alterations, as well as instructions to the printer.
ff. 1r-11v: Ludovico Ariosto, ‘Orlando Furioso’, Canto 14, translated by Sir John Harington. Beginning ‘Among the feerse assalts, and crewell bloes’.
ff. 12r-20v: Canto 15, beginning ‘To win the feeld agaynst owr armed foes’.
ff. 20v-27r: Canto 16, beginning ‘Great payns in love full many men have fownd’.
ff. 27r-36r: Canto 17, beginning ‘The most just God, when once mans sins do grow’.
ff. 36r-45v: Canto 18, beginning ‘Most worthy prince yow vyrtues hyghe and rare’.
ff. 46r-53r: Canto 19, beginning ‘None can deem ryght who faythfull frends do rest’.
ff. 53r-63r: Canto 20, beginning ‘Marvelous deedes by dyvers dames wear donne’.
ff. 64v-71v: Canto 21, beginning ‘Neyther camme Iron nayles make fast a boord’.
ff. 72r-79v: Canto 22, beginning ‘Yee cowrtly dams that are bothe kynde and trew’.
ff. 80r-90v: Canto 23, beginning ‘Let evry one do all the good they can’.
ff. 91r-100v: Canto 24, beginning ‘Hee, that on loves blynde snares once setts his foot’.
ff. 100v-108v: Canto 25, beginning ‘Great ys the stryfe that grows in yowthfull mynde’.
ff. 108v-118v: Canto 26, beginning ‘Ryght worthy dames thear wear in tymes of olde’.
ff. 119r-130r: Canto 27, beginning ‘Among the many rare and speciall guyftes’.
ff. 130r-140r: Canto 28, beginning ‘Ladyes, and yee that Ladyes howld in pryse’.
ff. 140r-147v: Canto 29, beginning ‘Oh myndes of men, unconstant, and unstable’.
ff. 148r-157r: Canto 30, beginning ‘When men with wrath and sudden pangs of yre’.
ff. 157v-166v: Canto 31, beginning ‘What state of lyfe, more pleasing cowld wee fynde’.
ff. 167r-178v: Canto 32, beginning ‘Now I remember how by promis bownd’.
ff. 179r-193v: Canto 33, beginning ‘Tymagoras, Parrhasius Polygnote’.
ff. 194r-204r: Canto 34, beginning ‘Oh fowle Harpyas, greedy hungerstarved’.
ff. 204v-212v: Canto 35, beginning ‘Mistres, who shall for mee, to heavn up fly’.
ff. 213r-221v: Canto 36, beginning ‘Tys meet a gentle hart showld ever shew’.
ff. 221v-233v: Canto 37, beginning ‘Yf worthy Ladyes would but take soch payn’.
ff. 234r-243r: Canto 38, beginning ‘Fayr Ladyes, that with gracious ear doe heer’.
ff. 243v-252r: Canto 39, beginning ‘What tongue can tell? or learned men expresse?’
ff. 252v-260r: Canto 40, beginning ‘Twear longe my Lord to tell of all that fought’.
ff. 261r-270r: Canto 41, beginning ‘That Odor sweet, whearwith an ammorous Yowthe’.
ff. 271r-279r: Canto 42, beginning ‘What Iron band, or what sharp hard mowthd bit’.
ff. 280r-297v: Canto 43, beginning ‘O curst, o greedy, o unsaciable’.
ff. 299r-309r: Canto 44, beginning ‘Oft tymes wee see, in howse of meane estate’.
ff. 309v-322r: Canto 45, beginning ‘Looke how moch hyer, fortune doth erect’.
ff. 323r-336r: Canto 46, beginning ‘Now yf my Compasse, and my Card be trew’.
f. 336r: Note from Sir John Harington to Richard Field, ‘Mr Feeld’, beginning ‘I dowt this will not come in in the last page’.
ff. 336v-338v: ‘A breefe and summary allegory of Orlando Furioso, not unpleasawnt nor unproffytable for those that have read over the former poeme’.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- 032-002095541
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- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002095541
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100152732228.0x000001
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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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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 220 x 170 mm.
Foliation: ff. ix + 338.
Binding: Pre-1600. Vellum.
Script: Secretary, italic. Containing the hands of John Harington, Thomas Combe, and Francis Harington (see Kilroy).
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Sir John Harington (bap. 1560, d. 1612), courtier and author: former owner.
Thomas Thorpe (1791-1851), bookseller: former owner, sale catalogue of September 1843, lot 251.
Messrs Boone: former owners, see flyleaf.
Purchased by the British Museum at Sotheby’s, 24 April 1852.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1848-1853 (London: British Museum, 1868), p. 167.
'Additional MS 18920', Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450-1700, ed. Peter Beal, online: http://www.celm-ms.org.uk/repositories/british-library-additional-18000.html [accessed 4 November 2019].
Ariosto, Ludovico, Orlando Furioso in English Heroical Verse, trans. John Harington (London: Richard Field, 1591).
Cauchi, Simon, ‘The “Setting Foorth” of Harington’s Ariosto’, Studies in Bibliography, vol. 36 (1983), pp. 137-168.
Cloud, Random [Randall McLeod], ‘from “Tranceformations in the Text of Orlando Furioso”’, Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin, 20 (1990), 60-85.
Greg, W.W., ‘An Elizabethan Printer and his Copy’, The Library, vol. 4, issue 4 (1924), 112-18.
Kilroy, Gerald, ‘Advertising the Reader: Sir John Harington’s “Directions in the Margent”’, English Literary Renaissance, vol. 41, no. 1 (2011), 64-110.
McNulty, Robert, ed. Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso Translated into English Heroical Verse by Sir John Harington (Oxford: Clarendon, 1972).
Scott-Warren, Jason, Sir John Harington and the Book as Gift (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001).
Scott-Warren, Jason, ‘Sir John Harington’s “Life of Ariosto” and the Textual Economy of the Elizabethan Court’, Reformation, vol. 3, issue 1 (1998), 259-301.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)