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Add MS 10309
- Record Id:
- 032-002108104
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002108104
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000042.0x00021d
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100163595107.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 10309
- Title:
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Commonplace book of Margaret Bellasys
- Scope & Content:
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Commonplace book containing characters, poems and dramatic extracts. Formerly belonging to one Margaret Bellasys.
Containing copies and extracts of works by Philip Sidney, John Donne, Edward Radcliffe, Thomas Carew, Ben Jonson, Thomas Randolph, Sir John Harington, Richard Brome, Thomas Middleton, Thomas Goodwyn, William Browne, Richard Corbett, William Basse, John Hoskyns, Sir Walter Raleigh, Joshua Sylvester, William Shakespeare, Brian Duppa, Henry Constable, William Strode, and others.
Bellasys has previously been identified as the daughter (d. 1624) of Sir Thomas Bellasys, or Bellassis (1577-1653), first Viscount Fauconberg (see Ennis). A second possibility is Margaret (d. 1671), daughter of Sir George Selby of Whitehouse and wife of Sir William Bellasis (1593-1641) of Morton House (see Roberts, Reading Shakespeare’s Poems).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002108104
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002108104
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100163595107.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1625
- End Date:
- 1635
- Date Range:
- c. 1630
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- England
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 140 x 90 mm.
Foliation: ff. ix + 155.
Binding: Post-1600. British Museum.
Script: Italic.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Margaret Bellasys: former owner, her signature f. 155v.
Thomas Campbell (1777-1844), poet: possible former owner, his inscription on front endpaper (see CELM: Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts).
Thomas Thorpe (1791-1851), bookseller: possible former owner (see Roberts, Reading Shakespeare’s Poems, p. 238).
Richard Heber (1774–1833), book collector: former owner, his sale 29 February 1836 (lot 13).
Acquired by the British Museum, February 1836, from Heber’s sale (above).
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in 1836-1840 (London: British Museum, 1843), p. 29.
‘Add MS 10309’, Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450-1700, ed. Peter Beal, online: http://www.celm-ms.org.uk/repositories/british-library-additional-10000.html [accessed 4 November 2019].
Crowley, Lara M., Manuscript Matters: Reading John Donne’s Poetry and Prose in Early Modern England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018).
Ennis, Lambert, ‘Margaret Bellasys’ “Characterismes of Vices”’, Proceedings of the Modern Language Association, 56, issue 1 (1941), 141-50.
Estill, Laura, ‘“All the Adulteries of Art”: The Dramatic Excerpts of Margaret Bellasys’s BL MS. Add. 10309’, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, V: Papers of the Renaissance English Text Society 2007-2010, ed. Michael Denbo (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2014), pp. 235-45.
Moulton, Ian Frederick, Before Pornography: Erotic Writing in Early Modern England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).
Roberts, Sasha, Reading Shakespeare’s Poems in Early Modern England (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003).
Smyth, Adam, ‘Commonplace Book Culture: Sixteen Traits’, in Women and Writing, c. 1340-c. 1650: The Domestication of Print Culture, eds. Anne Lawrence-Mathers and Phillipa Hardman (York: York Medieval Press, 2010), pp. 90-110.
- Exhibitions:
- Discovering literature: Shakespeare and Renaissance, (online), 30 April 2016-
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- Poems by Shakespeare, Donne and others in Margaret Bellasys's commonplace book, c. 1630. Exhibited: Discovering literature: Shakespeare and Renaissance (online), 30 April 2016-.