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Add MS 89229

Title:

Portion of the original manuscript of Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott

Scope & Content:

Two folios of the autograph manuscript of Kenilworth including the end of chapter three and the beginning of chapter four of volume I. The folios, numbered 14 and 15 by Scott, originally preceded the first folio, numbered 16, in the greater part of the manuscript in Egerton MS 1661.

The text begins with Foster's meeting of Lambourne at the end of chapter three: "Hark you, Michael Lambourne," said Foster; "you are a gambler now, and live by the counting of chances. Compute me the odds that I do not, on this instant, throw you out of that window into the ditch there." It ends halfway through chapter four with the words: "By this light Anthony thou art mad answered Lambourne and hast described rather the gentleman usher to a puritan's wife than the follower of an ambitious [courtier]."

The two folios are bound with several blank pages and a title page: 'Portion of the original manuscript of Kenilworth - Sir Walter Scott'. Facing the title page is a portrait of Scott by A. Wivel, after C. Picart. The title page is followed by a mounted note: 'Part of the original ms. of Kenilworth given to me Edmond Logan by John Ballantine'.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

1 volume (6 folios)

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1820

End Date:

1820

Date Range:

1820

Era:

Access:

Available for research unless otherwise stated

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Physical Characteristics:

Dimensions (leaves): 267 x 208 mm

Dimensions (binding): 278 x 215 mm

Binding: Bound in burgundy crushed morocco by Riviere, ruled in gilt, spine decorated

Custodial History:

Edmond Logan (1798-1875), from John Ballantyne (1774–1821). Sale Christie's, July 20, 1983.

Source of Acquisition:

Purchased at auction with the aid of a grant from the Friends of the British Library, Bonhams, New York, 8 March 2017, lot 18

Publications:

Sir Walter Scott, Kenilworth: A Romance, ed. by J. H. Alexander (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1993), p. 399

Sir Walter Scott, Introductions and Notes from the Magnum Opus: Ivanhoe to Castle Dangerous, ed. by J. H. Alexander (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012), pp. 737-738

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Ballantyne, John, publisher and literary agent, 1774-1821
Logan, William Edmond, 1798-1875
Scott, Walter, Baronet, author, 1771-1832,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121441874

Places:

Kenilworth, Warwickshire

Related Material:

Eleven leaves of the Kenilworth manuscript, numbered 3 to 13 of volume I by Scott: University of Edinburgh Library, The Laing Collection, La.III.498, ff. 1-11

Leaves 38 to 40 of volume I: Veste Coburg Collection, Germany

Leaves 16 and 17 of volume II are privately owned

Three unnumbered leaves: National Library of Scotland, MS 3653, ff. 32, 129, and 130

Related Archive Descriptions:

Egerton MS 1661