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- Record Id:
- 040-001960133
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001960128
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000771.0x00034b
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 54570
- Title:
- Fulke Greville, 'Caelica'
- Scope & Content:
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Copy of the sonnet sequence Caelica, by Fulke Greville, first Baron Brooke of Beauchamps Court (1554–1628), courtier and author.
With extensive revisions in Greville’s autograph. Volume 5 of the Warwick Castle Manuscripts of Greville’s collected works (Add MSS 54566–54571).
First published in 1633 with two additional poems (see Bullough, Poems and Dramas of Fulke Greville). In the hand of Scribe A, a secretary who worked for Greville between 1619 and 1625, as well as Sir Lionel Cranfield, Lord Treasurer (see Kelliher, ‘The Warwick Manuscripts’).
f. ii: Bookplate of Warwick Castle.
f. iii: Bookplate of Warwick Castle Local Library.
f. 2r: Christie’s stock number (607 RF), pencil.
ff. 4r-80v: Fulke Greville, Caelica. Sequence of 108 numbered poems, with page numbering and running headers. Including extensive revisions in Greville’s autograph, and pencil notes (e.g. ‘stet’, f. 6v).
f. 81v: Draft of Sonnet 94, lines 5-6.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001960128
040-001960133 - Is part of:
- Add MS 54566-54571 : FULKE GREVILLE: 'The Warwick Manuscripts', comprising the poems, plays and one prose work of Sir Fulke Greville, 1st…
Add MS 54570 : Fulke Greville, 'Caelica' - Hierarchy:
- 032-001960128[0005]/040-001960133
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 54566-54571
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1619
- End Date:
- 1625
- Date Range:
- c. 1619-1625
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- England.
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- Restrictions to access apply please consult British Library staff
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 313 x 200 mm.
Foliation: ff. iv + 85.
Watermark: Strassburg lily on a crowned shield, with pendant ‘WR’ (see Kelliher, ‘The Warwick Manuscripts’).
Binding: Post-1600. Limp vellum with traces of green ribbon ties.
Script: Italic hand of Scribe A (see Kelliher, ‘The Warwick Manuscripts’).
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England
Provenance:
Benjamin Heywood Bright, antiquary (1787-1843): former owner, sale at Sotheby’s, 18 June 1844 (lot 107).
Thomas Thorpe (1791-1851), bookseller: former owner, purchased for 11 guineas.
George Greville, fourth Earl of Warwick (1818–1893): former owner, bookplate of his ‘Local Library’.
Charles Guy Fulke Greville, seventh Earl of Warwick (1911–1984), socialite and actor: former owner, sale at Christie’s, 19 June 1968 (lot 136).
Acquired by the British Museum in December 1968 through a grant from the Pilgrim Trust, and donations from Mr John Fleming, Mr Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., and the Hon. C. A. Lennox-Boyd.
- Publications:
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The British Library Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts 1966-1970, Part 1: Descriptions (London: The British Library, 1998), p. 167.
Bullough, Geoffrey, ed. Poems and Dramas of Fulke Greville, first Lord Brooke, 2 vols (New York: Oxford University Press, 1945).
Farmer Jr., Norman K., ‘Holograph Revisions in Two Poems by Fulke Greville’, English Literary Renaissance, vol. 4, no. 1 (1974), 98-110.
Greville, Fulke, Certaine Learned and Elegant Workes of the Right Honorable Fulke Lord Brooke, Written in His Youth, and Familiar Exercise with Sir Philip Sidney (London: Henry Seile, 1633).
Kelliher, W. Hilton, ‘The Warwick Manuscripts of Fulke Greville’, The British Museum Quarterly, vol. 34, no. 3/4 (1970), 107-21.
Leo, Russ, Katrin Röder, and Freya Sierhuis, eds., Fulke Greville and the Culture of the English Renaissance (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Bright, Benjamin Heywood, antiquary, 1787-1843, (Former owner)
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000049979492
Cranfield, Lionel, 1st Earl of Middlesex, merchant, financier and government minister, 1575-1645 (Contributor)
Greville, Charles Guy Fulke, 7th Earl of Warwick, actor, politician and Mayor of Warwick, 1911-1984 (Former owner)
Greville, Fulke, 1st Baron Brooke, poet, dramatist, courtier, politician and statesman, 1554-1628 (Author)
Greville, George Guy, 4th Earl of Warwick, politician and book collector, 1818-1893 (Former owner)
Thorpe, Thomas, bookseller, 1791-1851, (Former owner)
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000043300813