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Add MS 60278
- Record Id:
- 040-001998850
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001998842
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000494.0x000314
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 60278
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CASTLE ASHBY MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. VI. Notebook comprising autograph drafts and scribal fair copies of plays and translations; after 1650 and 1655.
ff. ii+40. 300 x 180mm. Vellum binding with two thongs.
1. ff. 5v-21v. The Mandrake, an adaptation of Machiavelli's prose comedy La Mandragola; after 1655. Autograph fair copy.
2. ff. 22-23v. Don Sancho, a translation into rhyming couplets of part of Act I of Corneille's heroic drama Don Sancho d'Aragon (1650). Autograph draft.
3. ff. 35v-39. An untitled play in verse and prose on the subject of Leontius, King of Cyprus; n.d. Scribal fair copy. See also Add. 60279.
includes:
- ff. 5v-21v Niccolò Machiavelli: `La Mandragola' of Niccolò Machiavelli: after 1655: Engl. transl.
- ff. 22-23v Pierre Corneille, French dramatist: `Don Sanches d'Aragon': aft. 1650: Engl. transl.: Imperf.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001998842
036-001998847
040-001998850 - Is part of:
- Add MS 60273-60285 : CASTLE ASHBY MANUSCRIPTS
Add MS 60276-60282 : CASTLE ASHBY MANUSCRIPTS. Vols. IV-X. James Compton, 3rd Earl of Northampton: literary notebooks; circa 1646-1666.…
Add MS 60278 : CASTLE ASHBY MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. VI. Notebook comprising autograph drafts and scribal fair copies of plays and translations; after… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001998842[0002]/036-001998847[0003]/040-001998850
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- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 60273-60285
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1650
- End Date:
- 1655
- Date Range:
- 1650-1655
- Era:
- CE
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- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Corneille, Pierre, French dramatist
Machiavelli, Niccolò, Italian writer and political theorist, 1469-1527