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Add MS 34361
- Record Id:
- 040-002025405
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002025355
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001483.0x000184
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100152734137.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 34361
- Title:
- Abraham Fraunce, ‘The Sheapheards Logike’
- Scope & Content:
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Volume of three works by Abraham Fraunce (1559?–1592/3?), poet and lawyer, partly in his hand. Dedicated to Edward Dyer (1543–1607), courtier and poet.
f. 2r: Title-page: ‘The Sheapheards Logike: conteyning the præcepts of that art put downe by Ramus; examples set owt of the Sheapheards Kalender; notes and expositions collected owt of Beurhusius, Piscator, Mr. Chatterton and divers others. Together with twooe general discourses, the one touchinge the prayse and ryghte use of Logike, the other concernynge the comparison of Ramus his Logike with that of Aristotle’. Addressed ‘To the Ryght worshypful mr Edwarde Dyer’. In Fraunce’s hand.
f. 2v: Fourteen-line poem beginning ‘Some arts wee bynde, to some one kynde of subject severallye’. Signed ‘Your Woorshyps, most humbly to bee commaunded Abraham Franse’. In Fraunce’s hand.
ff. 3r-28r: ‘The Sheppardes Logike’, beginning ‘The first Chapter of the first booke. What Logike is. Logike is an Arte of reasoninge well’. In two books. With quotations from Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender (1579), as examples.
ff. 29r-31v: ‘Of the nature and use of Logike’, beginning ‘Junius Florus by continual meditation for three dayes’.
ff. 32r-36r: ‘A bryef and general comparison of Ramus his Logike with that of Aristotle, to the ryghte Worshipful his verye good Master and Patron Mr P[hilip] Sydney’, beginning ‘Phormio by reporte, Righte Worshipful, was scoffed’.
f. 36r: Device composed of the initials A.F.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002025355
040-002025405 - Is part of:
- Add MS 34316-34385 : Part of the library of Sir Thomas Phllipps
Add MS 34361 : Abraham Fraunce, ‘The Sheapheards Logike’ - Hierarchy:
- 032-002025355[0034]/040-002025405
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 34316-34385
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100152734137.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1579
- End Date:
- 1586
- Date Range:
- c. 1580-c. 1585
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- England.
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 310 x 205 mm.
Foliation: ff. iii + 36.
Binding: Pre-1600. Vellum.
Script: Secretary, italic.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
James Bindley (1739–1818), book collector: former owner, his bookplate (inside front cover). Listed in the catalogue of his sale (1819, part III, lot 1665).
Robert Triphook, book dealer: former owner, bought for George Watson Taylor.
George Watson Taylor (1771-1841), politican: former owner. Listed in the catalogue of his sale (1823, part II, lot 1138).
Richard Heber (1774–1833), book collector: former owner. Listed in the catalogue of his sale (1836, part XI, lot 800).
Sir Thomas Phillipps, baronet (1792–1872), collector of books and manuscripts: his sale, 19-22 June 1893 (lot 232).
Purchased by the British Museum at the Phillipps sale in 1893.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the years 1888-1893 (London: British Museum, 1894), pp. 321-22.
‘Add MS 34361’, Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450-1700, ed. Peter Beal, online: http://www.celm-ms.org.uk/repositories/british-library-additional-30000.html [accessed 04 November 2019].
Fraunce, Abraham, Lawiers Logike, exemplifying the preecepts of Logike by the Practise of the Common Lawe (London: William How, 1588).
Fraunce, Abraham, The Shepherds Logic and other Dialectical Writings, ed. Zenón Luis-Martínez, MHRA Critical Texts vol. 46 (Cambridge: Modern Humanities Research Association, 2016).
Hetherington, Michael, ‘“The Coherence of the Text” in Sixteenth-Century England: Reading Literature and Law with Abraham Fraunce’, Studies in Philology, 115, no. 4 (2018), 641-78.
Luis-Martínez, Zenón, ‘Ramist Dialectic, Poetic Examples, and the Uses of Pastoral in Abraham Fraunce’s “The Shepherds’ Logic”’, Parergon: Bulletin of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 33, issue 3 (2016), 69-96.
May, Steven W., ‘Marlowe, Spenser, Sidney and — Abraham Fraunce?’, The Review of English Studies, 62, no. 253 (2011), 30-63.
Spenser, Edmund, The Shepheardes Calender (London: Hugh Singleton, 1579).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)