Add MS 78232

EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. LXV. Walter Hawkesworth: ‘Labyrinthus’; circa 1602-1603. Latin. This five-act play, based on the La Cintia of Giambattista della Porta (Venice, 1601), was written for performance at Trinity College, Cambridge. A further seven copies, three of them bearing the author’s name and three a cast-list, are recorded in REED: Cambridge, ed. Alan H. Nelson, Toronto, 1989, II, pp. 904-906. The first printed edition appeared in London in 1635, and a modern one, with a translation and commentary by Susan Brock, was published by Garland Press in 1988. Formerly Evelyn MS 129.

ff. iii+36. 220 x 175mm. Contemporary covers of limp vellum gilt-stamped with double compartment containing centrepiece and fleur-de-lys cornerpieces, and bearing five roses on the spine. Some marginal notes, stage-directions and corrections to the text appear to be in the hand of Browne who has added at the end ‘deest non nihil’.