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Add MS 46372
- Record Id:
- 040-002102289
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002102281
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000141.0x000011
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100152734785.0x000001
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 46372
- Title:
- The Psalms of David, translated into English verse by Sir Philip Sidney and Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
- Scope & Content:
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Collection of Psalms, translated into English verse by Sir Philip Sidney, author and courtier (1554-1586), and his sister Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, writer and literary patron (1561-1621).
Volume VII of the Harington Papers (Add MS 46366-46384). Previously owned by Sir John Harington, courtier and author (bap. 1560, d. 1612).
Written in the professional secretary hand of Thomas Combe, with marginal annotations by Harington, principally corresponding to the monthly calendar and verse numbering in the Psalter of the Book of Common Prayer.
Originally containing Psalms 1-150, but the damaging of leaves has caused the loss of Psalm 6, line 29-Psalm 8, line 16; Psalm 10, lines 18-20 and lines 61-64; Psalm 21, line 17-Psalm 22, line 36; Psalm 103, lines 65-96; and everything following Psalm 148, line 16.
Contents:
f. i: Vellum front cover. Title ‘Psalms’. Made from a deed of conveyance of the lands of Thomas Childe in Croydon, temp. James I, and concerns Thomas Catchmay, Robert Corbett, and William Milles. 21 October [year cut off].
f. iir: Theological notes in the hand of John Harington (1588/9–1654), lawyer and diarist.
ff. 1r-110v: Psalms 1-150. Psalms 6, 7, 8, 10, 21 22, 103, 148, 149 and 150 are damaged. With marginal annotations by Sir John Harington. Psalms 1-43 translated by Sir Philip Sidney; Psalms 44-150 translated by Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke.
f. 1r: Quatrain struck through in brown ink, beginning ‘y[…] be hard and g[…] have no peare’.
f. 43v: Partly erased note ‘John D[…]s his hande’. Possibly a reference to John Davies of Hereford, the scribe of the Penshurst MS (see Woudhuysen). John Danvers, stepfather of Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke, has also been suggested (see Alexander).
f. 61v: Pencil note ‘Richard’.
f. 107v: Five lines added in the hand of John Harington (1588/9–1654), lawyer and diarist. Beginning ‘Thus Lord all creatures thou hast wrought’.
f. 111v: Fragment of notes in the hand of John Harington (1588/9–1654), lawyer and diarist.
f. iii: Vellum rear cover.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002102281
040-002102289 - Is part of:
- Add MS 46366-46384 : HARINGTON PAPERS
Add MS 46372 : The Psalms of David, translated into English verse by Sir Philip Sidney and Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke - Hierarchy:
- 032-002102281[0006]/040-002102289
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 46366-46384
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_46372 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1581
- End Date:
- 1610
- Date Range:
- c 1586-1610
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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Collation: The gatherings were originally i-ii12, iii10, iv-vi12, vii14, viii18, ix12, x10. The text is now imperfect owing to the loss or mutilation of the leaves that contained the Psalms listed above.
Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 323 x 199 mm.
Foliation: ff. iii + 111.
Binding: Vellum. Containing a deed of conveyance of the lands of Thomas Childe in Croydon, temp. James I, and concerns Thomas Catchmay, Robert Corbett, and William Milles. 21 October [year cut off].
Script: Secretary hand of Thomas Combe, with marginal notes in the italic and secretary hands of John Harington, courtier and author (bap. 1560, d. 1612), and further notes in the mixed hand of John Harington (1588/9–1654), lawyer and diarist.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Sir John Harington, courtier and author (bap. 1560, d. 1612): former owner, from at least 29 January 1609/10, when he noted that he owned ‘Countess of Pembr: psalms: 2 copies’ (Add MS 27632, f. 30r).
‘John D[…]s‘: annotator of f. 43v.
John Harington (1588/9–1654), lawyer and diarist: his notes on f. ii, f. 107v, f. 111v.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1946-1950: Part 1 Descriptions (London: British Library, 1979), p. 65.
‘Add MS 46372’, Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450-1700, ed. Peter Beal, online: http://www.celm-ms.org.uk/repositories/british-library-additional-45000.html [accessed 15 October 2019].
Gavin Alexander, Writing After Sidney: The Literary Response to Sir Philip Sidney 1586-1640 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), p. 335.
Margaret P. Hannay, Noel J. Kinnamon and Michael G. Brennan, eds., The Collected Works of Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon, 1998).
Henry Harington, ed., Nugae Antiquae, 2 vols (London and Bath: Printed for W. Frederick, at Bath and sold by J. Robinson and Roberts, and J. Dodsley, 1769-75).
Noel Kinnamon, ‘The Circulation of the Sidney Psalter’, in The Ashgate Research Companion to The Sidneys, 1500-1700, Volume 2: Literature, eds. Margaret P. Hannay, Michael G. Brennan and Mary Ellen Lamb (Farnham: Ashgate, 2015).
Jean Seal Millman and Gillian Wright, eds., Early Modern Women’s Manuscript Poetry, with contributing editors Victoria E. Burke and Marie-Louise Coolahan, introduction by Elizabeth Clarke and Jonathan Gibson (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005), pp. 21-34.
J.C.A. Rathmell, ed., The Psalms of Sir Philip Sidney and The Countess of Pembroke (New York: Doubleday, 1963).
William A. Ringler, ed., The Poems of Sir Philip Sidney (Oxford: Clarendon, 1962), pp. 551-52.
H.R. Woudhuysen, Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts, 1558-1640 (Oxford: Clarendon, 1996).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)