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Royal MS 15 A I
- Record Id:
- 040-002107008
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000338.0x00009e
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100172082177.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 15 A I
- Title:
- Jane Lumley, translation of Isocrates, Archidamus
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains a copy of Archidamus, one of the Orationes of the Ancient Greek rhetorician Isocrates (b. 436, d. 338 BC), in a Latin translation composed by Jane Lumley (b. 1537, d. 1578), Baroness Lumley. The manuscript is a presentation copy, probably intended as a New Year's gift for her father Henry FitzAlan (b. 1512, d. 1580), 19th Earl of Arundel.
Other extant translations completed by Jane Lumley include a copy of Isocrates’ Evagoras (now Royal MS 15 A II) and her commonplace book, written in her hand and containing translations of Isocrates’ other Orationes and Euripides’ play Iphigenia at Aulis (now Royal MS 15 A IX).
Contents:
f. 1Ar: An inscription, ‘The doing of my la. Lumley the doughter of my L. therle of Arundell’, and a paper label, inscribed, ‘My La. Lumley 139’.
f. 2r-v: The argument, written in Latin, beginning, ‘Post Leutricas calamitates Thebani impetum…’ and subscribed, ‘Filia tua, dominationi tue, deditissima, Ioanna Lumleya’.
ff. 3r-35r: Isocrates, Archidamus, translated from Greek into Latin by Jane Lumley, beginning, ‘Aliqui fortassis vestrum admiraturi…’
ff. 1Av, 1Br-v, 2*r-v, and 35v are blank.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Medieval and Renaissance Women
Royal Collection - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-002107008 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 15 A I : Jane Lumley, translation of Isocrates, Archidamus - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[1207]/040-002107008
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100172082177.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1550
- End Date:
- 1574
- Date Range:
- 3rd quarter of the 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper.
Dimensions: 145 x 102 mm (text space: 100 x 70 mm).
Foliation: ff. 1A-B + 35 + 2* (+ 3 paper flyleaves at the beginning and numerous paper flyleaves at the end); f. 1A is a paper leaf affixed with an inscribed paper label; ff. 1B and 2* are paper leaves.
Collation: Mounted on paper guards.
Script: 16th-century italic.
Binding: British Library in-house. Red leather binding, with the Royal arms gold-stamped on the upper and lower covers. Rebound 1984.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Jane Lumley (b. 1537, d. 1578), Baroness Lumley: inscribed, 'The doinge of my Lady Lumley doughter to my L. Therle of Arundell' and on a paper label, 'My La. Lumley 139' (f. 1Ar); the manuscript probably intended as a New Year's gift for her father Henry FitzAlan (b. 1512, d. 1580), 12th Earl of Arundel; completed after her marriage to John Lumley (c. 1550), as the argument is subscribed using her married name, 'Filia tua tibi dominationi tue, deditissima, Joanna Lumleya' (f. 2v); formed part of her father's collection before it became part of the Lumley Library.
John Lumley (b. c. 1533, d. 1609), 1st Baron Lumley, collector and conspirator: inscribed with his name (f. 2r); listed in the 1609 catalogue of his collection, no. 1743 (see Catalogue of the Library of John Lumley (1956), p. 206); his library acquired by Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales.
Henry Frederick (b. 1594, d. 1612), Prince of Wales and eldest child of James I: his collection became part of the Royal Library; included in the catalogues of 1661 (Royal Appendix 86, f. 35r) and 1666 (no. 11 in the 'third press against the chimney'; Royal Appendix 71, f. 20v) and in the 1698 catalogue of the library of St James's Palace (see Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697'), no. 8504).
Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library.
- Publications:
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George F. Warner and Julius P. Gilson, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King’s Collections, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1921), II, pp. 141-42.
Paul Oskar Kristeller, Iter Italicum: Accedunt Alia Itinera: A Finding List of Uncatalogued or Incompletely Catalogued Humanistic Manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and other Libraries, 7 vols (London: Warburg Institute; Leiden: Brill, 1963-97), IV (1989), p. 202.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)