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Royal MS 18 C VII
- Record Id:
- 040-002107532
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000338.0x000301
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 18 C VII
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
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'THE TRAGOEDY of Cleopatra, Queene of Aegypt' [by Thomas May, see Dict. Nat. Biogr.]. The play was acted in 1626, printed in 1639, and again in 1654. With these editions the MS., with a few verbal exceptions, agrees.
On two leaves (113/4 in. x 71/2 in.) at the beginning (ff. 1, 2) is a fragment in another hand, doubtless from Thomas Ross's continuation of Silius Italicus, containing 124 lines descriptive of the close of the mission of Scipio Africanus, the cider, to Antiochus, King of Syria, at Ephesus, and the proceedings of the Senate on his return to Rome prior to the appointment of Lucius Scipio, consul, to the province of Greece in preference to Caius Laelius (B. C. 190). Cf. other fragments in 7 A. XII, art. 21, and 17 A. XX. Beg. 'But when the Empire of the Night was done'; ends with the beginning of the speech of Africanus in favour of his brother Lucius, 'Thus Affricanus doth himselfe declare', with the catchwords 'I should'. Not autograph.
Paper; ff. 34. Folio. 121/2 in. x 73/4 in. XVII cent. Not in the old catalogues.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Royal Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-002107532 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 18 C VII : 'THE TRAGOEDY of Cleopatra, Queene of Aegypt' [by Thomas May, see Dict. Nat. Biogr.]. The play was acted in 1626, printed… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[1685]/040-002107532
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1600
- End Date:
- 1699
- Date Range:
- 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Legal Status:
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