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Sloane MS 93
- Record Id:
- 040-002112431
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002112337
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000505.0x0002f5
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100163519809.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Sloane MS 93
- Title:
- Gabriel Harvey's letters and poems
- Scope & Content:
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ff. 1*r–104r: Volume of holograph transcripts of letters and poems by Gabriel Harvey, of Saffron Walden, Fellow of Pembroke and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 1573–1578. It includes his poems upon the death of the poet George Gascoigne (1534–1577), an account (either fictional or truthful) of the seduction of his sister Mercy by a nobleman, and letters to recipients including Sir Thomas Smith (1513–1577).
f. 1r: Title page with two tags, one in Greek (‘things suffered, things learned’) and the other in Greek and Latin (‘it is better to be wrong than to do wrong’).
ff. 2r–11v: Draft letter in English from Gabriel Harvey to John Young, Master of Pembroke Hall, and Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University, 21 March 1573, Pembroke Hall.
ff. 12r–v: Draft letter in English from Harvey to Humphrey Tyndale, Fellow of Pembroke Hall, no date.
ff. 12v–13v: Draft letter in English from Harvey to Humphrey Tyndale, Fellow of Pembroke Hall, 13 April [no year], [Saffron] Walden.
ff. 13v–19r: Draft letter in English from Harvey to John Young, 26 April [no year], Pembroke Hall.
ff. 19v–21v: Draft letter in Latin from Harvey to John Young, no date or place.
ff. 21v–22v: Draft letter in Latin from Harvey to John Young, no date or place.
ff. 23r–25r: Draft letter in Latin from Harvey to his father, no date or place.
f. 26r: Notes relating to the above letters.
ff. 27r–34r: Draft letter in English from Harvey to John Young, 1 November 1573, Pembroke Hall.ff. 34v–35v: Harvey’s verses in Latin and English on the death of the poet George Gascoigne (d. 7 October 1577).
ff. 35v–38v: Letter from Harvey to ‘Signor Benevolo’ (whom Scott identifies as Spenser), summer 1579.
ff. 39r–v: Additional verses on Gascoigne.
ff. 40r–41v: The second letter, potentially to Spenser, dated by the contents to Spring 1573, but actually written after the first.
ff. 42v–43r: The third letter potentially to Spenser, no date.
f. 44r: Additional material for the second letter which is potentially to Spenser.
ff. 45r–47v: The fourth letter potentially to Spenser, no date.
f. 48r: Copy of a letter from William Fulke, Master of Pembroke Hall to the Fellows of Pembroke Hall, asking for an extension of Harvey’s fellowship, 22 August 1578.
f. 48v: The plan for a publication, 1 August 1580.
f. 49r: Additions to the fourth ‘letter to Spenser.’
ff. 49v–51r: The letter from a maid to a miller, dated ‘fryday 1575.’
ff. 51v–53r: The ‘Dialogue’, written between October 1579 and May 1580.
ff. 54r–57r: Notes in Latin, headed ‘Fine Notes for mie rhetorique discourses.’ In Latin, and in the neat hand of the letters. These are the rhetoric lectures Harvey delivered over 1574–1576.
ff. 57v–68r: ‘The Schollars Love’, dated September 1573, but being revised in Spring 1580.
f. 68v: Letter to M. Anne, no date.
ff. 69r–70r: Additions to ‘The Schollars Love.’
ff. 71r—84r: Harvey’s account of his sister Mercy’s love affair with a nobleman [1574]. The veracity of this account is uncertain.
ff. 85r–86v: Draft letter in English from Harvey to Young, no date [c. 1574].
ff. 87r–89r: Draft letter in English from Harvey to Sir Thomas Smith, Secretary of State, Provost of Eton and Dean of Carlisle, no date [Autumn 1574].
ff. 89v–90r: Draft letter in English from Harvey to [? Harrison, of Cambridge University], no date, Pembroke Hall.
ff. 90v–91r: Draft letter from Harvey to Arthur Capel, 1st Baron Capel, no date [c. 1574].
ff. 91v–92r: Draft letter in English from Harvey to Smith, no date [c. 1574], Pembroke Hall.
f. 92r: New Year’s greeting in Latin to D. H., dated ‘calend. Januar.’
ff. 92v–93r: Draft letter in English from Harvey to Lady Philippa Smith, 2nd wife of Sir Thomas Smith, 29 March [no year; c. 1570], Pembroke Hall.
ff. 93v–94r: Draft letter in English from Harvey to Luke Gilpin, Fellow of Trinity College, and Junior Proctor, no date.
f. 94r: Gilpin’s reply to the above letter, no date.
f. 94v: Letter in English from Harvey to Richard Byrde, Fellow of Trinity College, and afterwards Canon of Canterbury, no date [1574]; Byrde’s reply, no date.
ff. 95r–v: Letter in English from Harvey to Richard Remington, Archdeacon of the East Riding, no date [1574].
f. 95v: Letter in English from Harvey to Byrde, [1574].
ff. 96r–97v: Letter in English from Harvey to Smith, no date [1574].
ff. 97v–98r: Letter in Latin from Harvey to Smith, no date [1574].
f. 98v: Copy of a letter from John Duffield of Trinity College to [Richard?] Remington, no date, and a copy of a letter from Remington to Harvey, no date.
ff. 99r–v: Imperfect copy of a letter from Harvey to Halles of Cambridge University, no date.
ff. 100r–101r: Theological notes, in the same hand as those on ff. 103r–104v.
f. 101v: Copy of a letter from Harvey to Richard Wood, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, afterwards Canon of Westminster [no date; c. 1584].
f. 102r: Letter in Latin and English from Harvey to Arthur Capel, 1st Baron Capel (1641), no date [c. 1574].
f. 102v: Letter in English from Harvey to his brother Richard, no date.
ff. 103r–104v: Theological notes, in the same hand as those on ff. 100r–101r.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Sloane Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002112337
040-002112431 - Is part of:
- Sloane MS 1-4100 : Sloane Manuscripts
Sloane MS 93 : Gabriel Harvey's letters and poems - Hierarchy:
- 032-002112337[0094]/040-002112431
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Sloane MS 1-4100
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100163519809.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1573
- End Date:
- 1578
- Date Range:
- 1573-1578
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 214 x 185 mm.
Foliation: ff. 104 + 11 (endleaves).
Binding: British Museum binding.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector.
Purchased in 1753 from Sloane's executors by the Act of Parliament which also established the British Museum.
- Publications:
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'Catalogue of Additional Manuscripts: Sloane', unpublished catalogue, volume 1, p. 15.
Josephine Waters Bennett, 'Spenser and Gabriel Harvey's "Letter-Book"', Modern Philology, 29 (1931), 163–86.
Gabriel Harvey, The Letter-Book of Gabriel Harvey, A.D. 1573–1580, ed. Edward John Long Scott (London: Camden Society, 1884).
James Nielson, ‘Reading between the Lines: Manuscript Personality and Gabriel Harvey's Drafts’, Studies in English Literature, 33 (1993), 43–82.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)