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Sloane MS 823
- Record Id:
- 040-002113175
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002112337
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000547.0x0003cd
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100163541878.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Sloane MS 823
- Title:
- Michael Wallace, poem on the Gunpowder Plot
- Scope & Content:
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Latin poem on the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, by Michael Wallace, Professor of Philosophy at Glasgow. With marginal corrections and notes.
Printed in 1606 by Richard Field, as Michael Valesius [Wallace], In serenissimi Regis Jacobi, Britanniae magnae, Galliarum, Hiberniae, &c monarchae. Ab immanissima papanae factionis hominum conjuratione, liberationem foelicissimam Carmen έπιχαρτικόν.
Marginal numberings made in this copy (e.g. ff. 4v, 5v) correspond to the page divisions in the printed edition of 1606. A list of books at the rear of the manuscript contains several books printed by Richard Field in 1605.
f. 1r: Title page. ‘In Serenissimi Regis Jacobi, Britanniae magnae, Galliarum, Hiberniae etc. monarchae, ab immanissima Papanae factionis hominum conjuratione, liberationem foelicissimam Carmen έπιχαρτικόν’.
f. 1v: Dedicatory verse addressed to King James I. Signed ‘Tua majestatis obervantissimus: &c’.
ff. 2r-15v: Michael Wallace, ‘In Serenissimi Regis Jacobi, Britanniae magnae, Galliarum, Hiberniae etc. monarchae, ab immanissima Papanae factionis hominum conjuratione, liberationem foelicissimam Carmen έπιχαρτικόν’.
ff. 15v-16r: Notes, pen-trials, names, date and a list of books.
The books listed are ‘The generall practice of physick’ (i.e. STC 25864); ‘Lobelij adversaria de balsamo et cinamonno’ (possibly sigs. Qq2-Zz5 of STC 16650); and ‘D. Mathaei Gwinne orationes duas’ (i.e. STC 12554).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Sloane Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002112337
040-002113175 - Is part of:
- Sloane MS 1-4100 : Sloane Manuscripts
Sloane MS 823 : Michael Wallace, poem on the Gunpowder Plot - Hierarchy:
- 032-002112337[0838]/040-002113175
- 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_100163541878.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
Greek, Ancient
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1605
- End Date:
- 1606
- Date Range:
- 1605-1606
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 205 x 165 mm.
Foliation: ff. vi + 16.
Binding: Post-1600. British Museum.
Script: Secretary, italic.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
James Danyell: former owner, his inscriptions on ff. 1r, 4r, 8r, 15v.
William Tawer[?]: his inscriptions on ff. 3v, 4r.
James Toriees[?]: his inscription on f. 15v.
Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753), baronet, physician and collector: former owner.
Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753.
- Publications:
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Ayscough, Samuel, ed. Index to the Sloane Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1904), p. 170.
Haan, Estelle, ‘Milton’s “In Quintum Novembris” and the Anglo-Latin Gunpowder Epic’, Humanistica Lovaniensia, 41 (1992), 221-95.
Haan, Estelle, ‘Milton’s “In Quintum Novembris” and the Anglo-Latin Gunpowder Epic: Part II’, Humanistica Lovaniensia, 42 (1993), 368-401.
Hardin, Richard F., ‘The Early Poetry of the Gunpowder Plot: Myth in the Making’, English Literary Renaissance, vol. 22, no. 1 (Winter 1992), 62-79.
Valesius [Wallace], Michael, In serenissimi Regis Jacobi, Britanniae magnae, Galliarum, Hiberniae, &c monarchae. Ab immanissima papanae factionis hominum conjuratione, liberationem foelicissimam Carmen epichartikon (London: Richard Field, 1606).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)