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Dell' Arcadia della Contessa di Pembroch
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Arcadia : [manuscript]
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ff. 1-180; f. 180v blank. [Philip Sidney] Arcadia. Incipit: //To maike so great thoughe vndeserued judgmente of me. And even so. Explicit: may awake some other spirit, to exercise his penn in that, wherwith myne ys already dulled. Finis. The Last booke or Acte. English. J. Robertson, ed., Sir Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (The Old Arcadia) (Oxford 1973) 14-417, here lacking the first 6 leaves; HM 162 mentioned by Robertson, p. xliv, and cited in the critical apparatus as As. See also B. Dobell, "Sidney's Arcadia" in the Athenaeum, 7 September 1907, p. 272, where this manuscript is first identified as the Old Arcadia. B. Dobell, "New Light upon Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia," Quarterly Review 211 (1909) 74-100, esp. p. 80. R. W. Zandvoort, Sidney's Arcadia: A Comparison between the Two Versions (Amsterdam 1929), this manuscript described on p. 13, with a plate of f. 122 as frontispiece. W. A. Ringler, Jr., "Master Drant's Rules," Philological Quarterly 29 (1950) 70-74 (call number given erroneously as HM 116). W. A. Ringler, Jr., ed., The Poems of Sir Philip Sidney (Oxford 1962), this manuscript with details of the text described on p. 528.
mssHM 162