The Psalmes of David done into English verse by the most noble & vertuous gent. Sr. Phillipp Sidney Knt. : [manuscript]

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  The Psalmes of David metaphrased into verse by the noble, learnead & famous gent. Sr. Philip Sidney Knight : [manuscript]

  Manuscripts

  f. iv, pp. 1-321; p. 322 blank. [Psalms]. Incipit: He blessed is who neither loosely treades/ The strayeing stepps as wicked councell leades. Explicit: Conclude by all that ayre or life enfould/ Let high Jehova, highly be extould. Finis. Rubric: The Psalmes of David metaphrased into verse by the noble, learned, & famous gent. Sr Philip Sidney Knight. English. Other creator(s): Philip Sidney, translator; Mary Sidney Herbert, translator. J. C. A. Rathmell, ed., The Psalms of Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of Pembroke (New York 1963) for the complete text of the 150 psalms, printed from the Penshurst manuscript belonging to the Viscount De L'Isle. W. A. Ringler, Jr., ed., The Poems of Sir Philip Sidney (Oxford 1962) 270-337, for the first 43 psalms, those translated by Sir Philip Sidney, omitting the Countess of Pembroke's revisions and additions. This manuscript collated by Ringler as M.

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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

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  Book of Hours, use of Sarum, in Latin with English additions : [manuscript]

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  ff. 1-103v. Book of Hours, use of Sarum. Latin; English. On ff. 1-6v, calendar; ff. 7-35v, Hours of the Virgin, Sarum use with suffrages after lauds; f. 36r-v, added tale in English on the efficacy of saying Ps. 129; ff. 37-43, Penitential psalms; ff. 43-45, Gradual psalms mainly by cue; ff. 45-49v, Litany; ff. 50-68, Office of the Dead, Sarum use; ff. 68-78v, Commendation of Souls; ff. 87v-93v, Fifteen Oes; ff. 93v-103v, prayers; f. 103v and f. v, added maxims in English, attributed to Solomon.

  mssHM 64538

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  Book of Hours, use of Sarum, in Latin, English, and Czech (the"Felbrigg Hours") : [manuscript]

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  ff. 1-64v. Latin; English; Czech. On ff. 2-7v, calendar; ff. 8-19v, Hours of the Virgin, presumably Sarum use, with the Hours of the Cross intermixed and suffrages following lauds; ff. 20-24v, Penitential psalms; ff. 24v-25v, Gradual psalms mainly by cue only; ff. 25v-29v, Litany; ff. 30-49v, Office of the Dead, Sarum use; ff. 50-57v, Commendations of Souls; ff. 58-64v, prayers and devotions in various hands including on f. 62: a Czech translation of the Elevation prayer with an indulgence of Pope Boniface VI for 2000 years, granted at the request of King Philip of France (which begins in Latin"Domine ihesu christe qui hanc sacratissimam carnem); on f. 62v, a suffrage of Anne; on f. f. 63, the beginning of a prayer in English:"[O] glorious ihesu. O meekest ihesu. O swettest ihesu. I pray the that I may haue true confession; on f. 65r-v (a loose leaf), the end of a prayer in English, detailing the failings of the parts of the body in turn and asking for forgiveness:"// him that ordeynith for me ever lasting peyne. Lord wyth every membre of my body . . .".

  mssHM 58285

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  Sir William Sidney Smith papers

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  A collection of correspondence and documents relating to the naval career of Sir William Sidney Smith; it includes the British capture and occupation of Cayenne (French Guiana); naval operations in the Mediterranean, including the capture of the French ship "Fortune" by the English ships "Tigre" and "Theseus" (1799) and the siege of Acre; Barbary affairs; and Smith family affairs. Some of the items in the collection are in French; it also includes a round medal in a wooden box.

  mssHM 39809-39871

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  King Johan : [manuscript]

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  ff. 1-35; f. 35v blank. [John Bale] King Johan. Incipit: To declare the powres, & their force to enlarge/ the scriptur of god, doth flow In most abowndaunce. Explicit: Also to preserue hir most honourable counsell/ To the prayse of God, and glorye of the Gospell. Thus endeth the ii playes of kynge Iohan. English. Revisions and 2 added leaves (ff. 12, 14) in the first part (ff. 1-22), and all of the second part (ff. 23-35) in the author's hand. J. Payne Collier, ed., Kynge Johan: a Play in Two Parts by John Bale. Camden Society 2 (London 1838), the first edition, from this unique manuscript. J. M. Manly, ed., Specimens of the Pre-Shaksperean Drama (Boston 1897) 1:523-618 from Collier's edition. W. Bang, ed., Bales Kynge Johan nach der Handschrift in der Chatsworth Collection. Materialen zur Kunde des älteren englischen Dramas 25 (Louvain 1909) in facsimile with reference to verse numbers in Manly's edition. J. H. P. Pafford, ed., with assistance of W. W. Greg, King Johan by John Bale. Malone Society (Oxford 1931) in type-facsimile with plates of portions of ff. 1, 6, 23v, 32. B. B. Adams, ed., John Bale's King Johan (San Marino 1969). P. Happé, ed., The Complete Plays of John Bale (Cambridge, 1985-86).

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