Manuscripts
Arcadia : [manuscript]
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- Description
- 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.
- Date
- [between 1585 and 1599]
- Call number
- mssHM 162
- Provenance
- On f. 78v (formerly f. 86v), an otherwise blank leaf, the name Robert Walker; a man of this name was treasurer to Sir Henry Sidney, 1575-ca. 1581 and appears in the Sidney family records until 1583. Possibly to be identified with lot 259 in the sale of Thomas Martin of Palgrave, by Baker and Leigh, London, 18 May 1774. Belonged to the Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878); in his "Appendix," n. CCXLVIII; that number in arabic numerals on the characteristic circular yellow label on the spine. The "Appendix" was sold privately to Henry Yates Thompson (1838-1928) in May 1897; he retained only select manuscripts and sold the rest; this manuscript, Sotheby's, 1 May 1899, lot 16 to Tregaskis. Belonged to C. W. Dyson Perrins (1864-1958); his sale, Sotheby's, 17 June 1907, lot 415 to Dobell; sold by Dobell to ___Dodd, Mead and Co. of New York. Acquired by William Augustus White (1843-1927) of Brooklyn, N.Y.; in the Hand-List of Early English Books. . .collected by W. A. White. . . from card catalogue made by Miss Henrietta C. Bartlett [New York 1914] p. 51. Precise source and date of acquisition by Henry E. Huntington unknown.
- Restrictions
- RESTRICTED. Available with curatorial approval. Requires extended retrieval and delivery time.
- Dimensions
- 205 x 302 mm
- Associated people
- Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, (1797-1878,)
- Thompson, Henry Yates, (1838-1928,)
- White, William Augustus, (1821-1898,)
- Associated organization
- Henry E. Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
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