Manuscripts and Their Makers in the English Renaissance

by Beal, Peter; Ioppolo, Grace

• ISBN13: 9780712347716
• ISBN10: 0712347712
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-01-09
• Publisher: British Library Board

Summary

Since its inception in 1989, EMS has established itself as the foremost venue for the study of manuscript sources for British literature and intellectual history from medieval to early modern times. Aiming as much as ever to explore the possibilities of manuscript study in this period, Volume 11 includes significant contributions by some of the leading authorities in the field. Contents include: 'Philip Sidney's Letter to Queen Elizabeth and that "False Knave" Alexander Dicsone' (Peter Beal); 'A New Manuscript Fragment of Sidney's Old Arcadia' (Henry Woudhuysen); 'The Cultural and Textual Importance of Folger ms V.a.89' (Arthur F. Marotti); 'A Feather from the Black Swan's Wing: Hugh Holland's Owen Tudyr (1601)' (Katherine Duncan-Jones); 'John Mott and The Newe Metamorphosis' (Hilton Kelliher); '"The foule sheet and ye fayr": Henslowe, Daborne, Heywood and the Nature of Foul-Paper and Fair-Copy Dramatic Manuscripts' (Grace Ioppolo); 'The Manuscript Sources for Constantijn Huygens' Translations ofFour Poems,by John Donne, 1630' (Richard Todd); 'The Black Poet of Ashover, Leonard Wheatcroft' (Cedric C. Brown); 'Renaissance Manuscript Anthologies' (Steven W. May); and 'Systemizing Sigla' (Harold Love).

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Philip Sidney's Letter to Queen Elizabeth and that `False Knave' Alexander Dicsone	1	(51)
Peter Beal
A New Manuscript Fragment of Sidney's Old Arcadia: The Huddleston Manuscript	52	(18)
H.R. Woudhuysen
The Cultural and Textual Importance of Folger Ms V.a.89	70	(23)
Arthur F. Marotti
A Feather from the Black Swan's Wing: Hugh Holland's Owen Tudyr (1601)	93	(16)
Katherine Duncan-Jones
John Mott and The Newe Metamorphosis	109	(23)
Hilton Kelliher
`The foule sheet and ye fayr': Henslowe, Daborne, Heywood and the Nature of Foul-Paper and Fair-Copy Dramatic Manuscripts	132	(22)
Grace Ioppolo
The Manuscript Sources for Constantijn Huygens's Translations of Four Poems by John Donne, 1630	154	(27)
Richard Todd
The Black Poet of Ashover, Leonard Wheatcroft	181	(22)
Cedric C. Brown
Renaissance Manuscript Anthologies: Editing the Social Editors	203	(14)
Steven W. May
Systemizing Sigla	217	(14)
Harold Love
Manuscripts at Auction: January 2001 to December 2001	231	(6)
A.S.G. Edwards
Notes on Contributors	237	(2)
Index of Manuscripts	239	(3)
General Index	242