Abraham Fraunce
Verse
Six lines in Latin. Unpublished.
Copy, subscribed Abrah: Frances
, following an unascribed six-line poem in Latin
Possibly compiled by one or more persons connected with the Inns of Court.
c.1600-1620s.Later in the library of the Rev. Richard Farmer, FSA (1735-97), Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, literary scholar. Lot 8055 in the sale of his library by Thomas King, 7 May to 16 June 1798. Probably owned afterwards by James Crossley (1800-83), author and book collector. Formerly Chetham's MS 8012.
The volume edited by Alexander B. Grosart as
Prose
Copy.
With (f. 2r) a general title-page To the Ryght worshipful mr Edwarde Dyer
and followed (ff. 2v) by a fourteen-line verse dedication to Dyer (beginning Abraham franse
, the main text (ff. 3r-36r) in a neat secretary hand.
Bookplate of James Bindley, FSA (1737-1818), book collector, dated 1811. Bindley sale, part 3, 1819, lot 1665, bought by Triphook for George Watson Taylor, MP (1771-1841), collector (his sale 1823, part 2, lot 38). Then owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector (Heber sale, part 11, 1836, lot 800); and by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), collector of books and manuscripts. Sotheby's, 19-22 June 1893 (Phillipps sale), lot 232.
Comprising pen and ink drawings by Fraunce of forty imprese, with Latin verse and prose captions beneath, copied from Paulo Giovio's
Prepared by Fraunce probably as a leaving present for Philip Sidney before departing from Cambridge in February 1582.
[1582].Later inscribed (f. iir) by Edward Umfreville (1775-1858), collector of legal manuscripts, and (f. iiiv) Richard Munn his booke the gift of the right honourable the lord Viscount Chaworth
.
Discussed in Katherine Duncan-Jones,
This MS discussed in Katherine Duncan-Jones,
First published in London, 1588.
See
First published in London, 1588.
See
Copy.
With (f. 2r) a general title-page To the Ryght worshipful mr Edwarde Dyer
and followed (ff. 2v) by a fourteen-line verse dedication to Dyer (beginning Abraham franse
, the main text (ff. 3r-36r) in a neat secretary hand.
Bookplate of James Bindley, FSA (1737-1818), book collector, dated 1811. Bindley sale, part 3, 1819, lot 1665, bought by Triphook for George Watson Taylor, MP (1771-1841), collector (his sale 1823, part 2, lot 38). Then owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector (Heber sale, part 11, 1836, lot 800); and by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), collector of books and manuscripts. Sotheby's, 19-22 June 1893 (Phillipps sale), lot 232.
A treatise, partly an earlier version of Fraunce's
Copy, in two books, with numerous quotations from Edmund Spenser's
With (f. 2r) a general title-page To the Ryght worshipful mr Edwarde Dyer
and followed (ff. 2v) by a fourteen-line verse dedication to Dyer (beginning Abraham franse
, the main text (ff. 3r-36r) in a neat secretary hand.
Bookplate of James Bindley, FSA (1737-1818), book collector, dated 1811. Bindley sale, part 3, 1819, lot 1665, bought by Triphook for George Watson Taylor, MP (1771-1841), collector (his sale 1823, part 2, lot 38). Then owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector (Heber sale, part 11, 1836, lot 800); and by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), collector of books and manuscripts. Sotheby's, 19-22 June 1893 (Phillipps sale), lot 232.
A facsimile of this MS published by the Scolar Press (Menston, 1969), which is the first publication of the work itself.
Basically an addendum to Fraunce's
Ad illustriss: D Domin, signed at the end by Fraunceu Robertum Sydneyu
Abrahamus Fransus, 24 small quarto leaves, in contemporary vellum, with remains of green silk ties. c.1586-93.
Among papers of the Sidney family, Viscounts De L'Isle, of Penshurst Place, Ashford, Kent.
Autograph fair copy, with margins ruled in red.
Prepared by Fraunce probably as a leaving present for Philip Sidney before departing from Cambridge in February 1582.
[1582].Later inscribed (f. iir) by Edward Umfreville (1775-1858), collector of legal manuscripts, and (f. iiiv) Richard Munn his booke the gift of the right honourable the lord Viscount Chaworth
.
Discussed in Katherine Duncan-Jones,
Dramatic Works
First published, edited by G.C. Moore Smith (Louvain, 1906).
Heroi Nobilissimo, Domino illustrissimo Mæcenati optimo Philippo Sidneio S P D:, followed by eight Latin verses beginning
Abrahamus Fransus, the page of Personæ (p. 5) headed
Among papers of the Sidney family, Viscounts De L'Isle, of Penshurst Place, Ashford, Kent.
Facsimile of the dedication to Sidney in