Karpeles Manuscript Libraries

Copy of the four introductory stanzas and Book I, Canto 1, stanzas 1-8, in a neat secretary hand, in double columns, on both sides of a single folio leaf, supplying missing text in a printed exemplum of The Faerie Queen: The Shepheards Calendar: Together with the Other Works of Englands Archpoet Edm. Spenser (London, 1611, second issue), in contemporary dark olive morocco gilt. c.1620.

Five photocopy pages of this MS and volume are in the British Library, RP 6132.

SpE 9.2: Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene

Books I-III first published in London, 1590. Books IV-VI published in London, 1596. Variorum, Vols I-VI.