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    A manuscript of The Psalms of David, i + 145 folio leaves, in contemporary vellum richly gilt, the volume possibly prepared for presentation to Queen Elizabeth.

    Late 16th century.

    Formerly in the library of Walter Aston (1583-1639), Baron Aston of Forfar, of Tixall, Staffordshire, diplomat. Bequeathed by Dr Bent Juel-Jensen (1922-2006), Oxford physician and book collector.

    • SiP 81 The MS as a whole

      A formal copy of Psalms 1-150, in a calligraphic italic hand, untitled, with two dedicatory poems by his sister, Mary, Countess of Pembroke (PeM 1, PeM 2).

      Described by B.E. Juel-Jensen in Book Collector, 15 (Summer 1966), 156 (with a facsimile of two pages in Plate 3), and in Book Collector, 18 (Summer 1969), 222-3. Described in Ringler, pp. 550-1. (1988), I, 102-4 and 110-12. Discussed in Noel Kinnamon, The Sidney Psalms: The Penshurst and Tixall Manuscripts, EMS, 2 (1990), 139-61.

      Psalms 1-43 translated by Sidney. Psalms 44-150 translated by his sister, the Countess of Pembroke. First published complete in London, 1823, ed. S.W. Singer. Psalms 1-43, without the Countess of Pembroke's revisions, edited in Ringler, pp. 265-337. Psalms 1-150 in her revised form edited in The Psalms of Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of Pembroke, ed. J.C.A. Rathmell (New York, 1963). Psalms 44-150 also edited in The Collected Works of Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke (1988), Vol. II.

      Sir Philip Sidney, The Psalms of David
    • PeM 1 ff. 1r-2v
      No description or publication history available.

      A dedicatory verse epistle to Queen Elizabeth. First published in Whole Workes of Samuel Daniel (London, 1623). Collected Works, I, 102-4.

      Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, 'Even now that Care which on thy Crowne attends'
    • PeM 2 ff. 3r-4v

      Copy.

      Facsimile in Noel Kinnamon, The Sidney Psalms: The Penshurst and Tixall Manuscripts, EMS, 2 (1990), 139-61 (p. 145).

      Collected Works, I, 110-12 (a variant text on pp. 113-15).

      Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, To the Angell spirit of the most excellent Sir Philip Sidney ('To thee pure sprite, to thee alone's addres't')

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