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The Viscount De L'Isle, Penshurst Place

  • MS 1226

    Copy, in a professional secretary and italic hand, 16 folio leaves, in contemporary vellum.

    Later owned by Robert Sidney (1563-1626), with some corrections on the last leaf in his hand.

    Late 16th century.

    Edited from this MS in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, pp. 73-121. Collated in Feuillerat, III, 317-25.

    A microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic. S82).

    • SiP 175
      No description or publication history available.

      First published in London, 1595. Feuillerat, III, 1-46.

      Sir Philip Sidney, A Defence of Poetry

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    A calligraphic copy of Psalms 4-150, transcribed, probably from the Countess of Pembroke's working copy, by John Davies (1565-1618) of Hereford, 135 folio leaves, imperfect; lacking a title and first three psalms, in later red leather.

    Late 16th century.

    Edited from this MS in Rathmell. Collated in Ringler and described pp. 546-7. Facsimile of Psalm 117 in John Buxton, Sir Philip Sidney and the English Renaissance, revised edition (London, 1964), after p. 156. Discussed, with facsimile examples of ff. 45v, 54v, 118r, and 135r, in Noel Kinnamon, The Sidney Psalms: The Penshurst and Tixall Manuscripts, EMS, 2 (1990), 139-61.

    • SiP 84
      No description or publication history available.

      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

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    Epitome of Books I-III, with ten of the poems, based on the edition of 1627; entitled The History of Arcadia.

    17th century.

    This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 531.

    • SiP 105
      No description or publication history available.

      The unfinished revised version of Arcadia (the New Arcadia) first published in London, 1590. Edited, as The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (The New Arcadia), by Victor Skretkowicz (Oxford, 1987).

      Sir Philip Sidney, The New Arcadia

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    Autograph MS, almost entirely in Wroth's formal italic hand, 49 quarto leaves, in contemporary dark red morocco gilt.

    Probably copied from the Huntington MS (WrM 14).

    c.1620.

    A complete facsimile of this MS, with transcription, in Brennan's edition. Illustration of the cover in Josephine A. Roberts, Deciphering Women's Pastoral: Coded Language in Wroth's Loves's Victory, in Representing Women in Renaissance England, ed. Claude J. Summers and Ted-Larry Pebworth (Columbia & London, 1997), pp. 163-74 (p. 166).

    • *WrM 13
      Autograph
      No description or publication history available.

      Play including songs and verse. Extracts edited in James O. Halliwell, A Brief Description of the Ancient and Modern Manuscripts Preserved in the Public Library, Plymouth (London, 1853), pp. 212-36. Edited in full in Lady Mary Wroth's Loves Victory The Penshurst Manuscript, ed. Michael G. Brennan (Roxburgh Club, London, 1988[=1990]).

      Lady Mary Wroth, Love's Victory

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    MS of a work in Latin by William Temple (1555-1627), Sidney's secretary in Flushing, including numerous quotations from Sidney's Defence of Poetry, partly in Temple's own hand.

    Discussed in J.P. Thorne, A Ramistical Commentary on Sidney's An Apologie for Poetrie, MP, 54 (1957), 158-64. Edited from this MS, with a translation, by John Webster, as William Temple's Analysis of Sir Philip Sidney's Apology for Poetry (Binghamton, NY, 1984).

    • SiP 226
      No description or publication history available.
      Sir Philip Sidney, Analysis tractationis de poesi contextae a nobilissimo viro Philippo Sidneio Equite Auratu

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