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" An edition of BL Harley MS 7392(2) "
Edmondes, Jessica
May, Steven W. ; Shrank, Cathy
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Latin Dissertation
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1101213
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TLets684549
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Edmondes, Jessica
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An edition of BL Harley MS 7392(2)\ Edmondes, JessicaMay, Steven W. ; Shrank, Cathy
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University of Sheffield
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2015
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2015
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Ph.D.
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British Library Harley MS 7392(2) is a verse anthology compiled over a period of a few years during the 1580s from multiple sources. Its owner and principal scribe, Humfrey Coningsby, drew exclusively on texts circulating in manuscript, and predominantly the work of contemporary writers - Dyer, Sidney, Gorges, Ralegh, Elizabeth I, the Earl of Oxford, Whetstone, Breton, Lyly, Peele and Watson - in a range of genres: lyric, panegyric, epigram, posy, political satire and libel. Coningsby also added at least two of his own compositions, and one student friend, Robert Allott, was allowed to transcribe copies of his own amateur verse. There are also a large number of anonymous poems not found in any other manuscripts or printed books. The edition is in two volumes. Volume 1 provides an introduction, a semidiplomatic transcription of the manuscript, and first-line and author indexes. Volume 2 contains notes for each of the 171 entries (numbered in this edition: i-xii and 1-159); and where external copies of the poems survive, these are collated to establish any relationships between the texts that indicate common networks of transmission. This edition also provides a context for the compilation of the anthology. The compiler's familial ties and institutional affiliations, set out in the introduction, explain both the 'privileged' access to Sidney's poems and the presence of the work of professional writers affiliated to the Inns of Court. What emerges from this investigation is a reader interested in poetry for its literary value, showing a concern for textual integrity and interest in the question of authorship. This modifies the model of a manuscript readership that regarded lyric verse as primarily serving a social function.
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May, Steven W.
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Shrank, Cathy
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University of Sheffield
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