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An Edition of British Library, Additional Ms 36529 AN EDITION OF BRITISH LIBRARY, ADDITIONAL MS 36529 A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY EDWARD P. M. SMITH SCHOOL OF ENGLISH, LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD APRIL 2014 VOLUME I: TRANSCRIPT Vol. I 2 Vol. I CONTENTS Abstract 4 Acknowledgements 5 Sources and Abbreviations 7 Editorial Introduction 12 Text of BL, Add. MS 36529 64 Indices: Index 1: Alphabetised First-Line Index 267 Index 2: Author-Based First-Line Index 270 Appendices: Appendix 1: English Translation of Sancta salutiferi nascentia semina verbi 273 [reproduced by kind permission of Dr Gerard Kilroy] Appendix 2: Image of BL, Add. MS 36529, fol. 45v 287 3 Vol. I ABSTRACT This semi-diplomatic edition of BL, Add. MS 36529 presents the first full transcription of, and commentary on, the English poems of that manuscript, which was compiled over the second half of the sixteenth century. Amid the seventy entries in the miscellany are twenty- eight poems by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1516x17-1547) and nine (two doubtful) by Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542), most of of which are substantive texts. These are joined by the poems of other important mid-Tudor poets such as Sir John Cheke (1514-1557), Sir Thomas Chaloner (1521-1565), Thomas Phaer (1510?-1560), and the initial prime mover of the manuscript, John Harington of Stepney (1517x1520-1582). Seventeen poems are apparently unique to the manuscript; these include certain of the Harington pieces, and a sequence of twelve sonnet translations from Petrarch’s Rime sparse which probably also have a Harington provenance. Many poems are therefore glossed here for the first time; for others, particularly the Wyatt and Surrey poems, the collation of texts and stemmatic analysis is more thoroughgoing than is available in twentieth-century editions of these poets. The commentaries supplied have been designed to aid the comprehension of conscientious undergraduate students of English Literature. In addition to the transcription and commentaries, this edition presents research on the compilers of the manuscript, the Harington family of Stepney and Kelston, who were also responsible for the Arundel Harington Manuscript. In particular, it discusses the elder Harington’s instigation of the manuscript, but also considers the role of his son, Sir John Harington (bap. 1561, d. 1612), who used it and probably contributed to it in one instance. The variety and quality of the texts in the manuscript suggest that the elder Harington was able to access important textual networks; several of its poems survive too in the most famous printed miscellany of the period, Tottel’s Songes and Sonettes (1557). The common denominator of the items in Add. MS 36529 is their soberness: literary value appears to have been an important criterion for selection, and the manuscript as a whole evidences the Haringtons’ pride in English letters. The edition reveals Add. MS 36529 to be a miscellany which interacts fully with the worlds of manuscript and print, and thus one which merits an important place in accounts of sixteenth-century literary and manuscript culture. 4 Vol. I ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Over the course of this thesis, I have accrued a significant number of debts. Special thanks are due to my two supervisors, Prof. Cathy Shrank, and Prof. Steven W. May, for their keen insight, kindness of spirit, and patience. This thesis would be even more sprawling than it is without their devoted supervision. At every stage of my research, they have given me a thorough grounding in the business of editing early modern documents, and I hope to have done the field some justice with this edition. Many thanks to the Arts and Humanities Research Council, whose funding made the whole project possible. I am grateful to His Grace the Duke of Norfolk for permission to consult that most famous volume, the Arundel Harington Manuscript, in the Archives at Arundel Castle; he has also graciously allowed me to include images from the manuscript in this thesis. Sara Rodger and Heather Warne aided my studies considerably during my toils with Arundel Harington. Thanks are owing to the Permissions Department at the British Library for their generosity in allowing me to reproduce images from BL, Add. MS 36529. I am indebted to the helpful staff in the manuscripts reading room at the British Library, and the library staff at Cambridge University Library and the Wren Library at Trinity College, Cambridge. Special thanks to Dr Julian Harrison, Zoe Stansell, and Zoe Wilcox at the British Library (as well as Alan Bryson) for going above and beyond the call of duty to assist me with the vexed matter of collating the manuscript. Prof. Eric Johnson and Rebecca Jewett of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library at Ohio State University were unfailingly prompt, polite, and helpful in their correspondence with me about the Harington volume in their collections. Jason Powell liberally donated time and expertise in sharing with me his thoughts on the Haringtons and their Wyatt sources. Gerard Kilroy kindly sent me the typescript of his English translation of Edmund Campion’s Sancta salutiferi nascentia semina verbi, which I have reproduced litteratim in my thesis. I owe thanks to all the scholars and researchers who have read draft commentaries, recommended primary or secondary sources, or have generally led me to contemplate things anew: Sylvia Adamson; Alan Bryson, whose ability to recall the lineages of all noble families in sixteenth-century England at the drop of a hat is a source of wonder; Joshua Eckhardt; Jessica Edmondes; A. S. G. Edwards; Mel Evans; Helen Graham-Matheson; Nicky Hallett; Arthur F. Marotti; Marcus Nevitt; Michelle O’Callaghan; Mike Pincombe; Peter Redford; Emma Rhatigan; Gavin Schwartz-Leeper; Victoria Van Hyning; Claire Bryony Williams; Gillian Woods; and Henry Woudhuysen. Reza Taher and Dr Rebecca Fisher have been 5 Vol. I steadfast friends; residents past and present on Floor 2 of Jessop West have made my study atmosphere a congenial one. Special thanks to my parents, Helen and Peter Smith, for their devoted and unstinting help, both emotional and pecuniary. The cat boys Arthur and Duncan have plied me with affection and no small amount of diversion when days were long. Finally, my greatest thanks of all to Shannon Kennedy, whose untiring love and support, given so readily and generously, has been inestimable. 6 Vol. I SOURCES AND ABBREVIATIONS Manuscripts AH Harrington MS Temp. Eliz. (Arundel Harington Manuscript) B Trinity College Dublin, MS 160 (Blage Manuscript) D British Library, Additional MS 17492 (Devonshire Manuscript) E British Library, Egerton MS 2711 Hy78 British Library, Harley MS 78 P British Library, Additional MS 36529 Printed Books A George Puttenham (1589) The Arte of English Poesie, London. Bible Miles Coverdale (1535) Biblia the Bible, Cologne. BW Michael Drayton (1603) The Barrons Wars in the raigne of Edward the second. With Englands Heroicall Epistles, London. Ch1 Raphael Holinshed (1577a) The First volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande, London. Ch2 Raphael Holinshed (1577b) The First volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande, London. Ch3 Raphael Holinshed (1587) The First and second volumes of Chronicles, London. Dr1 Michael Drayton (1598) Englands Heroicall Epistles, London. Dr2 Michael Drayton (1599) Englands Heroicall Epistles, London. Dr3 Michael Drayton (1600) Englands Heroicall Epistles, London. Dr4 Michael Drayton (1602) Englands Heroicall Epistles, London. Myrrour William Baldwin, et al. (1559/1563) A Myrrour for Magistrates, London. NA1 Henry Harington (ed.) (1769-1775) Nugæ Antiquæ: Being a miscellaneous collection of original papers in prose and verse, wrtitten during the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Queen Mary, Elizabeth, and King James: by Sir John Harington, Knt. And by others who lived in those times, 2 Vols, London. NA2 Henry Harington (ed.) (1779) Nugæ Antiquæ, 3 Vols, London. NA3 Thomas Park (ed.) (1804) Nugæ Antiquæ, 2 Vols, London. 7 Vol. I PO Johannes Campensis (1534) Psalmorum omnium, Paris. PD Johannes Campenis (1539) A Paraphrasis vpon all the Psalmes of Dauid, trans. Miles Coverdale, London. S John Hall (?) (1549/50) Certayne Chapters of the Prouerbes of Salamon, London. T1 Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, et al. (1557), Songes and Sonettes, Quarto 1, London. T2 Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, et al. (1557), Songes and Sonettes, Quarto 2, London. Editions Chaucer Larry D. Benson et al. (eds) (2008) The Riverside Chaucer, 3rd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press. Foxwell A. K. Foxwell (ed.) (1913) The Poems of Sir Thomas Wiat, 2 Vols, London: University of London Press. H&M Amanda Holton and Tom MacFaul (eds) (2011) Tottel’s Miscellany: Songs and Sonnets of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Sir Thomas Wyatt and Others, London: Penguin. Harrier Richard Harrier (ed.) (1975) The Canon of Sir Thomas Wyatt’s Poetry, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Hughey Ruth Hughey (ed.) (1960) The Arundel Harington Manuscript of Tudor Poetry, 2 Vols, Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press. Hughey, 1971 Ruth Hughey (ed.) (1971) John Harington of Stepney: Tudor Gentleman, Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press. McGaw William McGaw (ed.) (2012) A Critical Edition of the Complete Poems of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press. M&T Kenneth Muir and Patricia Thomson (eds) (1969) Collected Poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. Nott George Frederick Nott (ed.) (1965; first pub. 1815-1816) The Works of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, and of Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder, 2 Vols, Facsimile Edition, Brooklyn, NY: AMS Press. Jones Emrys Jones (ed.) (1964) Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey: Poems, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 8 Vol. I Padelford Frederick Morgan Padelford (ed.) (1966; first pub. 1920) The Poems of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, New York: Haskell House. Rebholz R. A. Rebholz (ed.) (1978) Sir Thomas Wyatt: The Complete Poems, Harmondsworth: Penguin.
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