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A dream of bounden dutie : dedicated to Queen Elizabeth

Available Online: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3639k57z
Title: A dream of bounden dutie : dedicated to Queen Elizabeth
Name: Archer, Michell, Elizabeth I, Queen of Great Britain (dedicatee)
Date: 1580
Item Type: Text
Physical Format: Codices, Poems, Manuscripts, English, Manuscripts, Renaissance, manuscripts (documents)
Description: Poem dedicated to Queen Elizabeth that is evidently unpublished. Consists of dedication; introductory verses in rhyming couplets; poem proper in 224 seven-line stanzas, divided into seven parts or books.
Extent: 61 leaves : parchment ; 134 x 152 (109 x 69) mm bound to 140 x 156 mm
Language: English
Coverage: 16th century
Note: Ms. codex., Title and author taken from verso of front endleaf. Author statement occurs before statement of dedication: A Dream of Bounden Dutie by Michell Archer. Dedicated to Queen Elizabeth., Author's name spelled "Mighell Archar" at end of dedication (f. 1v). At end of work author's last name given as "Archer"., Dedication (f. 1r): "My unlearned travayle and symple invention by me named a dreame of bounden duetie I hit heare dedicate unto you my moste Sovereigne redoubted ... Ladye to yis ende and extent that when youre moste royall estate and excellent Ma[jes]tie shall wexe wery of grave profounde studie as well phylosophicall as matter apperteynynge to publique governement and Common Weale. Then yis my wellment ignorance might be taken into your gratius handes ... ", Incipit of prologue (f. 2r): In a mornyng before ye day / It was in January and not in May / Were it for watching or labour / So sound I slept that lute ne tabour / ..., Foliation: Parchment, i (18th-century paper) + 61 + i (18th-century paper); [1-61]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto., Layout: Written in seven-line stanzas; ruled in red ink., Script: Written in an English court script by a single hand., Decoration: First word of each part and all proper names rubricated., Binding: 18th-century green velvet. Front cover board and first five quires completely detached. Cover peeled off of spine., Origin: Written in England, ca. 1580 (Zacour-Hirsch).
Relation: Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3639k57z
Subject: English literature -- 16th century, English poetry -- 16th century, English poetry, English literature
Physical Location: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 199
Provenance: Formerly owned by Narcissus Luttrell (monogram and date, 1693, f. 1r)., Sold by Raphael King (London), cat. 50 (1950), no. 135.
Rights: https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Bibnumber: 9915805963503681

IIIF manifest: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3639k57z/manifest

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1451

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 199

Title:

A dream of bounden dutie; dedicated to Queen Elizabeth /

A dream of bounden dutie

Author:

Archer, Michell

Michell Archer Linked Data indicator

WIKIDATA

Place:

England

TGN

Date:

1580?

sixteenth century (dates CE) Linked Data indicator

AAT

Language:

eng

English

WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment

AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 61 leaves : parchment ; 134 x 152 (109 x 69) mm bound to 140 x 156 mm

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title and author taken from verso of front endleaf. Author statement occurs before statement of dedication: A Dream of Bounden Dutie by Michell Archer. Dedicated to Queen Elizabeth.
Author's name spelled "Mighell Archar" at end of dedication (f. 1v). At end of work author's last name given as "Archer".
Dedication (f. 1r): "My unlearned travayle and symple invention by me named a dreame of bounden duetie I hit heare dedicate unto you my moste Sovereigne redoubted ... Ladye to yis ende and extent that when youre moste royall estate and excellent Ma[jes]tie shall wexe wery of grave profounde studie as well phylosophicall as matter apperteynynge to publique governement and Common Weale. Then yis...
Incipit of prologue (f. 2r): In a mornyng before ye day / It was in January and not in May / Were it for watching or labour / So sound I slept that lute ne tabour / ...
Foliation: Parchment, i (18th-century paper) + 61 + i (18th-century paper); [1-61]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in seven-line stanzas; ruled in red ink.
Script: Written in an English court script by a single hand.
Decoration: First word of each part and all proper names rubricated.
Binding: 18th-century green velvet. Front cover board and first five quires completely detached. Cover peeled off of spine.
Origin: Written in England, ca. 1580 (Zacour-Hirsch).
Formerly owned by Narcissus Luttrell (monogram and date, 1693, f. 1r).
Sold by Raphael King (London), cat. 50 (1950), no. 135.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Renaissance

poems

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, English

English poetry

Sixteenth century

English literature

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9915805963503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3639k57z/manifest