University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 199

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DS ID:

DS1451

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 199

Title:

A dream of bounden dutie : dedicated to Queen Elizabeth /

Author:

Archer, Michell

Michell Archer WIKIDATA

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

[1580?]

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

eng

English WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

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

Note:

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...
Origin: Written in England, ca. 1580 (Zacour-Hirsch).
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".
Ms. codex.
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.
Binding: 18th-century green velvet. Front cover board and first five quires completely detached. Cover peeled off of spine.
Decoration: First word of each part and all proper names rubricated.
Sold by Raphael King (London), cat. 50 (1950), no. 135.
Formerly owned by Narcissus Luttrell (monogram and date, 1693, f. 1r).

Keyword:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, English

Manuscripts, Renaissance

poems

Sixteenth century

English literature

English poetry

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9915805963503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3639k57z/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania