In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and Their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England
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1998
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Author:
Peter Beal |
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| Number of Pages |
313 pp.
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Oxford University Press
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Oxford, England
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| ISBN |
9780198184713
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Contents:
In praise of scribes
`It shall not therefore kill itself; that is, not bury itself': Donne's Biathanatos and its text
The Feathery Scribe
`Hoping they shall only come to your merciful eyes': Sidney's Letter to Queen Elizabeth and its transmission
`The virtuous Mrs Philips' and 'that whore Castlemaine': Orinda and her Apotheosis, 1664-1668
Appendix I. Seventeenth-century characters of clerks and scriveners
Appendix II. Manuscripts by the Feathery Scribe
Appendix III. Catalogue of papers in Ralph Starkey's study
Appendix IV. Manuscript texts of Sidney's Letter to Queen Elizabeth
Appendix V. Katherine Philips's letter to Lady Fletcher
Appendix VI. John Taylor's verse satire on Katherine Philips
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