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Collection:
Folger Shakespeare Library Digital Image Collection
Source Title:
Historical extracts [manuscript], ca. 1625.
Source Created or Published:
ca. 1625
Physical Description:
fol. 23v || 24r
Source Call Number:
X.d.393
Digital Image File Name:
62681
Digital Image Type:
FSL collection
Hamnet Bib ID:
193388
Hamnet Holdings ID:
279963
HAMNET CATALOG RECORD:
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Title (Hamnet):
Historical extracts [manuscript], ca. 1625.
Alt. Title (Hamnet):
Folger card catalog title: Historical commonplace book, ca. 1625
Physical Description (Hamnet):
1 v. (37 leaves)
Notes (Hamnet):
Includes apparently contemporary fair copy accounts in a fine italic hand of Sir John Norris's and Sir Francis Drake's expedition to Portugal, 1589; the camp and siege of Kinsale, Ireland, 1601; Queen Elizabeth I's last three months, 1603; and the rebellion of Shane O'Neile, 1558 (leaves 30-34); a recipe for "A dormant drink" (leaf 34) with all of the ingredients written backwards (i.e., yppop=poppy); accounts from Richard II, 1394-1395; almanac entries; extracts from Stow's Annals, 1605, p. 498-499 (leaves 34v-35r); extracts from late editions of Camden's History of Elizabeth, which includes account of her last three months of life (leaves 23r-26v); Elizabeth's epitaph (leaf 28).
Notes (Hamnet):
First leaf damaged, affecting text.
Notes (Hamnet):
Leaf 34 To sleep, perchance to dream : a commonplace book / [edited by] Carole Levin and Garrett Sullivan, with Steven Galbraith and Heather Wolfe. Washington, DC : Folger Shakespeare Library, 2009.
Notes (Hamnet):
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2003. Elizabeth I (p. 127) DFo
Notes (Hamnet):
Leaf 34r Exhibited: To Sleep, Perchance to Dream, curated by Carole Levin and Garrett Sullivan, Folger Shakespeare Library, February 19-May 30, 2009.
Notes (Hamnet):
Conserved ca. 2003-2009 Paper repaired; rebound and housed in a case.
Citations (Hamnet):
Ricci, S. de. Medieval and Renaissance mss. (suppl.), 4444
Subject (Hamnet):
Drake, Francis, Sir, 1540?-1596 -- Manuscripts.
Subject (Hamnet):
Norris, John, Sir, 1547?-1597 -- Manuscripts.
Subject (Hamnet):
O'Neill, Shane, ca. 1530-1567 -- Manuscripts.
Subject (Hamnet):
Insurgency -- Ireland -- 16th century -- Manuscripts.
Subject (Hamnet):
Kinsale (Ireland) -- History -- 16th century -- Manuscripts.
Subject (Hamnet):
Portugal -- Description and travel -- Manuscripts.
Subject (Hamnet):
Manuscripts -- England -- 17th century.
Subject (Hamnet):
Manuscripts -- Ireland -- 17th century.
Subject (Hamnet):
Manuscripts -- Portugal -- 17th century.
Subject (Hamnet):
Anthologies -- 17th century -- Manuscripts.
Subject (Hamnet):
Cookbooks -- 17th century -- Manuscripts.
Subject (Hamnet):
Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603 -- Manuscripts.
Call Number (Hamnet):
X.d.393

Historical extracts [manuscript], ca. 1625.