MS |
1627 |
MS Short Title |
SHAKESPEARE: HENRY IV, PART 1 |
Text |
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: HENRY IV, PART 1, ACT II, SCENES 1 AND 3. A LITERARY PARALLEL OR ACTOR'S PART |
Description |
MS in English on paper, Oxford or London, ca. 1586-1600, 1 f., 18x12 cm, single column, (16x10 cm), 29-32 lines of blank verse in a good, fluent, full English secretary script, ruled around in red ink with speakers' names outside the rules, no dividers but with stage directions boxed. |
Binding |
Oxford, 1586 or later, calf with triple blind fillets, original sewing on 4 cords with characteristic Oxford hatch-marks in blind on the lower edges, with the Shakespeare leaf as 2 endleaves, now separated. |
Context |
Endleaves of Homer: Odyssea, 3rd edition, C. Gessner, ed., Genève 1586, Adams 794. |
Provenance |
1. Bloomsbury, London, 14.1.1988:27; 2. Patrick King, Stratford, Bulletin 15(1989):96; 3. Quaritch cat. 1120(1989):89; 4. Pickering & Chatto, London, cat. 676:105, and cat. 693:19; 5. Sotheby's 21.7.1992:20; 4. Quaritch and Pickering & Chatto, London. |
Published |
Freeman, Arthur: The "Tapster Manuscript": An Analogue of Shakespeare's Henry the Fourth Part One; in: Peter Beal and Jeremy Griffiths, eds: English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700. Vol. 6. London 1997, pp. 93-105. |
Exhibited |
The Bibliophile Society of Norway's 75th anniversary. Bibliofilklubben 75 år. Jubileumsutstilling Bok og Samler, Universitetsbliblioteket 27.2 - 26.4.1997. |
Mentioned |
H.R. Woudhuysen: Manuscripts at Auction: January 1989 to December 1990; in: Peter Beal and Jeremy Griffiths, eds: English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700. Vol. 3. London 1992. |
Place of origin |
England |
Dates |
ca 1586 - 1600 |