In praise of scribes : manuscripts and their makers in seventeenth-century England /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Beal, Peter
Corporate Author:	Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1998 Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1998 Oxford : New York : 1998
Series:	Lyell lectures ; 1995-1996 Lyell lectures 1995-1996
Subjects:	1500 - 1700 1500-1700 17th century Early modern, 1500-1700 Authors and readers > England > History > 17th century English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > Manuscripts English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > Criticism, Textual Literature publishing > England > History > 17th century Manuscripts, English > Editing Manuscripts, English > History > 17th century Scribes > England Scriptoria > England > History > 17th century Transmission of texts Authors and readers Criticism, Textual Editing English literature English literature > Early modern English literature > Early modern > Manuscripts History Intellectual life Literature publishing Manuscripts, English Scribes Scriptoria Great Britain > Intellectual life > 17th century England Great Britain Criticism, interpretation, etc Manuscripts

Table of Contents:

1 In praise of scribes
2. 'It shall not therefore kill itself; that is, not bury itself': Donne's Biathanatos and its text
3. Feathery Scribe
4. 'Hoping they shall only come to your merciful eyes': Sidney's Letter to Queen Elizabeth and its transmission
5. 'The virtuous Mrs Philips' and 'that whore Castlemaine': Orinda and her apotheosis, 1664-1668
App. I. Seventeenth-century characters of clerks and scriveners
App. II. Manuscripts by the Feathery Scribe
App. III. Catalogue of papers in Ralph Starkey's study
App. IV. Manuscript texts of Sidney's Letter to Queen Elizabeth
App. V. Katherine Philips's letter to Lady Fletcher
App. VI. John Taylor's verse satire on Katherine Philips.
1 In praise of scribes
2. 'It shall not therefore kill itself; that is, not bury itself': Donne's Biathanatos and its text
3. The Feathery Scribe
4. 'Hoping they shall only come to your merciful eyes': Sidney's Letter to Queen Elizabeth and its transmission
5. 'The virtuous Mrs Philips' and 'that whore Castlemaine': Orinda and her apotheosis, 1664-1668
App. I. Seventeenth-century characters of clerks and scriveners
App. II. Manuscripts by the Feathery Scribe
App. III. Catalogue of papers in Ralph Starkey's study
App. IV. Manuscript texts of Sidney's Letter to Queen Elizabeth
App. V. Katherine Philips's letter to Lady Fletcher
App. VI. John Taylor's verse satire on Katherine Philips.

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