Pompey,

This material is held atNational Library of Wales / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru

  • Reference
    • GB 210 NLW MS 21867B.
  • Alternative Id.
      (alternative) vtls004249771
      (alternative) (WlAbNL)0000249771
  • Dates of Creation
    • [c. 1662]-[c. 1663] /
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 41 ff. ; 205 x 150 mm. When acquired, remains of raised bands and gold-tooled calf along the spine were evidence of having come from a deliberately broken-up volume; re-bound at NLW.
  • Location
    • ARCH/MSS (GB0210)

Scope and Content

A copy of 'Pompey', a translation by Katherine Philips (The Matchless Orinda) of 'La Mort de Pompée' by Pierre Corneille, together with songs by the translator, a prologue by Wentworth Dillon, earl of Roscommon, and an epilogue by Sir Edward Dering. The text bears corrections and additions in Katherine Philips's hand, e.g. the last six lines on f. 38. 'Pompey' was first performed and published in Dublin in 1663. Textual differences indicate that this version cannot be derived from the subsequent London editions of 1663 and 1667 [first, Dublin, edition not available for consultation in NLW].

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Acquisition Information

Pickering & Chatto Ltd.; London; Purchase; 1982

Note

Title based on contents.

Preferred citation: NLW MS 21867B.

Other Finding Aids

The contents of NLW MSS 21701-22852 are indexed in greater detail in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, vol. 8 (Aberystwyth, 1999).

Related Material

Another text, with further variance, is to be found in NLW MS 776B.

Bibliography

For discussions of this manuscript, see The Collected Works of Katherine Philips ... Vol. III: The Translations ed. G. Greer and R. Little (Stump Cross, Essex, 1993), pp. ix-xi, and E. Hageman and A. Sununu, 'New Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the "Matchless Orinda"', English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700, 4 (1993), 174-219 (pp. 187-94).

Additional Information

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