King Johan (DS9649) (Q42951)
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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18618741, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861874, mssHM 3)
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| English | King Johan (DS9649) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18618741, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861874, mssHM 3) |
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22 July 2024
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John, King of England, 1167-1216--Drama
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between 1540 and 1560
16. century
1540Gregorian
1560Gregorian
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Extent: ff. 35 : paper ; 211 x 310 mm
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Title supplied from printed catalog.
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Support: Paper.
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Script: Secretary script.
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Layout: Pt. 1, 310 x 211 (240-253 x 135) mm. in folio; reconstructed collation, all leaves now separated: 111(-the last 2 leaves; + ff. 12, 14, i.e. pt. 2), leaf signatures, a-k with facing pages paired by matching letters in the inner lower margin. 38-49 lines of verse; vertical bounding lines perhaps formed by folding. Pt. 2, ff. 12 and 14 are inserts, cut down to the size of their added...
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Watermark(s): Pt. 1, Main, 2 slightly different variations of one watermark, somewhat similar to Briquet 11375, Aire 1549; pt. 2, Unidentified cross and globe/mountains countermarked "1558"; a second watermark in this section not recognized.
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Span folios: ff. 1-35v.
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Pt. 1, ca. 1538, ff. 1-11, 13, 15-22, book block = 310 x 211 mm, by a scribe other than John Bale, with some revisions in that same scribe's hand; pt. 2, ca. 1558-60, ff. 12, 14, 23-35, book block = 228-236 x 170, written by John Bale, who also revised pt. 1, correcting and inserting additional passages in the margins and on separate leaves (ff. 12, 14). Early pagination omits ff. 21-22, which...
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Assigned Date: s. XVImed.
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Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 9/4/2009.
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Discovered sometime between 1831-38 from among some old papers, probably once belonging to the Corporation of Ipswich (Collier, ed., p. vi) and transferred to the collection of the Duke of Devonshire, through the agency of Collier himself. Two leaves, ff. 21-22, were missing from the manuscript at that time and were only reunited with the rest in 1847; they had been found stitched in the copy...
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8 June 2026
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