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Title

A dream of bounden dutie :

Authors

• Archer, Michell

Other related names

• Elizabeth I, Queen of Great Britain, dedicatee

Call number

Ms. Codex 199
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9915805963503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122318253
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580596

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Origin

Date

ca. 1580

Place

England

Summary

Poem dedicated to Queen Elizabeth that is evidently unpublished. Consists of dedication; introductory verses in rhyming couplets; poem proper in 224 seven-line stanzas, divided into seven parts or books.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title and author taken from verso of front endleaf. Author statement occurs before statement of dedication: A Dream of Bounden Dutie by Michell Archer. Dedicated to Queen Elizabeth.
   
• Author's name spelled "Mighell Archar" at end of dedication (f. 1v). At end of work author's last name given as "Archer".
   
• Dedication (f. 1r): "My unlearned travayle and symple invention by me named a dreame of bounden duetie I hit heare dedicate unto you my moste Sovereigne redoubted ... Ladye to yis ende and extent that when youre moste royall estate and excellent Ma[jes]tie shall wexe wery of grave profounde studie as well phylosophicall as matter apperteynynge to publique governement and Common Weale. Then yis my wellment ignorance might be taken into your gratius handes ... "
   
• Incipit of prologue (f. 2r): In a mornyng before ye day / It was in January and not in May / Were it for watching or labour / So sound I slept that lute ne tabour / ...
   

Extent

61 leaves : 134 x 152 (109 x 69) mm. bound to 140 x 156 mm

Foliation

Parchment, i (18th-century paper) + 61 + i (18th-century paper); [1-61]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Parchment

Binding

18th-century green velvet. Front cover board and first five quires completely detached. Cover peeled off of spine.

Layout

Written in seven-line stanzas; ruled in red ink.

Script

Written in an English court script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Narcissus Luttrell (monogram and date, 1693, f. 1r).
   
• Sold by Raphael King (London), cat. 50 (1950), no. 135.
   

Subjects topical

• English literature--16th century
• English poetry--16th century

Genres

• Codices
• Poems
• Manuscripts, English--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 16th century
• Literature -- Poetry
• English
• England

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