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R.7.32

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Shelfmark R.7.32
Manuscript Title

Sir Fulke Greville, Life of Sir Philip Sidney (volume 1)
Alternative Title

Grevill's Life of Sidney (volume 1)
James Number 774
Century 16th
Physical Description

25 lines to a page. This is the first of two volumes, neatly written.
Provenance

From Puckering.
Second Folio left such
Donor Puckering [formerly Newton], Sir Henry, third baronet (bap. 1618, d. 1701), Royalist Army Officer and Local Politician
Folio 75 ff.
Material Paper
Notes

This is the first of two volumes, the second is R.7.33, available here: https://mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/R.7.33
IIIF Manifest URL https://mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/R.7.32/manifest.json
Online Since 25/10/2023

Contents

On f.1v: Title:
A dedication to Sr Philip Sidney.

Volume 1 contains chapters I - XI
Incipit: The difference which I haue found betweene tymes and consequently the changes of life into which theire naturall vicissitudes do violently carry men.

Volume 2 contains chapters XII-XVIII
Incipit: Thus shall it suffice me to have trode out some steps of this Brittaine Scipio.

It is the Life of Sir Philip Sidney by Fulk Greville, Lord Brooke, first printed in 1652: also by Brydges in 1816, and by Grosart in 1870.

Bibliography

Gouws, J., ed., The prose works of Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke (Oxford, 1986)

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