Arundel Harington Manuscript of Tudor Poetry

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The

Arundel Harington

Manuscript

of Tudor Poetry

VOLUME I

EDITED BY "RUTH HUGHEY

THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

PRESS
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The Arundel Harington
Manuscript of Tudor Poetry
EDITED BY RUTH HUGHEY
In 1934, in the library at Arundel Castle,
while searching for compositions by Eliza­
bethan women, Ruth Hughey came across
a handsome folio volume containing more
than three hundred poems of the Tudor era.
Her discovery was of primary impor­
tance, for the work proved to be one of
two poetry manuscripts borrowed from
those preserved by the Harington family
by Dr . George Frederick Nott, wh o used
them in preparing his elaborate two-volume
edition of Surrey and Wyatt at the begin­
ning of the nineteenth century. The first of
these two, the Wyatt autograph volume,
which Nott designated "Harington M S .
No . I," was readily available to the early
twentieth-century editors of the poetry of
Wyatt and Surrey, in the Egerton collec­
tion at the British Museum j but the where­
abouts of its companion volume, which
Nott had designated "Harington M S . No.
II," was unknown to scholars, and it was
said to have disappeared.
Miss Hughey has restored it to the
world of Tudor scholarship. The present
work is the result of her long and intensive
study of the manuscript, its provenance, its
relation to contemporary manuscripts and
books, and its importance as a record of
Tudor poetry.
Compiled by John Harington of Stepney
and Sir John Harington of Kelston, the
Arundel manuscript contains poems rang­
ing from the time of Henry Howard Earl
of Surrey, Sir Thomas Wyatt, and Sir John
Cheke, to the period of Edward de Vere
Earl of Oxford, Sir Philip Sidney, Sir
Walter Ralegh, and Henry Constable. It
contains two poems by Queen Elizabeth I,
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