Pamphilia to Amphilanthus [manuscript], ca. 1615-ca. 1620.
Wroth, Mary, Lady, approximately 1586-approximately 1640, author.; Reed, Isaac, 1742-1807, former owner.; Heber, Richard, 1773-1833, former owner.; Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.

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Title
Pamphilia to Amphilanthus [manuscript], ca. 1615-ca. 1620.
Description
[2], 65, [2] leaves ; 19 x 14 cm
Associated name
Wroth, Mary, Lady, approximately 1586-approximately 1640, author.
Reed, Isaac, 1742-1807, former owner.
Heber, Richard, 1773-1833, former owner.
Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.
Scope and content
Consists of 117 autograph poems by Lady Mary Sidney Wroth, with her own corrections and revisions. Six appear nowhere else in Wroth's manuscripts or published works. Nine poems were shortly afterwards interspersed throughout her prose romance, The Countess of Montgomery's Urania, 1621 (STC 26051). Includes the earliest known version of the sonnet and song sequence Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, which was printed at the end of Urania (1621) in a different order and with one substitution.
Note
Poems listed in the Folger index of first lines.
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Publications about material
Pamphilia to Amphilanthus / edited by G.F. Waller. Salzburg : Institut für Englische Sprache und Literatur, Universität Salzburg, 1977.
For a discussion and transcription of this manuscript see The poems of Lady Mary Wroth, ed. J.A. Roberts, 1983.
Alexander, Gavin, "Constant Works: A Framework for Reading Mary Wroth," Sidney Newsletter and Journal, 14.ii (1996/97), 5-32.
"The pen's excellencie" : treasures from the manuscript collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library / compiled and edited by Heather Wolfe. Seattle : Distributed by University of Washington Press, 2002, p. 125.
Condition
Conserved April 2017
Provenance
Isaac Reed -- [Heber] -- Phillipps MS
Exhibited
Exhibited: "The Pen's Excellencie" : Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library, curated by Heather Wolfe, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., February 6- June 8, 2002.
Cited/described in
Phillipps, T. Phillipps manuscripts, 9283
Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, 22.50
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Genre/form
Manuscripts (documents)
Poems.
Songs.

Item Details

Call number
V.a.104
Folger-specific note
Curatorial file available.
Folger accession
cs22