The massacre at Paris (fragment) [manuscript], ca. 1590.

The massacre at Paris (fragment) [manuscript], ca. 1590.

1 leaf ; 18 x 20.

A fragment of a single leaf of, presumably, a primary draft of the play. Contains passages that were omitted in the print edition. The handwriting may well be Marlowe's.

Bowers places fragment in Scene 17, lines 806-820 (which is Scene 19 in Gill edition).

Adams, J.Q. "The Massacre at Paris Leaf." The library, 4th ser., XIV (1934), p. 447-469.
Noswroth, J.M. "The Marlowe Manuscript." The library, 4th ser., XXVI (1946), p. 158-171.
The complete works of Christopher Marlowe / edited by Fredson Bowers. Cambridge : University Press, 1973, v. 1, p. 355-360, and 390n.
Petti, Anthony G. English literary hands from Chaucer to Dryden. London : E. Arnold, 1977, p. 85.
The complete works of Christopher Marlowe / edited by Roma Gill. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1987-1998, v. 5, p.295-298, and Appendix.

Bound in 19th century green levant morocco by Francis Bedford.

Formerly MS 448.17.
Rodd -- Collier -- Halliwell-Phillipps -- Marsden Perry.

Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, 448.17
Halliwell-Phillipps, J.O. Calendar of the Shakespearean rarities, drawings & engravings formerly preserved at Hollingbury Copse (1891), 287

France -- Paris.

J.b.8

cs448.17