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Supplement to the 'Faery Queene', 1635

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ee.03.53

Scope and Contents

'A supplement of the Faery Queene, in three bookes, wherein are allegorically described affaires both military and civill of these times', beginning ('Seventh book', canto I stanza 1) 'Aurora still bewailing Memnon's fate ...', and continuing to stanza 47 of canto 12 in the ninth book. There are numerous corrections here and there, and whole stanzas erased. On the title page is the following entry by the same hand: 'This was finished anno dom. 1635'. The preface embodies part of Spenser's letter to Sir Walter Raleigh. By Ralph Knevet.

Dates

  • Creation: 1635

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

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Extent

1 volume(s) (376 pages + prefatory matter.)

Language of Materials

English

Custodial History

From the Library of John Moore (1646–1714), Bishop of Ely (‘Royal Library’), no. 64.

Physical Description

Paper.

Repository Details

Part of the Cambridge University Library Repository

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