EARLY MODERN ENGLISH MANUSCRIPTS
This selective bibliography of scholarship on English manuscripts, c. 1500–1660, is designed primarily for students of literature. [Updated September 14, 2023.]
A. Introductory
B. Handwriting and Transcription
C. Manuscript Circulation
D. Women’s Writing in Manuscript
E. Poetry in Manuscript
F. Verse Miscellanies
G. Other Manuscript Genres of Compilation
H. Drama in Manuscript
I. Playhouse Documents
J. Manuscript to Print
K. Print to Manuscript
L. Letters
M. Diaries and Journals
N. Historical Documents

A. INTRODUCTORY
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A1. Introductory Essays
  • Burlinson, Christopher. “Manuscript and Print, 1500–1700.” Oxford Handbooks Online. Oxford UP, 2016.
  • Ezell, Margaret J. M. “Manuscript and Print Cultures 1500–1700,” in Ingo Berensmeyer, Gert Buelens, and Marysa Demoor, eds., The Cambridge Handbook of Literary Authorship. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2019. 115–132.
  • Love, Harold. “Oral and Scribal Texts in Early Modern England,” in John Barnard, D. F. McKenzie, and Maureen Bell, eds., The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, Volume 4: 1557–1695. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002. 97–121.
  • May, Steven W. and Heather Wolfe. “Manuscripts in Tudor England,” in Kent Cartwright, ed., A Companion to Tudor Literature. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2010. 125–39.​
  • ​Wolfe, Heather. “Manuscripts in Early Modern England,” in Donna B. Hamilton, ed., A Concise Companion to English Renaissance Literature. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2006. 114–35.

A2. Major Books and Resources
  • Beal, Peter. A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology 1450–2000. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2008.
  • ​Bland, Mark. A Guide to Early Printed Books and Manuscripts. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
  • James, Kathryn. English Paleography and Manuscript Culture, 1500–1800. New Haven, CT: Yale UP, 2020.
  • Loffman, Claire and Harriet Phillips, eds. A Handbook of Editing Early Modern Texts. London: Routledge, 2018.
  • Love, Harold. The Culture and Commerce of Texts: Scribal Publication in Seventeenth-Century England. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1998.​​
  • May, Steven W. English Renaissance Manuscript Culture: The Paper Revolution. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2023 (forthcoming).
  • Woudhuysen, H.R. Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts, 1558–1640. Oxford: Clarendon, 1996.

A3. Journals
  • English Manuscript Studies, 1100–1700 (18 volumes, 1989–2013). [EMS.]
  • Journal of the Early Book Society (1997–ongoing).
  • ​Manuscripta: A Journal for Manuscript Research (1957–ongoing).
  • Manuscript Studies (2016–ongoing).
  • The Library (1889–ongoing).

A4. Online Facsimile Collections
A5. Bibliographies

B. HANDWRITING AND TRANSCRIPTION
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B1. General Introductions
  • Byrne, Muriel St. Clare. “Elizabethan Handwriting for Beginners.” RES 1 (1925): 198–209.
  • Greetham, D. C. “Reading the Text: Paleography,” in Textual Scholarship: An Introduction. New York: Garland, 1994. 169–224.
  • Ioppolo, Grace. “Early Modern Handwriting,” in Michael Hattaway, ed., A New Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture, 2 vols. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. 1:177–89.
  • James, Kathryn. “Scripts and Hands,” in English Paleography and Manuscript Culture, 1500–1800. New Haven, CT: Yale UP, 2020. 82–129.
  • Kellner, Leon. Restoring Shakespeare: A Critical Analysis of the Misreadings in Shakespeare’s Works. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1925. [See samples of letter forms on pp. 184–216.]
  • Marshall, Hilary. Palaeography for Family and Local Historians. Chichester: Phillimore, 2004.
  • McKerrow, R. B. “A Note on Elizabethan Handwriting,” in An Introduction to Bibliography for Literary Students. Oxford: Clarendon, 1927. 341–50. Rpt. in Philip Gaskell, A New Introduction to Bibliography, rev. ed. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll, 1995. 361–67.​
  • Petti, Anthony G. English Literary Hands from Chaucer to Dryden. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1977.
  • Wolfe, Heather. “The Alphabet Book: A Guide to Early Modern English Secretary Hand.” Folger Shakespeare Library, updated 2020.
  • Wolfe, Heather. “Women’s Handwriting,” in Laura Lunger Knoppers, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Women’s Writing. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2009. 21–39.

B2. Online Tutorials for Reading Early Modern Hands
B3. Examples of Hands
  • Buck, W. S. B. Examples of Handwriting 1550–1650. London: Phillimore for the Society of Genealogists, 1973.
  • Dawson, Giles E. and Laetitia Kennedy-Skipton. Elizabethan Handwriting 1500–1650: A Manual. New York: Norton, 1966.
  • Day, Lewis F. Penmanship of the XVI, XVII & XVIIIth Centuries: A Series of Typical Examples from English and Foreign Writing Books. London: B. T. Batsford, 1911.
  • Coatalen, Guillaume, and Cécile Decaix. Early Modern Hands (1450–1700)
  • Fairbank, Alfred and Bruce Dickins. The Italic Hand in Tudor Cambridge. London: Bowes and Bowes, 1962.
  • Fairbank, A. J. and R. W. Hunt. Humanistic Script of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. Oxford: Bodleian Library, 1960/1993.
  • Greg, W. W, ed. English Literary Autographs, 1550–1650. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1925–1932.
  • Jenkinson, Hilary. The Later Court Hands in England from the Fifteenth to the Seventeenth Century, 2 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1927.
    • Jenkinson, Hilary. Palaeography and the Practical Study of Court Hand. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1915.​
  • Jenkinson, Hilary. “Elizabethan Handwritings: A Preliminary Sketch.” The Library, 4th series, 3 (1922): 1–34.
  • Petti, Anthony G. English Literary Hands from Chaucer to Dryden. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1977.
  • Preston, Jean and Laetitia Yeandle. English Handwriting, 1400–1650: An Introductory Manual. Binghamton, NY: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1992.
  • Tannenbaum, Samuel A. The Handwriting of the Renaissance. New York: Columbia UP, 1930.
  • Wolfe, Heather. The Pen’s Excellencie: Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library. Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC, 2002.

B4. Description and Identification
  • Davis, Tom. “The Analysis of Handwriting: An Introductory Survey,” in Peter Davison, ed., The Book Encompassed: Studies in Twentieth-Century Bibliography. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1992. 57–68.
  • Davis, Tom. “The Practice of Handwriting Identification.” The Library 8 (2007): 251–76.
  • “Handwriting Analysis.” LIMA: Literary Manuscript Analysis, University of Warwick, 2005.
  • May, Steven W. “Matching Hands: The Search for the Scribe of the ‘Stanhope’ Manuscript.” Huntington Library Quarterly 76 (2013): 345–75.
  • Stokes, Peter A. “Describing Handwriting, Part V: English Vernacular Minuscule” [archived], DigiPal (2011).

B5. Transcription 
  • Bland, Mark. “Producing Texts,” in A Guide to Early Printed Books and Manuscripts. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. 83–104.
  • Hunter, Michael. Editing Early Modern Texts: An Introduction to Principles and Practice. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. 72–85, 109–17.
    • Hunter, Michael. “How to Edit a Seventeenth-Century Manuscript: Principles and Practice.” The Seventeenth Century 10 (1995): 277–310.
  • Marcus, Leah S. “The Veil of Manuscript.” Renaissance Drama 30 (1999–2001): 115–31.
  • Vander Meulen, David L. and G. Thomas Tanselle. “A System of Manuscript Transcription.” Studies in Bibliography 52 (1999): 201–12.
  • Zurcher, Andrew. “Basic Conventions for Transcription.” English Handwriting 1500–1700: An Online Course.

B6. Technology and Materials (Paper, Ink, Quills)
  • Bittel, Carla, Elaine Leong, and Christine von Oertzen, eds. Working with Paper: Gendered Practices in the History of Knowledge. Pittsburgh, PA: U of Pittsburgh P, 2019.​
  • Bland, Mark. “Paper and Related Materials,” in A Guide to Early Printed Books and Manuscripts. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. 22–48.
  • Britland, Karen. “‘What I Write I Do Not See’: Reading and Writing with Invisible Ink,” in Katherine Ellison and Susan Kim, eds., A Material History of Medieval and Early Modern Ciphers: Cryptography and the History of Literacy. New York: Routledge, 2018. 208–22.
  • Calhoun, Joshua. The Nature of the Page: Poetry, Papermaking, and the Ecology of Texts in Renaissance England. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020.
  • Craig, Heidi. “English Rag-Women and Early Modern Paper Production,” in Valerie Wayne, ed., Women’s Labour and the History of the Book in Early Modern England. London: Arden Shakespeare, 2020. 29–46.
  • Craig, Heidi. “Rags, Rag-Pickers and Paper Making in Early Modern England.” Literature Compass 16.5 (2019).
  • Daybell, James. “Materials and Tools of Letter Writing,” in The Material Letter in Early Modern England: Manuscript Letters and the Culture and Practices of Letter-Writing, 1512–1635. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 31–52.
  • Finlay, Michael. Western Writing Implements in the Age of the Quill Pen. Wetheral: Plains, 1990.
  • Gaskell, Philip. “Paper,” in A New Introduction to Bibliography. Rev. ed. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll, 1995. 57–77.
  • Greetham, D. C. “Making the Text: Manuscript Books,” in Textual Scholarship: An Introduction. New York: Garland, 1994. 47–75.
  • Holsinger, Bruce. On Parchment: Animals, Archives, and the Making of Culture from Herodotus to the Digital Age. New Haven, CT: Yale UP, 2022.
  • James, Kathryn. “Writing Materials,” in English Paleography and Manuscript Culture, 1500–1800. New Haven, CT: Yale UP, 2020. 26–48.
  • Johns, Adrian. “Ink,” in Ursula Klein and E. C. Spary, eds., Materials and Expertise in Early Modern Europe: Between Market and Laboratory. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2010. 101–24. [Primarily on oil-based printing ink.] 
  • Lilley, Hannah. “Uncovering Ephemeral Practice: Itineraries of Black Ink and the Experiments of Thomas Davis,” in Callan Davies, Hannah Lilley, and Catherine Richardson, eds., Practices of Ephemera in Early Modern England. New York: Routledge, 2023. 128–47.
  • May, Steven W. “The Transition to a Hybrid Scribal Culture,” in English Renaissance Manuscript Culture: The Paper Revolution. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2023. 11–44. [On the use of paper.]
  • “Paper and Watermarks.” LIMA: Literary Manuscript Analysis, University of Warwick, 2005.
  • Powell, Jason. “Secret Writing or a Technology of Discretion? Dry Point in Tudor Books and Manuscripts.” RES 70 (2019): 37–53.
  • Reissland, Birgit, and Frank Ligterink. The Iron Gall Ink Website. 
  • Smith, Helen. “Women and the Materials of Writing,” in Patricia Pender and Rosalind Smith, eds., Material Cultures of Early Modern Women’s Writing. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 14–35.
  • Whalley, Joyce Irene. Writing Implements and Accessories: From the Roman Stylus to the Typewriter. Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1975.

B7. Writing Beyond Paper
  • Calabresi, Bianca F.-C. “‘you sow, Ile read’: Letters and Literacies in Early Modern Samplers,” in 
    Heidi Brayman Hackel and Catherine E. Kelly, eds., Reading Women: Literacy, Authorship and Culture in the Atlantic World, 1500–1800. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2008. 79–104.
  • Canavan, Claire. “Textual and Textile Literacies in Early Modern Braids.” Renaissance Studies 30 (2016): 684–707.
  • Canavan, Claire. “Reading Materials: Textile Surfaces and Early Modern Books.” Journal of the Northern Renaissance 8 (2017).
  • Fleming, Juliet. Graffiti and the Writing Arts of Early Modern England. London: Reaktion, 2001.
    • ​Fleming, Juliet. “Graffiti, Grammatology, and the Age of Shakespeare,” in Patricia Fumerton and Simon Hunt, eds., Renaissance Culture and the Everyday. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1999. 315–51.
  • Frye, Susan. Pens and Needles: Women’s Textualities in Early Modern England. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010.
  • Knight, Leah. “Writing on Early Modern Trees.” ELR 41 (2011): 462–84.
  • Stern, Tiffany. “Trencher Poetry: Non-Paper Literature, How It Means, and Why It’s Lost.” ELR 50 (2020): 153–60.
  • Wall, Wendy. “Literacies: Handwriting and Handiwork,” in Recipes for Thought: Knowledge and Taste in the Early Modern English Kitchen. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2016. 112–66.
  • Yeoman, Victoria. “Speaking Plates: Text, Performance and Banqueting Trenchers in Early Modern Europe.” Renaissance Studies 31 (2017): 755–79.

B8. Further Reading on Handwriting
  • Gibson, Jonathan and Guillaume Coatalen. “Robert Cecil’s Handwriting Advice to his Son.” Études anglaises 73 (2020): 313–28.
  • Goldberg, Jonathan. Writing Matter: From the Hands of the English Renaissance. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 1990.
  • May, Steven W. “Amateur Handwriting and Document Formats,” in English Renaissance Manuscript Culture: The Paper Revolution. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2023. 45–71.
  • McCay, Kelly Minot. “‘All the World Writes Short Hand’: The Phenomenon of Shorthand in Seventeenth-Century England.” Book History 24 (2021): 1–36.
  • Schulz, Herbert C. “The Teaching of Handwriting in Tudor and Stuart Times.” Huntington Library Quarterly 4 (1943): 381–425.
  • Williams, Graham. “‘My evil favoured writing’: Uglyography, Disease, and the Epistolary Networks of George Talbot, Sixth Earl of Shrewsbury.” Huntington Library Quarterly 79 (2016): 387–409.
  • Wolpe, Bertholde. “John de Beauchesne and the First English Writing Books.” Journal for the Society of Italic Handwriting 82 (1975): 2–11.

B+. Online Resources

C. MANUSCRIPT CIRCULATION
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C1. General
  • Love, Harold. The Culture and Commerce of Texts: Scribal Publication in Seventeenth-Century England. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1998.
    • Love, Harold. “Scribal Publication in Seventeenth-Century England.” Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 9 (1987): 130–54.
  • Love, Harold and Arthur F. Marotti. “Manuscript Transmission and Circulation,’’ in David Lowenstein and Janel Mueller, eds., The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002. 55–88.​
  • May, Steven W. “The Circulation of Texts: Coteries and the National Network,” in English Renaissance Manuscript Culture: The Paper Revolution. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2023. 108–45.
  • Woudhuysen, H. R. Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts, 1558–1640. Oxford: Clarendon, 1996.

C2. Milieux of Scribal Production and Circulation
  • Atherton, Ian. “The Itch Grown a Disease: Manuscript Transmission of News in the Seventeenth Century.” Prose Studies 21 (1998): 39–65.
  • Baron, Sabrina A. “The Guises of Dissemination in Early Seventeenth-Century England: News in Manuscript and Print,” in Sabrina Alcorn Baron and Brendan Dooley, eds., The Politics of Information in Early Modern Europe. London: Routledge, 2001. 41–56.
  • Beal, Peter. In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and Their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England. Oxford: Clarendon, 1998.
    • See also Peter Beal, “More Manuscripts by the ‘Feathery Scribe’,” in EMS 18 (2013).
  • Bell, Richard Thomas. “Print Networks, Manuscript Pamphleteering, and the Development of Prison Politics in Seventeenth-Century London.” Journal of British Studies 61 (2022): 186–218.
  • Bellany, Alastair. “News Culture and the Overbury Affair,” in The Politics of Court Scandal in Early Modern England: News Culture and the Overbury Affair, 1603–1660. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002. 74–135.
  • Brown, Nancy Pollard. “Paperchase: The Dissemination of Catholic Texts in Elizabethan England.” EMS 1 (1989): 120-43.
  • Burke, Victoria E. and Sarah E. Ross. “Elizabeth Middleton, John Bourchier, and the Compilation of Seventeenth Century Religious Manuscripts.” The Library, 7th series, 2 (2001): 131–60.
  • Cambers, Andrew. Godly Reading: Print, Manuscript and Puritanism in England, 1580–1720. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2014.
  • Carlson, David R. English Humanist Books: Writers and Patrons, Manuscript and Print, 1485–1525. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1993.
  • Craig-McFeely, Julia. “Elizabethan and Jacobean Lute Manuscripts: Types, Characteristics and Compilation,” Études anglaises 73 (2020): 369–81.
  • Ezell, Margaret J. M. “Sociable Texts: Manuscript Circulation, Writers, and Readers in Britain and Abroad,” in The Oxford English Literary History: Volume V: 1645-1714: The Later Seventeenth Century. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2017. 76–89.
  • Fox, Adam. “Rumour and News,” in Oral and Literate Culture in England 1500–1700. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2002. 335–405.
  • Hall, David D. “Scribal Publication in Seventeenth-Century New England: An Introduction and a Checklist.” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 115 (2006): 29–80.
  • Hall, David D. “Not in Print yet Published: The Practice of Scribal Publication,” in Ways of Writing: The Practice and Politics of Text-Making in Seventeenth-Century New England. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2012. 29–80
  • Havens, Earle. “Notes from a Literary Underground: Recusant Catholics, Jesuit Priests, and Scribal Publication in Elizabethan England.” PBSA 99 (2005): 505–38.
  • Marotti, Arthur F. “Manuscript Transmission and the Catholic Martyrdom Account,” in Arthur F. Marotti and Michael D. Bristol, eds., Print, Manuscript, & Performance: The Changing Relations of the Media in Early Modern England. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2000. 172–99.
  • May, Steven W. “Manuscript Circulation at the Elizabethan Court,” in W. Speed Hill, ed., New Ways of Looking at Old Texts: Papers of the Renaissance English Text Society, 1985–1991. Binghamton, NY: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1993. 273–80.​
  • Miller, Edwin Haviland. “New Year’s Day Gift Books in the Sixteenth Century.” Studies in Bibliography 15 (1962): 233–41.
  • Millstone, Noah. Manuscript Circulation and the Invention of Politics in Early Stuart England. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2016.
  • Millstone, Noah. “Sir Robert Cotton, Manuscript Pamphleteering, and the Making of Jacobean Kingship during the Short Peace, ca. 1609–1613.” Journal of British Studies 61 (2022): 134–60. 
  • Moulton, Ian Frederick. “Erotic Writing in Manuscript Culture,” in Before Pornography: Erotic Writing in Early Modern England. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000. 35–69.
  • Morrissey, Mary. “Sermon-Notes and Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Communities.” Huntington Library Quarterly 80 (2017): 293–307.
  • North, Marcy L. “Household Scribes and the Production of Literary Manuscripts in Early Modern England.” Journal of Early Modern Studies 4 (2015): 133–57.
  • Scott-Warren, Jason. Sir John Harington and the Book as Gift. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2001.
  • Scott-Warren, Jason. “Reconstructing Manuscript Networks: The Textual Transactions of Sir Stephen Powle,” in Alexandra Shepard and Philip Withington, eds., Communities in Early Modern England. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2000. 18–37.
  • Verweij, Sebastiaan. The Literary Culture of Early Modern Scotland: Manuscript Production and Transmission, 1560–1625. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2016.
  • Williams, Claire Bryony. “Manuscript, Monument, Memory: The Circulation of Epitaphs in the 17th Century.” Literature Compass 11.8 (2014): 573–82.

C3. Collation and Stemmatics
  • Bland, Mark. “Francis Beaumont’s Verse Letters to Ben Jonson and the ‘Mermaid Club’.” EMS 12 (2005): 139–77.
  • Bland, Mark. “Stemmatics and Society in Early Modern England.” Studia Neophilologica 86 (2014): 29–47.
  • Bland, Mark. “Some Answer Poems and their Manuscript History: Jonson, Herrick, and the Circulation of Verse.” Variants 15–16 (2021): 155–73.
  • Bowers, Fredson. “Transcription of Manuscripts: The Record of Variants.” Studies in Bibliography 29 (1976): 212–64.
  • Howe, Christopher J., et al. “Manuscript Evolution.” Trends in Genetics 17.3 (2001): 147–52.
  • Howe, Christopher J., Ruth Connolly, and Heather F. Windram. “Responding to Criticisms of Phylogenetic Methods in Stemmatology.” SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 52 (2012): 51–67. [See p. 65n9 for list of articles applying phylogenetic methods to stemmatics.]
  • Love, Harold. “Systemizing Sigla.” EMS 11 (2002): 217–30.
  • Love, Harold. “The Ranking of Variants in the Analysis of Moderately Contaminated Manuscript Traditions.” Studies in Bibliography 37 (1984): 39–57.
  • Love, Harold. “The Work in Transmission and its Recovery.” Shakespeare Studies 32 (2004): 73–80.
  • Marotti, Arthur F., “Malleable and Fixed Texts: Manuscript and Printed Miscellanies and the Transmission of Lyric Poetry in the English Renaissance,” in W. Speed Hill., ed., New Ways of Looking at Old Texts: Papers of the Renaissance English Text Society, 1985–1991. Binghamton, NY: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1993. 159–73.
  • May, Steven W. “Collating Multiple Copies of Renaissance Texts,” in Claire Loffman and Harriet Phillips, eds., A Handbook of Editing Early Modern Texts. London: Routledge, 2018. 84–89.
  • May, Steven W. “The Network in Action: Classifying Poetic Manuscripts,” in English Renaissance Manuscript Culture: The Paper Revolution. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2023. 173–95.
  • Pebworth, Ted-Larry. “Manuscript Transmission and the Selection of Copy-Text in Renaissance Coterie Poetry.” Text 7 (1994): 243–61.
  • Powell, Jason. “Line Omission in Prose Manuscripts, 1500-1700.” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 104 (2010): 433–61.
  • Rhatigan, Emma. “Margins of Error: Performance, Text, and the Editing of Early Modern Sermons.” The Library 21 (2020): 423–44.
  • Robins, William. “Editing and Evolution.” Literature Compass 4.1 (2007): 89–120.
  • Taylor, Gary. “A Game at Chess: General Textual Introduction,” in Taylor and John Lavagnino, eds., Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture: A Companion to the Collected Works. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2007. 712–873. (See esp. “Shared Errors: Theory,” pp. 732–41.)
  • Whittaker, John. “The Practice of Manuscript Collation.” Text 5 (1991): 121–31.

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D. WOMEN'S WRITING IN MANUSCRIPT
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D1. Introductory Essays
  • Burke, Victoria E. “Seventeenth-Century Women’s Manuscript Writing,” in Mihoko Suzuki, ed., The History of British Women’s Writing, 1610–1690. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 99–113.
  • Ezell, Margaret J. M. “Women Writers: Patterns of Manuscript Circulation and Publication,” in The Patriarch’s Wife: Literary Evidence and the History of the Family. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1987. 62–100.
  • Ezell, Margaret J. M. “Do Manuscript Studies Have a Future in Early Modern Women Studies?” Shakespeare Studies 32 (2004): 63–65.
  • Ezell, Margaret J. M. “The Laughing Tortoise: Speculations on Manuscript Sources and Women’s Book History.” ELR 48 (2008): 331–55.
  • Gibson, Jonathan. “Renaissance Women’s Manuscripts: A Beginner’s Guide.” Perdita Manuscripts: Women’s Writing, 1545–1775. Adam Matthew Digital, 2008. (subscription) [UTL]
  • Stevenson, Jane. “Women, Writing and Scribal Publication in the Sixteenth Century.” EMS 9 (2009): 1–33.

D2. Introductions to Specific Topics
  • Acheson, Katherine. “The Occupation of the Margins: Writing, Space, and Early Modern Women,” in Acheson, ed., Early Modern English Marginalia. New York: Routledge, 2018. 70–89.
  • Burke, Victoria E. “Let’s Get Physical: Bibliography, Codicology and Seventeenth-Century Women’s Manuscripts.” Literature Compass 4.6 (2007): 1667–82.
  • Burke, Victoria E. “‘My Poor Returns’: Devotional Manuscripts by Seventeenth-Century Women.” Parergon 29.2 (2012): 47–68.
  • Burke, Victoria E. “Methodologies: Working with Early Modern Women’s Manuscripts,” in Patricia Pender and Rosalind Smith, eds., The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women’s Writing [Living Edition]. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020+. [UTL] 
  • Burke, Victoria E. “Commonplacing, Making Miscellanies, and Interpreting Literature,” in Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, Danielle Clarke, and Sarah C. E. Ross, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women’s Writing in English, 1540–1700. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2022. 217–30.
  • Clarke, Elizabeth. “Beyond Microhistory: The Use of Women’s Manuscripts in a Widening Political Arena,” in James Daybell, ed., Women and Politics in Early Modern England, 1450–1700. London: Ashgate, 2004. 211–27.
  • Clarke, Elizabeth. “Women’s Manuscript Miscellanies in Early Modern England,” in Susanne Woods and Margaret P. Hannay, eds., Teaching Tudor and Stuart Women Writers. New York: MLA, 2000. 52–60.
  • Daybell, James. “Women’s Letters and Letter-Writing in England, 1540–1603: An Introduction to the Issues of Authorship and Construction.” Shakespeare Studies 27 (1999): 161–86.
  • Daybell, James. “Gender, Politics and Archives in Early Modern England,” in James Daybell and Svante Norrhem, eds., Gender and Political Culture in Early Modern Europe, 1400–1800. London: Routledge, 2016. 25–45.
  • Eckerle, Julie A. “Manuscript and Women’s Life Writing,” in Patricia Pender and Rosalind Smith, eds., The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women’s Writing [Living Edition]. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020+. [UTL] 
  • Ezell, Margaret J. M. “Domestic Papers: Manuscript Culture and Early Modern Women’s Life Writing,” in Michelle M. Dowd and Julie A. Eckerle, eds., Genre and Women’s Life Writing in Early Modern England. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. 33–48.
  • Ezell, Margaret J. M. “Editing Early Modern Women’s Manuscripts: Theory, Electronic Editions, and the Accidental Copy-Text.” Literature Compass 7.2 (2010): 102–9.
  • Ezell, Margaret J. M. “Manuscript and Print: Which Is More Important for Understanding Women’s Writing in the Early Modern Period?” in Patricia Pender and Rosalind Smith, eds., The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women’s Writing [Living Edition]. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020+. [UTL] 
  • Fikkers, Lotte and Holly Riach. “Manuscript, Women, and Scribal Culture,” in Patricia Pender and Rosalind Smith, eds., The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women’s Writing [Living Edition]. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020+. [UTL] 
  • Goodrich, Jaime. “Manuscript and Catholic Women’s Writing,” in Patricia Pender and Rosalind Smith, eds., The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women’s Writing [Living Edition]. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020+. [UTL] 
  • Graham, Elspeth. “Early Modern Women’s Diaries,” in Patricia Pender and Rosalind Smith, eds., The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women’s Writing [Living Edition]. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020+. [UTL] 
  • Griffin, Carrie. “Practical Texts: Women, Instruction, and the Household,” in Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, Danielle Clarke, and Sarah C. E. Ross, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women’s Writing in English, 1540–1700. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2022. 83–96.
  • James, Anne and Jeanne Shami. “Manuscript and Sermons: Women and Sermon Culture,” in Patricia Pender and Rosalind Smith, eds., The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women’s Writing [Living Edition]. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020+. [UTL] 
  • Knight, Leah. “Digital Editions, or Handmade Tales: Remembering What Counts in Early Modern Women’s Manuscripts,” in Patricia Pender and Rosalind Smith, eds., The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women’s Writing [Living Edition]. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020+. [UTL] 
  • Kowalchuk, Kristine. “Manuscript and Women’s Domestic Papers,” in Patricia Pender and Rosalind Smith, eds., The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women’s Writing [Living Edition]. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020+. [UTL] 
  • Lamb, Mary Ellen. “Manuscript Exchange of Poetry and Sociability,” in Patricia Pender and Rosalind Smith, eds., The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women’s Writing [Living Edition]. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020+. [UTL] 
  • Magnusson, Lynne. “Letters,” in Caroline Bicks and Jennifer Summit, eds., The History of British Women’s Writing, Volume II: 1500–1610. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. 130–51.
  • Mendelson, Sara Heller. “Stuart Women’s Diaries and Occasional Memoirs,” in Mary Prior, ed., Women in English Society, 1500–1800. London: Methuen, 1985. 181–210.
  • Pennell, Sara. “Perfecting Practice? Women, Manuscript Recipes and Knowledge in Early Modern England,” in Victoria E. Burke and Jonathan Gibson, eds., Early Modern Women’s Manuscript Writing: Selected Papers from the Trinity/Trent Colloquium. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. 237–58.
  • Seelig, Sharon Cadman. “Missing, Marginal, Mutilated: Reading the Remnant of Women’s Manuscripts,” in Michael Denbo, ed., New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, IV: Papers of the Renaissance English Text Society, 2002–2006. Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2008. 217–28.
  • Smith, Rosalind. “Paratextual Marginalia, Early Modern Women, and Collaboration,” in Patricia Pender, ed., Gender, Authorship, and Early Modern Women’s Collaboration. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. 175–200.
  • Stevenson, Jane. “Determining Authorship and Editing Early Modern Women’s Manuscripts,” in Patricia Pender and Rosalind Smith, eds., The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women’s Writing [Living Edition]. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020+. [UTL] 
  • Trill, Suzanne. “Early Modern Women’s Writing in the Edinburgh Archives, c. 1550–1740: A Preliminary Checklist,” in Sarah M. Dunnigan, C. Marie Harker, and Evelyn S. Newlyn, eds., Woman and the Feminine in Medieval and Early Modern Scottish Writing. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. 201–26.
  • Wiseman, Susan. “Reading Seventeenth-Century Women’s Letters,” in Mihoko Suzuki, ed., The History of British Women’s Writing, 1610–1690. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 114–128.
  • Wolfe, Heather. “Women’s Handwriting,” in Laura Lunger Knoppers, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Women’s Writing. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2009. 21–39.
  • Ziegler, Georgianna. “Major Manuscript Collections for the Study of Women’s Writing in the Early Modern Period,” in Patricia Pender and Rosalind Smith, eds., The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women’s Writing [Living Edition]. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020+. [UTL] 

D3. Edited Collections
  • Burke, Victoria E. and Jonathan Gibson, eds. Early Modern Women’s Manuscript Writing: Selected Papers from the Trinty/Trent Colloquium. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004.
    • Heale, Elizabeth. “‘Desiring Women Writing’: Female Voices and Courtly ‘Balets’ in Some Early Tudor Manuscript Albums.”
    • Gibson, Jonathan. “Katherine Parr, Princess Elizabeth and the Crucified Christ.”
    • Stevenson, Jane. “Mildred Cecil, Lady Burleigh: Poetry, Politics and Protestantism.”
    • Burke, Victoria E. “Reading Friends: Women’s Participation in ‘Masculine’ Literary Culture.”
    • Coolahan, Marie-Louise. “Caitlín Dubh’s Keens: Literary Negotiations in Early Modern Ireland.”
    • Longfellow, Erica. “Lady Anne Southwell’s Indictment of Adam.”
    • Wolfe, Heather. “Reading Bells and Loose Papers: Reading and Writing Practices of the English Benedictine Nuns of Cambrai and Paris.”
    • Bowden, Caroline. “The Notebooks of Rachael Fane: Education for Authorship?”
    • Ross, Sarah. ““And Trophes of his praises make’: Providence and Poetry in Katherine Austen’s Book M, 1664–1668.”
    • Hunt, Arnold. “The Books, Manuscripts and Literary Patronage of Mrs Anne Sadleir (1585–1670).”
    • Pennell, Sara. “Perfecting Practice? Women, Manuscript Recipes and Knowledge in Early Modern England.”
    • Shell, Alison. “‘Often to my Self I make my mone’: Early Modern Women’s Poetry from the Feilding Family.”
  • Ezell, Margaret and Peter Beal, eds. Writings by Early Modern Women, special volume of EMS 9 (2000).
    • Stevenson, Jane. “Women, Writing and Scribal Publication in the Sixteenth Century.”
    • Teague, Frances. “Princess Elizabeth’s Hand in The Glass of the Sinful Soul.”
    • Tjan-Bakker, Anneke. “Dame Flora’s Blossoms: Esther Inglis’s Flower-Illustrated Manuscripts.”
    • Ziegler, Georgianna. “Hand-Ma[i]de Books: The Manuscripts of Esther Inglis, Early Modern Precursors of the Artists’ Book.”
    • May, Steven W. “Two Unpublished Letters by Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke.”
    • Burke, Victoria E. “Elizabeth Ashburnham Richardson’s ‘Motherlie Endeauors’.”
    • Hannay, Margaret. “Elizabeth Ashburnham Richardson’s Meditation on the Countess of Pembroke’s Discourse.”
    • Brown, Sylvia. “The Approbation of Elizabeth Jocelin.”
    • Klene, Jeane. “‘Monument of an Endless affection’: Folger MS V.b.198 and Lady Anne Southwell.”
    • Wolfe, Heather. “The Scribal Hands and Dating of Lady Falkland: Her Life.”
    • Clarke, Elizabeth. “Elizabeth Jekyll’s Spiritual Diary: Private Manuscripts or Political Document?”
    • Robson, Mark. “Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter.”
    • Norbrook, David. “Lucy Hutchinson and Order and Disorder: The Manuscript Evidence.”
  • Justice, George L. and Nathan Tinker, eds. Women’s Writing and the Circulation of Ideas: Manuscript Publication in England, 1550–1800. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002.
    • Hannay, Margaret P. “The Countess of Pembroke’s Agency in Print and Scribal Culture.”
    • Rienstra, Debra and Noel Kinnamon. “Circulating the Sidney–Pembroke Psalter.”
    • Brennan, Michael G. “Creating Female Authorship in the Early Seventeenth Century: Ben Jonson and Lady Mary Wroth.”
    • Burke, Victoria E. “Medium and Meaning in the Manuscripts of Anne, Lady Southwell.”
    • Ezell, Margaret J. M. “The Posthumous Publication of Women’s Manuscripts and the History of Authorship.”
  • Millman, Jill Seal and Gillian Wright, eds. Early Modern Women’s Manuscript Poetry. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2005. [Anthology of primary texts.]

D4. Case Study: The Correspondence of Bess of Hardwick
  • Daybell, James. ‘“Suche newes as on the Quenes hye wayes we have met”: The News and Intelligence Networks of Elizabeth Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury (c.1527–1608),” in Daybell, ed., Women and Politics in Early Modern England, 1450–1700. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. 114–31.
  • Marcus, Imogen. The Linguistics of Spoken Communication in Early Modern English Writing: Exploring Bess of Hardwick’s Manuscript Letters. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
  • Maxwell, Felicity. “Enacting Mistress and Steward Roles in a Letters of Household Management: Bess of Hardwick to Francis Whitfield, 14 November 1552.” Lives and Letters 14.1 (Autumn 2012).
  • Wiggins, Alison. Bess of Hardwick’s Letters: Language, Materiality and Early Modern Epistolary Culture, Material Readings in Early Modern Culture. London: Routledge, 2016.
  • Wiggins, Alison, et al., eds. Bess of Hardwick’s Letters: The Complete Correspondence, c.1550–1608. 

D5. Case Study: The Writings of Jane Cavendish and Elizabeth Brackley
  • Bennett, Alexandra. “‘Now Let My Language Speak’: The Authorship, Rewriting, and Audience(s) of Jane Cavendish and Elizabeth Brackley.” Early Modern Literary Studies 11 (2005).
  • Bennett, Alexandra G., ed. The Collected Works of Jane Cavendish. London: Routledge, 2017.
  • Cerasano, S. P., and Marion Wynne-Davies, eds. “The Concealed Fancies,” by Jane Cavendish and Elizabeth Brackley, in Renaissance Drama by Women: Texts and Documents. London: Routledge, 1996. 127–54.
  • Ezell, Margaret J. M. “‘To Be Your Daughter in Your Pen”: The Social Functions of Literature in the Writings of Lady Elizabeth Brackley and Lady Jane Cavendish.” Huntington Library Quarterly 51 (1988): 281–96. 
  • Findlay, Alison. “‘She gave you the civility of the house’: Household Performance in The Concealed Fancies,” in S. P. Cerasano and Marion Wynne-Davies, eds., Readings in Renaissance Women’s Drama: Criticism, History, and Performance 1594–1998. London: Routledge, 1998. 259–71.
  • Mueller, Sara, ed. “Jane Cavendish (1621–1669) and Elizabeth Brackley (1626–1663),” in Marta Straznicky and Sara Mueller, eds., Women’s Household Drama: Loves Victorie, A Pastorall, and The concealed Fansyes. Toronto: Iter Press, 2018. 139–253.
  • Mueller, Sara. “Jane Cavendish and Elizabeth Brackley’s Manuscript Collections,” in Lisa Hopkins and Tom Rutter, eds., A Companion to the Cavendishes. Leeds: Arc Humanities Press, 2020. 199–216.
  • Starr, Nathan Comfort. “The Concealed Fansyes: A Play by Lady Jane Cavendish and Lady Elizabeth Brackley.” PMLA 46 (1931): 802–38.
  • Travitsky, Betty S., ed. Subordination and Authorship in Early Modern England: The Case of Elizabeth Egerton and Her “Loose Papers”. Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1999.
    • Travitsky, Betty S. “‘His wife’s prayers and meditations’: MS Egerton 607,” in Anne M. Haselkorn and Betty S. Travitsky, eds., The Renaissance Englishwoman in Print: Counterbalancing the Canon. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1990. 241–60.
  • Williams, Deanne. “Perpetual Girlhood in The Concealed Fancies,” in Shakespeare and the Performance of Girlhood. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 189–207.

D6. Case Study: The Poetry of Hester Pulter (Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt q 32)
  • Clarke, Elizabeth. “Introducing Hester Pulter and the Perdita Project.” Literature Compass 2.1 (2005).
  • Eardley, Alice. “Hester Pulter’s ‘Indivisibles’ and the Challenges of Annotating Early Modern Women’s Poetry.” SEL 52 (2012): 117–41.​
  • Eardley, Alice. “‘I haue not time to point yr booke … which I desire you yourselfe to doe’: Editing the Form of Women’s Manuscript Verse,” in Elizabeth Scott-Baumann and Ben Burton, eds., The Work of Form: Poetics and Materiality in Early Modern Culture. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2014. 162–78.
  • Eardley, Alice, ed. Poems, Emblems, and The Unfortunate Florinda, by Lady Hester Pulter. Toronto: Iter, 2014.
  • Eardley, Alice. “‘Shut up in a Countrey Grange’: The Provenance of Lady Hester Pulter’s Poetry and Prose and Women’s Literary History.” Huntington Library Quarterly 80 (2017): 345–59.
  • Ezell, Margaret J. M. “The Laughing Tortoise: Speculations on Manuscript Sources and Women’s Book History.” ELR 48 (2008): 331–55.
  • Knight, Leah, and Wendy Wall, gen. eds. The Pulter Project: Poet in the Making. 
  • Knight, Leah, and Wendy Wall, eds. The Poetry of Hester Pulter: Revolution and Remediation. Special issue of Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 20.2 (2020).
  • Leeds University Library, Online Facsimile of Brotherton Collection, MS Lt q 32.

D7. Case Study: The Writings of Anne Clifford
  • Acheson, Katherine O., ed. The Diary of Anne Clifford, 1616–1619: A Critical Edition. New York: Garland, 1995.
  • Beal, Peter. “Lady Anne Clifford.” Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450–1700.
  • Lewalski, Barbara Kiefer. “Claiming Patrimony and Constructing a Self: Anne Clifford and Her Diary,” in Writing Women in Jacobean England. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1993. 125–51.
  • Malay, Jessica L., ed. Anne Clifford’s Great Books of Record. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2015.
  • Malay, Jessica L., ed. Anne Clifford’s Autobiographical Writing, 1590–1676. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2018.
  • Malay, Jessica L. “Constructing a Narrative of Time and Place: Anne Clifford’s Great Books of Record.” RES 66 (2015): 859–75.
  • Malay, Jessica L. “Lady Anne Clifford’s Great Books of Record: Remembrances of a Dynasty,” in Patricia Phillippy, ed., A History of Early Modern Women’s Writing. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2018. 398–416.
  • Myers, Anne M. “Construction Sites: The Architecture of Anne Clifford’s Diaries.” ELH 73 (2006): 581–600. Rpt. Literature and Architecture in Early Modern England. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2013. 132–59.
  • Phillippy, Patricia. “Memory and Matter: Lady Anne Clifford’s ‘Life of Mee’,” in Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, Danielle Clarke, and Sarah C. E. Ross, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women’s Writing in English, 1540–1700. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2022. 687–702.
  • Salzman, Paul. “Anne Clifford: Writing a Family Identity,” in Reading Early Modern Women’s Writing. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2006. 90–108.
  • Suzuki, Mihoko, ed. Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in England, 1550–1700. Volume 5: Anne Clifford and Lucy Hutchinson. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009.

D8. Case Study: Frances Wolfreston’s Books
  • Lindenbaum, Sarah. “Hiding in Plain Sight: How Electronic Records Can Lead Us to Early Modern Women Readers,” in Leah Knight, Micheline White, and Elizabeth Sauer, eds., Women’s Bookscapes in Early Modern Britain: Reading, Ownership, Circulation. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2018. 193–213.
  • Lindenbaum, Sarah. “Memorializing the Everyday: The Evidence of the Final Decade of Frances Wolfreston’s Life.” The Seventeenth Century 37 (2022): 449–76.
  • Lindenbaum, Sarah. Frances Wolfreston Hor Bouks. 
  • Morgan, Paul. “Frances Wolfreston and ‘Hor Bouks’: A Seventeenth-Century Woman Book-Collector.” The Library 6th series, 11 (1989): 197–219.
  • Newcomb, Lori Humphrey. “Frances Wolfreston’s Annotations as Labours of Love,” in Valerie Wayne, ed., Women’s Labour and the History of the Book in Early Modern England. London: Arden Shakespeare, 2020. 243–66.
  • Wiggins, Alison. “Frances Wolfreston’s Chaucer,” in Anne Lawrence-Mathers and Phillipa Hardman, eds., Women and Writing, c.1340–c.1650: The Domestication of Print Culture. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2010. 77–89.

D9. Case Study: Katherine Austen’s Book M (British Library, MS Add. 4454)
  • Hammons, Pamela S. “Penelope, Prophet, or Poet? Strategic Self-Figurations in Katherine Austen’s ‘Book M’,” in Poetic Resistance: English Women Writers and the Early Modern Lyric. Abingdon: Routledge, 2002. 100–63.
  • Hammons, Pamela S., ed. Book M: A London Widow’s Life Writings, by Katherine Austen. Toronto: Iter, 2013.
    • Hammons, Pamela S. “Modernizing Katherine Austen’s Book M (1664) for the Twenty-First-Century, Non-Expert Reader,” in Sarah C. E. Ross and Paul Salzman, eds., Editing Early Modern Women. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2016. 232–52.
  • Hammons, Pamela S. “Mothers and Widows: World-Making against Stereotypes in Early Modern English Women’s Manuscript Writings,” in Pamela S. Hammons and Brandie R. Siegfried, eds., World-Making Renaissance Women: Rethinking Early Modern Women's Place in Literature and Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2022. 230–43.
  • Ross, Sarah “‘And Trophes of his praises make’: Providence and Poetry in Katherine Austen’s Book M, 1664–1668,” in Victoria E. Burke and Jonathan Gibson, eds., Early Modern Women’s Manuscript Writing: Selected Papers from the Trinity/Trent Colloquium. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. 181–204.
  • Ross, Sarah C. E., ed. Katherine Austen’s Book M: British Library, Additional Manuscript 4454. Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2011.
  • Ross, Sarah C. E. “‘Like Penelope, always employed’: Reading, Life‐Writing, and the Early Modern Female Self in Katherine Austen’s Book M.” Literature Compass 9.4 (2012): 306–16.

D10. Case Study: The Calligraphic Manuscripts of Esther Inglis
  • Beal, Peter. “Esther Inglis (1570/1–1624).” Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450–1700.
  • Frye, Susan. “Materializing Authorship in Esther Inglis’s Books.” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 32 (2002): 469–91. 
  • Frye, Susan. “Miniatures and Manuscripts: Levina Teerlinc, Jane Segar, and Esther Inglis as Professional Artisans,” in Pens and Needles: Women’s Textualities in Early Modern England. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2010. 75–115.
  • Lange, Thomas. “A Rediscovered Esther Inglis Calligraphic Manuscript in the Huntington Library.” PBSA 89 (1995): 339–42.
  • Reid Baxter, Jamie. “Esther Inglis: A Franco-Scottish Jacobean Writer and Her Octonaries Upon the Vanitie and Inconstancie of the World.” Studies in Scottish Literature 48 (2022): 51–93.
  • Ross, Sarah Gwyneth. “Esther Inglis: Linguist, Calligrapher, Miniaturist, and Christian Humanist,” in Julie D. Campbell and Anne R. Larsen, eds., Early Modern Women and Transnational Communities of Letters. Farnham: Ashgate, 2009. 159–81.
  • Scott-Elliot, A. H. and Elspeth Yeo. “Calligraphic Manuscripts of Esther Inglis (1571–1624): A Catalogue.” PBSA 84 (1990): 11–86.
  • Tjan-Bakker, Anneke. “Dame Flora’s Blossoms: Esther Inglis’s Flower-Illustrated Manuscripts.” EMS 9 (2000): 49–72.
  • Ziegler, Georgianna. “‘More than Feminine Boldness’: The Gift Books of Esther Inglis,” in Mary E. Burke, Jane Donawerth, Linda L. Dove, and Karen Nelson, eds., Women, Writing, and the Reproduction of Culture in Tudor and Stuart Britain. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse UP, 2000. 19–37.
  • Ziegler, Georgianna. “Hand-Ma[i]de Books: The Manuscripts of Esther Inglis, Early-Modern Precursors of the Artists’ Book.” EMS 9 (2000): 73–87.
  • Ziegler, Georgianna. “A Recently Discovered Esther Inglis Manuscript.” The Library 19 (2018): 490–99.
  • Ziegler, Georgianna. Esther Inglis (c. 1570–1624): Calligrapher, Artist, Embroiderer, Writer.
  • Ziegler, Georgianna. “Portraits of a Lady: The Self-Presentation of Esther Inglis, Protestant Limner.” Renaissance Quarterly 76 (2023): 542–88.

D+. Online Resources

E. POETRY IN MANUSCRIPT
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E1. General
  • Marotti, Arthur F. The Circulation of Poetry in Manuscript in Early Modern England. London: Routledge, 2021.
  • Marotti, Arthur F. Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1995.
    • Marotti, Arthur F. “The Transmission of Lyric Poetry and the Institutionalizing of Literature in the English Renaissance,” in Marie-Rose Logan and Peter L. Rudnytsky, eds., Contending Kingdoms: Historical, Psychological, and Feminist Approaches to the Literature of Sixteenth-Century England and France. Detroit, MI: Wayne State UP, 1991. 21–41.
    • Marotti, Arthur F. “Manuscript, Print, and the English Lyric,” in W. Speed Hill, ed., New Ways of Looking at Old Texts: Papers of the Renaissance English Text Society, 1985–1991. Binghamton, NY: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1993. 209–21.
    • Marotti, Arthur F. “Manuscript, Print, and the Social History of the Lyric,” in Thomas N. Corns, ed., The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry, Donne to Marvell. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1993. 52–79.
  • Marotti, Arthur F. “The Manuscript Transmission of Poetry,” in Michael Hattaway, ed., A New Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture, 2 vols. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. 1:190–220.
  • May, Steven W. “The Future of Manuscript Studies in Early Modern Poetry.” Shakespeare Studies 32 (2004): 56–62.
  • May, Steven W. and Arthur F. Marotti. “Manuscript Culture: Circulation and Transmission,” in Catherine Bates, ed., A Companion to Renaissance Poetry. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell, 2018. 78–102.

E2. Editing Manuscript Poetry
  • Burke, Victoria E. “Mise-en-page: Editing Lyric Poetry from Manuscripts,” in Claire Loffman and Harriet Phillips, eds., A Handbook of Editing Early Modern Texts. London: Routledge, 2018. 129–32.
  • Burlinson, Christopher and Ruth Connolly. “Editing Stuart Poetry.” SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 52 (2012): 1–12. See also the other articles in that journal issue.
  • Eardley, Alice. “‘I haue not time to point yr booke … which I desire you yourselfe to doe’: Editing the Form of Women’s Manuscript Verse,” in Elizabeth Scott-Baumann and Ben Burton, eds., The Work of Form: Poetics and Materiality in Early Modern Culture. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2014. 162–78.
  • Love, Harold. “Editing Scribally Published Texts,” in The Culture and Commerce of Texts: Scribal Publication in Seventeenth-Century England. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1998. 313–56.
  • May, Steven W. “Renaissance Manuscript Anthologies: Editing the Social Editors.” EMS 11 (2002): 203–16.​

E3. Manuscript Poetry: Specific Issues
  • Brink, Jean R. “Manuscript Culture Revisited.” Sidney Journal 17 (1999): 19–30.
  • Bryson, Alan. “Elizabethan Verse Libel,” in Malcolm Smuts, ed., The Oxford Handbook of the Age of Shakespeare. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2016. 477–92.
  • Cogswell, Thomas. “Underground Verse and the Transformation of Early Stuart Political Culture,” in Susan D. Amussen and Mark A. Kishlansky, eds., Political Culture and Cultural Politics in Early Modern England: Essays Presented to David Underdown. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1995. 277–300. Shorter version printed in Huntington Library Quarterly 60 (1997): 303–26.
  • Eckhardt, Joshua. Manuscript Verse Collectors and the Politics of Anti-Courtly Love Poetry. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2009.
  • Lamb, Mary Ellen. “Manuscript Exchange of Poetry and Sociability,” in Patricia Pender and Rosalind Smith, eds., The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women’s Writing [Living Edition]. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020+. [UTL]
  • Marotti, Arthur F. “The Verse Nobody Knows: Rare or Unique Poems in Early Modern English Manuscripts.” Huntington Library Quarterly 80 (2017): 201–21. See also The Circulation of Poetry in Manuscript in Early Modern England. London: Routledge, 2021. 253–307.
  • Marotti, Arthur F. “Poetry outside the Literary Canon: The Rare or Unique Verse by Minor or Little-Known Authors in Early-Modern English Manuscripts.” Études anglaises 73 (2020): 347–68.
  • Marotti, Arthur F. “Fugitive Sonnets in Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Collections,” in The Circulation of Poetry in Manuscript in Early Modern England. London: Routledge, 2021. 335–70.
  • Marotti, Arthur F. “The Circulation of Verse at the Inns of Court and in London in Early Stuart England,” in Will Bowers and Hannah Leah Crummé, eds., Re-evaluating the Literary Coterie, 1580–1830: From Sidney to Blackwood’s. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 53–73. See also The Circulation of Poetry in Manuscript in Early Modern England. London: Routledge, 2021. 220–50.
  • May, Steven W. “The Stigma of Print Revisited,” in Arthur F. Marotti, ed., New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, VI: Papers of the Renaissance English Text Society, 2011–2016. Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2019. 1–10.
  • May, Steven W. and Alan Bryson. Verse Libel in Renaissance England and Scotland. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2016.
  • McRae, Andrew. Literature, Satire and the Early Stuart State. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004.
  • McRae, Andrew. “Manuscript Culture and Popular Print,” in Joad Raymond, ed., The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume 1: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2011.130–40. [On verse libels.]
  • Mitchell, Dianne. “The Absent Lady and the Renaissance Lyric as Letter.” ELR 49 (2019): 304–29.
  • Moulton, Ian Frederick. “The Manuscript Circulation of Erotic Poetry in Early Modern England,” in Bradford K. Mudge, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Erotic Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2018. 64–84.
  • North, Marcy L. “Twice the Effort: Tracing the Practices of Stuart Verse Collectors through Their Redundant Entries.” Huntington Library Quarterly 77 (2014): 257–85.
  • O’Callaghan, Michelle. “The ‘Great Queen of Lightninge Flashes’: The Transmission of Female-Voiced Burlesque Poetry in the Early Seventeenth Century,” in Patricia Pender and Rosalind Smith, eds., Material Cultures of Early Modern Women’s Writing. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 99–117.
  • Smith, Helen. “Professional Contexts,” in Catherine Bates and Patrick Cheney, eds., The Oxford History of Poetry in English, Volume 4: Sixteenth-Century British Poetry. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2022. 57–80.
  • Wright, Gillian. Producing Women’s Poetry, 1600–1730: Text and Paratext, Manuscript and Print. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2013.

E4. Case Study: John Donne’s Poetry in Manuscript
  • Beal, Peter. “John Donne.” CELM: Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450–1700. [backup, archived]
  • Beal, Peter. “John Donne and the Circulation of Manuscripts,” in John Barnard, D. F. McKenzie, and Maureen Bell, eds., The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, Volume 4: 1557–1695. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002. 122–26.
  • Crowley, Lara M. Manuscript Matters: Reading John Donne’s Poetry and Prose in Early Modern England. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2018.
    • Crowley, Lara M. “Donne, not Davison: Reconsidering the Authorship of ‘Psalme 137.’” Modern Philology 105 (2008): 603–36.
  • McCarthy, Erin A. “Reading Women Reading Donne in Manuscript and Printed Miscellanies: A Quantitative Approach.” RES 69 (2018): 661–85.
  • Marotti, Arthur F. John Donne, Coterie Poet. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1986.
  • Marotti, Arthur. “Corrupting Donne,” in Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1995. 147–59.
  • Pebworth, Ted-Larry. “Manuscript Poems and Print Assumptions: Donne and His Modern Editors.” John Donne Journal 3 (1984): 1–21.
  • Smith, Daniel Starza. John Donne and the Conway Papers: Patronage and Manuscript Circulation in the Early Seventeenth Century. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2014.
  • Stringer, Gary A. “The Composition and Dissemination of Donne’s Writings,” in Jeanne Shami, Dennis Flynn, and M. Thomas Hester, eds., The Oxford Handbook of John Donne. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2011. 12–25.
  • Stringer, Gary A., ed. The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne. 8 vols. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1995–.
  • Stringer, Gary A. et al., eds. DigitalDonne: The Online Variorum.
  • Wollman, Richard B. “The ‘Press and the Fire’: Print and Manuscript Culture in Donne’s Circle.” SEL 33 (1993): 85–97.

E5. Case Study: Katherine Philips’s Poetry in Manuscript
  • Beal, Peter. “Katherine Philips (‘Orinda’).” CELM: Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450–1700.
  • Beal, Peter. “‘The virtuous Mrs Philips’ and ‘that whore Castlemaine’: Orinda and Her Apotheosis, 1664–1668,” in In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and Their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England. Oxford: Clarendon, 1998. 147–91.
  • Coolahan, Marie-Louise. “Single-Author Manuscripts, Poems (1664), and the Editing of Katherine Philips,” in Sarah C. E. Ross and Paul Salzman, eds., Editing Early Modern Women. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2016. 176–94.
  • Hageman, Elizabeth H., and Andrea Sununu. “New Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, The ‘Matchless Orinda’.” EMS 4 (1993): 174–219.
  • Hageman, Elizabeth H., and Andrea Sununu. “‘More Copies of it abroad than I Could Have Imagin’d’: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, ‘the Matchless Orinda’.” EMS 5 (1995): 127–69.
  • Hageman, Elizabeth H. “Making a Good Impression: Early Texts of Poems and Letters by Katherine Philips, the ‘Matchless Orinda.’” South Central Review 11 (1994): 39–65.
  • Orinda: The Literary Manuscripts of Katherine Philips (1631–1664) (subscription) [UTL]
  • Shirley, Christopher. “Between Women: Archival and Theoretical Methods in Early Modern Women’s Writing.” Criticism 63 (2021): 107–20.
  • Trolander, Paul. Katherine Philips: Manuscript, Print and Web Editions of Her Poetry [archived]
  • Trolander, Paul. “‘By degrees it grows still more refin’d’: Katherine Philips’ Curating of the Tutin Manuscript.” The Seventeenth Century 37 (2022): 417–48.
  • Wright, Gillian. “Textuality, Privacy and Politics: Katherine Philips’s Poems in Manuscript and Print,” in James Daybell and Peter Hinds, eds., Material Readings of Early Modern Culture: Texts and Social Practices, 1580– 1730. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. 163–82.​
  • Wright, Gillian. “The Extraordinary Katherine Philips,” in Producing Women’s Poetry, 1600–1730: Text and Paratext, Manuscript and Print. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2013. 97–145.

E6. Manuscript Circulation: Other Authors
  • Acker, Faith D. “Manuscript Precedents for Editorial Practices in John Benson’s Poems: Written by Wil. Shake-Speare. Gent.” Shakespeare Quarterly 71 (2020): 1–24.
  • Bond, Garth. “‘Rare poemes aske rare friends’: Ben Jonson, Coterie Poet.” Modern Philology 107 (2010): 380–99.
  • Edwards, A. S. G. “Manuscripts of the Verse of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey.” HLQ 67 (2004): 283–94.
  • Ioppolo, Grace. “‘Extraordinarie & Rare’: Ben Jonson’s Manuscripts,” in The Oxford Handbook of Ben Jonson, ed. Eugene Giddens (2016).
  • Ioppolo, Grace. “Manuscripts Containing Texts by Shakespeare,” in Bruce R. Smith, ed., The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare, 2 vols. (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2016), 1:986–95.
  • Knowles, James. “Manuscript Culture and Reading Practices,” in Julie Sanders, ed., Ben Jonson in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2010. 181–91.
  • Marotti, Arthur F. “Shakespeare’s Sonnets and the Manuscript Circulation of Texts in Early Modern England,” in Michael Schoenfeldt, ed. A Companion to Shakespeare’s Sonnets. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2007. 185–203.
  • Marotti, Arthur F. and Laura Estill. “Manuscript Circulation,” in Arthur F. Kinney, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2011. 53–70.
  • May, Steven W. “The Circulation in Manuscript of Poems by King James VI and I,” in James M. Dutcher and Anne Lake Prescott, eds., Renaissance Historicisms: Essays in Honor of Arthur F. Kinney (Newark: U of Delaware P, 2008). 206–24.
  • Nixon, Scott. “The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew’s Poetry.” EMS 8 (2000): 186–224.
  • Roberts, Sasha. Reading Shakespeare’s Poems in Early Modern England. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
  • Shrank, Cathy L., and Paul Werstine. “The Shakespeare Manuscripts,” in Lukas Erne, ed., The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Textual Studies. London: The Arden Shakespeare, 2021. 53–70.
  • Woudhuysen, H.R. Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts, 1558–1640. Oxford: Clarendon, 1996.

E+. Online Resources

F. VERSE MISCELLANIES
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F1. General
  • Bawcutt, Priscilla. “Scottish Manuscript Miscellanies from the Fifteenth to the Seventeenth Century.” EMS 12 (2005): 46–73.
  • Burke, Victoria E. “Manuscript Miscellanies,” in Laura Lunger Knoppers, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Women’s Writing. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2009. 54–67.
  • Burke, Victoria E. “Women’s Verse Miscellany Manuscripts in the Perdita Project: Examples and Generalizations,” in Michael Denbo, ed., New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, IV: Papers of the Renaissance English Text Society, 2002–2006. Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2008. 141–54.
  • Eckhardt, Joshua. “Verse Miscellanies, Manuscript” in Garrett A. Sullivan and Alan Stewart, eds., The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature. 3 vols. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. 3:1002–6.
  • Eckhardt, Joshua and Daniel Starza Smith. “Introduction: The Emergence of the English Miscellany,” in Manuscript Miscellanies in Early Modern England. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014. 1–15.
  • Gibson, Jonathan. “Synchrony and Process: Editing Manuscript Miscellanies.” SEL 52 (2012): 85–100.
  • Gibson, Jonathan. “Miscellanies in Manuscript and Print,” in Catherine Bates, ed., A Companion to Renaissance Poetry. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell, 2018. 103–114.
  • Hobbs, Mary. “Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and Their Value for Textual Editors.” EMS 1 (1989): 182–210.
  • Hobbs, Mary. Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts. Aldershot: Scholar Press, 1992. 
  • Lamb, Mary Ellen. “First Poems in Manuscript Miscellanies,” in Arthur F. Marotti, ed., New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, VI: Papers of the Renaissance English Text Society, 2011–2016. Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2019. 193–208.
  • May, Steven W. “Personal Notebooks,” in English Renaissance Manuscript Culture: The Paper Revolution. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2023. 72–107. [Also covers student notebooks, commonplace books, recipe books, alchemical manuscripts.]
  • North, Marcy L. “‘Anon’ inside the Circle: Coterie Anonymity and Poetic Commonplace Books,” in The Anonymous Renaissance: Cultures of Discretion in Tudor-Stuart England. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2003. 159–210.
  • North, Marcy L. “Amateur Compilers, Scribal Labour, and the Contents of Early Modern Poetic Miscellanies.” EMS 16 (2011): 82–111.
  • Sullivan, Ernest W., II. “The Renaissance Manuscript Verse Miscellany: Private Party, Private Text,” in W. Speed Hill, ed., New Ways of Looking at Old Texts: Papers of the Renaissance English Text Society, 1985–1991. Binghamton, NY: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1993. 289–97.

F2. Edited Collections
  • Eckhardt, Joshua and Daniel Starza Smith, eds. Manuscript Miscellanies in Early Modern England. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014.
    • Eckhardt, Joshua and Daniel Starza Smith. “Introduction: The Emergence of the English Miscellany.”
    • Smith, Daniel Starza. “Before (and after) the Miscellany: Reconstructing Donne’s Satyres in the Conway Papers.”
    • Brown, Piers. “Donne, Rhapsody, and Textual Order.”
    • Daybell, James. “Early Modern Letter-Books, Miscellanies, and the Reading and Reception of Scribally Copied Letters.”
    • Millstone, Noah. “The Rector of Santon Downham and the Hieroglyphical Watch of Prague.”
    • Hackett, Helen. “Unlocking the Mysteries of Constance Aston Fowler’s Verse Miscellany (Huntington Library MS HM 904): The Hand B Scribe Identified.”
    • Brown, Cedric C. “William Smith, Vere Southerne, Jesuit Missioner, and Three Linked Manuscript Miscellanies.”
    • Crowley, Lara M. “Attribution and Anonymity: Donne, Ralegh, and Fletcher in British Library, Stowe MS 962.”
    • Swann, Joel. “Copying Epigrams in Manuscript Miscellanies.”
    • Eckhardt, Joshua. “Camden’s Remaines and a Pair of Epideictic Poetry Anthologies.”
    • Burke, Victoria E. “‘The disagreeable Figure of a Common-Place’ in Katherine Butler’s Late Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany.”
  • Burrow, Colin and Richard Beadle, eds. Manuscript Miscellanies c. 1450–1700, special volume of EMS 16 (2011).
    • Gillespie, Alexandra. “Medieval Books, Their Booklets, and Booklet Theory.”
    • Boffey, Julia. “Scattered Verse in British Library, Additional MS 18752.”
    • Zarnowiecki, Matthew. “A Blurred Notebook: Ephemeral Literature and the Lyric Moment in Folger MS X.d.177.”
    • May, Steven W. “Henry Stanford’s ‘God Knows What.’”
    • North, Marcy L. “Amateur Compilers, Scribal Labour, and the Contents of Early Modern Poetic Miscellanies.”
    • Marotti, Arthur F. “Chaloner Chute’s Poetical Anthology (British Library, Additional MS 33998) as a Cosmopolitan Collection.”
    • Verweij, Sebastiaan. “Ten Sonnets from Scotland: Text, Context and Coterie Writing in Cambridge University Library, MS Kk.5.30.”
    • Schurnik, Fred. “Lives and Letters: Three Early Seventeenth-Century Manuscripts with Extracts from Sidney’s Arcadia.”
    • Vine, Angus. “Commercial Commonplacing: Francis Bacon, the Waste-Book, and the Ledger.”
    • Burke, Victoria E. “Materiality and Form in the Seventeenth-Century Miscellanies of Anne Southwell, Elizabeth Hastings, and Jane Truesdale.”

F3. Case Study: The Devonshire Manuscript (British Library, MS Add. 17492)
  • British Library, Online Facsimile of MS Add. 17492
  • Heale, Elizabeth, ed. The Devonshire Manuscript: A Women’s Book of Courtly Poetry. Toronto: Iter Academic Press, 2012.
  • Heale, Elizabeth. “Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire MS (BL Additional 17492).” Modern Language Review 90 (1995): 296–313.
  • Irish, Bradley J. “Gender and Politics in the Henrician Court: The Douglas-Howard Lyrics in the Devonshire Manuscript (BL Add 17492).” Renaissance Quarterly 64 (2011): 79–114.
  • Lerer, Seth. “Private Quotations, Public Memories: Troilus and Criseyde and the Politics of the Manuscript Anthology,” in Courtly Letters in the Age of Henry VIII: Literary Culture and the Arts of Deceit. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997. 122–60.
  • Murray, Molly. “The Prisoner, the Lover, and the Poet: The Devonshire Manuscript and Early Tudor Carcerality.” Renaissance and Reformation 35 (2012): 17–41.
  • Shirley, Christopher. “The Devonshire Manuscript: Reading Gender in the Henrician Court.” ELR 45 (2015): 32–59.
  • Siemens, Raymond, Karin Armstrong, and Constance Crompton, eds. A Social Edition of the Devonshire Manuscript (BL MS Add 17,492). Toronto: Iter Academic Press, 2015.
  • Siemens, Raymond G. et al. “Drawing Networks in the Devonshire Manuscript (BL Add. MS. 17492): Toward Visualizing a Writing Community’s Shared Apprenticeship, Social Valuation, and Self-Validation,” in Michael Denbo, ed., New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, V: Papers of the Renaissance English Text Society 2007–2010. Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2014. 113–51.
  • Siemens, Raymond, et al. “Social Editing and the Devonshire Manuscript,” in Claire Loffman and Harriet Phillips, eds., A Handbook of Editing Early Modern Texts. London: Routledge, 2018. 193–98.

F4. Case Study: The Verse Miscellany of Constance Aston Fowler (Huntington Library, MS HM 904)
  • Aldrich-Watson, Deborah, ed. The Verse Miscellany of Constance Aston Fowler: A Diplomatic Edition. Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2000.
    • Aldrich-Watson, Deborah. “Notes on Editing The Verse Miscellany of Constance Aston Fowler: A Diplomatic Edition,” in W. Speed Hill, ed., New Ways of Looking at Old Texts: Papers of the Renaissance English Text Society, 1997–2001. Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2004. 157–65.
  • Chowdhury, Sajed. “The Poetics of ‘Making’ in the Manuscript Writings of Constance Aston Fowler.” The Seventeenth Century 35 (2020): 337–61.
  • Hackett, Helen. “Unlocking the Mysteries of Constance Aston Fowler’s Verse Miscellany (Huntington Library MS HM 904): The Hand B Scribe Identified,” in Joshua Eckhardt and Daniel Starza Smith, eds., Manuscript Miscellanies in Early Modern England. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014. 91–112.
  • Hackett, Helen. “Women and Catholic Manuscript Networks in Seventeenth-Century England: New Research on Constance Aston Fowler’s Miscellany of Sacred and Secular Verse.” Renaissance Quarterly 65 (2012): 1094–124. 
  • La Belle, Jenijoy. ‘‘The Huntington Aston Manuscript.’’ The Book Collector 29 (1980): 542–67.

F5. Other Miscellanies
  • Anderson, Randall Louis. “‘The Merit of a Manuscript Poem’: The Case for Bodleian MS Rawlinson Poet. 85,” in Arthur F. Marotti and Michael D. Bristol, eds., Print, Manuscript, & Performance: The Changing Relations of the Media in Early Modern England. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2000. 127–71.
  • Bond, William H. “The Cornwallis-Lysons Manuscript and the Poems of John Bentley,” in James G. McManaway, Giles E. Dawson, and Edwin E. Willoughby, eds., Joseph Quincy Adams Memorial Studies. Washington, DC: Folger Shakespeare Library, 1948. 683–93. [Folger Shakespeare Library, MS V.a.89.]
  • Bowles, Amy. “Scribal Verse Manuscripts: The Poems Copied by Ralph Crane,” Études anglaises 73 (2020): 287–312.
  • Brown, Cedric C. “Recusant Community and Jesuit Mission in Parliament Days: Bodleian MS Eng. poet. b. 5.” The Yearbook of English Studies 33 (2003): 290–315.
  • Burke, Victoria. “Women and Early Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Culture: Four Miscellanies.” The Seventeenth Century 12 (1997): 135–50. [On Huntington Library, MS HM 904 (Constance Fowler); Bodleian Library, Ashmole MS 51 (Ann Bowyer); Folger Shakespeare Library, V.b.198 (Anne, Lady Southwell); and National Library of Scotland, Dep. 314/23 (Lady Margaret Wemyss).]
  • Burke, Victoria E. “Medium and Meaning in the Manuscripts of Anne, Lady Southwell,” in George L. Justice and Nathan Tinker, eds. Women’s Writing and the Circulation of Ideas: Manuscript Publication in England, 1550–1800. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002. 94–120.
  • Burke, Victoria E. “Contexts for Women’s Manuscript Miscellanies: The Case of Elizabeth Lyttelton and Sir Thomas Browne.” The Yearbook of English Studies 33 (2003): 316–28.
  • Burke, Victoria E. “Reading Friends: Women’s Participation in ‘Masculine’ Literary Culture,” in Victoria E. Burke and Jonathan Gibson, eds., Early Modern Women’s Manuscript Writing: Selected Papers from the Trinty/Trent Colloquium. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. 76–90.
  • Denbo, Michael. “Common Place, Common Space: Three Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies as Examples of Material Culture,” in Michael Denbo, ed., New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, IV: Papers of the Renaissance English Text Society, 2002–2006. Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2008. 131–39. [On Pierpont Morgan Library, MS MA 1057; Yale University, MS Osborn b 62 and b 197.]
  • Denbo, Michael, ed. The Holgate Miscellany: An Edition of Pierpont Morgan Library Manuscript, MA 1057. Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2012.​​
    • Denbo, Michael Roy. “Editing a Renaissance Commonplace Book: The Holgate Miscellany,” in W. Speed Hill, ed., New Ways of Looking at Old Texts: Papers of the Renaissance English Text Society, 1997–2001. Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2004. 65–73. [On Pierpont Morgan Library, MA 1057.]
  • Doughtie, Edward. “John Ramsey’s Manuscript as a Personal and Family Miscellany,” in W. Speed Hill, ed., New Ways of Looking at Old Texts: Papers of the Renaissance English Text Society, 1985–1991. Binghamton, NY: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1993. 280–8. [On Bodleian Library, MS Douce 280.]
  • Edmondes, Jessica, ed. Elizabethan Poetry in Manuscript: An Edition of British Library Harley MS 7392(2). New York: Iter Press, 2021.
    • Edmondes, Jessica. “Poetic Exchanges and Scribal Agency in Early Modern Manuscript Culture.” Huntington Library Quarterly 80 (2017): 239–55. [On British Library, Harley MS 7392(2).]
  • Gottschalk, Katherine K. “Discoveries Concerning British Library MS Harley 6910.” Modern Philology 77 (1979): 121–31.
  • Heale, Elizabeth. “Fathers and Daughters: Four Women and Their Family Albums of Verse,” in Anne Lawrence-Mathers and Phillipa Hardman, eds., Women and Writing, c.1340–c.1650: The Domestication of Print Culture. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2010. 146–61. [On British Library, MS Additional 36529; Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, Maitland Quarto; Edinburgh University Library, MS Laing III.444.]
  • Hughey, Ruth Willard, ed. The Arundel Harington Manuscript of Tudor Poetry. Columbus, OH: The Ohio State UP, 1961. 2 vols. [Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’]
  • Marotti, Arthur F. The Circulation of Poetry in Manuscript in Early Modern England. London: Routledge, 2021​.
    • Marotti, Arthur F. “The Cultural and Textual Importance of Folger MS V.a.89.” EMS 11 (2002): 70–92.
    • Marotti, Arthur F. “Folger MSS V.a.89 and V.a.345: Reading Lyric Poetry in Manuscript,” in Sabrina Alcorn Baron, ed., The Reader Revealed. Washington, DC: Folger Shakespeare Library, 2001. 44–57.
    • Marotti, Arthur F. “Neighborhood, Social Networks and the Making of a Family’s Manuscript Poetry Collection: The Case of British Library, Additional MS 25707,” in James Daybell and Peter Hinds, eds., Material Readings of Early Modern Culture: Texts and Social Practices, 1580– 1730. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. 185–207.​
    • Marotti, Arthur F. “Chaloner Chute’s Poetical Anthology (British Library, Additional MS 33998) as a Cosmopolitan Collection.” EMS 16 (2011): 112–40.
    • Marotti, Arthur F. “Rare or Unique Poems in British Library Sloane. MS 1446,” in S. P. Cerasano and Steven W. May, eds., In The Prayse of Writing: Early Modern Manuscript Studies: Essays in Honour of Peter Beal. London: The British Library, 2012. 70–92.
    • Marotti, Arthur F. “Christ Church, Oxford, and Beyond: Folger MS V.a.345 and Its Manuscript and Print Sources.” Studies in Philology 113 (2016): 850–78.
    • Marotti, Arthur F. “‘Rolling Archetypes’: Christ Church, Oxford Poetry Collections, and the Proliferation of Manuscript Verse Anthologies in Caroline England.” ELR 44 (2014): 486–523.
  • Marotti, Arthur F. “Humphrey Coningsby and the Personal Anthologizing of Verse in Elizabethan England,” in Michael Denbo, ed., New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, IV: Papers of the Renaissance English Text Society, 2002–2006. Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2008. 71–102. [On British Library, MS Harley 7392.]
  • May, Steven W., ed. Henry Stanford’s Anthology: An Edition of Cambridge University Library Manuscript Dd. 5.75. New York: Garland, 1988.
  • May, Steven W. and Arthur F. Marotti, eds. Ink, Stink Bait, Revenge, and Queen Elizabeth: A Yorkshire Yeoman’s Household Book. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2015. [On British Library, MS Additional 82370.]
  • May, Steven W. “Notebook Origins: Tracking the Triad,” in English Renaissance Manuscript Culture: The Paper Revolution. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2023. 196–228. [On British Library, MSS Additional 25303 and 22601.]
  • McKay, F. M. ‘‘A Seventeenth-Century Collection of Religious Poetry: Bodleian Manuscript Eng. Poet. b.5.’’ Bodleian Library Record 8 (1970): 185–91.
  • McKeogh, Katie. “‘Flowers of Fathers’: Resistance and Consolation in a Catholic Manuscript Compilation, Bodleian MSS. Eng. th. b. 1–2.” Huntington Library Quarterly 84 (2021): 307–51. [Not verse.]
  • Murphy, Emilie. “Making Memories in Post-Reformation English Catholic Musical Miscellanies,” in Alexandra Walsham, Bronwyn Wallace, Ceri Law, and Brian Cummings, eds., Memory and the English Reformation. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2020. 403–21. [Focus on British Library, Additional MS 38599.]
  • O’Callaghan, Michelle. “Collecting Verse: ‘Significant Shape’ and the Paper-Book in the Early Seventeenth Century.” Huntington Library Quarterly 80 (2017): 309–24. [On Bodleian Library, Don.c.54 and Rawl.poet.31.]
  • Parker, David R. The Commonplace Book in Tudor London: An Examination of BL MSS Egerton 1995, Harley 2252, Lansdowne 762, and Oxford Balliol College MS 354. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1998.
  • Siemens, Raymond G., ed. The Lyrics of the Henry VIII Manuscript. Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2018. [British Library, MS Additional 31922.]
    • Siemens, Raymond G. with Caroline Leitch. “Editing the Early Modern Miscellany: Modelling and Knowledge [Re]Presentation as a Context for the Contemporary Editor,” in Michael Denbo, ed., New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, IV: Papers of the Renaissance English Text Society, 2002–2006. Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2008. 115–30.
    • ​Siemens, Ray. “King, Court, Accoutrement: An Edition of The Lyrics of the Henry VIII Manuscript and Current Editorial Practices,” in Arthur F. Marotti, ed., New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, VI: Papers of the Renaissance English Text Society, 2011–2016. Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2019. 11–37.
    • Herman, Peter C. “The King, the Court, the Poet: A Response to The Lyrics of the Henry VIII Manuscript,” in Arthur F. Marotti, ed., New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, VI: Papers of the Renaissance English Text Society, 2011–2016. Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2019. 39–47.
  • Swann, Joel. “Chetham’s Library MS A.4.15: An Inns of Court Manuscript?” Journal of the Northern Renaissance 7 (2015).
  • Tillotson, Geoffrey. “The Commonplace Book of Arthur Capell.” Modern Language Review 27 (1932): 381–91. [On British Library, Harley MS 3511.]
  • ​Williams, Claire Bryony. “‘This and the rest Maisters we all may mende’: Reconstructing the Practices and Anxieties of a Manuscript Miscellany’s Reader-Compiler.” Huntington Library Quarterly 80 (2017): 277–92. [On V&A National Art Library, MS Dyce 44.]

F6. Manuscript Contexts of Printed Verse Miscellanies
  • Heffernan, Megan. Making the Miscellany: Poetry, Print, and the History of the Book in Early Modern England. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2021.
  • O’Callaghan, Michelle. Crafting Poetry Anthologies in Renaissance England: Early Modern Cultures of Recreation. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2020.

G. OTHER MANUSCRIPT GENRES OF COMPILATION
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G1. Commonplace Books: General
  • Allan, David. “A Very Short History of Commonplacing,” in Commonplace Books and Reading in Georgian England. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2010. 35–45.
  • Beal, Peter. “Notions in Garrison: The Seventeenth-Century Commonplace Book,” in W. Speed Hill, ed., New Ways of Looking at Old Texts: Papers of the Renaissance English Text Society, 1985–1991. Binghamton, NY: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1993. 131–47
  • Burke, Victoria E. “Recent Studies in Commonplace Books.” ELR 43 (2013): 153–77.
  • Crane, Mary Thomas. Framing Authority: Sayings, Self, and Society in Sixteenth-Century England. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1993.
  • Havens, Earle. Commonplace Books: A History of Manuscripts and Printed Books from Antiquity to the Twentieth Century. New Haven: Yale UP, 2001.
  • Hooks, Adam G. “Commonplace Books,” in Garrett A. Sullivan and Alan Stewart, eds., The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature. 3 vols. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. 1:206–9.
  • Parker, David. “The Importance of the Commonplace Book: London 1450–1550.” Manuscripta 40 (1996): 29–48.
  • Schurink, Fred. “Manuscript Commonplace Books, Literature, and Reading in Early Modern England.” Huntington Library Quarterly 73 (2010): 453–69.
  • Smyth, Adam. “Commonplace Book Lives: ‘A Very Applicative Story’,” in Autobiography in Early Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2010. 123–58.
  • Smyth, Adam. “Commonplace Book Culture: A List of Sixteen Traits,” in Anne Lawrence-Mathers and Phillipa Hardman, eds., Women and Writing c. 1340–c. 1650: The Domestication of Print Culture. Woodbridge: York Medieval Press, 2010. 90–110.
  • Vine, Angus. “Commonplace Failure,” in Miscellaneous Order: Manuscript Culture and the Early Modern Organization of Knowledge. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2019. 30–62.

G2. Commonplace Books: Case Studies and Specific Topics
  • Bawcutt, Priscilla. “The Commonplace Book of John Maxwell,” in Alisoun Gardner-Medwin and Janet Hadley Williams, eds., A Day Estivall: Essays on the Music, Poetry, and History of Scotland and England and Poems Previously Unpublished. Aberdeen: Aberdeen UP, 1990. 59–68. [On Edinburgh University Library, MS Laing III.467.]
  • Braccia, Zoe, and Whitney Trettien, eds. Susanna Collet’s Commonplace Book. [Morgan Library & Museum, PML 128838.]
  • Burke, Victoria E. “Ann Bowyer’s Commonplace Book (Bodleian Library, Ashmole MS 51): Reading and Writing Among the ‘Middling Sort’.” EMLS 6 (2001): 1.1–28.​
  • Burke, Victoria E. “Commonplacing, Making Miscellanies, and Interpreting Literature,” in Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, Danielle Clarke, and Sarah C. E. Ross, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women’s Writing in English, 1540–1700. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2022. 217–30.
  • Coatalen, Guillaume. “‘Pericles’, ‘Reynard the Foxe’, Sidney’s ‘Arcadia’, Florio’s ‘Montaigne’ and More in Northwestern MS 67.” RES 73 (2022): 670–99.
  • Crowley, Lara M. “Samuel Tuke’s John Donne,” in Arthur F. Marotti, ed., New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, VI: Papers of the Renaissance English Text Society, 2011–2016. Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2019. 233–50. [On British Library, MS Additional 78423.]
  • De Groot, Jerome. “John Denham and Lucy Hutchinson’s Commonplace Book.” SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 48 (2008): 147–63. [On Nottinghamshire Archives, DD/HU/1.]
  • Denbo, Michael Roy. “Editing a Renaissance Commonplace Book: The Holgate Miscellany,” in W. Speed Hill, ed., New Ways of Looking at Old Texts: Papers of the Renaissance English Text Society, 1997–2001. Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2004. 65–73. [On Pierpont Morgan Library, MA 1057.]
  • Dunham, William Huse, Jr. “William Camden’s Commonplace Book.” Yale University Library Gazette 43 (1969): 139–56.
  • Fulton, Thomas. “Combing the Annals of Barbarians: The Commonplace Book and Milton’s Political Scholarship,” in Historical Milton: Manuscript, Print, and Political Culture in Revolutionary England. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 2010. 38–81. [On British Library, MS Add. 36354.]
  • Gibson, Jonathan. “Casting off Blanks: Hidden Structures in Early Modern Paper Books,” in James Daybell and Peter Hinds, eds., Material Readings of Early Modern Culture: Texts and Social Practices, 1580–1730. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. 208–28.
  • Hao Tianhu. “Hesperides, or the Muses’ Garden and Its Manuscript History.” The Library 7th series, 10 (2009): 372–404. [On Folger Shakespeare Library, MS V.b.93.]
  • Klene, Jean, ed. The Southwell-Sibthorpe Commonplace Book: Folger MS. V.b.198. Tempe, AZ: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1997.
    • Klene, Jean. “Recreating the Voice of Lady Anne Southwell,” in Josephine Roberts, ed., Voices of Silence: Editing the Letters of Renaissance Women. [Pamphlet of papers from panel at MLA 1990.] [Binghamton, NY:] Renaissance English Text Society, 1990.
    • ​Klene, Jean. “Working with a Complex Document: The Southwell-Sibthorpe Commonplace Book,” in W. Speed Hill, ed., New Ways of Looking at Old Texts: Papers of the Renaissance English Text Society, 1997–2001. Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2004. 169–75.
  • Lake, Peter. “Theory into Practice: Puritan Practical Divinity in the 1580s and 1590s,” in Moderate Puritans and the Elizabethan Church. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1982. 116–68.
  • Louis, Cameron, ed. The Commonplace Book of Robert Reynes of Acle: An Edition of Tanner MS 407. New York: Garland, 1980.
  • Mohl, Ruth. John Milton and His Commonplace Book. New York: Ungar, [1969].
  • Olsen, Thomas G., ed. The Commonplace Book of Sir John Strangways (1645–1666). Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2004. [On Beinecke Library, MS Osborn b.304.]
  • Poole, William, ed. “The Commonplace Book,” in The Complete Works of John Milton. Volume IX: Manuscript Writings. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2019. 1–299. [British Library, MS Additional 36354.]
  • Poole, William. “The Genres of Milton’s Commonplace Book,” in Nicholas McDowell and Nigel Smith, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Milton. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2009. 367–81.
  • Shephard, Robert. “The Political Commonplace Books of Sir Robert Sidney.” Sidney Journal 21 (2003): 1–30.
  • Smith, Helen. “Things That Last: Ephemerality and Endurance in Early Modern England,” in Callan Davies, Hannah Lilley, and Catherine Richardson, eds., Practices of Ephemera in Early Modern England. New York: Routledge, 2023. 148–66. [On Bodleian Library, MS Ashmole 51.]
  • Smyth, Adam. “‘Rend and teare in peeces’: Textual Fragmentation in Seventeenth-Century England.” The Seventeenth Century 19 (2004): 36–52. [On British Library, Add. MS 37719.]
  • Vine, Angus. “Search and Retrieval in Seventeenth-Century Manuscripts: The Case of Joseph Hall’s Miscellany.” Huntington Library Quarterly 80 (2017): 325–43.
  • Warkentin, Germaine. “Humanism in Hard Times: The Second Earl of Leicester (1595–1677) and His Commonplace Books, 1630–60,” in Ton Hoenselaars and Arthur F. Kinney, eds., Challenging Humanism: Essays in Honour of Dominic Baker-Smith. Newark: U of Delaware P, 2005. 229–53.
  • Youngs, Deborah. “The Medieval Commonplace Book: The Example of the Commonplace Book of Humphrey Newton of Newton and Pownall, Cheshire (1466–1536).” Archives 25 (2000): 58–73. [On Bodleian Library, MS Latin Misc. c. 66.]

G3. Recipe Books
  • DiMeo, Michelle and Sara Pennell, eds. Reading and Writing Recipe Books, 1550–1800. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2013.
  • Field, Catherine. “‘Many hands hands’: Writing the Self in Early Modern Women’s Recipe Books,” in Michelle M. Dowd and Julie A. Eckerle, eds., Genre and Women’s Life Writing in Early Modern England. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. 49–63.
  • Griffin, Carrie. “Practical Texts: Women, Instruction, and the Household,” in Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, Danielle Clarke, and Sarah C. E. Ross, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women’s Writing in English, 1540–1700. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2022. 83–96.
  • Kowalchuk, Kristine, ed. Preserving on Paper: Seventeenth-Century Englishwomen’s Receipt Books. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2017. [Folger MS V.a.430, attributed to Mary Granville and Anne Granville D’Ewes; Folger MS V.a.20, attributed to Constance Hall; Folger MS V.a.450, attributed to Lettice Pudsey]
  • Leong, Elaine. “Collecting Knowledge for the Family: Recipes, Gender and Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern English Household.” Centaurus 55 (2013): 81–103.
  • Leong, Elaine. “Papering the Household: Paper, Recipes, and Everyday Technologies in Early Modern England,” in Carla Bittel, Elaine Leong, and Christine von Oertzen, eds., Working with Paper: Gendered Practices in the History of Knowledge. Pittsburgh, PA: U of Pittsburgh P, 2019. 32–45.
  • Leong, Elaine. Recipes and Everyday Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and the Household in Early Modern England. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2018.
  • Nunn, Hillary M. “Local Waters and Notions of Home in Early Modern Recipe Manuscripts.” Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 20 (2020): 59–82. [The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, MS 10a214.]
  • Park, Jennifer. “Teaching Recipes, Race, and Erasure in the Early Modern Classroom,” in Liza Blake, ed., Teaching Early Modern Women Writers Today, special issue of Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 28 (2021): 61–79.
  • Pennell, Sara. “Perfecting Practice? Women, Manuscript Recipes and Knowledge in Early Modern England,” in Victoria E. Burke and Jonathan Gibson, eds., Early Modern Women’s Manuscript Writing: Selected Papers from the Trinity/Trent Colloquium. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. 237–58.
  • Snook, Edith. “English Women’s Writing and Indigenous Medical Knowledge in the Early Modern Atlantic World,” in Patricia Phillippy, ed., A History of Early Modern Women’s Writing. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2018. 382–97.
  • Wall, Wendy. Recipes for Thought: Knowledge and Taste in the Early Modern English Kitchen. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2016.
  • Wall, Wendy. “Recipe Books,” in Patricia Pender and Rosalind Smith, eds., The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women’s Writing [Living Edition]. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020+. [UTL] 
  • Wall, Wendy. “The World of Recipes: Intellectual Culture in and around the Seventeenth-Century Household,” in Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, Danielle Clarke, and Sarah C. E. Ross, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women’s Writing in English, 1540–1700. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2022. 319–34.

G4. Note Taking
  • Blair, Ann. “Note Taking as an Art of Transmission.” Critical Inquiry 31 (2004): 85–107.
  • Blair, Ann. “The Rise of Note-Taking in Early Modern Europe.” Intellectual History Review 20 (2010): 303–16.
  • Blair, Ann M. Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age. New Haven, CT: Yale UP, 2010.
  • Blair, Ann and Richard Yeo, eds. Note-Taking in Early Modern Europe, special issue of Intellectual History Review 20.3 (2010).
  • Leong, Elaine. “Read. Do. Observe. Take Note!” Centaurus 60 (2018): 87–103.
  • Soll, Jacob. “From Note‐Taking to Data Banks: Personal and Institutional Information Management in Early Modern Europe.” Intellectual History Review 20 (2010): 355–75.
  • Vine, Angus. Miscellaneous Order: Manuscript Culture and the Early Modern Organization of Knowledge. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2019.

G5. Notebooks: Case Studies
  • Bamford, Francis, ed. A Royalist’s Notebook: The Commonplace Book of Sir John Oglander, Kt., of Nunwell. London: Constable, 1936. [Isle of Wight Record Office, MS OG/AA/26–31.]
  • Bowden, Caroline. “‘The Notebooks of Rachel Fane: Education for Authorship?” in Victoria E. Burke and Jonathan Gibson, eds., Early Modern Women’s Manuscript Writing: Selected Papers from the Trinity/Trent Colloquium. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. 157–80.
  • Burlinson, Christopher. “The Use snd Re-Use of Early-Seventeenth-Century Student Notebooks: Inside and Outside the University,” in James Daybell and Peter Hinds, eds., Material Readings of Early Modern Culture: Texts and Social Practices, 1580– 1730. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. 229–45.​ [On Queens’ College, Cambridge, MS 90 and St. John’s College, Cambridge, MS S.34.]
  • Clark, Stuart. “Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the ‘Bacon-Tottel” Commonplace Books.” Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 6 (1976): 291–305, and 7 (1977): 46–73. [On University College London, MSS Ogden 7/7–53.]
  • Hanebaum, Simone. “Historical Writing? – Richard Wilton’s ‘Booke of particular remembrances’, 1584–1634.” The Seventeenth Century 34 (2019): 561–82. [On Cambridge University Library, Buxton Papers 96/15.]
  • Mack, Peter. “Everyday Writing: Notebooks, Letters, Narratives,” in Elizabethan Rhetoric: Theory and Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002. 103–34. [See pp. 104–14 on notebooks.]
  • Moon, Antonia. “‘A Fresh Reading of Books’: Some Note-Taking Practices of Thomas Browne,” in Richard Todd and Kathryn Murphy, eds., “A man very well studyed”: New Contexts for Thomas Browne. Brill: Leiden: Brill, 2008. 67–86.
  • Nielson, James. “Reading between the Lines: Manuscript Personality and Gabriel Harvey’s Drafts.” Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900 33 (1993): 43–82. [On British Library, MS Sloane 93.]
  • Porcheddu, Fred. “William Alabaster’s Notebooks.” Spenser Studies 36 (2022): 375–447. [On Cambridge University Library, MSS Dd.2.16–20.]
  • Schurink, Fred. “An Elizabethan Grammar School Exercise Book.” Bodleian Library Record 18 (2003): 174–96. [On Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson D. 1063.]
  • Sharpe, Kevin. Reading Revolutions: The Politics of Reading in Early Modern England. New Haven: Yale UP, 2000. [On Sir William Drake’s reading notebooks: University College London, MSS Ogden 7/1–53; Parliamentary Archives, WDR (formerly House of Lords Record Office, Historical Collections MS 49); Folger Shakespeare Library, MS V.a.263.]
    • Sharpe, Kevin. “Uncommonplaces?: Sir William Drake’s Reading Notes,” in Sabrina Alcorn Baron, ed., The Reader Revealed. Washington, DC: Folger Shakespeare Library, 2001. 59–65.
  • Verweij, Sebastiaan. “Reading in Crisis: Francis Russell’s Reading Records and the Beginnings of the Thirty Years’ War.” Journal of British Studies 61 (2022): 161–85. [On Woburn Abbey, MS HMC 26.]
  • Vine, Angus. “Francis Bacon’s Composition Books.” Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 14 (2008): 1–31.

G6. Medical Casebooks
  • Kassell, Lauren. “How to Read the Casebooks,” in Medicine and Magic in Elizabethan London: Simon Forman: Astrologer, Alchemist, and Physician. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2005. 125–59.
  • Kassell, Lauren. “Casebooks in Early Modern England: Medicine, Astrology, and Written Records.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 88 (2014): 595–625.
  • Kassell, Lauren. “Paper Technologies, Digital Technologies: Working with Early Modern Medical Records,” in Anne Whitehead et al., eds., The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2016. 120–35.
  • Kassell, Lauren, et al., eds. The Casebooks of Simon Forman and Richard Napier, 1596–1634: A Digital Edition.

G7. Compilation Practices and Natural Philosophy
  • Blair, Ann. “Humanist Methods in Natural Philosophy: The Commonplace Book.” Journal of the History of Ideas 53 (1992): 541–51.
  • Jalobeanu, Dana. “The Toolbox of the Early Modern Natural Historian: Note-Books, Commonplace-Books and the Emergence of Laboratory Records.” Journal of Early Modern Studies 4 (2015): 107–23.
  • Leong, Elaine. Recipes and Everyday Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and the Household in Early Modern England. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2018.
  • Vine, Angus. Miscellaneous Order: Manuscript Culture and the Early Modern Organization of Knowledge. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2019.
  • Vine, Angus. “Commercial Commonplacing: Francis Bacon, the Waste-Book, and the Ledger.” EMS 16 (2011): 197–218.
  • Wall, Wendy. Recipes for Thought: Knowledge and Taste in the Early Modern English Kitchen. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2016.​
  • Wall, Wendy. “The World of Recipes: Intellectual Culture in and around the Seventeenth-Century Household,” in Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, Danielle Clarke, and Sarah C. E. Ross, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women’s Writing in English, 1540–1700. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2022. 319–34.
  • Yale, Elizabeth. “Marginalia, Commonplaces, and Correspondence: Scribal Exchanges in Early Modern Science.” Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science 42 (2011): 193–202.
  • Yeo, Richard. Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2014.

G+. Online Resources

H. DRAMA IN MANUSCRIPT
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H1. General
  • Atkin, Tamara and Laura Estill, eds. Early British Drama in Manuscript. Turnhout: Brepols, 2019.
    • Atkin, Tamara and Laura Estill. “Introduction.”
    • Stadolnik, Joe. “The Brome Abraham and Isaac and Impersonal Compilation.”
    • King, Pamela M. “The Coventry Playbooks.”
    • Johnston, Alexandra F. “The Towneley Plays: Huntington Library MS HM 1.”
    • Sergi, Matthew. “Un-dating the Chester Plays: A Reassessment of Lawrence Clopper’s ‘History and Development’ and MS Peniarth 399.”
    • Polito, Mary and Kirsten Inglis. “Noting Baiazet, the Raging Turk.”
    • Purkis, James. “John of Bordeaux: Performance and the Revision of Early Modern Dramatic Manuscripts.”
    • Williams, William Proctor. “James Compton and Cosmo Manuche and Dramatic Manuscripts in the Interregnum Performance.”
    • Rayment, Louise. “The Play of Wit and Science: Evidence for the Performance of a Choir School Manuscript.”
    • Carpenter, Sarah. “Sixteenth-Century Courtly Mumming and Masking: Alexander Montgomerie’s The Navigatioun.”
    • Boguszak, Jakub. “Speech and Silence in an Actor’s Part.”
    • Northway, Kara J. “‘In witnes here of I set to my hand’: Early Modern Actors’ Offstage Textual Rituals.”
    • Munro, Lucy. “Comedy, Clowning, and the Caroline King’s Men: Manuscript Plays and Performance.”
    • Smith, Daniel Starza and Jana Dambrogio. “Unfolding Action: Locked Letters as Props in the Early Modern Theatre.”
    • Atkin, Tamara. “Remediating Sixteenth-Century Drama: Gismond of Salerne in Script and Print.”
    • Mayer, Jean-Christophe. “The Early Manuscript Reception of Shakespeare: The Formation of Shakespearean Literary Taste.”
    • Montedoro, Beatrice. “Comedies and Tragedies ‘read of me’ and ‘not yet learned’: Dramatic Extracting in Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson D 952.”
    • Forster, Antonia. “Seeing is Believing: External vs. Internal Evidence in the Controversy over the Ireland Forgeries.”
    • Gibson, Gail McMurray. “The Macro Plays in Georgian England.”
    • Pangallo, Matteo. “‘Unseen things seen’: Digital Editing and Early Modern Manuscript Plays.”
    • Munson, Rebecca. “Mongrel Forms: Print-Manuscript Hybridity and Digital Methods in Annotated Plays.”
  • Harbage, Alfred. “List of Extant Play Manuscripts, 975–1700: Their Locations and Catalogue Numbers,” in Annals of English Drama, 975–1700. 3rd ed. Rev. Sylvia Stoler Wagonheim. London: Routledge, 1989. 358–75.
    • Harbage, Alfred. “Elizabethan and Seventeenth-Century Play Manuscripts.” PMLA 50 (1935): 687–99.
    • Harbage, Alfred. “Elizabethan and Seventeenth-Century Play Manuscripts: Addenda.” PMLA 52 (1937): 905–7.

H2. Playhouse Manuscripts: General
  • Greg, W. W. “Prompt Books,” in Dramatic Documents from the Elizabethan Playhouses. Commentary. Oxford: Clarendon, 1931. 189–276.
  • Greg, W. W. “Theatrical Manuscripts,” in The Editorial Problem in Shakespeare: A Survey of the Foundations of the Text. Oxford: Clarendon, 1942. 22–48.
  • Ioppolo, Grace. Dramatists and Their Manuscripts in the Age of Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and Heywood: Authorship, Authority and the Playhouse. London and New York: Routledge, 2006.
    • Ioppolo, Grace. “‘The foule sheet and ye fayr’: Henslowe, Daborne, Heywood and the Nature of Foul-Paper and Fair-Copy Dramatic Manuscripts.” EMS 11 (2002): 132–53.
  • Ioppolo, Grace. “The Transmission of an English Renaissance Play-Text,” in Arthur F. Kinney and Thomas Warren Hopper, eds., A New Companion to Renaissance Drama. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2017. 545–59.
  • Lawrence, W. J. “Early Prompt-Books and What They Reveal,” in Pre-Restoration Stage Studies. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1927. 373–413.
  • Long, William B. “‘Precious Few’: English Manuscript Playbooks,” in David Scott Kastan, ed., A Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford: Blackwell, 1999. 414–33.
  • Proudfoot, G. R. “Dramatic Manuscripts and the Editor,” in Anne Lancashire, ed., Editing Renaissance Dramatic Texts: English, Italian, and Spanish. New York: Garland, 1976. 9–38.
  • Purkis, James. Shakespeare and Manuscript Drama: Canon, Collaboration and Text. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2016.
  • Werstine, Paul. Early Modern Playhouse Manuscripts and the Editing of Shakespeare. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2013.
    • Werstine, Paul. “The Continuing Importance of New Bibliographical Method.” Shakespeare Survey 62 (2009): 30–45.
  • Werstine, Paul. “Plays in Manuscript,” in John D. Cox and David Scott Kastan, eds., A New History of Early English Drama. New York: Columbia UP, 1997. 481–97.
  • Werstine, Paul. “Post-Theory Problems in Shakespeare Editing.” The Yearbook of English Studies 29 (1999): 103–17.

H3. Playhouse Manuscripts: Specific Issues
  • Adams, B. K. “Foul/Fair,” in Claire M. L. Bourne, ed., Shakespeare/Text: Contemporary Readings in Textual Studies, Editing and Performance. London: Bloomsbury, 2021. 29–49.
  • Clare, Janet. “‘I like not this’: Censorship, Self-Censorship and Collaboration in Early Modern Dramatic Manuscripts,” in Sophie Chiari, ed., Freedom and Censorship in Early Modern English Literature. New York: Routledge, 2019. 48–65.
  • Dawson, Giles E. “What Happened to Shakespeare’s Manuscripts.” Texas Quarterly 4 (1961): 169–79.
  • Greg, W. W. “Prompt Copies, Private Transcripts, and the ‘Playhouse Scrivener.’” The Library, 4th ser., 6 (1925): 148–56.
  • Jowett, John. “Exit Manuscripts: The Archive of Theatre and the Archive of Print.” Shakespeare Survey 70 (2017): 113–22.
  • Kidnie, Margaret Jane. “Playhouse Markings and the Revision of Hamlet.” Shakespeare Quarterly 71 (2020): 69–103.
  • Long, William B. “Stage-Directions: A Misunderstood Factor in Determining Textual Provenance.” TEXT: Transactions of the Society for Textual Scholarship 2 (1985): 121–37.
  • Lupić, Ivan. “Dramatic Manuscripts and the Transnational Turn.” Shakespeare Studies 48 (2020): 57–65.
  • Pangallo, Matteo A. “‘Some other may be added’: Playwriting Playgoers Revising in Their Manuscripts,” in Playwriting Playgoers in Shakespeare’s Theater. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2017. 74–102.
  • Pangallo, Matteo. “‘I will keep and character that name’: Dramatis Personae Lists in Early Modern Manuscript Plays.” Early Theatre 18.2 (2015): 87–118.
  • Purkis, James. “The Revision of Manuscript Drama,” in Jacqueline Jenkins and Julie Sanders, eds., Editing, Performance, Texts: New Practices in Medieval and Early Modern English Drama. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 107–25.
  • Sisson, C. J. “Bibliographical Aspects of Some Stuart Dramatic Manuscripts.” RES 1 (1925): 421–30.
  • Smith, Daniel Starza. “Papers Most Foul: The Melbourne Manuscript and the ‘Foul Papers’ Debate,” in Barbara Ravelhofer, ed., James Shirley and Early Modern Theatre: New Critical Perspectives. London: Routledge, 2017. 124–38.
  • Tronch, Jesús. “What If Greg and Werstine Had Examined Early Modern Spanish Dramatic Manuscripts?” Shakespeare Survey 70 (2017): 99–112.
  • Werstine, Paul. “McKerrow’s ‘Suggestion’ and Twentieth-Century Shakespeare Textual Criticism.” Renaissance Drama 19 (1988): 149–73.
  • Werstine, Paul. “Ralph Crane and Edward Knight: Professional Scribe and King’s Men’s Bookkeeper,” in Margaret Jane Kidnie and Sonia Massai, eds., Shakespeare and Textual Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2015. 27–38.
  • Werstine, Paul. “Lost Playhouse Manuscripts,” in Roslyn L. Knutson, David McInnis, and Matthew Steggle, eds., Loss and the Literary Culture of Shakespeare’s Time. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. 41–54.

H4. Playhouse Manuscripts: Specific Manuscripts
  • Downs, Gerald E. “Memorial Transmission, Shorthand, and John of Bordeaux.” Studies in Bibliography 58 (2007): 109–134
  • Egan, Gabriel. “Precision, Consistency and Completeness in Early-Modern Playbook Manuscripts: The Evidence from Thomas of Woodstock and John a Kent and John a Cumber.” The Library 12 (2011): 376–91.
  • Frijlinck, Wilhelmina Paulina, ed. The Tragedy of Sir John Van Olden Barnavelt. Amsterdam: H. G. van Dorssen, 1922.
  • Gerritsen, J., ed. The Honest Mans Fortune: A Critical Edition of MS. Dyce 9 (1625). Groningen: J. B. Wolters, 1952.
  • Hoppe, Harry R. “John of Bordeaux: A Bad Quarto that Never Reached Print,” in Charles Prouty, ed., Studies in Honor of A. H. R. Fairchild (Columbia: U of Missouri P, 1946), 119–32.
  • Howard-Hill, T. H. “Crane’s 1619 ‘Promptbook’ of Barnavelt and Theatrical Processes.” Modern Philology 86 (1988): 146–70.
  • Howard-Hill, T. H. “Buc and the Censorship of Sir John Van Olden Barnavelt in 1619.” RES 39 (1988): 39–63.
  • Howard-Hill, T. H. “Marginal Markings: The Censor and the Editing of Four English Promptbooks.” Studies in Bibliography 36 (1983): 168–77.
  • Itzoe, Linda V., ed. Arthur Wilson’s The Inconstant Lady: A Critical Edition. New York: Garland, 1980.
  • Itzoe, Linda V., ed. The Swisser by Arthur Wilson. New York: Garland, 1984.
  • Long, William B. “‘A bed / for woodstock’: A Warning for the Unwary.” Medieval & Renaissance Drama in England 2 (1985): 91–118.
  • Long, William B. “John a Kent and John a Cumber: An Elizabethan Playbook and Its Implications,” in William R. Elton and William B. Long, eds., Shakespeare and Dramatic Tradition: Essays in Honor of S. F. Johnson. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1989. 125–43.
  • Maguire, Laurie E. “(Mis)diagnosing Memorial Reconstruction in John of Bordeaux.” Medieval and
    Renaissance Drama in England     11 (2002): 17–65.
  • Martin, Randall, ed. ‘Edmond Ironside’ and Anthony Brewer’s ‘The Love-Sick King’. New York, NY: Garland, 1991.
  • Purkis, James. “John of Bordeaux: Performance and the Revision of Early Modern Dramatic Manuscripts,” in Tamara Atkin and Laura Estill, eds., Early British Drama in Manuscript. Turnhout: Brepols, 2019.
  • Wooding, Barbara. “Interrogating The Soddered Citizen.” Renaissance Studies 26 (2012): 608–24.
  • Malone Society Publications​
    • Believe as You List, by Phillip Massinger, ed. Charles J. Sisson. Oxford: 1928 for 1927. [British Library, MS Egerton 2828; licensed 6 May 1631.]
    • The Book of Sir Thomas More, by Anthony Munday et al., ed. W. W. Greg, rev. Harold Jenkins. Oxford: 1911/1961. [British Library, MS Harley 7368.]
    • The Captives, by Thomas Heywood, ed. Arthur Brown. Oxford: 1953. [British Library, MS Egerton 1994/3; licensed 3 September 1624.]
    • Charlemagne, or The Distracted Emperor, ed. John Henry Walter. Oxford: 1938 for 1937. [British Library, MS Egerton 1994/6.]
    • Edmond Ironside, ed. Eleanore Boswell. Oxford: 1928 for 1927. [British Library, MS Egerton 1994/5.]
    • The First Part of the Reign of King Richard the Second, or Thomas of Woodstock, ed. Wilhelmina P. Frijlinck. Oxford: 1929. [British Library MS Egerton 1994/8.]
    • The Honest Man’s Fortune, by John Fletcher, Nathan Field, and Philip Massinger, ed. Grace Ioppolo. Manchester: 2012 for 2009. [Victoria and Albert Museum, MS Dyce 25.F.9; licensed 8 February 1625.] 
    • John a Kent and John a Cumber, by Anthony Munday, ed. Muriel St. Clare Byrne. Oxford: 1923. [Huntington Library, MS HM 500.]
    • John of Bordeaux, or the Second Part of Friar Bacon, ed. William Lindsay Renwick. Oxford: 1936 for 1935. [Alnwick Castle, MS 507.]
    • The Lady Mother, by Henry Glapthorne, ed. Arthur Brown. Oxford: 1959 for 1958. [British Library, MS Egerton 1994/9; licensed 15 October 1635. This edition was based on Patricia Owtram, ed., “An Edition of The Lady Mother in B.M. Egerton MS. 1994,” MLitt thesis (University of Oxford, 1953); see the Malone Society’s Annual Report 2022/2023.]
    • The Launching of the Mary, by Walter Mountfort, ed. John Henry Walter. Oxford: 1933. [British Library, MS Egerton 1994/15; licensed 27 June 1633.]
    • The Parliament of Love, by Phillip Massinger, ed. Kathleen Marguerite Lea. Oxford, 1929 for 1928 [Victoria and Albert Museum, MS Dyce 25.F.33; licensed 3 November 1624.]
    • The Second Maiden’s Tragedy, ed. W. W. Greg. Oxford: 1909. [British Library, MS Lansdowne 807/2; licensed 31 October 1611.]​​
      • Howard-Hill, T. H. “Marginal Markings: The Censor and the Editing of Four English Promptbooks.” Studies in Bibliography 36 (1983): 168–77.
    • Sir John van Olden Barnavelt, by John Fletcher and Phillip Massinger, ed. T. H. Howard-Hill. Oxford: 1980 for 1979. [British Library, MS Add. 18653.]
      • ​Stephenson, Joseph F. “On the Markings in the Manuscript of Sir John van Olden Barnavelt.” Notes & Queries 53 (2006): 522–24.
    • The Soddered Citizen, ed. John Henry Pyle Pafford and W. W. Greg. Oxford, 1936 for 1935. [Wiltshire and Swindon Archives, MS 865/502/2.]
    • The Two Noble Ladies, ed. Rebbeca G. Rhoads. Oxford: 1930. [British Library, MS Egerton 1994/11.]
    • The Wasp, or Subject’s Precedent, ed. J. W. Lever and G. R. Proudfoot. Oxford: 1976 for 1974. [Alnwick Castle, MS 507.]
      • ​Lever, J. W. “The Wasp: A Trial Flight,” in G. R. Hibbard, ed., The Elizabethan Theatre IV. Toronto: Macmillan, 1974. 57–79.
    • The Welsh Embassador, ed. H. Littledale and W. W. Greg. Oxford: 1921 for 1920. [Cardiff Central Library, MS 4.12.]

H5. Case Study: The Booke of Sir Thomas Moore (British Library, MS Harley 7368)
  • Blayney, Peter M. W. “The Booke of Sir Thomas Moore Re-Examined.” Studies in Philology 69 (1972): 167–91.
  • British Library, Online Facsimile of MS Harley 7368.
  • Gabrieli, Vittorio and Giorgio Melchiori, eds. Sir Thomas More. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1990.
  • Greg, W. W., ed. (rev. Harold Jenkins). The Book of Sir Thomas More. Oxford: Malone Society, 1911/1961.
  • Howard-Hill, T. H., ed. Shakespeare and Sir Thomas More: Essays on the Play and Its Shakespearian Interest. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1989.
  • Jowett, John, ed. Sir Thomas More. London: Arden Shakespeare, 2011.
  • McMillin, Scott. The Elizabethan Theatre and The Book of Sir Thomas More. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1987.
  • Melchiori, Giorgio. “The Booke of Sir Thomas Moore: A Chronology of Revision.” Shakespeare Quarterly 37 (1986): 291–308.
  • Purkis, James. “Part II: Shakespearean Coincidences,” in Shakespeare and Manuscript Drama: Canon, Collaboration and Text. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2016. 141–291.
  • Werstine, Paul. “Shakespeare, More or Less: A. W. Pollard and Twentieth-Century Shakespeare Editing.” Florilegium 16 (1999): 125–45.

H5. Non-Playhouse Dramatic Manuscripts: Specific Manuscripts
  • Bald, R. C. “Arthur Wilson’s The Inconstant Lady.” The Library, 4th series, 18 (1937): 287–313. [Folger Shakespeare Library, MS J.b.1; Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson poet. 9.]
  • Blank, Daniel. “Attributing Authorship to Bodleian MS Douce 171: A Seventeenth-Century Comedy by Arthur Wilson.” The Library 23 (2022): 346–72.
  • Blank, Daniel. “University Drama in Performance, Manuscript, and Print,” in Shakespeare and University Drama in Early Modern England. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2023. 14–37.
  • Bowers, R. H. “Some Folger Academic Drama Manuscripts.” Studies in Bibliography 12 (1959): 117–30.
  • Bowers, Fredson. “Beggars Bush: A Reconstructed Prompt-Book and Its Copy.” Studies in Bibliography 27 (1974): 113–36. [Folger Shakespeare Library, MS J.b.5.]
  • Challinor, Jennie. “A Seventeenth-Century Manuscript of the Academic Drama Lingua.” RES 74 (2023): 254–73.
  • Collis, Ivor P., Derek M. M. Shorrocks, and Judith Malafronte, eds., The Elizabethan Club Oedipus Manuscript. [Yale, Elizabethan Club, MS Eliz 294.]
  • Freeman, Arthur. “The ‘Tapster Manuscript’: An Analogue of Shakespeare’s Henry the Fourth Part One.” EMS 6 (1997): 93-105. [Beinecke Library, MS Osborn a74; formerly Oslo, Schøyen Collection, MS 1627.]
  • Greg, W. W. “A Dramatic Fragment.” Modern Language Quarterly 7.3 (1904): 153–55. [British Library, MS Egerton 2623, fols. 37–38.]
  • Hammond, Anthony and Doreen Delvecchio. “The Melbourne Manuscript and John Webster: A Reproduction and Transcript.” Studies in Bibliography 41 (1988): 1–32. [British Library, MS Add. 88878.]
  • Jackson, MacD. P. “John Webster, James Shirley, and the Melbourne Manuscript.” Medieval & Renaissance Drama in England 19 (2006): 21–44.
  • Jones, Gwen Ann. “A Play of Judith.” Modern Language Notes 32 (1917): 1–6. [National Library of Wales, Peniarth MS 350, pp. 3–9.]
  • Leishman, J. B., ed. The Three Parnassus Plays. London: Nicholson & Watson, 1949. [Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson D. 398; Folger Shakespeare Library, MS V.a.355.]​
  • McGee, C. E. “Cupid’s Banishment: A Masque Presented to Her Majesty by Young Gentlewomen of the Ladies Hall, Deptford, May 4, 1617.” Renaissance Drama 19 (1988): 227–64. [Pierpont Morgan Library, MA 1296.]
  • Nelson, Cathryn Anne, ed. A Critical Edition of Wit’s Triumvirate, or The Philosopher. 2 vols. Salzburg: Institut für Englische Sprache und Literatur, Universität Salzburg, 1975.
  • Smith, Daniel Starza. “Unvolving the Mysteries of the Melbourne Manuscript.” Huntington Library Quarterly 79.4 (2016): 611–53. [British Library, MS Add. 88878.]
  • Straznicky, Marta. “Recent Studies in Closet Drama.” ELR 28 (1998): 142–60.
  • Vedelago, Angelica. “Pelopidarum secunda: A ‘Site of Memory’ in the History of Elizabethan Revenge Tragedy.” Renaissance Studies (forthcoming). [British Library, MS Harley 5110.]
  • Werth, Tiffany Jo, and Nathan Szymanski. “The Converted Robber, or Stonehenge, a Pastoral.” ELR 48 (2018): 191–255.
  • Malone Society Publications
    • The Amazon, by Edward Herbert, ed. Cristina Malcolmson, Matteo Pangallo and Eugene Hill, in Collections, Volume XVII. Manchester: 2015. 197–222. [British Library, MS Add. 88926.]
    • The Aphrodysial or Sea-Fest, by William Percy, ed. Maria Shmygol. Chipping Norton: Malone Society, 2022.
    • The Birth of Hercules, ed. R. W. Bond. Oxford: 1910. [British Library, MS Add. 28722.]
    • “Blame not our Author,” ed. Suzanne Gossett, in Collections, Volume XII. Oxford: 1983. 85–132. [Venerable English College, Rome, MS Scrittura 35.1.]
    • Bonduca, by John Fletcher, ed. W. W. Greg. Oxford: 1951. [British Library, MS Add. 36758.]
    • The Captive Lady, ed. A. R. Braunmuller. Oxford: 1982. [Beinecke Library, Yale University, MS Osborn fb79.]
    • “The Captives: Three Fragments of an Early Seventeenth-Century Theatrical Adaptation of Plautusʼ Captivi, New College Archives 14999,” ed. Eugene Giddens, in Collections, Volume XVI. Manchester: 2011. 1–43.
    • The Christmas Prince, ed. F. S. Boas and W. W. Greg. Oxford: 1923 for 1922. [Oxford, St John's College, MS 52.]
    • The Country Captain, by William Cavendish, ed. Anthony Johnson and H. R. Woudhuysen. Oxford: 1999. [British Library, MS Harley 7650.]
    • Demetrius and Enanthe, by John Fletcher, ed. Margaret McLaren Cook and F. P. Wilson [National Library of Wales, MS Brogyntyn II. 42.]
    • Dick of Devonshire, ed. James G. McManaway and Mary R. McManaway. Oxford: 1955. [British Library, MS Egerton 1994/2.]
    • Dramatic Works by William Cavendish, ed. Lynn Hulse. Oxford: 1996. [University of Nottingham, Hallward Library, MS PwV 24, 25, and 26.]
    • The Emperor’s Favourite, ed. Siobhan Keenan. Manchester: 2010. [Arbury Hall, Warwickshire, MS A.414.]
    • “Entertainments and Poems,” by Rachel Fane, ed. Marion O’Connor, in Collections, Volume XVII. Manchester: 2015. 151–95. [Kent History and Library Centre, MS Sackville U269/F38/3.]
    • The Escapes of Jupiter, by Thomas Heywood, ed. Henry D. Janzen. Oxford: 1978 for 1976. [British Library, MS Egerton 1994/4.]
    • The Faithful Friends, ed. G. M. Pinciss and G. R. Proudfoot. Oxford: 1975 for 1970. [Victoria and Albert Museum, MS Dyce 10.]
    • The Fatal Marriage, ed. S. Brigid Younghughes and Harold Jenkins. Oxford: 1959 for 1958. [British Library, MS Egerton 1994/7.]
    • “Five Dramatic Fragments,” ed. G. R. Proudfoot, Collections, Volume IX. Oxford: OUP: 1977 for 1971. 52–75. [Folger Shakespeare Library, MSS L.b.554, X.d.391, X.d.390, and X.d.259; Huntington Library, MS HM 22.]
    • A Game at Chess, by Thomas Middleton, ed. T. H. Howard-Hill. Oxford: 1990. [Cambridge, Trinity College, MS O.2.66; Huntington Library, MS EL 34.B.17]
      • Howard-Hill, T. H. “The Bridgewater-Huntington MS of Middleton’s Game at Chess.” Manuscripta 28 (1984): 145–56.
    • “Ralph Crane’s Transcript of A Game at Chess, Bodleian Manuscript Malone 25,” ed. N. W. Bawcutt, in Collections, Volume XV. Oxford: 1993. 1–93.
    • Hengist, King of Kent, or the Mayor of Queenborough, by Thomas Middleton, ed. Grace Ioppolo. Oxford: 2003. [Nottingham University Library, MS Pw. v. 20.]
    • The Humorous Magistrate (Arbury MS), ed. Margaret Jane Kidnie. Manchester: 2012. [Arbury Hall, Warwickshire, MS A.414.]​​
      • Kidnie, Margaret Jane. “Trying to be Diplomatic: Editing The Humorous Magistrate.” Early Theatre 14.2 (2011): 245–56.
    • The Humorous Magistrate (Osborne MS), ed. Jacqueline Jenkins and Mary Polito. Manchester: 2012. [Calgary University Library, MS C 132.27.]
    • Hymen’s Triumph, by Samuel Daniel, ed. John Pitcher. Oxford: 1994. [Edinburgh University Library, MS De.5.96.]
    • Iphigenia at Aulis, trans. Lady Lumley, ed. H. H.Child. 1909. [British Library, MS Royal 15 A 9.]
    • Jacobean Academic Plays, ed. Suzanne Gossett and Thomas L. Berger, Collections, Volume XIV. Oxford: 1988. [Folger Shakespeare Library, MSS J.a.1 and J.a.2.]
    • July and Julian, ed. Giles Dawson. Oxford: 1955. [Folger Shakespeare Library, MS V.a.159.]
    • King Johan, by John Bale, ed. John Henry Pyle Pafford. Oxford: 1931. [Huntington Library, MS HM 3.]
    • The Lost Lady, by Sir William Berkeley, ed. D. F. Rowan. Oxford: 1987. [Folger Shakespeare Library, MS J.b.4.]
    • “Love Feigned and Unfeigned: A Fragmentary Morality,” ed. Arundell Esdaile, in Collections, [Volume I,] Part I. Oxford: 1907. 17–25. [British Library, General Reference Collection IB.2172.]
    • The Marriage between Wit and Wisdom, by Francis Merbury, ed. Trevor N. S. Lennam. Oxford: 1971 for 1966. [British Library, MS Add. 26782.]
    • The Poor Man’s Comfort, by Robert Daborne, ed. Kenneth Palmer. Oxford: 1955 for 1954. [British Library, MS Egerton 1994/13.]
    • The Queen of Corsica, by Francis Jaques, ed. Henry D. Janzen. Oxford: 1989 [British Library, MS Lansdowne 807/1.]
    • The Resurrection of Our Lord, ed. J. Dover Wilson and Bertram Dobell. Oxford: 1913 for 1912. [Folger Shakespeare Library, MS V.b.192.]
    • “A Seventeenth-Century Play from the Essex Record Office,” ed. J. L. Murphy, in Collections, Volume IX. Oxford: 1977 for 1971. 30–51. [Essex Record Office, D/DW Z5.]
    • The Shepherds’ Paradise, by Walter Montagu, ed. Sarah Poynting. Oxford: 1998 for 1997. [Folger Shakespeare Library, MS V.b.203.]
    • The Tell-Tale, ed. R. A. Foakes and J. C. Gibson. Oxford: 1960 for 1959. [Dulwich College, MS 20.]
    • Timon, ed. J. C. Bulman and J. M. Nosworthy. Oxford, 1980 for 1978. [Victoria and Albert Museum, MS Dyce 52.]
    • The Twice-Chang'd Friar, ed. Siobhan Keenan. Manchester: 2018. [Arbury Hall, Warwickshire, MS A.414.]
    • The Wisest Have Their Fools about Them, ed. Elizabeth Baldwin. Oxford: 2001. [Cheshire and Chester Archives, MS DCR/27/8.]
    • The Witch, by Thomas Middleton, ed. W. W. Greg and F. P. Wilson. Oxford: 1950 for 1948. [Bodleian Library, MS Malone 12.]
    • The Woman’s Prize, by John Fletcher, ed. Meg Powers Livingston. Manchester: 2008 for 2007. [Folger Shakespeare Library, MS J.b.3.]
    • Tom a Lincoln, ed. G. R. Proudfoot. Oxford: 1992. [British Library, MS Add. 61745.]
      • ​Proudfoot, Richard. “Richard Johnson’s Tom a’ Lincoln Dramatized: A Jacobean Play in British Library MS Add. 61745,” in W. Speed Hill, ed., New Ways of Looking at Old Texts: Papers of the Renaissance English Text Society, 1985–1991. Binghamton, NY: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1993. 75–101.
    • Wit and Science, by John Redford, ed. Arthur Brown, W. W. Greg, and F. P. Wilson. Oxford: 1951. [British Library, MS Add. 15233.]

H6. Case Study: Edward Dering’s Adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry IV
  • Evans, G. Blakemore. “The ‘Dering MS’ of Shakespeare’s Henry IV and Sir Edward Dering.” Journal of English and Germanic Philology 54 (1955): 498–503.
  • Jowett, John. The Dering Manuscript: The Earliest Manuscript of Shakespeare’s Plays. Folger Shakespeare Library, 2020. 
  • Williams, George Walton and Gwynne Blakemore Evans, eds. The History of King Henry the Fourth as Revised by Sir Edward Dering, Bart. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 1974.
  • Yeandle, Laetitia. “The Dating of Sir Edward Dering’s Copy of The History of King Henry the Fourth.” Shakespeare Quarterly 37 (1986): 224–26.

H7. Case Study: Mary Wroth’s Love’s Victory
  • Brennan, Michael G., ed. Lady Mary Wroth’s Love’s Victory: The Penshurst Manuscript. London: Roxburghe Club, 1988 [1990].
  • Cerasano, S. P., and Marion Wynne-Davies, eds. “Love’s Victory,” by Mary Wroth, in Renaissance Drama by Women: Texts and Documents. London: Routledge, 1996. 91–126. [Consulting both Huntington and Penshurst MSS.]
  • Findlay, Alison, Philip Sidney, and Michael G. Brennan, eds. Love’s Victory, by Mary Wroth. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2021. [Based on the Penshurst MS.]
  • Roberts, Josephine A. “The Huntington Manuscript of Lady Mary Wroth’s Play, Loves Victorie.” Huntington Library Quarterly 46 (1983): 156–74.
  • Salzman, Paul, ed. “Love’s Victory,” by Mary Wroth, in Early Modern Women’s Writing: An Anthology, 1560–1700. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000. 82–133. [Based on the Huntington MS.]
  • Salzman, Paul, ed. “Lady Mary Wroth, Love's Victory.” Early Modern Women Research Network. Introduction, edition, and digitization of Huntington MS.
  • Salzman, Paul. “Henrietta’s Version: Mary Wroth’s Love’s Victory in the Nineteenth Century,” in Patricia Pender and Rosalind Smith, eds., Material Cultures of Early Modern Women’s Writing. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 159–73.
  • Straznicky, Marta, ed. “Mary Wroth (1587?–1651),” in Marta Straznicky and Sara Mueller, eds., Women’s Household Drama: Loves Victorie, A Pastorall, and The concealed Fansyes. Toronto: Iter Press, 2018. 1–138. [Based on the Huntington MS.]
  • Straznicky, Marta. “Lady Mary Wroth’s Patchwork Play: The Huntington Manuscript of Love’s Victory.” Sidney Journal 34 (2016): 81–92.

H8. Case Study: The Plays of William Percy
  • Dimmock, Matthew, ed. William Percy’s Mahomet and His Heaven: A Critical Edition. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006.
  • Dodds, Madeline Hope. “A Dreame of a Drye Yeare.” Journal of English and Germanic Philology 32 (1933): 172–95.
  • Dodds, Madeline Hope. “A Forrest Tragaedye in Vacunium.” Modern Language Review 40 (1945): 246–58.
  • Erler, Mary C. “William Percy and Plays at Paul’s,” in Records of Early English Drama: Ecclesiastical London. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2008. 278–91.
  • Haslewood, Joseph, ed. The Cuck-Queanes and Cuckolds Errants or the Bearing Down the Inne, a Comœdie. The Faery Pastorall or Forrest of Elues, by W[illiam] P[ercy]. London, 1842.
  • Hillebrand, Harold N. “William Percy: An Elizabethan Amateur.” Huntington Library Quarterly 1 (1938): 391–416.
  • Long, John H. “The Music in Percy’s Play Manuscripts.” Renaissance Papers (1980): 39–44.
  • Shmygol, Maria, ed. The Aphrodysial or Sea-Fest. Chipping Norton: Malone Society, 2022.
  • Shmygol, Maria. “Protean Objects in William Percy’s The Aphrodysial or Sea-Feast,” in Jennifer Linhart Wood, ed., Dynamic Matter: Transforming Renaissance Objects. University Park, PA: Penn State UP, 2022. 207–30.
  • Teramura, Misha. “William Percy’s Logical Song.” Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England 32 (2019): 163–202.

H9. Circulation and Transmission of Dramatic Texts
  • Bowles, Amy. “Dressing the Text: Ralph Crane’s Scribal Publication of Drama.” RES 67 (2016): 405–27.
  • Coatalen, Guillaume. “Shakespeare and Other ‘Tragicall Discourses’ in an Early Seventeenth-Century Commonplace Book from Oriel College, Oxford.” EMS 13 (2007): 120–64.
  • Estill, Laura. Dramatic Extracts in Seventeenth-Century English Manuscripts: Watching, Reading, Changing Plays. Newark: U of Delaware P, 2015.
    • Estill, Laura. “Commonplacing Readers,” in Margaret Jane Kidnie and Sonia Massai, eds., Shakespeare and Textual Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2015. 149–62.
  • Heaton, Gabriel. “Elizabethan Entertainments in Manuscript: The Harefield Festivities (1602) and the Dynamics of Exchange,” in Jayne Elisabeth Archer, Elizabeth Goldring, and Sarah Knight, eds., The Progresses, Pageants, and Entertainments of Queen Elizabeth I. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2014. 227–44.
  • Howard-Hill, T. H. Ralph Crane and Some Shakespeare First Folio Comedies. Charlottesville, VA: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1972.
  • Howard-Hill, T. H. “‘Nor Stage, nor Stationers Stall Can Showe’: The Circulation of Plays in Manuscript in the Early Seventeenth Century.” Book History 2 (1999): 28–41.
  • Ioppolo, Grace. “Revision, Manuscript Transmission and Scribal Practice in Middleton’s Hengist, King of Kent, or, The Mayor of Queenborough.” Critical Survey 7 (1995): 319–31.
  • Lesser, Zachary. “Mixed Government and Mixed Marriage in A King and No King: Sir Henry Neville Reads Beaumont and Fletcher.” ELH 69 (2002): 947–77.
  • Love, Harold. “Thomas Middleton: Oral Culture and the Manuscript Economy,” in Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino, eds., Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2007. 98–109.
  • Marotti, Arthur F. and Laura Estill. “Manuscript Circulation,” in Arthur F. Kinney, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2011. 53–70.
  • Pangallo, Matteo A. “The Pirate, the Pirate-Hunter, and the Beginning of Early Modern Play Editing.” ELR 45 (2015): 146–71.

H10. Compilation and Provenance of Dramatic Manuscripts
  • Boas, Frederick. “A Seventeenth Century Theatrical Repertoire,” in Shakespeare & the Universities, and Other Studies in Elizabethan Drama. Oxford: B. Blackwell, 1923. 96–110. [On British Library, MS Egerton 1994; originally published in 1917.]
  • Freehafer, John. “John Warburton’s Lost Plays.” Studies in Bibliography 23 (1970): 154–64.
  • Freeman, Arthur, and Janet Ing Freeman. “The Charlemont Library, the Sotheby Warehouse Fire of 1865, and the Vexed Provenance of British Library MS Egerton 1994.” The Library 23 (2022): 47–67. 
  • Greg, W. W. “The Bakings of Betsy.” The Library, 3rd series, 7 (1911): 225–59.​
  • Ioppolo, Grace. “Creating the First Early Modern Theatre History Archive: Edward Alleyn, William Cartwright and British Library Egerton MS 1994,” in S. P. Cerasano and Steven W. May, eds., In The Prayse of Writing: Early Modern Manuscript Studies: Essays in Honour of Peter Beal. London: The British Library, 2012. 145–68.
  • Long, William B. “Dulwich MS. XX, The Telltale: Clues to Provenance.” Medieval & Renaissance Drama in England 17 (2005): 180–204.

H+. Online Resources

I. PLAYHOUSE DOCUMENTS
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I1. Playhouse Documents: General
  • Greg, W. W. Dramatic Documents from the Elizabethan Playhouses: Stage Plots, Actors’ Parts, Prompt Books. 2 vols. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1931.
  • Stern, Tiffany. Documents of Performance in Early Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2009.
  • Stewart, Alan. “Manuscript Culture,” in Bruce R. Smith, ed., The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare, 2 vols. (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2016), 1:360–66. [On genres of manuscripts in Shakespeare’s plays.]

I2. Case Study: The Henslowe-Alleyn Papers at Dulwich College
  • Carson, Neil. A Companion to Henslowe’s Diary. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1988.
  • Cerasano, S. P. “Henslowe’s ‘Curious’ Diary.” Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England 17 (2005): 72–85.
  • Foakes, R. A., ed. Henslowe’s Diary. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002.
  • Greg, Walter W., ed. Henslowe’s Diary. 2 vols. London: A. H. Bullen, 1904.
  • Greg, Walter W., ed. Henslowe Papers: Being Documents Supplementary to Henslowe’s Diary. London: A. H. Bullen, 1907.
  • Ioppolo, Grace, ed. Henslowe-Alleyn Project.
    • Ioppolo, Grace. “‘If I could not liu by it & be honest’: Putting the Henslowe-Alleyn Manuscript Archive Online.” Medieval & Renaissance Drama in England 24 (2011): 38–45.

I3. Actors’ Parts
  • Carnegie, David. “Actors’ Parts and the ‘Play of Poore,’” Harvard Library Bulletin 30 (1982): 5–24.
  • Carnegie, David, ed. “The Part of ‘Poore’,” in Collections, Volume XV. Oxford: Malone Society, 1993. 111–169.
  • Chambers, E. K. “Processus Satanae,” in Collections, Volume II, Part III. Oxford: Malone Society, 1931. 239–50.
  • Palfrey, Simon and Tiffany Stern. Shakespeare in Parts. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2007.

I+. Online Resources

J. MANUSCRIPT TO PRINT
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J1. Introductions to Early Modern Printing
  • Gaskell, Philip. A New Introduction to Bibliography. Rev. ed. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll, 1995.
  • Weiss, Adrian. “Casting Compositors, Foul Cases, and Skeletons: Printing in Middleton’s Age,” in Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino, eds., Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture: A Companion to the Collected Works. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2007. 195–225.
  • Werner, Sarah. “Overview,” in Studying Early Printed Books, 1450–1800: A Practical Guide. Chichester: Wiley Blackwell, 2019. 8–25.

J2. Manuscript Copy in the Print Shop
  • Blayney, Peter. “Printer’s Copy,” in The Texts of King Lear and Their Origins, Volume I. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1982. 258–91.
  • Moore, J. K. Primary Materials Relating to Copy and Print in English Books of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Oxford: Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1992.
  • Moore, J. K. “A Publishing History of A Discourse of Life and Death, Translated by the Countess of Pembroke.” The Library 22 (2021): 155–76.
  • Simpson, Percy. Proof-Reading in the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries. London: Oxford UP, 1935.​

J3. Case Study: John Harington and Richard Field
  • British Library, Online Facsimile of MS Add. 18920.
  • Cauchi, Simon. “The ‘Setting Foorth’ of Harington’s Ariosto.” Studies in Bibliography 36 (1983): 137–68.
  • Cloud, Random. [Randall McLeod.] “from Tranceformations in the Text of Orlando Furioso.” Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin 20 (1990): 60–85.
  • Gaskell, Philip. “Harington, Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso, 1591,” in From Writer to Reader: Studies in Editorial Method. Oxford: Clarendon, 1978. 11–28.
  • Greg, W. W. “An Elizabethan Printer and His Copy.” The Library, 4th series, 4 (1923): 102–18.
  • Kilroy, Gerard. “Advertising the Reader: Sir John Harington’s ‘Directions in the Margent’.” ELR 41 (2011): 64–110.

J4. Manuscript in Relation to Print
  • Boffey, Julia. Manuscript and Print in London c. 1475–1530. London: British Library, 2012.
  • Bruns, Gerald L. “The Originality of Texts in a Manuscript Culture.” Comparative Literature 32 (1980): 113–29.
  • Carlson, David R. English Humanist Books: Writers and Patrons, Manuscript and Print, 1475–1525. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1993.
  • Crick, Julia and Alexandra Walsham, eds. The Uses of Script and Print, 1300–1700. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004.
  • Dane, Joseph A. “The Myth of Print Culture,” in The Myth of Print Culture: Essays on Evidence, Textuality and Bibliographical Method. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2003. 10–31.
  • Ezell, Margaret J. M. Social Authorship and the Advent of Print. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1999.
  • Ezell, Margaret J. M. “Handwriting and the Book,” in Leslie Howsam, ed., The Cambridge Companion to the History of the Book. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2015. 90–106.
  • Love, Harold. “Manuscript versus Print in the Transmission of English Literature, 1600–1700.” Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin 9 (1985): 95–107.
  • Love, Harold. “The Manuscript after the Coming of Print,” in Michael F. Suarez, S.J., and H. R. Woudhuysen, eds., The Oxford Companion to the Book. 2 vols. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2010. 1:115–19. Rpt. in Michael F. Suarez, S.J., and H. R. Woudhuysen, eds., The Book: A Global History. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2013. 197–204.
  • McKenzie, D. F. “Speech-Manuscript-Print.” The Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin 20 (1990): 86–109.
  • McKitterick, David. Print, Manuscript and the Search for Order, 1450–1830. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003.
  • O’Callaghan, Michelle. “Publication: Print and Manuscript,” in Michael Hattaway, ed., A New Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture. 2 vols. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. 1:160–76.
  • Sherman, William and Heather Wolfe. “The Department of Hybrid Books: Thomas Milles between Manuscript and Print.” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 45 (2015): 457–85.
  • Serjeantson, Richard and Thomas Woolford. “The Scribal Publication of a Printed Book: Francis Bacon’s Certaine Considerations Touching … the Church of England (1604).” The Library 7th series, 10 (2009): 119–56.
  • Shrank, Cathy. “‘These fewe scribbled rules’: Representing Scribal Intimacy in Early Modern Print.” Huntington Library Quarterly 67 (2004): 295–314.
  • Smyth, Adam. “Textual Transmission, Reception and the Editing of Early Modern Texts.” Literature Compass 1 (2004). See also “‘Rend and teare in peeces’: Textual Fragmentation in Seventeenth-Century England.” The Seventeenth Century 19 (2004): 36–52.
  • Stallybrass, Peter. “Printing and the Manuscript Revolution,” in Barbie Zelizer, ed., Explorations in Communication and History. London: Routledge, 2008. 111–18.
  • Tenger, Zeynep and Paul Trolander. “From Print versus Manuscript to Sociable Authorship and Mixed Media: A Review of Trends in the Scholarship of Early Modern Publication.” Literature Compass 7.11 (2010): 1035–48.
  • Wall, Wendy. The Imprint of Gender: Authorship and Publication in the English Renaissance. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1993.

J5. Manuscripts and Early Printing
  • Gillespie, Alexandra. “Caxton’s Chaucer and Lydgate Quartos: Miscellanies from Manuscript to Print.” Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 12.1 (2000): 1–25.
  • Hellinga, Lotte. Texts in Transit: Manuscript to Proof and Print in the Fifteenth Century. Leiden: Brill, 2014.
  • McKitterick, David. “Dependent Skills,” in Print, Manuscript and the Search for Order, 1450–1830. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003. 22–52.
  • Smith, Margaret N. “The Design Relationship between the Manuscript and the Incunable,” in Robin Myers and Michael Harris, eds., A Millennium of the Book: Production, Design & Illustration in Manuscript & Print, 900–1900. Winchester: St. Paul’s Bibliographies, 1994. 23–43.

J+. Online Resources

K. PRINT TO MANUSCRIPT
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K1. Marginalia: General
  • Alston, R. C. Books with Manuscript: A Short Title Catalogue of Books with Manuscript Notes in the British Library. London: The British Library, 1994.
  • Hooks, Adam G. “Marginalia,” in Garrett A. Sullivan and Alan Stewart, eds., The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature. 3 vols. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. 2:636–39.
  • Orgel, Stephen. The Reader in the Book: A Study of Spaces and Traces. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2015. 
    • Orgel, Stephen. “Margins of Truth,” in Andrew Murphy, ed., The Renaissance Text: Theory, Editing, Textuality. Manchester: U of Manchester P, 2000. 91–107.
  • Scott-Warren, Jason. “Reading Graffiti in the Early Modern Book.” Huntington Library Quarterly 73 (2010): 363–81.
  • Sherman, William H. Used Books: Marking Readers in Renaissance England. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2008.
    • Sherman, William H. “What Did Renaissance Readers Write in Their Books?” in Jennifer Andersen and Elizabeth Sauer, eds., Books and Readers in Early Modern England: Material Studies. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2002. 119–37.

K2. Marginalia: Specific Issues and Authors
  • Acheson, Katherine, ed. Early Modern English Marginalia. New York: Routledge, 2018.
    • Acheson, Katherine. “Introduction: Marginalia, Reading, and Writing.”
    • Calhoun, Joshua. “Reading Habits and Reading Habitats; or, toward an Ecobibliography of Marginalia.”
    • Scott-Warren, Jason. “Cut-and-Paste Bookmaking: The Private/Public Agency of Robert Nicolson.”
    • Smyth, Adam. “Book Marks: Object Traces in Early Modern Books.”
    • Acheson, Katherine. “The Occupation of the Margins: Writing, Space, and Early Modern Women.”
    • Patton, Elizabeth. “Praying in the Margins across the Reformation: Readers’ Marks in Early Tudor Books of Hours.”
    • Saunders, Austen. “Articles of Assent: Clergymen’s Subscribed Copies of the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England.”
    • Ziegler, Georgianna. “Lady Anne Clifford Reads John Selden.”
    • Smith, Emma. “Marital Marginalia: The Seventeenth-Century Library of Thomas and Isabella Hervey.”
    • Archer, Harriet. “Studied for Redaction? Reading and Writing in the Works of John Higgins.”
    • Bourne, Claire M. L. “Vide Supplementum: Early Modern Collation as Play-Reading in the First Folio.”
    • Levelt, Sjoerd. “Early Modern Marginalia and #earlymoderntwitter.”
  • Baron, Sabrina Alcorn, ed. The Reader Revealed. Washington, DC: Folger Shakespeare Library, 2001.
    • ​Zwicker, Steven N. “The Reader Revealed.”
    • Baron, Sabrina Alcorn. “Red Ink and Black Letter: Reading Early Modern Authority.”
    • Grafton, Anthony. “John Dee Reads Books of Magic.”
    • Tribble, Evelyn B. “Godly Reading: John Foxe’s Actes and Monuments (1583).”
    • Marotti, Arthur F. “Folger MSS V.a.89 and V.a.345: Reading Lyric Poetry in Manuscript.” 
    • Sharpe, Kevin. “Uncommonplaces?: Sir William Drake’s Reading Notes.”
    • Andersen, Jennifer. “Posh Print and the Polemicization of William Dugdale’s Monasticon Anglicanum (1655).”
    • Battigelli, Anna. “‘To Conclude Aright Within Ourselves’: Narcissus Luttrell and the Burden of the Protestant Reader, 1678–88.”
    • Sherman, William H. “‘Rather soiled by use’: Renaissance Readers and Modern Collectors.”
  • Cambers, Andrew. “Readers’ Marks and Religious Practice: Margaret Hoby’s Marginalia,” in John N. King, ed., Tudor Books and Readers: Materiality and the Construction of Meaning. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2010. 211–31.
  • Crawford, Julie. “Reconsidering Early Modern Women’s Reading, or, How Margaret Hoby Read Her de Mornay.” Huntington Library Quarterly 73 (2010): 193–223. See also Mediatrix: Women, Politics, and Literary Production in Early Modern England. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2014. 86–120.
  • Ensley, Mimi. “Reading Chaucer in the Tower: The Person behind the Pen in an Early-Modern Copy of Chaucer’s Works.” Journal of the Early Book Society 18 (2015): 136–57.
  • Evans, Robert C. Habits of Mind: Evidence and Effects of Ben Jonson’s Reading. Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, 1995.
  • Fulton, Thomas. “English Bibles and Their Readers, 1400–1700.” JMEMS 47 (2017): 415–35.
  • Grafton, Anthony. “Is the History of Reading a Marginal Enterprise? Guillaume Budé and His Books.” PBSA 91 (1997): 139–57.
  • Greer, David. Manuscript Inscriptions in Early English Printed Music. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2015.
  • Hackel, Heidi Brayman. “Noting Readers of the Arcadia in Marginalia and Commonplace Books,” in Reading Material in Early Modern England: Print, Gender, and Literacy. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2005. 137–95.
  • Hamlin, William M. Montaigne’s English Journey: Reading the Essays in Shakespeare’s Day. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2013.
  • Hulvey, Monique. “Not So Marginal: Manuscript Annotations in The Folger Incunabula.” PBSA 92 (1998): 159–76. 
  • Joalland, Michael. “Isaac Newton Reads the King James Version: The Marginal Notes and Reading Marks of a Natural Philosopher.” PBSA 113 (2019): 297–339.
  • King, Julia. “Inscriptions and Ways of Owning Books among the Sisters of Syon Abbey.” RES  72 (2021): 836–59.
  • Laroche, Rebecca. “Inscriptions in Herbal Texts and the Location of Medical Authority,” in Medical Authority and Englishwomen’s Herbal Texts, 1550–1650. Farnham: Ashgate, 2009. 67–101.
  • Leong, Elaine. “When the Tallamys Met John French: Translating, Printing, and Reading The Art of Distillation.” Osiris 37 (2022): 89–112. [On Wellcome Collection, MS 4759.]
  • McPherson, David. Ben Jonson’s Library and Marginalia: An Annotated Catalogue. Studies in Philology 71.5 (Texts and Studies). Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1974.
  • Molekamp, Femke. “Using a Collection to Discover Reading Practices: The British Library Geneva Bibles and a History of Their Early Modern Readers.” Electronic British Library Journal (2006).
  • Newcomb, Lori Humphrey. “Frances Wolfreston’s Annotations as Labours of Love,” in Valerie Wayne, ed., Women’s Labour and the History of the Book in Early Modern England. London: Arden Shakespeare, 2020. 243–66.
  • Orgel, Stephen. “Marginal Materiality: Reading Lady Anne Clifford’s A Mirror for Magistrates,” in Douglas Brooks, ed., Printing and Parenting in Early Modern England. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. 267–89.
  • Petrina, Alessandra. “Marginal Reactions: Responses to Translations of Machiavelli in Early Modern English Marginalia.” Canadian Review of Comparative Literature 46 (2019): 252–67.
  • Powell, Jason. “Secret Writing or a Technology of Discretion? Dry Point in Tudor Books and Manuscripts.” RES 70 (2019): 37–53.
  • Rankin, Mark. “Richard Topcliffe and the Book Culture of the Elizabethan Catholic Underground.” Renaissance Quarterly 72 (2019): 492–536.​
  • Riddell, James A. and Stanley Stewart. Jonson’s Spenser: Evidence and Historical Criticism. Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne UP, 1995. 
    • ​Riddell, James A. and Stanley Stewart. “Jonson Reads ‘The Ruines of Time’.” Studies in Philology 87 (1990): 427–55.
  • Ring, Morgan. “Annotating the Golden Legend in Early Modern England.” Renaissance Quarterly 72 (2019): 816–62.
  • Schurink, Fred. “‘Like a Hand in the Margine of a Booke’: William Blount’s Marginalia and the Politics of Sidney’s Arcadia.” RES 59 (2008): 342–55.
  • Sherman, William. “Dee’s Marginalia,” in John Dee: The Politics of Reading and Writing in the English Renaissance. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1995.
  • Smith, Rosalind. “‘Le pouvoir de faire dire’: Marginalia in Mary Queen of Scots’ Book of Hours,” in Patricia Pender and Rosalind Smith, eds., Material Cultures of Early Modern Women’s Writing. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 55–75.
  • Smith, Rosalind. “Paratextual Marginalia, Early Modern Women, and Collaboration,” in Patricia Pender, ed., Gender, Authorship, and Early Modern Women’s Collaboration. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. 175–200.
  • Smith, Rosalind. “Narrow Confines: Marginalia, Devotional Books and the Prison in Early Modern Women’s Writing.” Women’s Writing 26 (2019), 35–52.
  • Swann, Joel. “‘In the hands and hearts of all true Christians’: Herbert’s The Temple (1633–1709) and Its Readers.” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 50 (2020): 115–37.
  • Watson, Carly. “‘This uncomatable Book’: New Evidence of the Circulation and Reception of the Poetry of James VI/I.” Huntington Library Quarterly 84 (2021): 213–45.
  • White, Micheline. “Katherine Parr’s Marginalia: Putting the Wisdom of Chrysostom and Solomon into Practice,” in Leah Knight, Micheline White, and Elizabeth Sauer, eds., Women’s Bookscapes in Early Modern Britain: Reading, Ownership, Circulation. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2018. 21–42.
  • White, Micheline. “Katherine Parr’s Giftbooks, Henry VIII’s Marginalia, and the Display of Royal Power and Piety.” Renaissance Quarterly 76 (2023): 39–83.
  • Wiggins, Alison. “What Did Renaissance Readers Write in their Printed Copies of Chaucer?” The Library 9 (2008): 3–36.
  • Wiggins, Alison. “Frances Wolfreston’s Chaucer,” in Anne Lawrence-Mathers and Phillipa Hardman, eds., Women and Writing, c.1340–c.1650: The Domestication of Print Culture. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2010. 77–89.
  • Wingfield, Emily. “Re-Reading a Quatrain by Mary Queen of Scots.” Renaissance Studies 35 (2021): 788–810.
  • Ziegler, Georgianna. “Patterns in Women’s Book Ownership, 1500–1700,” in Valerie Wayne, ed., Women’s Labour and the History of the Book in Early Modern England. London: Arden Shakespeare, 2020. 207–23.

K3. Case Study: The Marginalia of Gabriel Harvey
  • Demetriou, Tania. “Tendre Cropps and Flourishing Metricians: Gabriel Harvey’s Chaucer.” RES 71 (2020): 19–43.
  • Demetriou, Tania. “How Gabriel Harvey Read Tragedy.” Renaissance Studies 35 (2021): 757–87.
  • Hirrel, Michael J. “When Did Gabriel Harvey Write His Famous Note?” Huntington Library Quarterly 75 (2012): 291–99.
  • Ibbetson, David. “Humanism and Law in Elizabethan England: The Annotations of Gabriel Harvey,” in Paul J. du Plessis and John W. Cairns, eds., Reassessing Legal Humanism and its Claims: Petere Fontes? Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2016. 282–96.
  • Jardine, Lisa and Anthony Grafton. “‘Studied for Action’: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy.” Past & Present 129 (1990): 30–78.
  • Kiséry, András. “‘The Wiser Sort’: The Distinction of Politics and Gabriel Harvey’s Machiavellian Hamlet,” in Hamlet’s Moment: Drama and Political Knowledge in Early Modern England. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2016. 37–88.
  • Popper, Nicholas. “The English Polydaedali: How Gabriel Harvey Read Late Tudor London.” Journal of the History of Ideas 66 (2005): 351–81.
  • Richards, Jennifer. “Gabriel Harvey, James VI, and the Politics of Reading Early Modern Poetry.” Huntington Library Quarterly 71 (2008): 303–21.
  • Roberts, P. B. “‘A Lawful Alarme against ye Prynce’: Gabriel Harvey and Vindiciae contra Tyrannos.” Huntington Library Quarterly 82 (2019): 175–92.
  • Smith, G. C. Moore, ed. Gabriel Harvey’s Marginalia. Stratford-upon-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press, 1913.
  • Stamatakis, Chris. “‘With diligent studie, but sportingly’: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Castiglione.” Journal of the Northern Renaissance 5 (2013). 
  • Stern, Virginia F. Gabriel Harvey: His Life, Marginalia and Library. Oxford: Clarendon, 1979.
  • Tannenbaum, Samuel A. “Some Unpublished Harvey Marginalia.” Modern Language Review 25 (1930): 327–31.
  • Wolfe, Jessica. “The Polymechany of Gabriel Harvey,” in Humanism, Machinery, and Renaissance Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004. 125–60

K4. Case Study: Marginalia in Printed Playbooks
  • August, Hannah. “Reading Plays as Books: Interpreting Readers’ Marks and Marginalia in Early Modern Play Quartos.” Renaissance Drama 48 (2020): 1–30. See also Playbooks and Their Readers in Early Modern England. New York: Routledge, 2022. 177–229.
  • Bourne, Claire M. L. “Marking Shakespeare.” Shakespeare 13 (2017): 367–86.
  • Bourne, Claire M. L. “Vide Supplementum: Early Modern Collation as Play-Reading in the First Folio,” in Katherine Acheson, ed., Early Modern English Marginalia. New York: Routledge, 2018. 195–233.
  • Bourne, Claire M. L. and Jason Scott-Warren. “‘thy unvalued Booke’: John Milton’s Copy of the Shakespeare First Folio.” Milton Quarterly 56 (2022): 1–85.
  • Cavanagh, Dermot. “William Drummond of Hawthornden as Reader of Renaissance Drama.” RES 66 (2015): 676–97.
  • Harrison, Tom and James Loxley. “Amateur Theatre at the Early Modern Inns of Court? The Implications of a Performance Copy of Jonson’s 1640 Folio.” Early Theatre 26.1 (2023): 93–132.
  • Massai, Sonai. “Introduction,” in Shakespeare and the Rise of the Editor. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2007. 1–38.
  • Mayer, Jean-Christophe. “Annotating and Transcribing for the Theatre: Shakespeare’s Early Modern Reader-Revisers at Work,” in Margaret Jane Kidnie and Sonia Massai, ed., Shakespeare and Textual Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2015. 163–76.
  • Munro, Lucy. “Reading Printed Comedy: Edward Shaprham’s The Fleer,” in Marta Straznicky, ed., The Book of the Play: Playwrights, Stationers, and Readers in Early Modern England. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 2006. 39–58.
  • Munson, Rebecca. “Mongrel Forms: Print-Manuscript Hybridity and Digital Methods in Annotated Plays,” in Tamara Atkin and Laura Estill, eds., Early British Drama in Manuscript. Turnhout: Brepols, 2019. 345–61.
  • Rickard, Jane. “Seventeenth-Century Readers of Jonson’s 1616 Works,” in Martin Butler and Jane Rickard, eds., Ben Jonson and Posterity: Reception, Reputation, Legacy. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2020. 85–104.
  • Smith, Emma. “Reading,” in Shakespeare’s First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2016. 121–82.
  • Smith, Simon. “Reading Performance, Reading Gender: Early Encounters with Beaumont and Fletcher’s The Scornful Lady in Print.” Early Theatre 20.2 (2017): 179–200.
  • Thomson, Leslie. “A Quarto ‘Marked for Performance’: Evidence of What?” Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England 8 (1996): 176–210.
  • Tricomi, Albert H. “Counting Insatiate Countesses: The Seventeenth-Century Annotations to Marston’s The Insatiate Countess.” Huntington Library Quarterly 64 (2001): 107–22.
  • Yamada, Akihiro. “Playbook Readers and their Responses to the Text,” in Experiencing Drama in the English Renaissance: Readers and Audiences. New York: Routledge, 2017. 133–99.

K5. Corrections
  • Smyth, Adam. “Errors and Corrections: ‘My Galley Charged with Forgetfulness’,” in Material Texts in Early Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2018. 75–154 [esp. 104–114].
  • Tillotson, G. and A. “Pen-and-Ink Corrections in Mid-Seventeenth-Century Books.” The Library, 4th series, 14 (1933–4): 59–72.

K6. Print Books Designed to Be Inscribed
  • Jowett, John. “The Writing Tables of James Roberts.” The Library 20 (2019): 64–88.
  • Smyth, Adam. “Almanacs and Annotators,” in Autobiography in Early Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2010. 15–56.
    • Smyth, Adam. “Almanacs, Annotators and Life-Writing in Early Modern England.” ELR 38 (2008): 200–44.
    • Smyth, Adam. “‘The Whole Globe of the Earth’: Almanacs and Their Readers,” in Jyotsna G. Singh, ed., A Companion to the Global Renaissance: English Literature and Culture in the Era of Expansion. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. 294–304.
  • Stallybrass, Peter, Roger Chartier, John Franklin Mowery, and Heather Wolfe. “Hamlet’s Tables and the Technologies of Writing in Renaissance England.” Shakespeare Quarterly 55 (2004): 379–419.
  • Woudhuysen, H. R. “Writing-Tables and Table-Books.” Electronic British Library Journal (2004).

K+. Online Resources

L. LETTERS
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L1. General: Introductory Essays
  • Daybell, James. “Women’s Letters and Letter-Writing in England, 1540–1603: An Introduction to the Issues of Authorship and Construction.” Shakespeare Studies 27 (1999): 161–86.
  • Daybell, James. “‘Ples acsep thes my skrybled lynes’: The Construction and Conventions of Women’s Letters in England, 1540–1603.” Quidditas 20 (1999): 207–23.
  • Daybell, James. “Material Meanings and the Social Signs of Manuscript Letters in Early Modern England.” Literature Compass 6.3 (2009): 647–67.
  • Daybell, James. “Gender, Writing Technologies, and Early Modern Epistolary Communications,” in Malcolm Smuts, ed., The Oxford Handbook of the Age of Shakespeare. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2016. 493–511.
  • Daybell, James. “Letters,” in Laura Lunger Knoppers, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Women’s Writing. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2009. 181–93.
  • Magnusson, Lynne. “Letters,” in Caroline Bicks and Jennifer Summit, eds., The History of British Women’s Writing, Volume II: 1500–1610. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. 130–51.
  • Steen, Sara Jayne. “Reading beyond the Words: Material Letters and the Process of Interpretation.” Quidditas 22 (2001): 55–69.
  • Stewart, Alan. “The Materiality of Shakespeare’s Letters,” in Shakespeare’s Letters. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2008. 39–74.
  • Stewart, Alan. “Letters,” in Andrew Hadfield, ed., The Oxford Handbook of English Prose 1500–1640. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2013.
  • Wiseman, Susan. “Reading Seventeenth-Century Women’s Letters,” in Mihoko Suzuki, ed., The History of British Women’s Writing, 1610–1690. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 114–128.​
  • Wolfe, Heather. “Letter Writing and Paper Connoisseurship in Elite Households in Early Modern England,” in Carla Bittel, Elaine Leong, and Christine von Oertzen, eds., Working with Paper: Gendered Practices in the History of Knowledge. Pittsburgh, PA: U of Pittsburgh P, 2019. 17–31.
  • Wolfe, Heather. “‘Neatly sealed, with silk, and Spanish wax or otherwise’: The Practice of Letter-Locking with Silk Floss in Early Modern England,” in S. P. Cerasano and Steven W. May, eds., In The Prayse of Writing: Early Modern Manuscript Studies: Essays in Honour of Peter Beal. London: The British Library, 2012. 169–89.

L2. General: Book-Length Studies
  • Daybell, James. The Material Letter in Early Modern England: Manuscript Letters and the Culture and Practices of Letter-Writing, 1512–1635. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
  • Daybell, James. Women Letter-Writers in Tudor England. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2006.
  • Schneider, Gary. The Culture of Epistolarity: Vernacular Letters and Letter Writing in Early Modern England, 1500–1700. Newark: U of Delaware P, 2005.
  • Stewart, Alan and Heather Wolfe. Letterwriting in Renaissance England. Washington, D.C.: Folger Shakespeare Library, 2004.
  • Whyman, Susan. The Pen and the People: English Letter Writers 1660–1800. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2009.

L3. Edited Collections
  • Daybell, James, ed. Early Modern Women’s Letter Writing, 1450–1700. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001.
    • Daybell, James. “Introduction.”
    • Dalymple, Roger. “Reaction, Consolation and Redress in the Letters of the Paston Women.”
    • Ward, Jennifer C. “Letter-Writing by English Noblewomen in the Early Fifteenth Century.”
    • Truelove, Alison. “Commanding Communications: The Fifteenth-Century Letters of the Stonor Women.”
    • Daybell, James. “Female Literacy and the Social Conventions of Women’s Letter-Writing in England, 1540-–1603.”
    • Wall, Alison. “Deference and Defiance in Women’s Letters of the Thynne Family: The Rhetoric of Relationships.”
    • Larminie, Vivienne. “Fighting for Family in a Patronage Society: The Epistolary Armoury of Anne Newdigate (1574–1618).”
    • Steen, Sara Jayne. “‘How Subject to Interpretation’: Lady Arbella Stuart and the Reading of Illness.”
    • O’Day, Rosemary. “Tudor and Stuart Women: Their Lives through Their Letters.”
    • Eales, Jacqueline. “Patriarchy, Puritanism and Politics: The Letters of Lady Brilliana Harley (1598-1643).”
    • Weber, Claire. “‘Doe not supose me a well mortifyed Nun dead to the world’: Letter-Writing in Early Modern English Convents.”
    • Whyman, Susan. “Gentle Companions: Single Women and Their Letters in Late Stuart England.”
    • Laurence, Anne. “‘Begging pardon for all mistakes or errors in this writeing I being a woman & doing itt myselfe’: Family Narratives in Some Early Eighteenth-Century Letters.”
  • Daybell, James and Andrew Gordon, eds. Cultures of Correspondence in Early Modern Britain. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2016.
    • Daybell, James and Andrew Gordon. “Introduction: The Early Modern Letter Opener.”
    • Gibson, Jonathan. “From Palatino to Cresci: Italian Writing Books and the Italic Scripts of Early Modern English Letters.”
    • Brayshay, Mark. “Conveying Correspondence: Early Modern Letter Bearers, Carriers, and Posts.”
    • Akkerman, Nadine. “Enigmatic Cultures of Cryptology.”
    • Gordon, Andrew. “Material Fictions: Counterfeit Correspondence and the Culture of Copying in Early Modern England.”
    • Zurcher, Andrew. “Allegory and Epistolarity: Cipher and Faction in Sidney and Spenser.”
    • Magnusson, Lynne. “Mixed Messages and Cicero Effects in the Herrick Family Letters of the Sixteenth Century.”
    • Burlinson, Christopher. “John Stubb’s Left-Handed Letters.”
    • O’Callaghan, Michelle. “‘An Uncivill Scurrilous Letter’: ‘Womanish Brabb[l]es’ and the Letter of Affront.”
    • Hunt, Arnold. “‘Burn This Letter’: Preservation and Destruction in the Early Modern Archive.”
    • Daybell, James. “Gendered Archival Practices and the Future Lives of Letters.”
    • Stewart, Alan. “Familiar Letters and State Papers: The Afterlives of Early Modern Correspondence.”
  • Daybell, James and Andrew Gordon, eds. Women and Epistolary Agency in Early Modern Culture, 1450–1690. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2016.
    • Daybell, James and Andrew Gordon. “Living Letters: Re-Reading Correspondence and Women’s Letters.”
    • Harris, Barbara J. “What They Wrote: Early Tudor Aristocratic Women, 1450–1550.”
    • Evans, Melanie. “‘By The Queen’: Collaborative Authorship in Scribal Correspondence of Queen Elizabeth I.”
    • Daybell, James. “The Materiality of Early Modern Women’s Letters.”
    • Allen, Gemma. “Women as Counsellors in Sixteenth-Century England: The Letters of Lady Anne Bacon and Lady Elizabeth Russell.”
    • Dimeo, Michelle. “The Rhetoric of Medical Authority in Lady Katherine Ranelagh’s Letters.”
    • Brown, Cedric C. “John Evelyn, Elizabeth Carey, and the Trials of Pious Friendship.”
    • Harris, Johanna. “‘Be plyeabell to all good counsell’: Lady Brilliana Harley’s Advice Letter to Her Son.”
    • McGregor, Rachel. “Making Friends with Elizabeth in the Letters of Roger Ascham.”
    • Coolahan, Marie-Louise. “Irish Women’s Letters, 1641–1653.”
    • Gordon, Andrew. “Recovering Agency in The Epistolary Traffic of Frances, Countess of Essex and Jane Daniell.”
    • Ames, Marjon. “Quaker Correspondence: Religious Identity and Communication Networks in the Interregnum Atlantic World.”
    • McLean-Fiander, Kim and James Daybell. “New Directions In Early Modern Women’s Letters: WEMLO’s Challenges and Possibilities.”

L4. Circulation of Letters
  • Daybell, James. “The Scribal Circulation of Early Modern Letters.” Huntington Library Quarterly 79 (2016): 365–85.
  • Daybell, James. “Secret Letters in Elizabethan England,” in James Daybell and Peter Hinds, eds., Material Readings of Early Modern Culture: Texts and Social Practices, 1580– 1730. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. 47–64.​
  • Daybell, James. “‘I wold wyshe my doings myght be ... secret’: Privacy and the Social Practices of Reading Women’s Letters in Sixteenth-Century England,” in Jane Couchman and Ann Crabb, eds., Women’s Letters Across Europe, 1400–1700: Form and Persuasion. London: Routledge, 2005. 143–61.
  • Daybell, James. “Women, Politics and Domesticity: The Scribal Publication of Lady Rich’s Letter to Elizabeth I,” in Anne Lawrence-Mathers and Phillipa Hardman, eds., Women and Writing, c.1340–c.1650: The Domestication of Print Culture. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2010. 111–130.
  • Gordon, Andrew. “Copycopia, or the Place of Copied Correspondence in Manuscript Culture: A Case Study,” in James Daybell and Peter Hinds, eds., Material Readings of Early Modern Culture, 1580–1730: Texts and Social Practices. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. 65–82. [On National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 34.2.10.]

L5. Editing Letters
  • Arnold, Margaret J. “Editing a Recent Mary Wroth Letter,” in Michael Denbo, ed., New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, IV: Papers of the Renaissance English Text Society, 2002–2006. Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2008. 103–14.
  • Bajetta, Carlo M. “Manuscript(s) Matter: Paleography, Philology and Resistance to Theory.” Études anglaises 73 (2020): 265–86. [More broadly on the need for editors of manuscripts to consider circumstances of production.]
  • Braunmuller, A. R. “Editing Elizabethan Letters.” Text 1 (1981): 185–99.
  • Gibson, Jonathan. “Significant Space in Manuscript Letters.” The Seventeenth Century 12 (1997): 1–9.
  • Moshenka, Joe. “Mise-en-page: Editing Early Modern Letters,” in Claire Loffman and Harriet Phillips, eds., A Handbook of Editing Early Modern Texts. London: Routledge, 2018. 124–29.
  • Roberts, Josephine, ed. Voices of Silence: Editing the Letters of Renaissance Women. [Pamphlet of papers from panel at MLA 1990.] [Binghamton, NY:] Renaissance English Text Society, 1990.
  • Steen, Sara Jayne. “Behind the Arras: Editing Renaissance Women’s Letters,” in W. Speed Hill, ed., New Ways of Looking at Old Texts: Papers of the Renaissance English Text Society, 1985–1991. Binghamton, NY: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1993. 229–38.

L6. Selected Editions
  • Acres, William, ed. The Letters of Lord Burghley, William Cecil, to His Son Sir Robert Cecil, 1593–1598. London: Cambridge UP for the Royal Historical Society, 2017.
  • Akkerman, Nadine, ed. The Correspondence of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia. 3 vols. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2011—forthcoming.
  • Akrigg, G. P. V., ed. The Letters of James VI & I. Berkeley: U of California P, 1984.
  • Allen, Gemma, ed. The Letters of Lady Anne Bacon. London: Cambridge UP for the Royal Historical Society, 2014.
  • ​Braunmuller, A. R., ed. A Seventeenth-Century Letter-Book: A Facsimile Edition of Folger MS. V.a.321. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1983.
  • Brennan, Michael G., Noel J. Kinnamon and Margaret P. Hannay, eds. The Letters (1595–1608) of Rowland Whyte. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2013.
  • Brennan, Michael G., Noel J. Kinnamon, Margaret P. Hannay, eds. The Correspondence (c. 1626–1659) of Dorothy Percy Sidney, Countess of Leicester. Farnham: Ashgate, 2010.
  • Burlinson, Christopher, and Andrew Zurcher, eds. Edmund Spenser: Selected Letters and Other Papers. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2009.
  • Bush, Sargent, Jr., ed. The Correspondence of John Cotton. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2001.
  • Byrne, Muriel St. Clare, ed. The Lisle Letters. 6 vols. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1981.
  • Cust, Richard, ed. The Papers of Sir Richard Grosvenor, 1st Bart. (1585–1645). Chester: Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 1996.
  • Fincham, Kenneth, ed. The Further Correspondence of William Laud. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2018.
  • Gaunt, Peter, ed. The Correspondence of Henry Cromwell, 1655–1659. Cambridge: Cambridge UP for the Royal Historical Society, 2007.
  • Hannay, Margaret P., Noel J. Kinnamon, and Michael G. Brennan, eds. Domestic Politics and Family Absence: The Correspondence (1588–1621) of Robert Sidney, First Earl of Leicester, and Barbara Gamage Sidney, Countess of Leicester. Farnham: Ashgate, 2005.
  • Harrison, G. B., ed. The Letters of Queen Elizabeth I. London: Cassell, 1935.
  • Hervey, Mary F. S., ed. The Life, Correspondence & Collections of Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1921.
  • Hester, M. Thomas, Robert Parker Sorlien, and Dennis Flynn, eds. John Donne’s Marriage Letters in the Folger Shakespeare Library. Washington, DC: Folger Shakespeare Library, 2005.
  • Higgins, Ben. “The Letters of Edward Blount,” in Shakespeare’s Syndicate: The First Folio, Its Publishers, and the Early Modern Book Trade. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2022. 221–36.
  • Hughey, Ruth, ed. The Correspondence of Lady Katherine Paston, 1603–1627. Norfolk: Norfolk Record Society, 1941.
  • Ives, Vernon A., ed. The Rich Papers: Letters from Bermuda 1615–1646: Eyewitness Accounts Sent by the Early Colonists to Sir Nathaniel Rich. Toronto: U of Toronto P for the Bermuda National Trust, 1984.
  • Kuin, Roger, ed. The Correspondence of Sir Philip Sidney. 2 vols. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2012.
  • Lee, Maurice, ed. Dudley Carleton to John Chamberlain, 1603–1624: Jacobean Letters. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 1972.
  • McAreavey, Naomi, ed. The Letters of the First Duchess of Ormonde. New York: Iter Press, 2022.
  • McClure, Norman Egbert, ed. The Letters of John Chamberlain. 2 vols. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1939.
  • Moody, Joanna, ed. The Private Correspondence of Jane Lady Cornwallis Bacon, 1613–1644. Madison NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2003.
  • Nicolson, Marjorie Hope, and Sarah Hutton, eds. The Conway Letters: The Correspondence of Anne, Viscountess Conway, Henry More, and Their Friends 1642–1684. Rev. ed. Oxford: Clarendon, 1992.
  • Parker, Kenneth, ed. Dorothy Osborne: Letters to William Temple, 1652–54. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002.
  • Potter, David, ed. A Knight of Malta at the Court of Elizabeth I: The Correspondence of Michel de Seure, French Ambassador, 1560–1561. London: Cambridge UP for the Royal Historical Society, 2014.
  • Potter, David, ed. The Letters of Paul de Foix, French Ambassador at the Court of Elizabeth I, 1562–1566. London: Cambridge UP for the Royal Historical Society, 2019.
  • Questier, M. C., ed. Newsletters from the Archpresbyterate of George Birkhead. London: Cambridge UP for the Royal Historical Society, 1998.
  • Riden, Philip, ed. George Sitwell’s Letterbook, 1662–66. Chesterfield: Derbyshire Record Society, 1985.
  • Rogers, Elizabeth Frances, ed. The Correspondence of Sir Thomas More. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1947.
  • Searle, Arthur, ed. Barrington Family Letters, 1628–1632. London: Royal Historical Society, 1983.
  • Seddon, P. R., ed. Letters of John Holles, 1587–1637. 3 vols. Nottingham: Thoroton Society, 1975–86.
  • Steckley, George F., ed. The Letters of John Paige, London Merchant, 1648–58. London: London Record Society, 1984.
  • Steen, Sara Jayne, ed. The Letters of Lady Arbella Stuart. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1994.
  • Wall, Alison D., ed. Two Elizabethan Women: Correspondence of Joan and Maria Thynne, 1575–1611. London: Wiltshire Record Society, 1983.
  • Wolfe, Heather. Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland: Life and Letters. Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2001.

L7. Further Reading on Letters
  • Ahnert, Ruth and Sebastian E. Ahnert. “Metadata, Surveillance and the Tudor State.” History Workshop Journal 87 (2019): 27–51.
  • Akkerman, Nadine. “Women’s Letters and Cryptological Coteries,” in Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, Danielle Clarke, and Sarah C. E. Ross, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women’s Writing in English, 1540–1700. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2022. 547–62.
  • Dambrogio, Jana, et al. “The Spiral-Locked Letters of Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots.” eBLJ (2021): article 11.
  • Evans, Mel. “Materiality and Power in Tudor Royal Correspondence,” in Royal Voices: Language and Power in Tudor England. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2020. 35–61.
  • Magnusson, Lynne. Shakespeare and Social Dialogue: Dramatic Language and Elizabethan Letters. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999.
  • Mitchell, Dianne. “The Absent Lady and the Renaissance Lyric as Letter.” ELR 49 (2019): 304–29.
  • Mitchell, Dianne. “Surface Desires: Reading Female Friendship in the Epistolary Archive,” in Michelle M. Dowd and Lara Dodds, eds., Feminist Formalism and Early Modern Women’s Writing: Readings, Conversations, Pedagogies. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2022. 113–35.
  • Stewart, Alan. Shakespeare’s Letters. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2008.

L8. Bibliographies
  • Daybell, James. “Recent Studies in Seventeenth-Century Letters.” ELR 36 (2006): 135–70.
  • Daybell, James. “Recent Studies in Sixteenth-Century Letters.” ELR 35 (2005): 331–62.
  • Daybell, James and Andrew Gordon. “Select Bibliography: The Manuscript Letter in Early Modern England.” Lives and Letters 4.1 (Autumn 2012).

L+. Online Resources

M. DIARIES AND JOURNALS
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M1. General
  • Bourcier, Élisabeth. Les journaux privés en Angleterre de 1600 à 1660. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne-Imprimerie nationale, 1976. [See esp. the bibliography of diaries on pp. 458–62.]
  • Clarke, Elizabeth. “Diaries and Journals,” in Michael Hattaway, ed., A New Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture. 2 vols. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. 1:447–52.
  • Dowd, Michelle M. and Julie A. Eckerle. “Recent Studies in Early Modern English Life Writing.” ELR 40 (2010): 132–62.
  • Graham, Elspeth. “Early Modern Women’s Diaries,” in Patricia Pender and Rosalind Smith, eds., The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women’s Writing [Living Edition]. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020+. [UTL] 
  • McKay, Elaine. “English Diarists: Gender, Geography and Occupation, 1500–1700.” History 90 (2005): 191–212.
  • Mendelson, Sara Heller. “Stuart Women’s Diaries and Occasional Memoirs,” in Mary Prior, ed., Women in English Society, 1500–1800. London: Methuen, 1985. 181–210.
  • Nandi, Miriam. Reading the Early Modern English Diary. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
  • Seelig, Sharon Cadman. Autobiography and Gender in Early Modern Literature: Reading Women’s Lives, 1600–1680. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2006.
  • Smyth, Adam. “Diaries,” in Andrew Hadfield, ed., The Oxford Handbook of English Prose 1500–1640. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2013.

M2. Selected Editions
  • Acheson, Katherine O., ed. The Diary of Anne Clifford, 1616–1619: A Critical Edition. New York: Garland, 1995.
  • Acheson, Katherine O. ed. The Memoir of 1603 and The Diary of 1616–1619, by Lady Anne Clifford. Peterborough, ON: Broadview, 2007.
  • Bennitt, F. W. “The Diary of Isabella, Wife of Sir Roger Twysden Baronet, of Royden Hall, East Peckham, 1645–1651.” Archaeologia Cantiana 51 (1939): 113–36.
  • Boas, Frederick S., ed. The Diary of Thomas Crosfield, M.A., B.D. Fellow of Queen’s College, Oxford. London: Oxford UP, 1935. [Queen’s College, Oxford, MS 390.]
  • Clifford, D. J. H., ed. The Diaries of Lady Anne Clifford. Stroud: Sutton, 2003.
  • de Beer, E. S. The Diary of John Evelyn. 6 vols. Oxford: Clarendon, 1955.
  • Donno, Elizabeth Story, ed. An Elizabethan in 1582: The Diary of Richard Madox, Fellow of All Souls. London: Hakluyt Society, 1976. [British Library, MS Cotton Appendix XLVII and MS Cotton Titus B VIII. Also includes the diary of John Walker, 1582–83; British Library, MS Cotton Otho E VIII.]
  • Fielding, John, ed. The Diary of Robert Woodford, 1637–1641. Camden Fifth Series, 42. Cambridge: Royal Historical Society, 2012. [New College, Oxford, MS 9502.]
  • Green, Mary Anne Everett, ed. Diary of John Rous, Incumbent of Santon Downham, Suffolk, from 1625 to 1642. London, 1856. [British Library, MS Additional 22959.]
  • Halliwell, James Orchard, ed. The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee. London, 1842.​
  • Halliwell, James Orchard. The Autobiography and Personal Diary of Dr. Simon Forman… from A. D. 1552, to A. D. 1602. London, 1849.
  • Hunter, Michael, and Annabel Gregory, eds. An Astrological Diary of the Seventeenth Century: Samuel Jeake of Rye, 1652–1699. Oxford: Clarendon, 1988.
  • Knappen, M. M., ed. Two Elizabethan Puritan Diaries, by Richard Rogers and Samuel Ward. Chicago: American Society of Church History, 1933.
  • Lindley, Keith, and David Scott, eds. The Journal of Thomas Juxon, 1644–1647. London: Cambridge UP for the Royal Historical Society, 1999.
  • Macfarlane, Alan, ed. The Diary of Ralph Josselin, 1616–1683. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1991.
  • Malay, Jessica L., ed. Anne Clifford’s Autobiographical Writing, 1590–1676. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2018.
  • Moody, Joanna, ed. The Private Life of an Elizabethan Lady: The Diary of Lady Margaret Hoby, 1599–1605. Stroud: Sutton, 1998.
  • Morehouse, H. J., ed. “A Dyurnall, or Catalogue of All My Accions and Expences from the 1st of January, 1646–[7.]–Adam Eyre,” in Yorkshire Diaries and Autobiographies in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Durham, 1877. 1–118.
  • Parsons, Daniel, ed. The Diary of Sir Henry Slingsby of Scriven, Bart. London, 1836.
  • Paul, George Morison, David Hay Fleming, and James D. Ogilvie, eds. Diary of Sir Archibald Johnston of Wariston. 3 vols. Scottish History Society 61; series 2, 18; series 3, 34. Edinburgh: Scottish History Society, 1911–40.
  • Raines, F. R., ed. The Journal of Nicholas Assheton, of Downham, in the County of Lancaster, Esq., for Part of the Year 1617, and Part of the Year Following. Manchester, 1848.
  • Redstone, L. J., ed. “The Diary of Adam Winthrop,” in Winthrop Papers, Volume 1: 1498–1628. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1929. 64–105. 
  • Roberts, George, ed. Diary of Walter Yonge, Esq. Justice of the Peace, and M.P. for Honiton, Written at Colyton and Axminster, Co. Devon, from 1604 to 1628. London, 1848. [British Library, MS Additional 28032; Yonge’s diary from 1627 to 1642 is MS Additional 35331.]
  • Scott, Harold Spencer. The Journal of Sir Roger Wilbraham, Solicitor-General in Ireland and Master of Requests, for the Years 1593–1616. London: Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1902. [Original MS possibly destroyed when Lathom House was demolished.]
  • Sorlien, Robert Parker, ed. The Diary of John Manningham of the Middle Temple, 1602–1603. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1976.
  • Spalding, Ruth, ed. The Diary of Bulstrode Whitelocke, 1605–1675. Oxford: The British Academy, 1990.
  • Symonds, E. M. “The Diary of John Greene (1635–57).” English Historical Review 43 (1928): 385–94, 598–604; and 44 (1929): 106–17.
  • Underdown, David, ed. William Whiteway of Dorchester: His Diary 1618 to 1635. Dorchester: Dorset Record Society, 1991. [British Library, MS Egerton 784.]
  • Van Dixhoorn, Chad, ed. John Lightfoot’s Journals of the Westminster Assembly. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2023. [Cambridge University Library, MS Dd.14.28.4; MS Dd.14.21; MS Dd.14.22; MS Dd.14.23.]

N. HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS
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N1. Introductory
  • Elton, G. R. England 1200–1640. The Sources of History: Studies in the Uses of Historical Evidence. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1969.
  • Olney, R. J. “Using Manuscript Sources for British History.” Institute of Historical Research, 1995. (online)
  • Sangha, Laura, and Jonathan Willis, eds. Understanding Early Modern Primary Sources. Abingdon: Routledge, 2016.

N2. Primary Documents: Major Calendar Series and Transcriptions
  • Calendar of State Papers (CSP)
    • Calendar of State Papers, Domestic (CSPD)
    • Calendar of State Papers, Foreign (CSPF)
    • Calendar of State Papers, Scotland (CSPSc)
    • Calendar of State Papers, Ireland (CSPI)
    • Calendar of State Papers, Venetian (CSPV)
    • Calendar of State Papers, Spanish (CSPSp)
    • Acts of the Privy Council (APC)
    • Records of the Courts of Admiralty, Chancery, Exchequer, Request, and Wards
  • Reports of the Historical Manuscripts Commission (HMC)
    • [The HMC inspectors’ reports take the form both of numbered surveys of collections (starting with the First Report, 1870) and of multiple volumes dedicated to specific collections (such as the 24-volume Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Most Hon. The Marquis of Salisbury, K.G., etc., Preserved at Hatfield House). Some of these holdings were captured on microfilm as part of the British Manuscripts Project.]
  • Parliamentary Documents
    • Journals of the House of Lords
    • Journals of the House of Commons 
    • Statutes of the Realm
    • Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum, 1642–1660
    • Hartley, T. E., ed. Proceedings in the Parliaments of Elizabeth I. 3 vols. London: Leicester UP, 1981–95.
    • Coates, Willson H., Anne Steele Young, and Vernon F. Snow, eds. The Private Journals of the Long Parliament. 3 vols. 1982–92.
  • Publications of the List and Index Society

N3. State Papers and Public Records
  • Andreani, Angela. The Elizabethan Secretariat and the Signet Office: The Production of State Papers, 1590–1596. New York: Routledge, 2017.
  • Cain, Piers. “Robert Smith and the Reform of the Archives of the City of London, 1580–1623.” London Journal 13 (1987): 3–16.
  • Essays on State Papers Online, 1509–1714
    • Alford, Stephen. “Introduction to State Papers Online and the Sixteenth Century State Papers, 1509–1603.”
    • Knighton, C. S. “The Calendars and their Editors, 1856–2006.”
    • Bevan, Amanda. “The State Papers of Henry VIII: The Archives and Documents.”
    • Alford, Stephen. “The State Papers of Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I: the Archives and the Documents.”
    • Marshall, Alan. “The Secretaries’ Office and the Public Records in the Seventeenth Century.”
  • Guiseppi, M. S. Guide to the Contents of the Public Record Office. 3 vols. London: HMSO, 1963–68.
  • Popper, Nicholas. “From Abbey to Archive: Managing Texts and Records in Early Modern England.” Archival Science 10 (2010): 249–66.
  • Popper, Nicholas. “Inscription and Political Exclusion in Early Modern England,” in Naomi Pullin and Kathryn Woods, eds., Negotiating Exclusion in Early Modern England, 1550–1800. New York: Routledge, 2021. 221–39.
  • Powell, Jason. “Building Paper Embassies: A Prehistory of The Compleat Ambassador.” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 50 (2020): 541–64.
  • Stewart, Alan. “Familiar Letters and State Papers: The Afterlives of Early Modern Correspondence,” in James Daybell and Andrew Gordon, eds., Cultures of Correspondence in Early Modern Britain. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2016. 237–52.
  • Tu, Hsuan-Ying. “The Dispersal of Francis Walsingham’s Papers.” Sixteenth Century Journal L/2 (2019): 471–91.
  • Wernham, R. B. “The Public Records in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries,” in Levi Fox, ed., English Historical Scholarship in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. London: Oxford UP, 1956. 11–30

N4. Parish Registers
[Archives are helpfully navigated on FamilySearch.org]
  • Gordon, Andrew. “The Paper Parish: The Parish Register and the Reformation of Parish Memory in Early Modern London.” Memory Studies 11.1 (2018): 51–68.
  • Slack, Paul. “Counting People in Early Modern England: Registers, Registrars, and Political Arithmetic.” English Historical Review 137 (2022): 1118–43.
  • Smyth, Adam. “Entries and Exits: Finding Life in Parish Registers,” in Autobiography in Early Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2010. 159–208.
  • Sretzer, Simon. “The Parish Registers in Early Modern English History: Registration from Above and Below,” in Ilsen About, James Brown, and Gayle Lonergan, eds., Identification and Registration Processes in Transnational Perspective: People, Papers and Practices. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2013. 113–131.

N5. Wills
  • Arkell, Tom, Nigel Goose, and Nesta Evans, eds. When Death Do Us Part: Understanding and Interpreting the Probate Records of Early-Modern England. Oxford: Leopard’s Head Press, 2000.
  • Bonfield, Lloyd. Devising, Dying, and Dispute: Probate Litigation in Early Modern England. Farnham: Ashgate, 2012.
  • Grannum, Karen and Nigel Taylor. Wills & Probate Records: A Guide for Family Historians. 2nd ed. Kew: National Archives, 2009. 
  • Prior, Mary. “Wives and Wills, 1558–1700,” in John Chartres and David Hey, eds., English Rural Society, 1500–1800: Essays in Honour of Joan Thirsk. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1990. 201–25.
  • Selected Editions of Wills
    • Allen, Marion E., ed. Wills of the Archdeaconry of Suffolk, 1625–1626. Suffolk Records Society 37. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1995.
    • Appleton, Stephanie, and Mairi Macdonald, eds. Stratford-upon-Avon Wills, 1348–1701. 2 vols. Stratford-upon-Avon: The Dugdale Society in association with The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, 2020.
    • Darlington, Ida, ed. London Consistory Court Wills, 1492–1547. London: London Record Society, 1967.
    • Evans, Nesta, ed. The Wills of the Archdeaconry of Sudbury, 1636–1638. Suffolk Records Society 35. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1993.
      Evans, Nesta, ed. The Wills of the Archdeaconry of Sudbury, 1630–1635. Suffolk Records Society 29. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1987.
    • Geater, Jacqueline B., ed. Birmingham Wills and Inventories 1512–1603. Stratford-upon-Avon: The Dugdale Society in association with The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, 2016.
    • ​Honigmann, E. A. J. and Susan Brock, eds. Playhouse Wills 1558–1642. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1993.
    • Wyatt, Peter, ed. The Uffculme Wills and Inventories: 16th to 18th Centuries. Devon and Cornwall Record Society 40. Exeter: Devon and Cornwall Record Society, 1997.

N6. Inventories and Accounts
  • Arkell, Tom. “Interpreting Probate Inventories,” in Tom Arkell, Nigel Goose, and Nesta Evans, eds., When Death Do Us Part: Understanding and Interpreting the Probate Records of Early-Modern England. Oxford: Leopard’s Head Press, 2000. 72–102.
  • Garrard, Rachel P. “English Probate Inventories and Their Use in Studying the Significance of the Domestic Interior, 1570–1700,” in Ad van der Woude and Anton Schuurman, eds., Probate Inventories: A New Source for the Historical Study of Wealth, Material Culture and Agricultural Development. Utrecht: HES Publishers, 1980. 55–81.
  • Howard, Maurice. “Inventories, Surveys, and the History of Great Houses 1480–1640.” Architectural History 41 (1998): 14–29.
  • Orlin, Lena Cowen. “Fictions of the Early Modern English Probate Inventory,” in Henry S. Turner, ed., The Culture of Capital: Property, Cities, and Knowledge in Early Modern England. New York: Routledge, 2002. 51–84
  • Riello, Giorgio. ‘‘‘Things seen and unseen’: The Material Culture of Early Modern Inventories and their Representation of Domestic Interiors,” in Paula Findlen, ed., Early Modern Things: Objects and Their Histories, 1500–1800. London: Routledge, 2013. 125–50.
  • Scott-Warren, Jason. “Early Modern Bookkeeping and Life-Writing Revisited: Accounting for Richard Stonley.” Past & Present 230, Supplement 11 (2016): 151–70. See also “Accounting for the Self,” in Shakespeare’s First Reader: The Paper Trails of Richard Stonley. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2019. 49–73.
  • Smyth, Adam. “Financial Accounting,” in Autobiography in Early Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2010. 57–122.
  • Spufford, Margaret. “The Limitations of Probate Inventory,” in John Chartres and David Hey, eds., English Rural Society, 1500–1800: Essays in Honour of Joan Thirsk. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1990. 139–74.
  • Wright, Nancy E. “Accounting for a Life: The Household Accounts of Lady Anne Clifford,” in Ronald Bedford, Lloyd Davis, and Philippa Kelly, eds., Early Modern Autobiography: Theories, Genres, Practices. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2006. 234–51.
  • Selected Editions of Inventories and Accounts
    • Adams, Simon, ed. Household Accounts and Disbursement Books of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, 1558–1561, 1584–86. Camden Society, 5th series, 6. Cambridge: Cambridge UP for the Royal Historical Society, 1995.
    • Batho, G. R., ed. The Household Papers of Henry Percy, Ninth Earl of Northumberland, 1564-1632. London: Royal Historical Society, 1962.
    • Cholmeley, Richard. The Memorandum Book of Richard Cholmeley of Brandsby 1602–1623. Northallerton: North Yorkshire County Record Office, 1988. [North Yorkshire County Record Office, ZQG/MIC 1456.]
    • George, Edwin and Stella, eds. Bristol Probate Inventories, Part 1: 1542–1650. Bristol Record Society’s Publications 54. Bristol: Bristol Record Society, 2002.
    • George, Edwin and Stella, eds. Bristol Probate Inventories, Part 2: 1657–1689. Bristol Record Society’s Publications 57. Bristol: Bristol Record Society, 2005.
    • Gray, Todd, ed. Devon Household Accounts, 1627–59. 2 vols. Devon and Cornwall Record Society 38–39. Exeter: Devon and Cornwall Record Society, 1995.
    • Havinden, M. A., ed. Household and Farm Inventories in Oxfordshire, 1550–1590. Oxfordshire Record Society 44. London: HMSO, 1965.
    • Herridge, D. M., ed. Surrey Probate Inventories, 1558–1603. Surrey Record Society 39. Woking: Surrey Record Society, 2005.
    • Hughes, Annabelle, ed. Sussex Clergy Inventories, 1600–1750. Suffolk Records Society 91. Lewes, East Sussex: Sussex Record Society, 2009.
    • James, Leonie, ed. The Household Accounts of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1635–1642. Church of England Record Society 24. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell, 2019.
    • Jones, Jeanne, ed. Stratford-upon-Avon Inventories 1538–1699. 2 vols. Stratford-upon-Avon: The Dugdale Society in association with The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, 2002–3.
    • Larminie, Vivienne, ed. “The Undergraduate Account Book of John and Richard Newdigate, 1618–1621.” Camden Miscellany 30 (1990): 149–269.
    • Levey, Santina M. and Peter Thornton, eds. Of Houshold Stuff: The 1601 Inventories of Bess of Hardwick. London: National Trust, 2001.
    • Livock, D. M., ed. City Chamberlain’s Accounts in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Bristol Record Society 24. Bristol: Bristol Record Society, 1966.​
    • Merry, Mark and Catherine Richardson, eds. The Household Account Book of Sir Thomas Puckering of Warwick, 1620. Stratford-upon-Avon: Dugdale Society, 2012.
    • Phillips, C. B., eds. Lowther Family Estate Books 1617–1675. Gateshead: Surtees Society, 1979.
    • Reed, Michael, ed. The Ipswich Probate Inventories, 1583–1631. Suffolk Record Society 22. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1981.
    • Riden, Philip, ed. The Household Accounts of William Cavendish, Lord Cavendish of Hardwick, 1597–1607. 3 vols. Chesterfield: Derbyshire Record Society, 2016.
    • Spicksley, Judith M., ed. The Business and Household Accounts of Joyce Jeffreys, Spinster of Hereford 1638–1648. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2012.
    • Tittler, Robert, ed. Accounts of the Roberts Family of Boarzell, Sussex, c. 1568–1582. Sussex Record Society 71. Sussex: Sussex Record Society, 1977.
    • Vaisey, D. G., ed. Probate Inventories of Lichfield and District, 1568–1680. Staffordshire Record Society 5. Stafford: Staffordshire Record Society, 1969.
    • Wanklyn, Malcolm, ed. Inventories of Worcestershire Landed Gentry, 1537–1786. Worcestershire: Worcestershire Historical Society, 1998.
    • Webb, John, ed. The Town Finances of Elizabethan Ipswich: Select Treasurers’ and Chamberlains’ Accounts. Suffolk Records Society 38. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1996.

N7. Archiving and Record-Keeping
  • Daybell, James. “Gender, Politics and Archives in Early Modern England,” in James Daybell and Svante Norrhem, eds., Gender and Political Culture in Early Modern Europe, 1400–1800. London: Routledge, 2016. 25–45.
  • Head, Randolph C. Making Archives in Early Modern Europe: Proof, Information, and Political Record-Keeping, 1400–1700. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2019.
  • Walsham, Alexandra. “The Social History of the Archive: Record-Keeping in Early Modern Europe.” Past & Present 230, Supplement 11 (2016): 9–48.
  • Wolfe, Heather, and Peter Stallybrass. “The Material Culture of Record Keeping in Early Modern England,” in Kate Peters, Alexandra Walsham, and Liesbeth Corens, eds., Archives and Information in the Early Modern World. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2018.
  • Yale, Elizabeth. “‘The Manuscripts Flew About like Butterflies’’: Self-Archiving and the Pressures of History,” in Sociable Knowledge: Natural History and the Nation in Early Modern Britain. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2016. 205–48.
    • Yale, Elizabeth. “With Slips and Scraps: How Early Modern Naturalists Invented the Archive.” Book History 12 (2009): 1–36.

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