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Antiquarians at Work
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
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The marks and annotations with which sixteenth-century readers littered the vacant spaces in their printed books are not often of much interest to the twentieth-century scholar, who knows how unlikely it is that he has Shakespeare's copy before him, or that he will discover another body of marginalia as large and significant as Gabriel Harvey's. Yet a certain real if narrow interest may be found, I think, in two sixteenth-century books of mine which were annotated by British antiquarians of the period.
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1 See T. D., Kendrick, British Antiquity (London, 1950), p. 88.Google Scholar
2 Neil R. Ker. ‘Sir John Prise', The Library, Fifth Series, x, 5; see also the plate opposite p. 4, which reproduces a page on which both hands occur in marginalia.
3 State Papers Henry VIII, x, 364, fol. II4v.
4 In the Defensio itself (sig. iijr) Richard Price indicates that his father wrote the book in the early 1550's.
5 Listed by Ker, p. 17.1 am indebted to the President and Fellows of Corpus Christi College for the opportunity to examine a microfilm of the volume.
6 See Kendrick, pp. 79-84.
7 The handwritten note ‘Boston 1847* on the title shows that the volume left the Lambarde collection before the sale of June 1924.
8 Dictionarium Angliae Topographicum et Historicum (London, 1730). The years 1567 and 1577 are the earliest and latest dates of actual composition which are mentioned in the text (pp. 178,410).
9 In 1576 the title page of the Perambulation itself explains that the book was ‘Collected and written (for the most part) in the yeare .1570.'
10 Flores, 1,48; Dictionarium, p. 332; Perambulation, p. 90.
11 Dictionarium, p. i.
12 Flores, n, 100; Dictionarium, p. 347; Perambulation, p. 192. For example, to cite the three texts in the same order: ‘scientes indubitanter', ‘knowinge undoubtly', ‘and knowe ye assuredly'; ‘adhibeatis', ‘give ye', ‘feare not to giue'; ‘cuidam alii”, ‘a certeine other Man', ‘another man'.
13 Flores, n, 193-194; 1,323. Perambulation, pp. 212 [misnumbered 112], 87.
14 Mores, 1,129 (marg. ‘Tonge’); Dictionarium, p. 377; Perambulation, p. 196.
15 The fuller marginalia which Lambarde wrote on Chester and Stamford Bridge, e.g., are transplanted into the dictionary (Flores, 1,287,334; Dictionarium, pp. 59, 329).