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          Edmund Spenser (1552?-99), A viewe of the present estate of
     Ireland discoursed by way of a Dialogue betweene Eudorus and Irenis.
     England; 1597. Paper; 38 ff. paginated 1-76; 308 x 204 mm.; 1 column;
     55-61 lines.

     Collation:

     Scribe A: I (6), II (6, -6);

     Scribe B: III (2, -1), IV (2, -2), V (6, -1);

     Scribe C: VI-VIII (2);

     Scribe D: IX (2), X (4, -1);

     Scribe E: XI (4), XII (2, -2);

     Scribe F: XIII (4)

          Catchwords on every page, except those by Scribe C.

          Six scribes, all with similar cursive scripts. Disbound.

          Belonged to Sir Henry St. George (1581-1644), Garter King of Arms,
     and was acquired with the St. George Manuscripts in 1852 by Sir Thomas
     Phillipps (as part of Phillipps MS. 13761).

          Comments: This manuscript, a contemporary scribal copy of the
     work, is not included among the fifteen recorded in the Variorum
     Edition of Spenser's Prose Works. Textually, it stands between D2
     (Cambridge University Library) and F (Folger Shakespeare Library), and
     most probably was the manuscript from which F was copied. (See notes in
     folder).



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