Thanks Andrew. I wonder if anyone on the list knows who was behind the
works dedicated to Spenser. -Dan
On Fri, 1 Dec 2000 21:12:49 +0000 Andrew Zurcher <[log in to unmask]>
writes:
> Let me preface these quick responses by stressing that I haven't seen
> any
> of these works! however, I have an STC in front of me, and Eureka
> open in
> my browser....
>
>
> >The Newberry Library has a 1573 reprint of Crowley's 33 Epigrams
> (London:
> >John Awdeley) bound into an octavo volume with several other works,
> >including:
> >1-"A newe book called the shippe of safegarde, written by G.B. Anno
> 1569"
> >(London: William Serres) to which is appended "The death of S.
> >Polycarpus" and "A Priest of Apollo Strangely Converted"
>
> The shippe of safegarde has long been attributed to Barnaby Googe
> (G. B. =
> B. G.), who also served in Ireland and is well represented in the
> CSPI. See
> STC 12049. It was plagiarized by Anthony Nixon in 1602 in The
> Christian
> Navy, STC 18583.
>
> Apparently there is a new edition of Googe's shippe coming out this
> year,
> from Simon McKeown and William Sheidley, Medieval and Renaissance
> Texts and
> Studies. Their edition, which appears in Eureka, lists Polycarpus
> (Bishop
> and martyr of Smyrna) and Eusebius of Caesarea as subjects.
>
> >2-"Virgidemiarum-The Three Last Books of Byting Satires" (London:
> Robert
> >Dexter, 1599)
>
> Virgidemiarum is the work of Joseph Hall; see STC 12719. Apparently
> your
> 'certaine worthye manuscript poems' are often considered as 'part
> three' of
> the otherwise two-parted Virgidemiarum (books 1-3, books 4-6; sound
> familiar?). same printer (Dexter); one could hypothesize that, after
> they
> hadn't sold for a few years (1597-9), he decided to start throwing
> them in
> with the new edition of the second part of Virgidemiarum as a way to
> get
> rid of them. are they any good?
>
> >3-"Certaine worthye manuscript poems of great antiquitie reserved
> long in
> >the studie of a Northfolke gentleman and now first published by
> J.S."
> >(London, for Robert Dexter, 1597). These poems are:
> > A-The statly tragedy of Guistard and Sismond
> > B-The Northren Mothers Blessing
> > C-The Way to Thrifte
> >This last set is dedicated to Spenser. Guistard and Sismond, if it
> ever
> >was truly a ms. poem, was converted into Spenserian stanzas.
>
> See STC 21499, where it is suggested that 'J.S.' is John Stow.
> Guistard and Sismond is from Boccaccio's Decameron, in case you
> hadn't
> gathered that already.
> The 'Northfolke' bit sounds interesting, given that Spenser may have
> had
> Norfolk ties. Dexter seems to be best known for publishing Latin
> school-texts.
>
> andrew
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