Joseph:
Thank you so much for bringing this fascinating document to our attention. One way of understanding the Tudor fascination/fetish for antique roots is the degree to which their genealogies were executed with such care and artistic polish. The Faerie Queene, surely, participates in this process in both motive and execution. These rolls also remind me of the wider vogue for antique relatives, like Raleigh's naming of his first son by the name of a false progenitor, "Damieri". I also think of the warm letters between Henry Sidney and William Cecil, who were going to marry Philip Sidney to Anne Cecil until the elevation to Baron Burghley prompted Cecil to seek out more ancient blood. How might Sidney's story have evolved as the son-in-law of Cecil!
Bruce Danner
St. Lawrence University
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>From: Joseph Black <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Nov 14, 2009 10:55 AM
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>Subject: Fwd: sidney family MS pedigree for sale
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>The list might like to know that the long lost original of Robert Cooke's cooked
>up genealogy of the Sidney family, commissioned by Sir Henry Sidney, has
>resurfaced, and is being offered for sale by the Norwich bookdealer Samuel
>Gedge. Price 'available upon application'.
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>Here's a link to the PDF catalogue: http://www.samuelgedge.com/CATVIIWEB.pdf
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>Joseph Black
>Associate Director of Graduate Studies
>Department of English
>Bartlett Hall 452
>University of Massachusetts
>Amherst, MA 01003
>(413) 545-5498
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>----- Forwarded message from Phil Palmer <[log in to unmask]> -----
> Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:07:01 -0500
> From: Phil Palmer <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Phil Palmer <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: sidney family MS pedigree for sale
> To: Joseph Black <[log in to unmask]>
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>Joe:
>
>Browsing through the most recent Samuel Gedge book catalogue at the
>Center, I came across this item:
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> [Cooke, Robert] The pedigree of Sir Philip Sidney.
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>Apparently Robert Cooke created this around 1580 in London, but parts
>of the pedigree were fabricated in 1841.
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>I don't really know if this is an interesting document or not, but it
>is listed as having a "price upon application," which I presume means
>it will be expensive.
>
>Phil
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