Record ID:
137645
Accession number:
MA 660
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Description:
1 item (66 p.) ; 29.5 cm
Notes:
With occasional shoulder notes for allusion, clarification or correction and contemporary foliation.
Possibly in Smith's hand (cf. collection files).
Summary:
Treatise concerning Queen Elizabeth's duty to marry and the difficulties and dangers attendant on a choice of consort by or for her. Written in the form of orations by three allegorically-named gentlemen of the Court: Agamos Spitewedd (fol. 2v, against marriage altogether), Philoxenus Lovealian (fol. 7v, in favor of a foreign match), and Axenias Homeffrend (fol. 21r, arguing for an English husband), with interlocutions by a fourth character called "the Stammerer" or "the Godfather." With frequent allusions to Scriptures, classics, and authorities such as Machiavelli and Erasmus.
Housed in:
Red morocco pull-off box (32.1 cm)
Binding:
Limp vellum hand lettered "A discourse about the Queenes Mariage."
Provenance:
From the Dogmersfield Library; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1910.
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