Dering Manuscript of Katherine Philips's Poetry 1662-1663.

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Meditation.

Dialogue.

Dublin (Ireland).

Acton (London, England).

England.

Netherlands.

Bristol (England).

Wales.

Antwerp (Belgium).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Summary:

Most likely copied in Dublin, 1662-1663.

Notes:

AMDigital Reference:Pre-1700 MS 151

This manuscript was copied by Philips's close friend, Sir Edward Dering, otherwise known as 'Silvander'. Hence, it is known as the Dering Manuscript. It compiles 74 poems by Philips, plus two titles. The latest of these dates to 26 October 1662. Both Beal and Thomas believe that it was copied by Dering while he was serving as Commissioner for the Settlement of Ireland and based in Dublin, from July 1662 to July 1663. This supposition may be supported by the manuscript's close relation, textually, to Philips's autograph manuscript, the Clarke manuscript (Worcester College, Oxford, MS 6.13), and the unauthorised 1664 print edition. The manuscript is a 120-page folio, with at least four stubs at the end and two unpaginated pages at the beginning. It is transcribed throughout in Dering's elegant italic hand. He characteristically signals the conclusion of a poem with at least two, more often three, flourishes. The manuscript is not ruled, although Dering provides a sizable left margin, and a narrower right margin throughout. As a scribe, Dering tends to use the full length of the pages, beginning his transcriptions at the very top and continuing right to the bottom of the pages. It is a fair copy, with some corrections. In addition to the modernisation of spelling adopted as policy by the Perdita Project, use of the apostrophe has been modernised to facilitate searching.