| Description | Manuscript volume containing 'A Dutifull Defence Of The Lawfull Regiment Of Women, divided into three bookes', by Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton. The address to the Queen is in his hand, the remainder in another hand. With a typewritten account of the book and its author.
According to the Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450-1700, this version is a formal partly autograph copy probably made for presentation, perhaps to Elizabeth herself, with separate title-pages for the "second book" (p. 259) and "third booke" (p. 323), 478 folio pages. The dedication to the Queen (pp. 1-49) is entirely in Howard's italic hand and signed "Henry Howard", the main text in the accomplished hand of one of his principal amanuenses; with some of the sidenotes in Books 1 and 2 and all those in Book 3 also in Howard's italic hand.
Binding of purple velvet decorated with the Brougham cipher over boards.
A second item, a typescript essay about the work, accompanies the manuscript. The essay is not attributed or dated. |
| CustodialHistory | Inscribed (down the margin of p. 248) William Trumbull, possibly the son (1594-1668) or grandson (1639-1716) of William Trumbull (c.1580-1635), diplomat. The Brougham cipher appears on the front cover and therefore this volume was likely owned by Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778-1868). Subsequently part of the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), linguistic psychologist, founder of the Orthological Institute and originator of the language system Basic English. Ogden purchased Brougham's papers at auction in the 1930s and this volume may have been sold at the same time. |
| PublnNote | Shephard, Amanda. “HENRY HOWARD AND THE LAWFUL REGIMENT OF WOMEN.” History of Political Thought, vol. 12, no. 4, 1991, pp. 589–603. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/26213909. Accessed 8 Nov. 2023.
Caney, A. C. Let He Who Objects Produce Sound Evidence: Lord Henry Howard And The Sixteenth Century Gynecocracy Debate. no date. Florida State University, 2005. http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_migr_etd-0097
Beal, Peter. In Praise of Scribes : Manuscripts and Their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England / Peter Beal. Clarendon Press, 1998. https://ucl.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/44UCL_INST/155jbua/alma990000376770204761 |