Halliwell-Phillipps, J.O. Calendar of the Shakespearean rarities, drawings & engravings formerly preserved at Hollingbury Copse (1891): 287
Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada: 448.17
Folger bibliographic ID: 235891
Folger call number: J.b.8
Folger holdings ID: 289676
Accession Number: cs448.17
Summary
A fragment of a single leaf of, presumably, a primary draft of the play. Contains passages that were omitted in the print edition. The handwriting may well be Marlowe's
Notes
General notes
Bowers places fragment in Scene 17, lines 806-820 (which is Scene 19 in Gill edition)
Also available as a digital reproduction
Formerly MS 448.17
Rodd -- Collier -- Halliwell-Phillipps -- Marsden Perry
Bound in 19th century green levant morocco by Francis Bedford
Publications
Adams, J.Q. "The Massacre at Paris Leaf." The library, 4th ser., XIV (1934), p. 447-469
Noswroth, J.M. "The Marlowe Manuscript." The library, 4th ser., XXVI (1946), p. 158-171
The complete works of Christopher Marlowe / edited by Fredson Bowers. Cambridge : University Press, 1973, v. 1, p. 355-360, and 390n
Petti, Anthony G. English literary hands from Chaucer to Dryden. London : E. Arnold, 1977, p. 85
The complete works of Christopher Marlowe / edited by Roma Gill. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1987-1998, v. 5, p.295-298, and Appendix
Also known as
Extended title: The massacre at Paris (fragment) ca. 1590
author: Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593
former owner: Rodd, Thomas, 1796-1849
former owner: Collier, John Payne, 1789-1883
former owner: Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard), 1820-1889
former owner: Perry, Marsden J. (Marsden Jasiel), 1850-1935
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