Marlowe, Christopher. The massacre at Paris (fragment)

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

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

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

Extended title: The massacre at Paris (fragment) ca. 1590

Saint Bartholomew's Day, Massacre of, France, 1572

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