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Marlowe, Christopher. The massacre at Paris (fragment)

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Creator
Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593
Date
ca. 1590
Location
Paris,  France
Media format
Manuscript text
Extent
1 leaf

Language
English
Size
18 x 20
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Reference IDs
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
Subjects
Saint Bartholomew's Day, Massacre of, France, 1572
Related names
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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