MS British Library Cotton Galba C. v.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 5

FOLIATION:

CONTENT:

Chiappino Vitelli, Marchese di Cetona, a general in the duke of Alba's army in the Netherlands: letter probably intended for Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester (d. 1588), introducing the Italian painter Federigo Zuccaro.

Original. Italian.

Zuccaro doubtless came to England in March 1575, but was back in Italy by October; the duration of his stay was unknown in the 18th and 19th centuries, and hundreds of Elizabethan portraits were consequently attributed to him.

ORIGIN:

DATING: Antwerp, [1]5 March 1574/5.

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

Burnt along the right side, with loss of some text.

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

• Strong, The Elizabethan Image, p. 50.

PRINTED:

• R.C. Strong, "Federigo Zuccaro's Visit to England in 1575", Jnl., Warburg & Courtauld Institutes, xxii (1959), pp. 359-60, at 360. [Reprinted in id., The English Icon: Elizabethan & Jacobean Portraiture (London and New York, 1969), pp. 346-7, at 346.]

LITERATURE:

• R.C. Strong, The Elizabethan Image. Painting in England 1540-1620, exh. cat. (London: Tate Gallery, 1969), p. 50, no. 90.

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Galba C. vi [Part 1].

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 23

FOLIATION: ff. 52-55

CONTENT:

Philip Sidney (later Sir Philip Sidney; d. 1586), attrib., Certain notes concerning the state of the Prince of Orange and the Provinces of Holland and Zealand, as they were in the month of May, 1577.

The attribution of this text to Sir Philip Sidney (d. 1586), made by Kervyn de Lettenhove, Relations Politiques, IX, pp. 309-10, was rejected by A. Feuillerat in his edition of Sidney's Defence of Poesie, Political Discourses, Correspondence, Translations, Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney, vol. III (Cambridge, 1923), p. v ("warranted by no evidence, either external or internal"), but was reasserted by J.M. Osborn.

Osborn noted that each of the three copies of the Certain notes "has some unique readings", so that "none of them is clearly descended from one of the others", and he concluded that "Sidney made three different reports, perhaps intended for three different recipients" [Young Philip Sidney, p. 532].

ORIGIN:

DATING: May 1577.

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

• P.R.O., SP 70/145, no. 1225
• P.R.O., SP 70/145, no. 1226

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• Relations Politiques des Pays-Bas et de l'Angleterre sous le Règne de Philippe II, ed. J.M.B.C. Kervyn de Lettenhove, 11 vols. (Brussels, 1882-1900), IX, pp. 310-14. James M. Osborn, Young Philip Sidney, 1572-1577, (New Haven and London, 1972), pp. 482- 90. [From Galba C. vi, with additions from P.R.O., SP 70/145, nos. 1225 and 1226.]

LITERATURE:

• J.M. Osborn, "New Light on Sir Philip Sidney", Times Literary Supplement, no. 3557 (30 April 1970), pp. 487-8.
• Osborn, Young Philip Sidney, pp. 481-2, 529-33.
• P. Beal, Index of English Literary Manuscripts, vol. I, 1450-1625, pt. 2, Douglas- Wyatt (London and New York, 1980), p. 484, nos. SiP 169 - SiP 171.

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Galba C. viii.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 48?

FOLIATION: ff. 96-97^r (Planta's 106)

CONTENT:

Henry Goodyer (or Goodere), captain of the guard: list of the guard of Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester (d. 1588).

ORIGIN:

DATING: Not dated. A note added at the foot by Goodere refers to men retained on 12 Jan. "1585", i.e. 1585/6. The list itself includes mention of "this Instant February."

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

Paper.

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• J.A. van Dorsten and R.C. Strong, Leicester's Triumph (Leiden and London, 1964), pp. 108-34. [Rearranged, in columnar form, from Galba C. viii and other MSS.]

LITERATURE:

• van Dorsten and Strong, Leicester's Triumph, p. 107. [Misdescribe ff. 96-101 as one list of the earl of Leicester's train.]
• S.L. Adams, "The Gentry of North Wales and the Earl of Leicester's Expedition to the Netherlands, 1585-1586", Welsh History Review, vii (1974-5), pp. 129-46, at 136 n. 42.

EXHIBITED:

MS British Library Cotton Galba C. viii.

ARTICLE: Planta's art. 49

FOLIATION: ff. 98-102^v (Planta's 108-112^v)

CONTENT:

List of the household of Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester (d. 1588), in June 1587.

ORIGIN:

DATING:

PROVENANCE:

CODICOLOGY:

COPIES:

ILLUSTRATED:

PRINTED:

• J.A. van Dorsten and R.C. Strong, Leicester's Triumph (Leiden and London, 1964), pp. 108-34. [Rearranged, in columnar form, from Galba C. viii and other MSS.]

LITERATURE:

• van Dorsten and Strong, Leicester's Triumph, p. 107. [Misdate as "first half of January 1586".]
• S.L. Adams, "The Gentry of North Wales and the Earl of Leicester's Expedition to the Netherlands, 1585-1586", Welsh History Review, vii (1974-5), pp. 129-46, at 136 n. 42.

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