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Unknown Verse in a Copy of Arthur Golding’s 1570 Trogus

2020; Oxford University Press; Volume: 67; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1093/notesj/gjaa045

1471-6941

Guillaume Coatalen,

Renaissance Literature and Culture

The Boston Public Library copy of Arthur Golding’s Thabridgemente of the Histories of Trogus Pompeius, imprinted at London in Fletestrete nere vnto Saint Dunstons churche: By Thomas Marshe, [1570], ESTC S118649, (shelfmark D58 .J85 1570x) bears two names on the title page, one of which is crossed out: ‘Melcher [= Melchior] Warensted Suecius 1624’ and ‘This is stephen Barnhams boke’.1 The book bears a bookplate of the BPL Benton Fund and an ink stamp of the Bradford Public Library and was purchased from the Ravenstree Co. in Arizona 1989.2 Steven Barnham (born on 21 July 1549 according to an inscription on the painting, died in 1608) was most probably Alice Barnham’s son, represented on his mother’s right in the circa 1557 family portrait from the Berger Collection at the Denver Art Museum.3 He was a citizen and draper, a wealthy merchant, a former groom of the privy chamber of Henry VIII who became Member of Parliament for Chichester.4 Melchior Werenstedt (1605–55) accompanied Gabriel Oxenstierna Göstaffsonn on his diplomatic mission to London in 1625. According to a letter written in Gravesend on 25 August 1625 to his brother Lord High Chancellor of Sweden Axel Oxenstierna, Melchior was sent to Oxford.5 Fol. 200 verso bears the following text in an early Secretary hand with a fairly thick pen. I have expanded the abbreviations in italic. The letters in square brackets are illegible because of the binding: