About the MUSC Copy
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The copy presented in the MUSC (the Meisei University Shakespeare
Collection database) is the Third Folio copy shelf-marked `932.141
Sh12 1664-2' and coded `MR733', sized 324x211mm. It was acquired by
the Library in 1980 as a copy in the set of the Third and Fourth
Folios. Former owners have not been traced except for the name
`[John] Millett Prescot' inscribed on the title page (sig. π
A2). However, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography does not
yield any results about this name nor does it provide any information
about `Miss Gwynn', apparently a book dealer, also inscribed on the
same page. The copy is of the second issue of the Third Folio
published in 1664.
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Annotations
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The MUSC copy of the Third Folio carries many annotations probably in
an eighteenth century hand throughout its folio pages from The Tempest
through The Tragedy of Cymbeline, together with a transcript of a
glossary on the recto pages of the flyleaves in the same hand. A close
examination of these annotations has so far revealed it fairly
probable that the annotator was consulting the first edition of The
Works of Shakespear edited by Sir Thomas Hanmer published in 1743-44
at Oxford. The annotator characteristically left no annotations in
Pericles and the six other `apocryphal' plays. The annotations found
in these texts have been transcribed by Noriko Sumimoto in `A
Transcript of the Marginal Annotations in a copy of the Third Folio of
Shakespeare: The Comedies', Meisei Review, 20 (2005), 11-26 and `A
Transcript of the Marginal Annotations in a Copy of the Third Folio of
Shakespeare: The Histories and the Tragedies', Research Bulletin of
Meisei University, Humanities and Social Sciences, 42 (2006), 1-18.
August 31, 2007
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