Record

Document Reference	Pw V 156/1
Title	Autograph MS entitled 'Serenissimo Britanniarum Principi, Henrico, Jacobi Magni filio' by John Barclay (1607); n.d.
Date	1 January 1607
Extent	4 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Text consists of 119 lines in hexameters addressed to Henry, Prince of Wales. Last two letters of the first line could be read under ulta-violet light. Dorse of fourth folio bears title, 'Xenium Barclay'
Title Of Work	Serenissimo Britanniarum Principi, Henrico, Jacobi Magni filio. Joannes Barclaius hoc Poema Scripsi. Kalend. Janu: Anno Dom. M.DC.VI.
First Line of Poem	Curua per assuetas deducens semita flamm<as>
Last Line of Poem	Cum Genitore velis, nunquamq<ue> haec sceptra relinquas
Language	Latin
Physical Description	Two sheets folded once to form four folios
Condition	Damaged, foxed
Descriptive Features	Watermark: Grapes and letters AR flanking the stem of the grapes, 41 x 23 mm Countermark: none present with this watermark Italic There is gold graphing from previous binding
Watermark	Grapes
Related Material	Copy in photographic form, formerly in the Duke of Portland's library, sent to the Folger Shakespeare Library during the 1930s, gift of Robin Flower, Dept. of MSS, British Museum. [See Folger card catalogue, entry no. PR 1405 B.2] [See also Pw V 156/2-4].

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA73209	Henry Frederick (1594-1612); Prince of Wales; ( eldest son of James VI of Scotland James I of England)	1594-1612
NA74414	Barclay; John (1582-1621)	1582-1621

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