A Social Edition of the Devonshire Manuscript (BL MS Add 17,492)

Described by Colin Burrow as 'the richest surviving record of early Tudor poetry and of the literary activities of 16th—century women,' the Devonshire Manuscript (BL MS Add. 17492) is a verse miscellany belonging to the 1530s and early 1540s, including some 194 items including complete poems, verse fragments and excerpts from longer works, anagrams, and other ephemeral jottings attributed to Thomas Wyatt, Henry Howard Earl of Surrey, Lady Margaret Douglas, Richard Hattfield, Mary Fitzroy (n...