Created because no clean standalone local George Silver work existed; the previous local candidate was a noisy reference cluster.
Castle also records the 1599 London witness of George Silver's Paradoxes of Defence.
Additional MS 34192 is retained as a manuscript witness of the same work.
Quality phase 530: pointer/fragment work 2860 consolidated here. The source note describes the 1599 presentation manuscript Add MS 34192, already stored as edition 3109.
Legacy record 2860: Probablytheactualpresentationcopy,havingEssex'scoat-of-armsatf.3b, andthat ofKnollys(Lettice,daughterofSirFrancisKnollys, was mother to Lord Essex)atf. 7b, both in colours. There is also a pen-and-ink drawingofafencerwithswordanddaggeratf.23. Printedat London, 1599; the lastpart (ff. 42-46b)entitled, "A breifenote ofthreeItalian teachers ofoffence." Reprintedinthe "AntiquarianRepertory," Vol. I. (1801), p. 165.] (IntheBritishMuseum. 34,192.-OtherworksonFencingbythesameauthor areinSloaneMSS. 376.ff. 1, 5b, 32b. Paper; ff. 46.A.D. 1599.)
S-block staging entry validated for model fit. Imported from staging batch duell-thimm-s, source entry 1992.